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Hi all, Fitted some new (cheap) basin lever taps from Screwfix this weekend, but dropped the blue screw cap off the cold tap. Can't find it anywhere and it's driving us nuts! Tried calling Screwfix for spares but no luck - cheap imports from Hong Kong they said and no spares. Anyone know...

Hi all, I've just had an old lean-to removed from the back of my house, and this has disturbed the electrics that lead to the garage at the bottom of the garden. The old wiring was unprotected inside the lean-to but runs inside hosepipe where it goes down the garden. The wiring is not...

Hi guys, I know this topic has been covered before, and I've checked the postings but I'm being very thick and still can't work out how my old thermostat wiring works. I have a Honeywell dial room thermostat and want to fit a new Digistat3 digital thermostat. My old thermostat has 3 wires...

Is it true that the current building regs require that when a new boiler is fitted, that the radiators must also be fitted with thermostatic valves? We're having a new combi boiler fitted and the corgi engineer said that he couldn't fit one with also fitting TRV's to the rads cos of building...

Hi all, I've just painted over an old artex ceiling (house is 1930'a but I suspect ceiling is maybe 60's or 70's). The artex was unsealed. I used a very thin watery paint (B&Q economy job) which was so thin I didn't think it was worth watering down any further. However, the paint blistered in...

Hi all, I've just removed some wallpaper in my 1930's house and would like to paint the walls. The plaster is sound, previously un-painted but has a lot of fine cracks in it. These cracks are too small and far too many to fill by hand. Is there any way I can rescue this wall for painting -...

Hi all, I have a 1930's terrace house which has airvents in the exterior walls in the bedrooms. I assume these date from when the house was heated by real fires and were needed for ventilation. Now the house has central heating and double glazing can I just seal these up? And if so is it OK...

Hi all, Moving into a 1930's terrace house which currently has a gas fire with a back boiler and the water tank in a cupboard in the 2nd bedroom. I want to get the boiler replaced and I'm not sure whether to get a combi boiler (I'm assuming I can ditch the water tank if I do this?), or get a...

Hi all, I'm moving house to a 1930's terrace which has a very small kitchen next to a fair sized dining room (both on back of house). I'd like to have the two rooms knocked into one and then preferably swap over the kitchen and dining areas (just cos the layout would work better with the rest...

If I want to hang a bathroom cabinet on a tiled plasterboard wall - what sort of plug should I use? I normally use plasterboard rawl plugs when I want to hang something on a plasterboard wall, but obviously they won't accomodate the extra depth for the tiles. If I use a standard wall plug (for...