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Hi, I got my intergrated hob extractor fan replaced last week. To cut long story short it took the electrician 7 hrs, it cost £885 .it was like for like. My issues not just his lack of speed & general buggering about - but the job itself. I supplied the new unit & duct the unit was perfect size...

hi Im slowly painting my house, next on agenda living room, lots of cracks & holes to fill i can cope with but what the proverbial do i do with this? See pic, ceiling seems to have some paper on it thats is all split & cracking - do i lather it in polyfilla type stuff & stick down or is there...

hi, I have an outside tap that had a ‘bit’ on the bottom of the pipe that sealed it so water ran thru the tap, every winter for years despite running water thru to empty pipe of water so cant freeze & turning tap off at mains this ‘bit ‘ has popped off, was no problem when i lived with my ex...

hi ive just changed a halogen bulb in my kitchen,nightmare couldnt do it without pulling whole fitting out & a whole load of dust into my eyeballs, ive changed the bulb but no idea how to fit the collar back on & what do i do with those 2 prongs now sticking out? See pics & thanks for any...

Hi Just spent an arm & a leg getting new shower installed , just cleaned bathroom today ( yes i had a lazy week) & noticed the sink is covered in thin splashes of something that has set hard. Im suspecting watery grout not rinsed away. The job was done a a week & a half ago - i think my chances...

Hi, To cut a long boring story short - I had a leaking loo, plumber no1 £200 later said leak fixed & he'd fitted a new float(?) as well. Leak not fixed couldn't get hold of him.Plumber no2 fixed leak but toilet started flushing itself repeatedly he came back fiddled with it seemed to stop. It...

hi Posted little while ago about what wireless thermostat to get fitted now have bigger problem I've noticed my boiler is leaking a small amount of water from the white pipe that runs underneath & the pressure is under 1 Mb tried to get a engineer today failed no one calling me back - I can't...

hi, had a new green star boiler fitted by my ex last year he came down 4 hr drive fitted the thing in one day I left to go to night shift while he was still doing it. I can't turn the thing off as in heating in summer I poured over the manual for weeks looking for a clue - I don't want heating...

Hi, I have a zanussi built under double oven, yesterday when I was cleaning the top oven/grill I managed to snap a thin wire thing at the back of the oven. I don't know how else to describe it except it's a thin bit of wire right at the back top of the oven - it doesn't seem to be attached to...

Hi My oven is directly wired to a power switch. I've just noticed that when the power switch is on ( regardless if the oven is on) the orange light at the top flickers. None of my other power switches ( the washing machine one also wired directly) flicker. I'm sure this is quite new. The oven...

Hi Can anyone help I've just had a new green star i boiler installed the gas engineer who fitted it for me ( my ex) is now not speaking to me ( won't bore you with domestics ) so I've not been shown how to se the controls - I don't have the wall thermostat just the boiler in a cupboard. I can't...

Hi & help! My sister & I have been refurbing our deceased dads house, has been a mega job, had to completely neutralize his very arty much loved decor - but was decor that would have sent potential buyers running for the hills! Anyway have ivoried all walls & ceilings thanks to my mr Bosch...

Hi A work collegue wants to get someone profesional to paint her good sized double bedroom. I have absolutely no idea what it would cost to get someone in to paint it. I am the one at home who is left with the painting myself and have never had the luxury of getting someone in to do it. Does...

Hi radiator in our kitchen is turned off - not the bit on the right that has an arrow on it to turn on/off but the bit(?valve) on the left. It has a cap on it when i take the cap off theres a brass pin sticking up with a big nut thingy underneath - is this what i turn so the radiator will come...

Hi have to sell my deceased fathers house, the windows are a mess, warped wooden frames with no double glazing. Should we get it double glazed before we try to sell? ( Its in Aberdeenshire so a cold place in winter). If so does anyone have any ideas of how many thousands it would be around...

Hi, im trying to sort out my elderley fathers bathroom. He had a nasty rubber backed carpet down for years, Ive pulled it up and dumped it, but there are areas of the wood floor that are damp. Is there something i can use to seal the damp wood before laying vinyl tiles? I know we should leave it...

hi & help to cut a long story short, our kitchen mixer tap is broken, one tap bit has only 2 prong thingys on it ( the bit you turn to get the water on) & now the whole thing leaks continually & we get water hammer noise regularly. Is it an easy job to change the thing?? can i just change the...

hi my husband is a plumber who will not do any diy around our house. so its left to me( definitely not a tradesperson of any stretch of the imagination) to sort out botch jobs that were done before we bought our property. ( sadly with my own botch jobs replacing them!!!) ive just drilled...

hi our bathroom when refurbished before we bought our flat just had the tiles slapped down onto concrete with no grouting or anything in between. as you can imagine it ended up very stained ( very quickly)so we've drilled out between the tiles to allow us to grout. is there some sort of...

hi im desperate to find a uk supplier of an ironing board i spotted on a us web site. it is an ironing board that you fix to the back of any door that you pull down to use & then flip up back against the door out of the way. unfortunately the shop in the us that stocks this much wanted item...