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Hi, I've got a Samsung American Style Fridge Freezer (model number RSH5SHMH), and the freezer side seems to have stopped getting cold - the fridge side seems fine. I have checked that the internal fan is working. I have also taken the internal panel out to see if there is anything wrong with...

Hello, The flush on my toilet has started to play up - it is a push button flush, and increasingly needs several presses in order to stop it from filling and having water overflow into the bowl. I was going to replace the flush mechanism but I've got no idea how I am supposed to access it. The...

Panic over - the 2nd one was craftily "hidden" upstairs in the cupboard next to the hot water cylinder. All is forgiven! :)

Hi My heating is not working but my hot water is, so I've just been on the phone to my plumber who has said it is most likely the motorised valve. He installed the system himself a couple of years ago, so he ought to remember, but he just told me that I ought to have two 2 way valves or 1 three...

Hello, Last summer, I painted our very old garden fence panels with Cuprinol Ducksback, which I had been recommended to use. The fence panels are very old and had no sign of ever having been painted previously. They looked great after painting and I was well satisfied with my efforts. BUT...

Hi I'm hanging wallpaper and have run into an issue - I used a pencil to draw a plumb line on the wall, and when I laid a sheet of paper over the line and used the wallpaper brush to brush it down, a small amount of paste came up through the seam, carrying some pencil lead with it. Now instead...

Hello, I am re-wallpapering my house, and have already taken the old wallpaper off. Prior to being papered, it is clear that the walls were previously painted with emulsion. In a few places, where I took the old paper off the paint came away with it, leaving bare plaster. In most places...

Thanks for your replies. Yes, that wallpaper is coming off very easily. Unfortunately, I've now discovered that there is another layer of wallpaper behind it. Plain white (which is why I originally mistook it for the wall itself), with a sort of plastic/shiny/smooth feel to it. It doesn't come...

Hello I want to put new wallpaper up, and have bought a steam wallpaper remover to get the old stuff off first. What I am finding is that the old wallpaper is delaminating as I take it off. If anything, it's looking like I don't even need to use the steamer to get the decorative layer off...

Hello Does anyone here have a ST9400C Honeywell temperature programmer? I was wondering if you could let me know how the extra hour feature works for the heating? Does it still rely on the room temperature being lower than the thermostat setting? Or does it override the thermostat? Thanks...

Great advice, many thanks

Hello, I recently had my garage converted, with one of the new rooms being a utility room which has a fan. I wish I had spent more time discussing with the electrician where he was going to put the switch for the fan, because he ended up putting it in quite an inconvenient place - it is quite...

Hello We are having our integrated garage converted into rooms, with one of the rooms being a toilet. The toilet room has one external wall, however the wall that we want the toilet itself backing onto is an internal wall. The plumber has just told us that we will need to have a toilet that...

Yep I tried that and it worked fine. I didn't choose the wallpaper by the way!

Here are the joined red wires and joined black wires:

Hi My hallway has a 4 switch light switch, as shown in the photographs. The switch on the left controls a downstairs light that can also be turned on/off from upstairs. The next switch along controls an upstairs light which can also be turned on/off from upstairs. The next switch along...

Hello, I've got an Xpelair C4R in my bathroom ceiling, which vents to the outside world via a vented roof tile and some 100mm diameter flexible ducting. The problem is, the ducting is so flexible that it presses on the flaps on the top side of the fan and prevent them from opening - I am...

Hello, I've got an Xpelair C4R in my bathroom ceiling, which vents to the outside world via a vented roof tile and some 100mm diameter flexible ducting. The problem is, the ducting is so flexible that it presses on the flaps on the top side of the fan and prevent them from opening - I am...

Thanks for the reply - do the numbers 8 and 14 signify anything? The hinge seems to be 12" long and 17mm wide, not measured the height yet. Thanks, Ackoman

Hello I need to replace the hinges on a side opening uPVC window - the current hinge says "Cotswold 08 14 SS" on it - can someone please let me know if I need to find an exact same hinge, or would another manufacturer do? I don't want to have to drill new holes and so would like to get one the...