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Hi, I've moved into a new home, and it has consumer unit/fusebox as shown in the attached picture. I would be really grateful if someone could just quickly explain what could potentially go wrong (in terms blown fuses), what I would need to fix the problem, and how I would fix it, please. I...

Hi, I've recently moved into a new home, which has a combi boiler (my first one) and it's a Worcester 532/i. Everything is working correctly, in that I can make the heating come on if I need it, and there's hot water in the taps. The problem is, it's always making a noise even when the heating...

Hi, a few weeks ago, I noticed that my old gas cooker oven was making a roaring noise, particularly when on a higher setting. Then yesterday, I've noticed that the flame looks uneven, and there's an additional flame appearing to the left of the section where you expect them to appear. So, I've...

Hi, I've had this problem before, and it somehow went away on its own, but now it's happened again. I've got a regular boiler, F&E tank in my loft and a cylinder tank in an upstairs airing cupboard. The CH has always been fine, but the water was taking longer and longer to heat up until now it...

Hi, I had a mini air-lock earlier, in that the water from the hot taps was spluttering, but I kept running it and it cleared itself and the pressure is now fine. But since then, the water is not getting hot (only tepid). As stated in the title, I have a non-combi boiler, and the central heating...

Hi, Apologies if this is in the wiki/faq, but I couldn't find it... I have a traditional (non-combi) boiler, which both heats the radiators and provides hot water, but in the summer, it would be useful to have hot water only. Obviously, I could turn off all the radiators in the house. But when...

Hello, I imagine that the answer to this will be 'no', and I'll be advised to get it repaired properly or ripped out and rebuilt, but... Is there anything that can be used to coat/waterproof an existing tiled shower cubicle? For example, some kind of 'rubber paint' or 'liquid rubber', possibly...

Hi, I know that sealant tapes aren't very popular on here, but about 5 years ago, I bought a great one (from Wilko's I think). Rather than being a wide thin adhesive strip with a crease down the middle, it was a narrow fat strip that you'd press into edge to be sealed. It was particular useful...

Hi, Please see photo in my 'Gutters' album (URL below just in case): //www.diynot.com/network/shooey/albums/22783/85163 Originally I had no down pipe from my upper gutter. But it broke and when someone came to fix it they added a down pipe, and this is where my problems began. The...

Hi, I have one of those cheap plastic / fibreglass shower trays that flexes. And there's a gap between the tiled shower walls and the shower tray filled with silicone. I've had it "fixed" professionally a few times, and it lasts for a year or so but the leaks always come back. I realise the...

Hi, I have one of those cheap plastic / fibreglass shower trays that flexes. And there's a gap between the tiled shower walls and the shower tray filled with silicone. I've had it "fixed" professionally a few times, and it lasts for a year or so but the leaks always come back. I realise the...

Hi, In yesterdays torrential rain, quite a bit of water started dripping from the bottom of my boiler but stopped once the rain stopped. This has never happened before as far as I know. The Boiler is a Glow Worm Ultimate 40 BF (non-combi) about 10-12 years old, and you can hopefully see...

Hi, I'm about to replace a kitchen flourescent light with a normal light fitting. However, the cable coming through the ceiling is a 3 core cable (with earth), and I thought they were normally 2 core? Is it OK to just ignore the earth cable and put the other 2 into a normal light fitting...

Hi. I know this isn't strictly plumbing, but I'm hoping some of you guys will know. Basically, I have a small hole/crack in my sink just next to the metal around the plug hole. I have uploaded an image of the sink to my album so that you can see the type of sink and the hole/crack if you...

Hi, The hot water (only) in my mixer tap in the kitchen (near the stop tap) has stopped working. Cold water is OK, and hot water is OK in other taps. Since the water hasn't been turned off or anything, I'm worried something has frozen? I've got my central heating on, and that seems OK -...

Hi, I have an upstairs shower cubicle which was just tiled plasterboard. It started to leak, and having looked at it the first couple of feet of plasterboard is dropping apart. So, given that there's quite a bit of work to do, I was wondering which would be cheaper and better: 1) get...

Hi, I realise it's a common problem to have leaks around whee shower trays meet walls, but I'm looking for a cheap solution that might be a bit different to other things suggested. Basically, I have a shower tray (no up stands and curverd around outside and inside), a small gap and then...

Hi, Just changed the ball cock in the big tank in my loft. Everything went fine, apart from I've got no water from my downstairs bathroom cold taps (all other taps working). I'll have to buy a hose or something tomorrow to run from the hot to the cold taps, but in the meantime, is it safe...

Hi, The stop tap to the smaller tank in my loft is turned off, because when turned on it leaks quite badly. So if I push down on the ball cock, no water flows, however, the water level doesn't seem to be going down. Is this dangerous, and is there anything I should or shouldn't do while...

Hi, Wonder if someone could just answer a (hopefully) simple question for me. I have two tanks in my loft (big one a and little one) and the ballock (valve) is playing up in the big tank and causing overflows. It doesn't look like it will be too bad to just replace the entire ballcock, but...