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So, have been mulling this over for some time, I have a recessed front door, open on two sides, 2150(h)*950(w) for the side and 2150*1450 for the front where the door would go. I've had a look online but can't really find any very similar, most seem to be the large 'beams' As you can guess from...

Hi Just looking for some 'second opinion' or knowledge, as had someone round who failed to resolve the issue and is not clear on the cause. So I have a BG 330+, it was serviced last October (including a flush of the heat exchanger). Wednseday morning noticed a lack of hot water the other...

Hi, just getting a bathroom fitted and apparently the guy will finish tomorrow, but had a quick look round and a few issues making me a little concerned. And don’t want to jump to conclusions as I know many things are sorted when they get tweaked at the end, but: *there is a cut in one of the...

Realised I'd not posted a thread on this. Completed it back in 2018, thinking I would use occasionally, but was a god send during the working from home in the pandemic, and still very pleased with it. Cost was under £1k IIRC. Essentially I moved into a house with a detached double garage, with...

So just done my annual oven clean on a NEFF U12M42N0GB, this time I decided to remove the plate that covers the fan and element at the back too. I noted there were only 3 screws (instead of 4) and one was fairly lose, but didn’t think anything of it. Anyway, went to put the plate back on and...

Hi, got a British Gas 330+ and it’s starting to make a ‘pulsing Noise’ no way to really describe it (doesn’t match any of the videos or descriptions I’ve seen), I’ve got a short video here, wondering if this is a simple radiator adjustment or need to get a corgi engineer round?! it’s a hard...

Hi, I have a Bosch dishwasher playing up. it gradually was doing rubbish cleans, but also the wash time was getting very slow (3hr wash would take 4 hours and seemed to pause mid wash). Reading up so I cleaned the matrix which was gunked up. Didn’t solve the problem and now had washes that reset...

so I have a British Gas 330+ and just as I was about to remove a radiator blocked with sludge I checked the boiler and has the n11 error (flow and/or return NTC error, wires disconnected fault etc). Couldn’t see anything obvious when I had a look, cables and plugs seemed fine, anything else...

My circuit board has two main breakers, each has 4 branch circuits. Recently one of the main breakers went ( not any of the branch), so I reset it. seemed OK for a while but went again this evening. I suspected the circuit in the kitchen, and turning that on seems to trip the main breaker...

Hi all, just putting in a hatch in my garage, hatch is only about 10kg, however I've put a hinge down one side, herein lies the problem, the loft has 20mm of chipboard so it's pretty much unsupported, I thought I would use a backflap compared to standard door hinges (so the screws are further...

hi all, Putting in a hatch to my man cave in the garage loft that opens on hinges to one side, looking to make the hatch more like a door than a simple flap and as such wondering how much clearance is suggested. The frame for the hatch is 1000mm by 750mm (with the hinges down the long side). The...

hi, just replaced some lights in my garage, I switched the circuit off at the consumer unit, did the light the flicked the consumer unit back on, no light... So went to switch off at the consumer unit and the switch is stuck!!! It comes out about halfway and that's it. Wondering/ hoping that's...

hi All, We have a new sink and trying to connect the drain to the bottle trap, however the pipes will only seem to butt up?! Not sure what the solution is to this one? Is there a seal for this? Should be 40mm

Hi All, I was looking at installing a porch at my property. Ideally was looking at getting a ‘frameless’ look using 10mm toughened glass. The porch itself is structurally ‘there’ so a case of enclosing it (please see the image below) I’ve looked at getting a couple of quotes for getting this...

Hi All, thanks in advance for you advice. I have a Hotpoint FFP187B in the garage, went into today and there was a funny smell, you guessed it,no cooling and everything defrosted! I 'think' it may be a thermistat issue. The lights appear to be working normally (and the small fan in the freezer...

Looking to resolve or reduce the cold bridging and resultant condensation around a window. We've purchased a house and in the kitchen/dinner there are some French doors. They have been installed in the past few years (in a 25yr old house), and appear to have placed the new door a couple of...

Hi there, Just moved into a new house, it's in a conservation area (which affects what I can do) but it has a detached double garage which I am keen to convert the loft area into an office.t shining perhaps as a 'storage room's rather than a room. It's double skinned and there is a nice steel...

Hi, I've a basement in a Victorian Building, and have had some damp issues in the past, and have recently had the damp proof course repaired under the 30 year warranty, the work was done literally last month (September), and I've just gone to look at the work, an entire wall looks to have...

Hi, I've got a lamp in my lounge with 5 small diameter Bayonet fittings, other than the difficulty of finding the correct bulbs for it, it would seem that several of the sockets have warped slightly, as a result, they don't hold the bulbs in (the plastic holding the pins has moved outwards)...

Hi all, I've got an old Ravenheat 820/20 24KW boiler (74.5% energy efficiency E). 3 bed victorian flat (high ceilings), two bathrooms with showers. It is still working, but it leaks (from within), leave a small tuperware container under it (about 2/300ml month over the winter, fine over...