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Hi folks, As per the title I have a plastic oil tank that appears to be leaking from the output pipe seal. The black seal which i'm hoping can be seen in the pic is deteriorating. I'm pretty handy with all things mechanical so I was wondering whether this was a job I could attempt myself ? Or...

Hi folks, I have purchased (whilst under the influence of stupidity) a cheap accessory alarm for my 20 year old 4x4 truck. As I dreaded the instructions are mainly in Chinglish :( Although I've managed to make sense of most of it with one main exception. The relay . I have attached two pics...

Hi Folks, I've had a wall between two rooms removed in my 120 year old slate/stone cottage and the floors either side aren't quite level with each other. Added to this the floors in what were the two previous rooms and both sag towards one corner due to some subsidence many years ago (approx...

Hi guys, as per the title really. Water board say its galv steel , I say it's lead. It's soft and easily bent / marked . Opinions ? (I should add the OD is 27mm and the ID is 15mm if that's of any use) Cheers

H folks, as per the title, is there any problem with me capping off a radiator I want to permanently remove ?

Hi , Every time I put the grill on (integral grill in cooker) the main CU RCD trips. Initially I assumed it was just the naff cooker, so replaced it with another which does exactly the same. All four rings are fine as is the oven, but the grill trips out the RCD. I did post about this a...

Hi chaps, I dug away around one the bottom of one of my cast iron soil pipes and found that the old clay pipe that connects to the down soil pipe had come away and the rest of the pipe had dropped letting lots of lovely raw sewerage run under the house :? My plan was to dispense with the...

Hi folks, Her indoors has bought a dual fuel (gas/elec) cooker with inbuilt gas hob. The cooker is going on the wall and the gas feed pipe will run straight down the wall through the exterior wall to the LPG cannister outside the house. A straight run of pipe approx 2.5 metres long. I have...

Hi, As per the title really. Do all household insurance policies cover DIY issues ? The only reason I ask is that a mate of mine managed to drill through a central heating pipe and managed to flood the downstairs of his house :roll: Do all insurance companies cover this sort of thing ?

Hi as per title really. It will gentle roll back and forth as it used to do before going into full speed spin , but it doesn't ever start the full speed spin. It completes the cycles as it should except this one. It also seems to be making a graunching noise (almost like a pump labouring). I...

Hi Folks, My daughters bedroom with 2 external walls has condensation, but what is more worrying is that there is a large amount of furry mould growing where the two external walls meet. To combat this the window is cracked open at 8am to 3.45pm, no wet towels or washing is left in this room...

Hi, My oil fired Worcester 15/19 (approx 25 yrs old) boiler is being serviced tomorrow. Can you tell me what I should get for my money ? Also I have been told that this boiler has a 'reserve' that can be realised by fitting a different part. The part name escapes me, but it was a jet or nozzle...

Hi Folks, Turned my heating on for the first time this year and we get hot rads but no hot water. In fact the water is cold. We have an immersion heater so it's not a big deal , but would be nice to know how to sort it. Worcester boiler is approx 25 years old and oil fired. Normally you...

As the title says. Was sweeping one of the chimneys and the brass connector failed leaving 1m of rod with a brush on the end wedged somewhere up my chimney :? Once you've all stopped laughing, would anyone have a bright idea on how I can rescue the aforementioned brush ? :evil: Cheers

Hi Folks, I am wanting to turn two rooms into one. In my way is a supporting wall. The wall supports the 1st floor beams and the first floor ceiling beams. The wall is 3.6 metres wide, and I am planning on having 600mm piers at either side of the room that the RSJ will sit on. This will...

My wife has a room in the back of her shop that has a sort of rippled finish. Its a concrete floor that was obviously levelled out with a plank of wood which has left lots of little ridges. The ridges are max 10mm deep. Would self levelling compound sort these ridges out or am I looking at...

Hi, I have no idea if anyone else is aware of this, but one of my customers has just called me to tell me they had been contacted by Microsoft because they had malicious software on their PC. The caller asked for the ladies husband by name, but proceeded the call with her as he wasn't in...

Hi folks, My wife has a hair salon with a single brick external wall (no cavity obviously) with no DPC and unsurprisingly has a damp problem. What is the least destructive way of either installing a dpc of some kind, or is there another solution ?

Was digging out a cable in a wall that seemed to have a curious route, i.e. not horizontal or vertical , but going diagonally across the wall. Anyway, when I removed the cable this is what I found. A screw and rawplug through the cable. I am assuming that the rawplug stopped the screw...

hey folks, I know what I want I'm just not sure what they are called. Basically I am after lots of very small sunken lights that I can put in an mdf enclosure with a transformer to control mood lights. Assuming they are called mood lights I haven't had much luck finding what I am...