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Hi all, ive got a few questions I was hoping someone could help with. I had my loft converted 9 years (done to building regs) and have been pretty much trouble free until recently. In the summer time we had a bad water leak in a room below, this was from a failed roof valley and the water was...

Hi all, I need some advice please. Let me first say i'm not a electrician and i will not be doing any electrical work, I just need some advice as to what will be required in my garden, then possibly I wont get the wrong advice when I start getting quotes. I'm planning on building a garden...

Hi all, We have decided to replace our glow worm boiler at work, its over ten years old and we have had quite a lot of trouble with it over the past few years, indeed its just started leaking today. We had a plumber out to it last year who said it is the wrong boiler for the job. It runs...

Hi all, I've got a Daewoo FRS-U20DCI American style fridge freezer. The water pressure on the water dispenser is low, takes ages to fill a glass with water. I've changed the filter and checked the pipe at the back, all ok but pressure is still low. The ice maker is fine. I think the...

Hi all, I've got a problem with my Danfoss TP5000 thermostat. The display is working fine, clock is fine etc but when its time for it to fire up the boiler for the central heating the boiler doesnt come on, same with the manual overide on the stat, no heat. I also have wet underfloor...

Hi all, My Daewoo frsu20dci side by side fridge freezer is no longer chilling the water from the dispenser. Other than that the fridge and freezer are fine and ice maker are fine. Does anyone know how to fix it? Does anyone know how the water is chilled, I know its mains fed. Ive had a...

Ive got a Suffolk punch Classic 35s cylinder mower. Its not cutting the longer grass in my lawn. The front roller pushes the long grass down then it springs back up uncut. The shorter grass is cut no problem. Anyone any ideas what it might be? Thanks for any suggestions all! Steve

Hi all, I was using my Karcher power wash today when all of a sudden the pressure just dropped to a trickle. The mains water and electric were fine. When I turn the switch on the motor just runs continuously. When I squeeze the trigger there is just a trickle of water. Has anybody come...

Hi all, had a strange morning today. Had a power cut that was because of a loose connection coming out of my meter, caused the consumer unit to trip a few times. Resulted in having no power for 5 hours. Power back on now. This afternoon for no reason my alarm (veritas R8 Excel) went off, it...

Hi all, I am thinking of installing two trellis panels that are 3 foot high. I was thinking of using 2x2 inch posts. My question is how do I secure them in the ground. Is the best method met posts or concrete? Or is it ok just to get posts that are pointed and sink them in the ground...

Can anyone help? Every light in my house has started to flicker. It started a week ago. Also my 2 table lamps flicker aswell so im thinking its not just a problem with the lighting circuit. My house was re-wired 2 years ago and had a loft conversion last year so all the electrics are new. Only...

Ive got some rubbish cabinet stays on my top opening kitchen cupboards. They dont hold the doors up, ive got to keep tightening them up. Im thinking of changing them to pneumatic ones. My doors are 900 x 350, would I need a stay at each side or would I get a way with one? Also, while looking...

Hi all, Recently had a loft conversion done, rads were added to my system which comprises of rads for my house and wet under floor heating for my extension. Recently noticed that when my underfloor heating came on my downstairs rad became warm. Problem was traced to the return water of the...

2 years ago I had installed wet underfloor heating in my new extension along with a new central heating system in my house. Everything worked fine. Recently had my loft converted with some extra rads installed. When the cental heating is on all the rads work fine, no problems. When just...

Hi all, I'm currently having my loft converted. The joiner has made my new stairs from idigbo wood. This is to be stained in a walnut colour to match my walnut doors in my house. Has anyone got any experiance of staining idigbo wood? Does it need sealing? Does it stain up like pine or...

Hi all, I'm currently having my loft converted and my Viritas R8 alarm will not set, all the PIR zones will not set, door contact is fine. When looking at the PIR's there is no red light on them. Before I go to my builder and complain (thinking wires have got pulled in the loft? but alarm did...

I've knocked my outside tap which has k rend around it (all the house is rendered with K rend), the result of which is a piece of k rend approximately the size of a 2 pound coin has come loose exposing the tap back plate beneath the k rend finish. Not a major problem I know but does anyone know...

Hi all, Dont know if this question has been asked before.......... I'm having my loft converted into bedrooms shortly. Iam providing a radiator for the bathroom (wife wants a fancy one, i'm just trying to figure out a price for the rad). When working out radiator size do you just work out...

Hi all, iam thinking of having a inset bath in my new bathroom. The frame around the bath would be tiled. Has anyone done a frame before? Does the frame work support the bath at all?? Iam thinking the bath will have feet that supports the bath and the frame will just be there to be tiled and...

Hi all, I've got a loft aerial (old one) and i'm shortly going to have my loft converted so I need my aerial moving. I'm going to buy a new aerial but what are the best connectors to buy for joining or splitting the cable? I currently have two cables connected to my aerial. I was thinking of...