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Hi We have a Samsung TV (UE50MU6120) which developed the seemingly common fault of several bright spots over the screen. All the information online suggested it was the LED lens covers/reflectors which had come loose. I have just got round to dismantling the TV today to discover that all of...

Hi I need to reseal around our bath as the sealant has lifted from the bath in a couple of places. The bath is mainly used for showering. There seems to be a lot of play in the bath when getting in and this has caused the sealant to lift. I can't see how it's possible to do anything with...

Hi The metal floor tracks of our bedroom sliding wardrobe doors are looking a bit the worse for wear with a lot of the paint removed with the constant opening and closing of the doors. I would rather just replace the tracks but I have been unable to source the ones we have anywhere and it will...

Hi Sorry if this is in the wrong forum. I'm not a tradesperson so please bear with me as I'm just looking for ideas for a fix. We have a rental property that has some issues after the last tenant left. One issue is that the radiators in the living room, under windows, look like they were...

Hi I am not a plumber so I know I have made schoolboy errors so please bear with me ! I had to replace the syphon in our upstairs toilet. This meant emptying and dismantling the cistern. In doing this I also had to replace the coupling kit from the cistern to the toilet bowl as the old one...

Hi We recently had a burst pipe in the loft - on the mains feed into the water tank. Copper piping. Damaged bedroom and living room ceilings and some flooring. We got a plumber out to repair the damaged pipe and he has put a plastic push-fit connector in place to join a new piece of piping to...

Hi We need to replace an old Siemens built in single oven and have been told that the equivalent replacement needs to be hard wired. The existing oven has a normal dual mains socket behind it, with 2 plugs. One plug is for the gas hob (ignition) and the other for the oven itself. But this mains...

Hi We have quite a long wooden fence which we need to reapply stain to but it will need to be cleaned first. Doing it by hand is a no-no as I think we'd be dead on our feet before long if we had to scrub by hand. We also can't really use a pressure washer as we have neighbours on the other side...

Hi I know this will be a stupid question but can someone tell me which part of a tap valve the spline actually is ? I need to replace the cartridge valve in my kitchen sink tap but, since the replacement valves I have seen (in a certain DIY chain) have sizes based on splines, I don't know...

Hi We have a garden shed which was here before we moved in. How it was built I don't know as it is in a 5 foot gap between the house and the fence between the properties. It is only about 2 inches from the outside wall of the house and butted up against the fence posts on the other side. This...

Hi We've finally had to replace our old washing machine due to an ever increasing list of faults - one of which was leaking. It's left some pretty bad staining on the laminate underneath. It's stained because I think the water was dirty due to the leak coming out via the drum and so probably...

Hi We have a Hotpoint Aquarius 1100 which has developed a VERY loud noise when on its spin cycle. It's a rattle/clunking noise which sounds like it's coming from inside the drum. The machine has a couple of other niggly faults which we've lived with until now but is this the final straw...

Hi We have an ongoing problem with our Hotpoint Aquarius 1100 (WD61) washing machine in that it regularly trips the circuit breaker of the mains socket it is connected to. Originally the problem only happened during a drying cycle so we weren't too bothered as we could live without the...

We have a hole in our kitchen wall which the previous occupants obviously had used for venting a tumble dryer. There is a shielded vent on the outside wall but just the hole on the inside. I'd like to block at least the inside (if not both sides) and I was just going to screw a square piece...

Started getting an "Oil Pressure Insufficient" message a couple of days ago. So far message only appears below about 2000 revs, but may be getting worse at it was initially only at about 1200. There is plenty of oil in the car. I've been advised it could be a number of things - pressure...

Hi Our monoblock driveway was particularly grubby so we used a pressure washer to clean it up and it looks OK now. Obviously some of the sand in the joints will have been washed away in the process. Will any kiln dried sand do the job or is there some better suited, or better quality...

Hi Heating and water controlled by Danfoss timer (PP715 I think). Boiler in airing cupboard. Recently, either the heating or the water continues to heat even when the timer has switched off. Timer lights are off but the boiler continues to kick on/off as it would when timer is on. We...

I've just been up in our loft to put back some chairs we had down for Christmas and noticed that the lining of the roof (the felt stuff) is wet and there are some drips on the floor of the loft. It is very frosty at the moment and I would imagine some heat is going out through the roof...

Painting some woodwork at home and I've run into a couple of problems. "Trying" to do things properly I sanded down the old paintwork and applied a coat of undercoat. So far so good. When I was applying the first main coat of paint (Dulux Quick Dry Satinwood) I was finding that some areas...

I had a drip from our Mira Excel showerhead and, on the advice of several web searches, I replaced the cartridge - 903.33 I discovered after removing the old cartridge that the hot water will not shut off completely - looks like the valve doesn't completely close, no matter how much I try to...