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I've got myself a moulded door ordered as 838mm but physically is between 835 to 836mm depending on where you measure it. The door is 35mm thick. How wide should I make the door frame for this door. I'm thinking 840mm should be suffice but thought I'd ask in case I'm potentially causing a...

Hi, Hope someone can help. I've been in the middle of changing PIR on a zone I seem to have set the bell box off. I thought it was someone else's as my alarm panel was fine. I thought I best check outside and it turned out to be my bell box. I went to the alarm panel and the internal sounder...

Hi, My plan is to remove the PIR positioned on the wall upstairs on the landing and route a new cable to the ceiling from the alarm panel for a ceiling PIR for this zone. I'm thinking of replacing with a Texecom Rf360. My only concern is that I'm not sure how to wire the first two terminals...

I have been having a nightmare with my house alarm these past few months. Randomly through the day or night the alarm will activate with either zone 3, 6 or 24 Hrs showing when I go to reset the alarm. This happens when the alarm is armed or disarmed. So far I have: Walk test and discovered...

Hi there, I'm not getting any hot water from the boiler. It happened over the Christmas period and in early January I replaced the diaphragm which was in bad condition (holes and splits everywhere). However, now it's happening again but it's stopped in a matter of three days rather than over a...

Hi there, please could someone help? I'm trying to solve a problem for my parents. Currently, we can't seem to get any hot water but heating comes on no problem. When I call for hot water on the controller (an EMP2) I can hear the pump whirring. The little lever/indicator on the side of the DV...

We have removed a Designa electric shower to install a Triton fast-fit. When undoing the pipework for the old shower I found that the cold water pipe sprung forwards further out of the hole in the wall by an inch. I'm not sure which wall fixings to use to fasten the new shower to the wall...

Hi there, I'm trying to figure out a problem with a shower at my dad's new house. He has a Galaxy Designa DS3000 10.5kW shower and it won't start unless you put it on cold setting for temperature and cold for power too. Once started at cold, you can then change the power to low or high...

I have put alloy wheels on my car which are 15" rims with 195/60 R15 tyres on. The previous standard steel wheels were 14" with 175/60 R14 tyres on. My spare is the 14" standard wheel. Over the weekend coming back from the lakes I had a flat tyre on one of my alloys and replaced it with...

Hi guys, I've recently had my main bedroom walls and ceiling, boarded out and skimmed. I waited for the plaster to dry out proper like about 3 weeks I think. After doing a fair amount of research I went down the line of doing a mist coat with trade matt emulsion watered down by 20%...

Hi guys, We have been experiencing issues with hot water for the past week in that we have had to turn the hot water tap on a lot more to get the boiler to turn on and supply hot water (when the central heating is off). When the central heating is on the hot water comes through but not as hot...

Hi guys, Another question but this time it's about a crack that I have spotted in one of my purlins. The property is an 1880s mid-terrace house. The roof is a slate roof. The rafters are 3" x 2" and meet a ridge at the top (not sure of the dimensions of this unfortunately). On each side of...

Hi guys, I'm wondering what everyone's opinion is for insulation behind drylining a room. First of all, it's an 1880s mid-terraced house with cavity walls front and rear of the house and the room I will be gutting soon is the upstairs main bedroom at the front of the house. I am not...

Hi there, This maybe a daft question but I've got to ask. Will the infra-red on a CCTV camera be effective at night when situating the camera inside the house but pointing to my back yard for example? Thanks Jay

Hi there, I have a mid-terrace house that was built in 1880s. I've pottering about in it doing work here and there. I've left the worst thing til last now come to sort out the main bedroom. The plaster isn't looking too clever on the walls and ceiling is sagging badly. The ceiling is a...

Hi guys, Thanks for clicking to read my question. Hope someone can help. I'm wondering what freeware software is good for drawing up 2D floor plans to scale. Does anyone use any? If so, what software do you use and is it any good? Thanks, Jay

Hi guys, I'm thinking of putting a Plasma/LCD TV in my kitchen on the big wall. I'm thinking of running some coaxial (one for normal TV and one for satellite/cable) down the wall wired into a socket and then cap/plaster over. However, in the floorspace above it's like an electrical highway...

Hi guys, Need some more advice. I'm replacing an alarm cable from a PIR to the control panel. I thought it would be prudent to pass the alarm cable through the holes in the joists alongside the electric cabling twin and earths rather than through the notches that have been chiselled out...

Today, I attempted replacing both discs and pads on my car today. All was going well until I found that I couldn't put my caliper back on to the caliper mounting bracket. There is a caliper guide pin at both the top and bottom of the caliper mounting bracket. The top one springs in and out...

My front pads are wearing a bit thin especially on the driver's side front wheel where there's a slight grinding sound coming from it when braking. I've not took the wheels off for a proper inspection but I know the pads definitely need replacing. I was told that they would need replacing...