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We had an inline bathroom extractor fan installed a year or so ago which has made a huge difference to our tiny and very prone to condensation bathroom (although we almost always have window open with showers still, anyway). I was up in the loft today and noticed that the ducting run the...

My bathroom mixer tap causes a very loud whooshing sound when it's on cold and at what I would call medium flow. At a low flow there's no whooshing sound in the pipe, and at maximum flow there's also no whooshing sound in the pipe. Why might this be? What can I do to fix it?

One of my downlights has failed and I believe it's one of those ones where you can't remove the bulb you just replace the whole unit. I can't find the exact same model as replacement (see first picture for the model), so I am going to need to replace it with some other brand probably. However I...

Bit of a weird one, this. Pictures at end. I woke up this morning to water coming down through the kitchen ceiling (and light fitting) and a pool of water on the kitchen floor. There's a bathroom above. I turned the water off and the water stopped leaking. I then rang a plumber who came to take...

What filler should I use for this hole above my window in the bathroom (ignore the mould, gonna clean it and repaint too)? The second picture shows the depth in the wall the window is located (it's an uninsulated cavity wall). The hole is pretty deep (an inch or so both outwards and upwards)...

I see this is a common topic, but every single one seems different! First time rewiring a light switch (yes I've taken all appropriate precautions). Old switch (left one on picture of backs) has neutrals in L1 and lives in COM as you'd expect. New one is plastic but has a warning on it about...

I was putting the second coat of white paint on my walls today and immediately after painting a small patch of the wall went all bubbly: I prepped the walls properly by washing and sanding (admittedly I didn't do that between coats) and bizarrely the rest of the same wall looks absolutely...

I recently used some pressure treated wood to build a raised bed and stupidly didn't realise one of the stamps was facing outwards until it was far too late. Looking around the internet there is all kinds of advice out there about what to do to remove it, but most assumes that the wood in...

Prepping my spare room for painting this weekend and I'm wondering how to deal with this crack (two pictures of same crack below). I suspect but do not know that it's where two plasterboards meet (stud wall) - for a random crack elsewhere on a wall I would normally gouge out a small v shape and...

I'm trying to re-pressurise my boiler, having successfully done it in the past. I've inserted the white key thing and set it to lock - however when I try and turn the nut next to it anticlockwise it just won't budge? I don't really understand why - any ideas? It does seem to turn clockwise, but...