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Hello, Our Hoover VHW964D washer dryer has an E11 fault code on the LED display. We can clear it by turning the power off at the mains and then it only appears after shutting the door when any wash/dry/rinse/spin mode is selected. We've taken the clothes out, but it still has some water...

Hello, We have removed the plaster off our front room chimney and want to make it a brick feature. Whats the best product to put on the brick to give a good interior dark brick finish? Thanks

Hi there, We have an RSJ supporting the rear kitchen wall into an extention. We're in the process of insulating the extension roof, which one side of the RSJ sits in the roof space and the cavity in unfilled. The other side forms part of the kitchen wall and is double boarded. Does the...

Hello, I'm sure I posted this last night but here it is again.. I'm putting up a 6' fence and was looking to use the metal spikes set in concrete to support the wooden fence posts. There looks to be two different types - bolt clamped and wedged. Does anyone have any comments on the...

Hello, I'm putting up a 6' high fence and plan to use a metal spike in postcrete to anchor the post. There are two types I have seen - one with bolts to clamp around the post or the second that wedges against the post when hit in. Does anyone know the advantages and disadvantages between...

Hi There, We have a victorian terrace with the kitchen built on at the back. Running down the side of the kitchen there is approx 1.5x5m of crazy paving patio. It doesn't get any sun so its mossy and the crazy paving has broken up. We're looking to neaten it up by putting some blue...

Hello Above the bathroom we have recently installed 200mm Space Blanket loft insulation on top of what was already there, about 150mm. Checking the loft now the rafters have started to develop a white 'mould' (?) over them. Can anyone let me know if this is OK and if not what to do -...

Hello, We currently have an outdoor double socket IP56 rated which is a spur off the internal socket circuit, which is protected by RCD at the main house fusebox. We want to run an armoured cable 25m down the garden into the garage to an RCD fuse box, to then feed x2 outdoor and x2...

Hi there, We've just had our bathroom replastered and have been recommended using Leytex High Opacity paint on top of the plaster for the undercoat. Is this suitable for a base coat in the bathroom and will it be ok to paint over with bathroom paint? Thanks

Hi, We've taken the bathroom walls back to the brick to board and plaster over. I was planning to line the walls will the thermal foil type of insulation and board over the top. I've since found that there are 'Insulation Plasterboards' available - which would be best for keeping the heat...

Hi there, Were having some brickwork done on the internal wall of a 1900 house. Where some of the bricks have been taken out the've been replaced by packing mortor instead of putting in bricks, sometimes accross two bricks length on the same row. Is this safe/normal?? Or should we get...

Hi There, We've bought some laminate flooring to go on top of the floor boards in our upstairs bathroom. I've been to a couple of flooring suppliers and been given different advise as to what type of underlay would be best, either; leveller board (about 5mm thick - good leveller and sound...

Hi there, After checking for the reason for our drains smelling we've found that our drain joins the main exit pipe by a Y Branch. It looks like for some reason a Y branch was used instead of a straight through 45 degree pipe, as one of the Y branch's goes nowhere. The problem is when...

Hello, We've just stripped the wallpaper from our bathroom and after trying to paint a base coat there's a clear covering on the plaster that comes off and blisters when trying to painted onto the walls. I'm assuming its the wall paper paste but whats the best way of getting rid if it...

Hi, I'm in the process of insulating the loft and have high ceilings in the rooms below which follow the roof line into the corners/eaves. The ceiling below is up against the rafters, which are 70mm in depth, but with the roof felt lining sagging a bit it closes to about 60mm in places. I...

Hi there, We're planning to move our Worcester 24CDI boilier from the bathroom into the kitchen. A couple of people have suggested getting a new combi boiler as part of the move. How much better will a new combi be than the 24CDI - enough to spend up to £1000 for a new one? We're not...

Hi there, I've bought some Ronseal Brushing Wax (as we've been told it gives a non shine finish compared to varnish) for the new natural wooden window cills we've just had fitted. We're after the dark oak brown look so bought this and just applied one coat. Instead of giving the Dark Oak...

The reflection inside from my patio doors gives a distorted reflection at eye level - and a ripple or wave effect when you move your eye level up and down. The distortion is towards the edge of the glass. Should new toughened double glazed glass units have this distortion?? I've looked at...

Hi, Another question about the Rehau double glazing we're just having fitted; Alot of the windows have toughened glass in them, but they all have the kitemark visable in different corners of the window and all face to be read from outside. Where there are two paynes next to each other I'm...

I've just had new Rehau double glazed units fitted and noticed that the frames have what is called 'knock-ons' (?) at the top, making more plastic visible and making the window size smaller - not by anything much but obviously with UPVC double glazing the less plastic and more glass the better...