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a cowboy did a poor job tiling my plywood shelf next to the bath and it started to crack and leak. No flexible grout was used and it wasn't primed or PVA'd!! I removed the tiles and the soaked/wrecked grout and have dried the wood. I can't get some of the old adhesive off (unibond all purpose...

I am calling out to the DIY electrics community to help. I spent hours messing about with the dimmer with no luck and short of calling out a london priced spark, I am lost. Please read down, I think its a very easy problem if you no fool like me!! Help! I don't know much about anything so...

My kitchen keeps tripping and I can't work out what it is. I have a combi-boiler, in one plug, a 13a microwave in another. A 3a kettle in another. Alos there is a fuse box and the oven switch. I another plug in the room we have a large fridge freezer and another small fridge freezer and a...

I have a dripping ball valve in the toilet cistern. It is adjusted to fill and stop all at the right levels but over time (night or while at work) it fills up past the overflow pipe. This overflow pipe is not very well connected and it leaks. Lat night I took the thing apart and cleaned it...

I have a 2-plug socket with 2 4-way plug adapters all full. Do I have too much power running through one socket? Do I need to worry? What can I do about it? Is there a power limiter/transistor or something to stop it bursting into flames and burning me to death in my sleep? Help! Thanks, R