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I've got a project coming up to rewire my daughters pre-cast concrete garage when the weather warms up. The sockets will be located inside, on the joints so I want to avoid drilling the concrete, intending to glue 12mm thick wooden battens about 30mm wide down to another piece the size of a...

The drivers window of my 2019 Focus has gone out of calibration. The limits seem to be approx 100mm too high, so that coming down it stops above where it used to. Going up, it hits the top and bounces back as it would do if something was trapped there. I've cleaned and lubricated the grooves in...

I have a buyer for my late Mum's house and her survey came back with "the protective underfelt in the loft space is damaged/ripped and needs to be repaired before completion". I have been up there today to investigate and seen that there are places where the felt edges have sagged, exposing the...

I want a new floor covering for my kitchen which presently has tiles. I have decided on the 5mm LVTs which means the tiles need to come up. I will carry out the preparation by removing a radiator, skirting board, appliances and some of the single cupboards. There are two roughly L shaped runs of...

The gutter on one side of my house is leaking. On inspection, it was found to be from an inline joint that I suspect, was installed too short with the gutter barely reaching the seals. I want to replace one part which is easily accessible, this time making it the correct length, leaving the...

My hotpoint washing machine belt came off last week after 4 years of trouble free use. Got a new belt, fitted it and it worked until the spin cycle, then came off. The drum pulley and motor pulley look slightly out of line so that the belt overhangs the drum pulley by about 5mm. There is no play...

I have a Baxi 105e combi boiler, around 10 years old. Does a good job of warming the house but the pressure drops fairly regularly, and I have to top it up to 1-1.5 bar at least weekly. I noticed a slight weep and a bit of rust around where the heating return is and assumed it was that. However...

I'm looking at installing LED RGB striptape in a planter in my garden. I already have a 3 core SWA cable from my garage to the planter that was used for old halogen lights in the 90's. The tape I have been looking at has a 13A plug top, supplying the power supply, then that feeds a small unit...

I have an existing sensor controlling my outside lights, approx 20w of LED lighting. However they are coming on way too early. It is the panel mounted block type where a circular hole is made in a box and the window containing the LDR is visible protruding. I've searched the various suppliers...

I intend building a rectangular wooden planter in my garden and want to fit led strips on the inside to illuminate the plants. I don't want white, probably 2 green and 2 blue/purple. Long ones will be about a metre, short ones about 800mm. It's in my capabilities to build my own, solder the...

Been doing some fixing onto plasterboard today, not so much electrical work, more shelving and pictures. It made me realise that the perfect cavity fixing has yet to be invented. I tried the spiral metal ones, plastic collapsible, toggle type. There were issues with all of them, spinning in the...

Very early days but considering having the L shaped flat roof over my garage/entrance hall replaced with a pitched one with roof tiles. The house is two storey, built in 1980. The garage is standard single size. The outside wall of the garage is single brick with a buttress half way along. Would...

My composite front door which is about 10 years old has been sticking a bit recently. When I rock the door I can see a little play in the top hinge, it appears to me that the Pin is worn. It looks straightforward to change, there are plastic caps on top and bottom, a couple of socket (allen)...

I have a 1930s built semi that has these small wall vents, with a brick with holes on the outside and a plastic sliding cover on the inside. They are an absolute pain, especially the one on an upstairs bedroom. Because of the direction it faces, there is usually a draught as well as noise from...

My daughters house was built in the 30's and we are gradually working through the house decorating. In most rooms there is a vent on the wall with an air brick on the outside and a plastic louvred cover with a sliding part to cover the louvres up if required. However, when there is a strong...

I'm looking at fixing a side gate at 90 degrees to a 6 foot fence and intend using one of the concrete "H" section posts to mount the hinges. I don't want to drill the posts as I think it will just weaken them and break up in time. Are there any brackets on the market that can be clamped on...

My daughter is looking to buy a small 3 bedroom semi. It has a Baxi 105e boiler. We noticed that the living room only has a small radiator, as the present owner prefers to have her gas fire on at the same time. Would the boiler be big enough to up the size of the living room radiator to...

I'm changing the worktops in my kitchen. I'm not fitting anything expensive, just the chip board laminated type. It's likely to get wet around the sink area, and I intend siliconing around the underside lip of the new sink. But what is best to do with any cut edges, where the sink is cut out...

I posted on here a few weeks ago regarding the heating system in my Mum's bungalow. It has 3 radiators that need bleeding every few days. One rad is worse than the others. I was recommended to add sludge remover. I added X400 and left it for 2 weeks. When drained, black water came out, and I...

My old Mum lives in a small bungalow, containing 3 radiators only, and a 20 year old baxi boiler. This winter I have noticed that the radiators often need bleeding, with a cosiderable amount of air coming out. It's usually the one in the bedroom that is worse. Any idea where the air is...