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  1. C

    Tightening up an old Tap

    Hi All, I wonder if you lovely people could help me, we have an old tap on the bathroom sink and when you turn it on it becomes really wobbly and loose in your hand. I've included a picture to show the faulty tap. In my experiences of taps in the past, I assumed that the white bit on the top...
  2. S

    Weird kitchen light switch with 3 x yellow/green earth wires

    So was gluing some of those stone look PVC tiles to kitchen wall today. Thought I would do things properly and unscrewed the kitchen light switch to cut the hole out neat and have a professional look to things. So the tile sheets do look great around the light socket. However some wires came...
  3. B

    Loose shower head - how to tighten

    I have an electric Redring shower. The pray head has come loose and it won't tighten meaning that the shower head on the riser bar wont stay in position. The head has a screw that is meant to tighten the swivel head but it just keeps loosening off. I have attached pictures of the head and the...
  4. Jayb75

    Securing loose breeze blocks

    Hi. I was removing the window board prior to getting lounge skimmed and the wall beneath the board came loose. It was nailed to the breeze block and took a bit or force to remove hence the issue. Do people think just mixing some mortar to put in the voids at the top and any gaps will be enough...
  5. C

    Moved to a flat aerial socket loose and is not connected ?

    HI i just moved to a flat. The TV reception is sporadic at best and we have been needing to re-tune it every few days. I have tried to look online and all the sockets seem to be wired in and the live wire connected ? Does this look normal ? Any advice would be great thank you.
  6. J

    Draught left panel of window

    Hey all! I've lately been noticing some draught coming from the left side of the left panel of two of my windows. I understand that you can adjust the tightness of the window against the frame by turning the lock head with an Allen key. Unfortunately, only the right panel of my window has a...
  7. O

    New cooker switch light not working, loose wire?

    Hi, I recently had a new cooker switch installed, the day after he installed it the red light on top stopped working. I am slightly worried there may be a loose wire; the cooker still powers up so the switch is doing it’s job. Should I be concerned or is it most likely to be just the bulb?
  8. F

    Repairing parquet floor - what glue to use

    Hi everyone. I have a mosaic parquet floor with a fair few loose wooden fingers. I could get parquet adhesive but the smallest size tin I can get is 7kg and quite a price. Can anyone suggest a more economical solution - PVA or Evostik etc - that will OK for parquet, bearing in mind that...
  9. C

    Suitable screws for fixing loose floorboards

    Hi, Need to fix down some wooden floorboards - about 20mm thick. Believe I need 50mm screws but says online avoid where the shank is fully threaded. Got some with smooth shank at top but it was 20mm of smooth so took back and swapped, now there is no smooth part. Apparently the fully...
  10. F

    Remove screws from wood

    Hi, I really need to remove 4 screws from my piano so it can be dismantled, can someone please help. I'm desperate. To confirm the screws have unscrewed with a screwdriver, the heads are not stripped in any way at all, it's loose and ready to come out, but it won't actually extract from the...
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