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I have a Bristan B85 shower installed in a property I rent out. There is a leak on the outlet and I just assumed it was a loose connection. However, taking off the cover I find the crimped hose inside has snapped off the outlet spigot. Looked everywhere online and can only find obsolete listing...

I have a small flat which I rent out, and between tenants so looking to refresh it a little whilst its empty. The existing Night Storage heater in the lounge is old, bulky and really lets the place down as its the first thing you see when you walk in. I have been looking for 2nd hand units...

We have an analogue TV with digibox in our lounge, and kitchen has a small freeview ready TV. BBC has always been the weakest signal, suffering a little pixelation from time to time, but last week, the kitchen set had no BBC at all. The lounge digibox (first in line from the aerial) was still...

Last night we could hear distant rumbling of thunder, and within a few minutes our trip switch started going every 5 minutes. The storm never got very close, we couldn't even see the lightening, and I'd understand it if it was right overhead. Its always like this - Hubby says someone only has...

Hi, Sorry I know there are regs surrounding gas installations, so this is not strictly DIY, but just wondering if anyone can advise please. My Mum-in-law has a living flame gas fire in her lounge. Her granddaugher's ex-partner picked it up a couple years ago on eBay for her, but it was...

For last couple of months, sometimes when our washing machine does its first rinse/empty, there is a very noticeable sewage smell from the outlet. We have an open upright stand-pipe type, with a u-bend trap at the bottom, like this...

We have a small flat which we rent out. Just changing to a new tenant and he has asked about possibility of us installing a shower before he moves in, to which we have agreed. Currently bath only has 3 rows of tiles around it, so we need to tile out the shower area to protect the walls. Walls...

We need to adjust water level in our toilet cistern as it is overfilling. Only ones I have come across before have a plastic threaded bar with 2 locking nuts which you wind in or out to change the fill level. This one is older type, with no visible adjuster on the arm itself. How do we...

Hi, We have a small flat which we rent out. Our most recent tenant, who has just left, has disconnected his cooker leaving just a 1 inch piece of wiring sticking out of the wall. We are not sure what the wiring was like when he moved in, as previous tenant of 10 years, had a table top plug...

We live in a 200 year old farmhouse with the majority of main walls being solid stone or cob and 18" thick. At the rear we have a single storey extension which was originally added in the '70's, containing our utility and bathroom. This was originally built as single skin, but we upgraded to...

Our heating oil tank has an Atkinson Tankmaster valve and sight gauge fitted. We noticed a while back that the valve shut-off wheel does not seem to completely switch-off the supply; it just keeps turning, so seems to have come adrift somewhere. We are running down the oil level at the moment...

When we did up our house about 12 years ago, we had hard-wood windows and doors fitted, each with 4 double-glazed units. The original ones were pre-fitted when the windows were manufactured. Within about 4 years, the double-glazing on the windows which get the most weather started to fail, with...