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Hi All I’ve had a Rock door Ultimate as my front door for about 5 years, and it’s been faultless up until the last few weeks. Normally, when you push the door closed, it glides into the latch with a really smooth action like a rifle bolt, but no it just bounces of the latch and will only close...

Hi all I’m currently self building (or mostly self building) a 3m x 5m single storey rear extension, and the next job looming is the roof. I’ve got no drawings, so I’m designing stuff as I go, which has been interesting to say the least!! I’ve had a brickie in to build the walls, which are...

Hi all I'm in the early stages of planning an extension, that I'll be (mostly) self building. I'd like some advice on the UFH. I'm in a 3 bed semi that we're going to extend at the rear to make the usual large kitchen diner. This is going to create one large room at the back with half the...

I’m in the early planning stages of a single storey rear extension on my 3 bed semi. I’m going to be self building, pretty much from the ground up. It’s going to be the full width of the house, so about 6m and 4m out so within permitted development hopefully. My main hurdle before I get...

Hi all! I had a condensing boiler fitted a few years ago and now need it re-locating. A friend of a friend is a British Gas engineer and ‘does foreigners’. Will this be covered by gas safe? If not, I’d rather go elsewhere to get all the certs. I’m having it moved from the garage to inside the...

I'm at the 'no going back stage' of a bathroom strip out at home, and we have decided on a showerbath, probably L-shaped. Having had a cheap one from the big orange shed in the past that cracked within months, I want a decent one!! I am looking at the reinforced one's, but apart from Carronite...

Hi I'm in the market for a new combi. We've not long moved in the house, and it has a old worcester 28i, which is working fine and provides scalding hot water albeit at a fairly slow flow rate (or it seems it anyway, but I have measured it and is running at approx 10l/min). I would keep it...

I'm doing a major overhaul of my living room at the moment and I've noticed some shoddy work that's been done in the past. Most of it is sorted now, but there are a couple of joists that are loose at the point the go into the wall (outer wall) and there is a small amount of damp around them...

I've had my floor boards up and noticed that the ends of 2 of the joists have started to rot and sag. There is a horizontal joist about 750mm from the wall that is currently supporting the lateral joists (if that makes sense?) so my question is, can I span this short gap with new joist and hang...

My boiler has developed a leak! (Worcester 24 CDi) and I've traced it to an isolation valve on the CH flow pipe. It goes through the back of the boiler so i'm not sure if it's an integral part of the boiler, or whether I could just replace it? It's leaking through the screw on the valve so...

Forgive me if this is in the wrong section. I've just bought this from argos http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/7402601/Trail/C%24cip%3D1500011159.Garden%2C%2BDIY%2Band%2Bleisure%3EC%24cip%3D1500011294.Pressure%2Bwashers.htm 10 minutes after starting it this morning, the...

We have a leak on the kitchen roof (pitched roof single storey extension on a 2 bed terraced) and on closer inspection it seems to be coming through the lead flashing around the soil pipe. I've checked the outside and it looks like the flashing is cracked in a couple of places. Would it be...

Hi I've just bought a 52 plate Focus Diesel (if that makes a difference!) and the heater control only works on speed 4 which annoys the hell out of me!! Just wondered if it was a common problem with an easy fix, or whether it needs some new parts? Cheers

Hi I want to become a joiner and would like some general advice on how to go about it. I'm not after any quick fixes, so i'm thinking of enrolling on an NVQ at Stockport College (if there are any places!!). A good mate of mine is a Joiner and advised me to go full time at college as it...

I'm building a step outside the back door and i've bought some slate to top it off. It's from B&Q and called 'natural quarry green slate' and is about 1" thick. I need to cut about 1" off the last slab. I was thinking of cutting a groove into it with a grinder, then breaking it with a...

We live in a two bed terraced with a single storey kitchen extension that shares a sloped roof with the neighbouring house. It's a slate roof, and the neighbour has had a leak and had his roof re-laid. The roofer that was doing the work said that the leak came from our side and that the felt...

Sorry about the title :roll: Some of the pointing at the back of the house needs doing, both on the yard wall and the rear wall of the house under the DPC. I'm going to have a go at it myself, but need a few tips: Do I just buy any old sand and cement, or is there a specific type for...

The screw on cover on the salt dispenser in my dishwasher has been removed in the past and is nowhere to be found! There seems to be quite a large void at the bottom of the machine that fills up with water and bits of food and gets very smelly after a couple of days, so i'm having to flush it...

Hi We bought a shower/bath suite from B&Q before Christmas and I've just noticed a small crack in the acrylic bath :shock: just where the floor starts to curve upwards. I've checked underneath and it seems to be all dry. Is the Acrylic just a cosmetic vaneer or will this eventually leak...

I'm looking to replace the cheap laminate flooring that we have throughout the ground floor, and have been perusing the internet for a couple of weeks to find a nice replacement. I've Worked out that the area is approx 28 square metres which will give me a budget of around £17/Square M...