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Hi Wondering if anyone has experience of a VentAxia Svara extractor? I bought one of the back of the review from CharlieDIY on YouTube. Fitted ok. but for love nor money can I find a setting that will turn it off. Each configuration I try defaults to trickle instead of off. On Youtube Charlie...

hi. was very pleased to get a replacement rad fitted & TRV but now after bleeding all rads only the upstairs bedroom rads are on..bathroom is luck warm & no downstairs rads are on.../cant work it out,,,gut feeling is an air lock somewhere any ideas normal system with a tank..not combi...

hi... recently had gas boiler serviced now oddly the radiators upstairs are heating up whenever the hot water is heated even though the room thermostat is low & the control panel has central heating turned off.. cant understand it.....any ideas? thanks

hello.. thinking of decorating hall/stairs/landing tomorrow.... want to make a decent job but 1 thing is annoying me that you guys might have a tip to solve... at the bottom of the plaster board/stud wall either side of the stairs is a wooden stair skirting board type thing... on a 5...

hello...not the best with lighting or electrics so need a bit of advice. have removed the light fitting at the top of the stairs + can't work out the correct way to reconnect the new fitting... I have 3 sets of cable coming out of the ceiling (each 1 live/1 neutral)... There is a switch...

Hello...my grandmother had a upvc conservatory/porch fitted by a local firm in yorkshire last year. She requires extra keys for the door so she went to her local key cutters who cut her a key which she tried in the door. After finding that the key does not work she contacted the key cutting shop...

hello....as topic heading..it seems like the fridge door was part open during the night and in the morning there is this powerful chemical type smell which we cant get rid of...I'm not even sure the smell has stopped. come to think of it this smell has been hanging around for a week or so...

hello...i have a stelrad ideal gas boiler with a horstman timer.... i've not used the heating during the summer...now i turned the heating on at the timer an altered the thermastat and....nothing... there is no air in the system at any radiator and the water is clean....its just the boiler...

Hello, my house was built in 1993 and had a conservatory built on it sometime between then and 2000. Over the last couple of years I have seen the first few courses of bricks + mortar begin to crumble + now I can see the damp course plastic sticking out. Inside, black spots regulary appear...

i was just thinking...i have painted my kitchen tiles (looks quite good) and I would like to re-grout to finish the job off....do you think that the process of grouting will damage the paint finish in anyway? cheers

Help.. I have started laying this no glue birch real wood fastfix stuff from Wickes and cannot get the planks to meet tightly/joints are impossibly tight ...the wickes fitting kit i got includes a plastic/hollow tapping block which seems to be useless...i am heading off to B&Q to get a solid...

I'm looking to remove the 4xbig old fashioned style spot lights in my kitchen ceiling. Each light is at least 15cm across. I want to replace these with one single spotlight structure hence eventually I will not want to have 4X15cm holes in the kitchen ceiling. How do I fill these holes so...

Anyone know how to get these out?...they are on a couple of things including a cooker. cheers

I want to replace the carpet on the floor of my living room & kitchen with a 'wood/effect hard floor' alternative. The house is approx ten years old and has chipboard/floating floors. I have looked at the miriad of alternatives (laminate, real wood, karndean etc.) and I'am no wiser as the...

Help. I have tried to paint every window in my house (all of which are wooden). Every single time I have made a complete bodge of the area where the wood meets the glass. Every time I use masking tape on the glass the paint 'creeps' under it causing a nasty, uneven mess on the glass. I am...