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On holiday in Brac, Croatia. Wondered if this shower/boiler co-location would pass UK electrical regs? Lh1 by yamahaliam posted 21 Aug 2021 at 9:16 AM

Just spotted this, it was working fine yesteday, and now the display just shows EI6 (or E16 or EL6). Nothing else. Does anyone know what that fault code means? I can't see it anywhere on the net. Changed the batteries, and the same thing displays. The Boiler (a greenstar) shows a clashing...

Hi, Looking at using Brazilian black slate floor tiles laid over paving stones to make a hearth for the fireplace, but the edges have saw marks. Can the edges of slate tiles be filed or polished to remove the saw marks? Cheers Liam

Hi All, My new house has lath and plaster ceilings in the bedrooms with emulsioned woodchip over the top. There are dirty lines on the ceiling where all the muck & dust in the attic has seeped through the plaster. I'm going to strip & paint the ceilings, but do I need to reskim to stop...

Just bought a 1930's largish 4 bed detached house. The roof is red clay tile, and it is leaking on 2 of the 4 lead valleys. The tiles are mostly good and the battens aren't rotten. However, it's a pre-felting roof and most of the cement on the backs of the tiles has fallen out so there's a...

In the process of buying a 1930's house, and just noticed that the course of bricks on top of the DPC have slipped outwards by about 5mm on one wall. This wasn't spotted in the survey (or if it was it wasn't mentioned) and there are no other signs of cracking or movement. Should I be...

Hi all, I'm thinking of buying a house, and the HIP says it was completely rewired in 1986, but some of the wiring looks like bad DIY and I've got my doubts about when it was done. The consumer unit is cartridge/spade type rather than having circuit breakers - does that sound like 1986...

My new house has a half installed Gardtec 360 alarm, I can finish off the job, but the previous owner didn't leave the installation manual. Where can I get one? Had a look at the sticky at the top, but not listed....

Hi, I have a 2 year old Whirlpool DWF B10, and it keeps stopping and beeping. The start LED flashes 11 times, pauses and starts again. I've seen other problems on this site where it's a clogged water indicator, buit that's all clear(from what I can see - dunno how to take it out) and the...