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Bought built in electric oven and gas hob from Comet for them to install. First engineers said they COULD fit oven and hob but we needed to sort the electrics out at the back as they were unsafe - we did this and 2 different engineers came out a few days later. Those engineers walked...

My house has copper pipes (not painted white) to radiators (& they're slightly wonky). Cosmetically they aren't like the straight in/out pipes I see in other peoples houses. 1 Are copper pipes common (better/worse) for radiators 2 On a couple of them, they are slightly green near...

1 week ago had new baxi solo 24 condensing boiler fitted. Kept existing control panel on wall (british gas model UP1) and thermostat/roomstat in hallway. Heating enginner initially wired up the control panel just to get the system working but it needed wiring properly - so he sent an...

Had a baxi solo 24 installed last week to replace my condemed glow worm. We kept the existing control panel and hallway thermostat as we are happy with how these work. However, since he left we have had the following problems: 1 Thermostat in the hall does not work/affect the boiler at all...

HELP Conventional glow worm boiler has been condemmed & disconnected. Have had 3 engineers round quoting for replacements and for combi's also. Only downside I can see to combi is lower water pressure. Quotes are around £2-2400 for either option. 2 engineers said a combi is better for the...

For the last 3 weeks I have had my heating on and all has been fine. The boiler in my kitchen has a low and high flame setting and it has been on low. Now that we are coming into winter I put it on high. Within 2 minutes the boiler and pipes were banging like crazy. As soon as I changed it...

Recently my dishwasher has not been cleaning a bottom half of my dishwasher. The entire top gets cleaned well and the bottom left, where I load plates also gets cleaned well. But, no matter what I put in the bottom right half of the machine, it never gets that clean, no matter how light the...

Hope you can help, I have looked through the forum at other shower tripping problems and none are exactly like mine: I have a triton T80si (few years old). It was working fine until a few days ago when it just tripped. Reset the circuit breaker (dedicated for the shower), pulled the pull...

I laid a laminate floor 8 months ago and have only now just got around to sorting out the new skirting boards. (my wife loves me...) I had noticed that a couple of parts of the floor would bow ever-so-slightly when the house was warm and I just put this down to the boards expanding and...

Hello, I am thinking of converting my garage into a dining room. No quotes yet but reckon on £7-9K. It is 18ft x 9 ft. It is mostly integral to the house and has a flat roof covering approx 10 ft x 9 ft out to the front. I would ideally like to get a pitched roof done when I get the...

Last night I noticed that the bathroom hot water tap was only just trickling water out ( a problem that had been getting progressively worse). Also the tap would only turn about one-and-a-half rotations but all my other taps turn 3-5 times. I see from this forum that it might have been the...

I have a 4-bed detached modern (1978) house. My loft is roughly, but no higher than, 2 metres from the floor to the roof apex. Is it possible to convert it (with a dorma perhaps) at this height? The web sites all seem to state a minimum of 210-215cm. I have not seen any other houses of a...

I have a 1978 4xbed det house with a partial integral garage out to the front. I am thinking of either converting the garage into a dining room and from this forum I see £5-8K is the rough cost. I was thinking, in addition to this, of extending the upstairs bedroom out onto the top of the...

I've seen some dishwasher/washing machine waste queries on the site but none cover my requirements, so here goes. I have a twin sink and the w/m waste is connected to the main sink waste. These then go out to the waste drain in my back garden. On the opposite side to my w/m is space for a...

I've just bought rustic oak laminate flooring from homebase in the sales and the genuinely helpful (carpenter) assistant recommended the softboard underlay for my living room and hall. It was a little more expensive but he said the benefits over the tinfoil covered foam were much better...

It's the Sales and my wife is after a dishwasher. However, there is a small snag. Just bought a house & I have a white-goods space either side of my under sink cupboard, but there is only plumbing for one item. My washing machine has hot&cold connectors and to get it plumbed in, I had to get...