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Hi My oven elements keep blowing and I don,t know exactly why.I must admit I do buy cheap elements instead of the real thing.Sometimes they last for 3 months or the last one a week.Could I be getting the wiring wrong.The elements have 2 double spade connectors on them.And the oven has 2 wires...

I have low voltage lighting in the bathroom.One of the bulbs went which i tried to replace.Being in the bathroom the lights are in a casing.I removed them from this and found the bulb connected to a very small bulb holder.One of the wires going into this has come away and there are no screws to...

Just a simple question I am putting plastic trim around the windows in the bathroom. Now do i tile up to the trim leaving no gap or do i leave a gap (which would be easier) and grout the gap. Thanks in advance.

just want a bit of re-assurance here. I have tiled 2 walls with battens attached to the plaster walls with masonary nails.I now want to do the other 2 walls which i didn't batten up as i have to take the sink and toilet out first. Nailing them to the other walls would the vibration dislodge...

How do professionals apply silicon without making a mess.I've tried it by wetting my finger or using fairy washing up liquid but by the time you get to the end of the wall i end up with a large amount of silicon on my hands.I brought a tool but this again accumulates a large amount of silicon...

I will shortly be tiling around my windows in the bathroom.I have already tiled 2 walls nailing battens to the wall. How do you tile around a window especially the top without the tiles slipping.Do i nail another batten above the window,use non slip adhesive,use gaffer tape (i read it...

I may be missing the point somewhere.I am in the process of tiling my bathroom.I recently had the bathroom re-arranged and so thought it would be an easy job to remove the sink to tile behind it. Looking at the connections of the copper water pipe to the tails of the taps i thought i would have...

I am just about to tile my bathroom.It has been re-arranged & re-plastered.I have sealed the walls etc. My question is where would be the best place to incorporate the border tiles.I have a window in the bathroom which is slightly higher than my sink.Do i place the border tiles half way up the...

I have just had my bathroom re-arranged and replastered by a builder.I'm now about to tile but have noticed that there is hardly any gap between the toilet cistern and the wall.I have a close coupled toilet.Is there much play in these toilets so i could move the cistern away from the wall the...

Lately i have been having problems with my Hoover AI 1300 washing machine.I have been told that the error i get.(error code 3) is drainage timeout.I have cleaned everything inside and out pump,water level bottle the lot.Have checked pump works etc. And the machine worked for a bit (about a...

A couple of weeks ago my washing machine came up with error code 3.I have been told since that error code 3 is failed to drain in the alloted time. After stripping the machine down and cleaning everything including the pump and pipe connections the problem seemed to go away.Now it's back and i...

Could someone tell me the error codes for a Six Sporswear 1300 AI 130 washing machine.I,m getting error code 3 at the moment. Thanks

I have recently finished my Kitchen but didn't bother putting any undercupboard lighting in although i have made provision for it.An electician came in and placed a plug socket above the cupboards to plug the extracter in and spured off this is a FCU which i am to wire my lights into. The...

Could someone tell me how much of a problem it would be to replace my Honeywell st772 central heating programmer for a Horstmann C27 one. I can't seem to find any info about the st772.They probably don't make it anymore.What is its exact equivalent.Thanks

have a Honeywell timer(ST772) running my central heating system.Now it has just started playing up.Most times now when i put the heating and water on together the timer turns off and i get a blank screen on the digital display.By pressing it's reset button the display comes back on the starts...

I know this has been talked about a lot but this is my situation. I live in a house built in the 60's.Now for some reason the light switches don,t have an earth connection but all the light fittings do apart from the Kitchen.Therefore in other parts of the house i have metal lights but plastics...

Just installed a kitchen sink.The sink i have has got a pop-up plug hole. This plug hole is screwed thru the centre and attached to a mating part nder the sink.In between this is a massive rubber washer that sits to the underside of the sink.This is where it is leaking. I have tightened the...

Can anyone give me advice on cutting Kitchen worktops. I have no mitres to cut just a cutout for a Sink and Hob. The sink cutout is close towards one end of the worktop and there is a couple of water pipes the worktop has to goes round.Therefore the worktop could be quite weak at this point...

Can anyone give me advice on cutting Kitchen worktops. I have no mitres to cut just a cutout for a Sink and Hob. The sink cutout is close towards one end of the worktop and there is a couple of water pipes the worktop has to goes round.Therefore the worktop could be quite weak at this point...

I am about to install a built under double electric oven in my new kitchen and have a few questions that need answering. 1:-The manufacturer (neff) in their instruction manual says that i have to burn in the insulation by heating the oven up prior to installing the oven.What does this mean...