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When I flush the toilet (dual button cistern) it flushes but seems to take a long to refill and as it does so, water continues running into the pan. Sometimes this can go on for several minutes until the valve shuts. And on occasion, it fails to stop unless I flush it a second time.

at the end of the garden, about 40m from the house, is a pond. In the pond is a 320W pump that pumps water up to the top of the garden (4m head) which then runs down a stream to the bottom pond again. From the CU at the house, the supply runs via a RCD through a buried armoured cable to a shed...

We have a Baxi condensing boiler which works OK, or did. Recently, there have been several instances where the system hasn't come on (no heat and no hot water to taps) because the boiler pressure has dropped, giving an E119 error code. Each time, I have let a bit of water in using the top-up...

Full model number is SGS45E02GB/45 Dishwasher wasn't cleaning and when I examined it I realised the spray arms weren't spraying. The machine was just whirring away and not really doing anything. I investigated further. By running it with the door interlock overridden, I saw that the problem is...

Er, well just that, really. I have a bunch of 'hand made' clay tiles, unglazed, which are around 20mm thick. I'm guessing my contractor's 'score and press' tile cutter might not do the job and that I may need an angle grinder. Anyone any experience with cutting these? Also, should I use...

I've just bought a load of hand-made clay floor tiles, 300 x 300 x 20mm, which are raw fired terra-cotta and need sealing before laying. What is the best stuff to use for sealing them? There seem to be a lot of products on the market and I'm not sure which are good, bad or indifferent.

I've just bought a load of hand-made clay floor tiles, 300 x 300 x 20mm, which are raw fired terra-cotta and need sealing before laying. What is the best stuff to use for sealing them? There seem to be a lot of products on the market and I'm not sure which are good, bad or indifferent.

I'm talking about the circular tubes in a round ceiling unit. Cutting the power means darkness in the room as both lights are on the same switch so I've simply removed the dead lamp and put a new one in. There seems to be virtually no chance of coming into contact with anything live, but someone...

Having finally got my old strimmer working, I now have the problem that the line is tangled inside the line head/spool reel and won't feed out. Grrrr! Unfortunately, although I can easily unscrew the head from the spindle, I can't find any way of opening it up! On the back of the body...

Someone has given me a petrol strimmer, an old Efco Jet 300A. It won't start, and a search online has not thrown up a manual for it, although I found one for a different Efco model. I took the plug out. Looks OK. Brown, not black. Gapped it to 0.7mm. Peered inside the carb, looks OK...

I'm intending to make a storage/workspace (think of it as a garden shed) which is on a steep slope. It will be a permanent structure with a hard floor (flags) and block walls with a timber frame on top. Because of the slope, the uphill side will have a higher block wall, which will be in...

I have contractors coming on Friday, to lay new insulation (part of the government grant scheme). I've emptied the loft accordingly, but they tell me that the new insulation will be well above the level of the joists, and I would like to re-board the loft afterwards, without compressing the new...

Our boiler is working fine on the CH circuit - fires up no problem when the timer kicks in, rads nice and hot. Unfortunately, turn on a hot tap and the burner won't fire. If the burner is already on for the CH, turning on a hot tap makes it go out! The boiler temp drops like a stone, down to...

I'm installing a polycarbonate roof on a conservatory and the glazing bars (snap-down type) have these plastic end caps which I thought would just clip in but they don't. Anyone have any idea how they are meant to go on? They are roughly rectangular, with a curved top edge, but are maybe...

We are thinking of saving up for a new roof on the house in the next couple of years or so. Thing is, we have a conservatory almost spanning the rear of the house (some 5m wide) and extending out 3m from the house wall. How big a problem would that be for the scaffolding and re-roofing?

I'm building a polycarbonate roofed conservatory on the back of the house. A bloke I know who is an ex-builder says I ought to install a "snow-catcher" above the house guttering, above the polycarb roof, to prevent smnow-slides and also pieces of roof tile damaging the roof. After last winter...

The machine seems to have something small and hard or metallic, trapped between the perforated drum and the outer drum housing. It makes a right racket when the spin cycle starts, but I can hear it if I rotate the drum by hand. It's 'just there' if you know what I mean. It's probably a coin...

The Gainsborough Energy 2000 9.5kW that's been in the house since we moved in has packed in and now won't deliver hot unless you crank it round almost to the maximum, and then it's only a dribble of warm water. So I've decided to chuck it. As we're planning a major refurb in a couple of years...

Back in May I had problems with the Glowworm Fuelsaver 30 - pilot wouldn't stay lit. After advice from this forum I had a new thermocouple fitted which cured the problem. Started using the CH again a few days ago and it's been OK but now the problem is repeating itself. The pilot lights OK...

I'm halfway through laying a conservatory base, concrete over polystyrene insulation, with a dpm under that. Thing is, it's absolutely hammering down, and my insulation on the half that's still to do is beginning to float! I guess I can lift some of the insulation and bail out the water...