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Hi, we have a Faral Longo tall radiator in the kitchen which I noticed last night had a puddle of water underneath it. I initially thought it was just going to be the valve connections leaking having turned the heating on recently but it's not. The leak is actually coming from the bottom of the...

Hi, I just wanted a little advice about the soil pipe on the outside wall. As can be seen in the pictures the fittings have become very discoloured from the sun and in a relatively short space of time. These were put in before we moved into the house but I believe they are about 5 years old and...

Hi, I hope someone can help me here. We moved into a new house last October and we have just started having a problem with the downstairs toilet/shower room. The shower has started to not drain very well and when the toilet is flushed the shower drain gurgles. The toilet pipe goes straight...

Hi, I have a monobloc kitchen mixer tap which has a leak but I'm not sure how to take it apart to fix it. This is the type of tap: ...and this is where it is leaking from: There is no cap on top of the handle to get to a screw and I have unsuccessfully tried unscrewing the lower...

Hi, We have recently noticed that in our living room the wall adjoining the window is getting damp and when the weather is bad we are getting wet patches on the wallpaper as shown in this picture: The window was fitted about 14 years ago and it is only recently that we have noticed the...

Hi, I am currently refitting our upstairs bathroom and have a question about the bath waste. I have fitted a new steel bath and have a McAlpine shallow bath trap going directly to the soil stack (approx 1.75m run). I now realise thanks to this forum that this is not acceptable as there is not a...

Hi, I am currently renovating our bathroom which has involved removing all the old plasterboard from the stud walls and the ceiling and replacing with 12.5mm moisture resistant plasterboard. Also there is one solid wall that is not particularly flat which I would like to plaster to make it nice...

Hi, I am currently refitting our bathroom and have a question regarding the bath waste. the new bath is steel and the bath waste is this one... ...from Screwfix. Both the plughole and the overflow parts have a white foam sealing gasket to seal between the chrome part and the bath tub...

Hi, I am currently renovating our bathroom and would like some advice on insulating the external wall. The house was built in the early sixties and, as was typical then, the downstairs is mainly brick and upstairs it is part stud wall with felt and cladding on the outside and plasterboard on...

Hi, my mother has a Triton Sambada electric shower that appears to have developed a fault. The shower has a four position power selector switch with the following positions - Stop, Cold, Economy & High. When the switch is set to the cold or economy settings the shower works fine but if the high...

Hi, we have been having a problem with the kitchen sink and dishwasher draining away so I decided to investigate the outside drain that the kitchen waste feeds into. This is under the conservatory floor but there is a cover to gain access to the drain. Upon opening it all up it became apparent...

Hi, could someone give me some advice or ideas regarding replacing a garden fence please. The fence in question is at the bottom of the garden and consists of concrete posts with fence panels slotted into them. The fence panels are rotten and need replacing but there is a large tree next to...

Hi, I am in the process of fitting some ducting from the cooker hood (chimney type) through the kitchen ceiling and then under and then through the upstairs floor void to the outside wall. The total length of the ducting is about 2.5m. For the ducting itself I have got some Manrose 125mm semi...

Hi, I am on the finishing stages of completely refitting our kitchen and have just realised that I may have made a slight mistake and would like some suggestions how to overcome it. The electrics have all been done with a new kitchen ring main part of which is a socket under the countertop...

Hi, I am in the process of refitting our kitchen and am at the stage where I need to sort out the plumbing connections. I have a copper waste pipe of 40.8mm OD coming out of the wall at just above floor level sloping upwards as shown in the photo.... ....and would like some advice on the...

Hi, I would like a bit of advice regarding when to use pipe inserts for plastic pipe. I know that you must use an insert when fitting a compression fitting to the plastic pipe but are you also supposed to use an insert when just using the standard JG plastic pushfit fittings. I was always...

Hi all, I have another question regarding the new electrics being installed in our new kitchen. I see you can get two different formats of 45A cooker switch, a 1 gang square or a 2 gang vertical format. They both appear to have the same spec except the larger one has a neon indicator so I...

Hi, I am in the process of completely refitting the kitchen and would like some advice regarding the electrics. Forstly, let me say that I am getting in an electrician and he has already given us the quote to connect up and test etc. However, I am putting all the boxes in the walls and...

Hi, I am looking for a fine toothed blade for my sliding mitre saw and came accross this one for sale on eBay http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=160466402691&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT As you can see it is a Piranha blade but there is no mention of Black and Decker on the...

Hi, I'm hoping someone can give me some advice about the wall above my kitchen window/door. We are just about to undergo a complete kitchen refit and in the process will need the walls and ceiling completely re-plastering. For this I will get a professional plasterer in but I will want to do...