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Hi, Just looking for a little guidance. We've got a 3 bed detached house. 1 bathroom, 1 ensuite. We have an old thermostore? HW cylinder that is scaled up and needs replacing. We've been looking at getting quotes, we've weighed up the option of replacing with a combi, but I'm pretty settled...

Hi, Like many others I'm sure, I've gone into the loft to fetch the xmas decs and found condensation on the inside of one side of the roof. (We only moved in a year ago) It's only on one side, but it's the side the has the most heating (stairs on the other side) and I'm trying to determine...

I've just built a shed. 2x3 frame, sterling board sides (already coated in a shed/fence preserver) and the featheredge boards on top of that. The featheredge boards are green rough sawn type from Wickes, pressure treated. Now I want to give the whole thing a coat of preserver, but I want...

Hi, I've just built a shed, and I am looking at insulating it before timber cladding the interior. I'm looking at the different options to insulate, and originally was considering polystyrene and then came across Wickes general Purpose Slab Insulation. This stuff is 50mm thick. Does...

I live in a 2 bed terrace house. I am doing a bit more work from home lately so I am considering converting the loft space into something a bit more useable. I do not want to do a full dormer conversion and will only be looking at a single (maybe two) velux windows. At the moment my desk is...

Hi, I have a tiles effect laminate flooring in my kitchen. I have some scratches where an old chair leg used to sit (replaced with foam padded ones now) and it has scratched the surface. Does anyone have any idea as to what would be a good product to fill in the scratches / scuffs? The...

Hi all, looking for a bit of help or advice. Last Friday my central heating stopped working. I have a standard vented system with a quite old boiler (Radiation Fuelsaver 9), and feed and expansion tank in the loft. I managed to get a plumber who's a friend of a friend, (works for BG) to come...

I have a Mixer tap on the bath which has connected shower. The pressure is not great. It is fed with a 22mm supply direct from cold storage tank, and 22mm feed from hot water cylinder (in the adjacent bedroom) I was thinking of locating a 1.5bar small shower pump, under the bath. This could...

I want to get some power to my detached garage, please see my rather crude plan above! Now as I understand, the preferred option would be to have a seperate mains running from my fusebox (in the house) out to the garage where there would be a small distribution board splitting the lights and...

I moved into our first house in June an im now getting close to finihing all th redecoration off. THe main thing to finh is the kitchen. I fitted new kitchen (one of the take away ones from Wickes) its not amazing quality but im pretty happy. The only thing I dont like is the drawer unit...

My brother has a Ford Fiesta 1.1 (1991 J Reg Mk4) and has been having some problems with it. A week ago it wouldnt start (he's had the car for a year and its the first problem hes had). The car would turn over but not kick in or fire and start. A few days later a mechanic came out to look at...

I have bought a new room thermostat to replace our old one. The old one is a dial type (i think it was a Drayton one), and when i removed this there was three wires. red, blue, yellow, and yellow/green. The red was in the Live point, the blue was in the Neutral point and the yellow was in...

Hello all, Im in the middle of doing up our first house and ive come across a problem with the bath. I have installed a new suite, and wanted to add a shower so I had to face the bath the other way in order to mount the shower on a wall. (the orginal wall behind the taps had a ledge and...

Im a first time DIYer and im about to put in my first ever kitchen. Now my main worry is the worktops. We have gloss laminate tops that will be placed into a U shape so there will be the need to two mitred joints. Now many people I have spoke to said that its not worth messing with it...

Hello all, Ive been looking for somewhere to ask questions on Jimnys for quite a while so hopefully this is the place! I have a 2001 1.3 Jimny Soft top, which in January needed the engine replacing. A friend assisted in the engine swap and we successfully (or he mainly did) swapped the...