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I'm an electrician to trade but could do with some pointers on my candy cdi 1012 dishwasher. Have had it for 7 years and it has been great. Now it is not working. This is what happens. I select program, shut the door, the inlet valve works and you can here the water entering. The drain pump...

I need advice on the following matter: I have recently bought a house which was built in the mid 1930's. The bedroom floor on the ground floor is of the suspended type i.e. joists lying on a wall plate which is then supported by the outside wall. The room is square and measures 3metres 20 by 3...

I already posted on the fact that my circa 1930's house has bouncy floors. on lifting up the floorboards it was found that the inner wall(cavity construction), well the part on which the ground floor joists rest was missing. Not all the wall was missing, about a metre and a half below the...

I've recently moved and the house i bought was built in the 1930's. 2 rooms had bouncy floors. The bounce was along the outside wall. When i lifted the floorboards i noticed that some of the wall on which the joists rest was missing i.e. the joists are resting on the wooden wall plate but the...

Is it okay to lay an engineered wooden on top of the normal t&g floorboards? Would you nail the engineered floor onto the normal t&g floorboard? regards scott

My combination boiler is a ferroli optima 701 but the time clock controlling it, although digital, only functions on a 24 hour basis i.e. i can only program every day to the same time. I would like to purchase a electronic timer which will fit in this boiler and allow me to program on a seven...

Is it ok to use a flexible tap hose (the stainless steel braided type) to fit onto a hob. I have a gas isolating valve and want to fit the hose to it using 15mm and half inch onto the hob. I would use gas ptfe tape. bearing in mind that these hoses can work up to 15 bar and the gas pressure is...

I fitted a strapon to a 110mm soil pipe. The strapon had an insert of roughly 53mm and i drilled a hole of 51mm and filed the rest. I assumed that the insert of the strapon had to fit snugly into the hole i drilled in the soil pipe. I then fitted the strap on with solvent cement and tightened...

I have a gas hob which has a 1/2 inch male fitting. What fitting will fit a 15mm copper pipe to the hob? regards sott

i've recently had an extension built. Builders being builders have done their job and left the garden in a mess( not complaining as this was expected). However the garden is not flat now and as a result when it rains i have alot of puddles forming around my outside walls. How can i keep this...

I'm installing a new ultra thin type of underfloor electric heating in my kitchen. My kitchen floor is concrete so i have to fit 9mm insulation slabs onto the conrete floor,then on top of that goes the ultra thin heating element, followed by a flexible tile adhesive in which the tiles are...

i want to install my cooker socket below the worktop but behind the base unit (rear cover of base unit stripped out). To isolate the cooker you would then open the base door and switch off the socket. Is there anything wrong with this? the cooker circuit is protected by a rcd. regards scott

I've recently stripped out the radiator in my bathroom and replaced it with a towel radiator but the towel radiator is very hot. I know you are supposed to balance a radiator but i don't have the clip on thermometers to do this. Can i just turn the lockshield valve in a clockwise direction(...

I've just purchased a shower from screwfix (a combi shower). After looking at the instruction manual i'm still no further forward. The shower can be either concealed or exposed. The exposed looks simple enough, the hot and cold 15mm pipes are connected to the inlets at right angles to the wall...

I have 2 basic questions: 1) are all so called 'yorkies' lead free nowadays. I read somewhere that it is better to use compression fittings on pipes which are used for drinking water but i prefer using 'yorkies' so if they are lead free can someone please let me know 2) I have a...

I plan to swap my existing bathroom radiator with a towel radiator. A straight swap over i would have thought however the instructions for the towel radiator says the towel radiator should not be used in a direct central heating system because they contain inhibitor! Anybody understand this...

I have purchased a 250 watt extractor fan for my kitchen. The wall units at either side of my hood have a junction box which supply the lights for the wall units. can i connect the cable from the hood into this box or does it need to protected by a fuse/isolating switch. The instructions mention...

I've moved into a house which has a 15mm gas copper pipe with an isolating valve. The hob I've purchased has a half inch entry connector. How do you connect the two of them up. The old cooker type had a quick release type hose but i can't see buying one of them helping me out. Thanks in...

I have already posted this question but never really got an answer. I have a combination boiler and want to plumb a shower into it. Screwfix sell 2 types: 1) using pressure balancing technology mixes hot and cold water to the desired showering temperature and automatically compensates for...

I'm a spark who needs a bit of advice from a plumber (why don't plumbers have a nickname?). 1) I have to install an air admittance valve (durgo) in my bathroom (building control insisted on it!). Some books have informed me that the height of the valve should be directly above the w.c. pan...