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Hi there. We've just put a condensing tumble dryer into our shed and obviously, it's creating a reasonable amount of heat and, to a lesser extent, moisture in there. At the moment we're just keeping the door open while it's on but I'd prefer to have some vents in place to keep it secure. My...

Hi all, I laid a new turf lawn in March this year and so far so good apart from the odd bald patch here and there which I'm sure is down to the local cats. I was looking into what I should do for the lawn this Autumn to help it out and it seems that the options are to give feed, aerate and to...

My front wipers are playing up in intermittent mode, basically they 'stick' half way up and won't return properly so I have to either flick the arm or put them on full motion to get them to go back. I think I've eliminated the problem being the screen or blades as they've been washed + the...

Hi, we've recently had a patch of damp near our front door which I'm 99% sure is because next door's drainpipe is leaking and the rain sometimes comes straight down the wall and into the cracks shown here. What's the best way to repair this crack? Should all of the mortar be taken out and...

Hopefully you can see from the pic that the pipes from our gutters go directly into the soil pipe and then on into our sewer. Would it be possible just to extend one or both of the drain pipes into a water butt and then have the overflow going from a hose pipe into a nearby drain? This is the...

Hi there. We've recently noticed some problems with our heating system and, having spoken to a couple of plumbers, we're none the wiser as to what the answer is. We have a back boiler system with hot water cylinder and the main problem is that we have no hot water when the central heating is...

Hi there. I'm planning to remove the dull concrete from the size of our house but have a couple of questions about it. Firstly as you can see from the pictures there is a bit of a slope towards the drain from all angles which I presume is also how the land is underneath it too. I'm...

Hi, as you can see we had a mishap in our bathroom. My DIY skills aren't the best so would you suggest asking a plasterer to repair the hole or completely cover the entire ceiling with plasterboard as there are a few cracks here and there. The overall size of the bathroom is 3m x 2.2m, what do...

Just about to have kitchen fitted and now have a step going down into the room. Behind the step are the floorboards to the rest of the house and our builder recommended putting in a louvre vent at the bottom of the step to help with ventilation in the kitchen. The issue is that our kitchen...

Hi. We've inherited a kitchen and although most of it is there we are missing a few things, namely some shelves. I was thinking that rather than spending around £8 per shelf from here - http://www.thekitchenstore.co.uk/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=36&products_id=116 That I could...

Hi, we're about to get a new kitchen but are unsure where/how to position the extractor fan. At the moment our hob overlaps the window by about 30mm so putting a fan above it will also mean overlapping the window which will look bad and is probably impossible to make the ducting work. Is...