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Hello all I've lost the top hat siphon for my washer-drier down the wall cavity (please don't ask!). Does anyone know where I can buy another? It's for a Hoover HNWL-7146 Nextra6. None of the online suppliers I can find sell this item on its own and the complete dispenser drawer seems to...

My 95 Mondeo 2.5Ghia is fine around the country lanes and in town (well, it is if you ignore the terrible clutch!) but will cut out if I really toe it and sometimes at normal motorway speed. After a few seconds when the speed has dropped off, it will cut in again and run OK. Clearly this needs...

Hi I put a new kitchen in last year (in a ground floor flat) but after just three months the dimwit upstairs has managed to flood his kitchen and damage my ceiling: http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2049/2188754325_89791df4fe_b.jpg...

Hi I've recently fitted a new kitchen (gloss white). Now I come to do the tiling it's all looking just a little bit too white. The ceiling's white and I'm using white 200x100mm white wall tiles. The walls are red so I want to break up the white wall tiles with some red ones (not...

Hi I think I've seen an old post on here by someone who'd convinced his local Building Control that Part P inspections of DIY work are at the councils expense not his? Does anyone remember this? Has anyone else got their local authority to waive inspection and test charges? My local...

Hello I have a fuse box (MK Sentry Consumer Unit BS5486 Pt 13 it says) which contains a main switch and 4 mcbs (lighting, ring main, smoke alarm and cooker). No RCD. While I believe that RCDs are a good thing (always use one for extension leads) I don't want to upgrade it yet. Can I add...

hello I've asked a lot of questions lately (first DIY kitchen install :D ) and I've had a lot of really useful advice and reassurance (thanks to everyone, particularly JohnD,Jasonb,letiss,Trazor, ricicle and Dingbat). So here's a last one (for this time anyway :!: ) The last job I need...

I'm just about to fit a row of wall cabinets from the B&Q basic range...

Hello I may have just done something foolish. I grip-filled stainless steel splashbacks around the hob and sink areas of my new kitchen but I have just realised they're not earth-bonded. They are, I suppose, a potential live conductor but no one else's splashbacks I have looked at (private...

Just about to tile my new kitchen with 200 x 100mm tiles (you know the ones with the chamfered profile). It's clearly going to take some care going around window recesses and such like, which I think I'll take care of by mitre-ing the joins where the tile run changes direction. Problem is...

Hello all I couldn't find any posts about this issue so I wonder if there are any Corgi-savvy people out there who can advise me? I'm putting in a new kitchen (myself, and it's all ready bought) and want to change my existing freestanding electric cooker for a built-under electric oven...

Hello I have a 4-year old Hoover washer/dryer that has been pretty good up till now (well, OK the fabric conditioner hasn't rinsed out of the drawer properly/at all for a while now but you can't have everything). The door hinge has just broken (one half anyway) and I'm pretty sure I've...

Hello I've just tried to change my TV aerial wall socket because the current one is a very sloppy fit. The lead keeps falling out and I do wonder if it's affecting the signal strength (Ch4 & 5 are pretty weak around here). However, I was about to take the old one off when I noticed that it's...

Hello My living room is now looking lovely with its new coving (thank you Tex-Mex, Wonderdust and Masona!) but I now want to gloss-white the skirtings/architraves and door frames. I varnished these 6 years ago (in Ronseal Antique Pine) and like them well, but am thinking of sub-letting so now...

Hello I've decided to put up some nice 100mm plaster coving in my living room. Not to hide cracks or anything, just get rid of the "boxy" look. (It's got to be plaster btw cos I carried it a mile from B&Q, due to being car-less, so that's definitely what's going up on the wall :!: ) I recently...

Hi! I'm a flat dweller who likes to ignore problems and now has no hot water in the kitchen. :cry: The hot tap has been leaking for over a year and I've been tightening it harder and harder to turn it off. Now (quite suddenly, as in yesterday) when I open the tap (which spins freely) I get a...