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Hi guys Not sure if this is the right board to post on but here goes. We recently discovered that the flat below has dry / wet rot, seemingly caused by the erosion(?) of the mortar joint between our building and the one next door. Presumably on the basis of a survey of that flat it's been...

Hi Would be very grateful for any advice as to what to do until I can get my central heating guy in the morning. A couple of nights ago I was wakened by a banging noise. I thought it was someone at the door; I now know it was the pipes. Earlier today - may be coincidental - I bled one...

Hi guys Hope someone can suggest what might be wrong with my 6 year old Worcester combi 24i. Sometimes when I turn hot taps on I need to turn them off then on again to get the water to run hot, maybe I should get that sorted but I haven't and I mention it as I don't know if it might have...

Hi guys My 6 year old Worcester Combi is beginning to worry me a bit. When everything is off it eventually turns off...but then turns on again for a few seconds. It does this three or four times before finally shutting off. And tonight, again with everything off (the heating went off...

Back in July I got the bathroom done up which included a skim coat of plaster and, about a week later, a couple of coats of paint. It's a flat in an 1890s tenement block. Mid September, after a cold night, a couple of cracks appeared in the wall to the tenement stair, both about 3 feet long...

Apologies for posting what must be the most basic of electrical questions but it's late and I can't face doing a trawl right now to find the answer! I had headed off to bed when I realised I'd left stuff I need for tomorrow in the lounge. I went into the lounge to get it, hit the light...

My bf mentioned last night that when he was having a bath (horrid new plastic bath - long story) a gap appeared round the edge of the bath between the bath and the silicone, as if the bath had sunk lower than the silicone will 'give'. Once he was out of the bath looking at it from above you...

With typical timing mere hours after I say I'm happy with the new bathroom, I've just discovered that the cistern is permanently dribbling into the toilet bowl. It's two continuous streams each about an eighth of an inch thick. The noise is driving me nuts. Is this something I can easily...

I live in an 1890s tenement flat, with all that entails. I've just had the bathroom redone and asked for the walls to be replastered. The guy said fine, this side (where the old tiles were) needs replastering, a skim coat will do the rest. Ok, I said, assuming he knows what he's doing...

Hi, I'm in the process of getting my bathroom redone. It's been a long, drawn out process and today they sent along a plumber to change the ceiling socket that the shower pull cord is attached to: I don't know the correct term, but you pull the cord to switch on the power to the shower...

Hi I'm in the process of getting my bathroom redone, and now have a nicely tiled floor and a tiled pipe box behind the sink. This runs from the end of the bath behind the sink to the wooden panel on the wall on the other side. Although professional tilers did the floor, a plumber with 2...