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I'm hoping that someone will be able to point me in the right direction here as I'm stuck. I'm fairly up to speed with technology and IP addresses, etc. I have a few IP cameras that I set up myself and can view them remotely no trouble (port forwarding set up OK). Comwifi module installed in...

I have recently purchased a commercial property which has a Texecom alarm installed. Is it possible to identify the type of panel from a picture? I have some experience with Texecom having installed one in my house a couple of years ago so would like to get it working. Cheers...

I'm at my elderly parents for Christmas and their boiler is playing up. They haven't been able to get someone out so I've had a look at it to see if we can get some heat in the house. The boiler is locking out and then resetting itself in a constant cycle. The flashing lights indicate a...

Hi, My next house project is to replace our aging alarm panel. All my sensors are wired in and most have been replaced during the decorating. The bell boxes (F&R) are in good working order and I put fresh batteries in them last year. So that leaves the panel and keypad. I am thinking of...

I'm tearing down my Miele vacuum after I used it to clean up a ton of filler dust (which it didn't like one bit). I've got to the motor but can't figure out how to get the impeller off - there doesn't seem to be an easy way of holding the shaft to undo the but. Can someone point me in the...

The wife called me into the ensuite this morning to tell me the pull chord for the light was wet. Upon closer inspection there was some water on the floor tile underneath (not enough to puddle though). I opened the case of the switch and it was very wet inside (although I was expecting water...

I fitted a new sink and tap into my garage yesterday which meant I had to shut off the water to fit new isolation valves. The cold was no problem as the stopcock was right next to the sink. However the hot side did give me issues. I bunged the supply from the main tank as well as the vent -...

Hi, I have a low parapet wall that I wish to mount a ballustrate above - to do this I need to fix vertical posts onto the coping stones. These are once weathered cast stone copings, which means the top surface is at an angle. If I mount the post base onto these directly the post will be off...

Hi, I have an Ademco Accord XPC in the house that was put in by ADT for the previous owners. Thanks to this site I have managed to reset the codes and have turned off the dialling feature to make it a bell only system. Long term I have plans to fit a brand new panel but I need to move the...

We've just finished building an extension at the back of our house and I've been trying to decorate it for the last week. The room is 4.5m wide by about 8m long with bifold doors across the width of one of the shorter walls. Both the ceiling and walls were freshly plastered. My first coat...

I'm planning to insulate a single skin wall between my house and garage - I've bought 50mm PIR board and was planning to fit it between battens and then attach plasterboard to them. The problem I have is that I can only find 47mm sized wood - be it planed, sawn, treated, etc. Any idea where I...

Any idea how to determine which pipes are feed/return when the radiator has been removed? I don't have it to put back on and need to figure out which side to put a TRV. Cheers...

I'm having some building work and part of it is to extend a small balcony. The old balcony floor was taken down and a new larger one constructed. The architect spec'd either bitumen or felt as a covering with promenade tiles on top. This is what I came home to - a single layer of capsheet...

Hi, I have an alarm in our new (to us) house. In time I will have it replaced with a better system but for now it'll do. I have the master code but no engineer code. I need to move one of the PIRs so need the engineer code. Thanks to this site, I have determined that the alarm is an...

Anyone seen this type of footing before? A small extension is going in and the hole dug out today to reveal this... It looks like a slab has been poured before shuttered footings put on top. Got Building Control coming out tomorrow to tell us what they think is an acceptable way to...

I started work today on what promises to be an epic refurbishment project of my new (to me) house. Stripped out most of the kitchen today to discover a few horrors lurking behind the facade. Oven junction box loose in the plaster: Dodgy wiring for the under counter lights...

Hi there, We're about to have builders in to do a small ground floor extension. The work will require the central heating system to be drained down - not a problem as we can use fan heaters and the immersion - or so I thought! We don't have an immersion heater so my plan was to fit one...

I have an Ivy plant growing at the front of my house (blue door in the pic) and the roots are right where I need to dig the footings for a new porch. The Ivy grows up the neighbours house and they are quite partial to it. Is there any way of moving and replanting it? I'd like to keep the...

Hi, I have a few questions that I'd greatly appreciate some input to. First of all can anyone identify my alarm for me from the pic below? It is an ADT that was fitted by the previous owners. We have the user code but I'd like to change it for a different code and I suspect a user manual...

Thames Water wrote to me the other day saying I needed to enter into a build over agreement with them asI am planning a small extension at the rear of my house. Initially, I wrote back saying the sewer is at the front but they said: Prior to October 2011 the property may have been privately...