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I decided to decorate the small box bedroom in my house as it had not been done for years! As a first step I stripped and sanded the bedroom door smooth with an electric sander after having to scrape some bits. The door I think is wood with a type of hardboard covering. The house was built in...

I recently installed a hive dual thermostat to work alongside my Worcester Greenstar 34Cdi classic. The water side of things works perfectly. Boiler fires up, hey presto. The heating however does not fire the boiler. The heating only works if the water is on as well. Anyone got any ideas. Please...

Hello. Our Victorian terrace house is built with the garden wall continuing as the party wall for the property. Water is sucked into the interior of the house as it was built without any vertical break or damp proof course, it’s just one long wall. I removed the concrete render from the interior...

Hi, I am putting down new flooring on our top floor apartment (2007) that we just bought. One room has a balcony. It seems dampness is coming in from the balcony - particularly after rain [maybe that's obvious :o) ]. Is there any way to fix or mitigate this before putting down vinyl? Any...

I hooked up GX remote and I can set unset the alarm, view logs etc from my phone. I am trying to set up push notifications but fail at the registration part on my phone. I can register without a panel account and everything seems fine but I never get any confirmation email.I can get the account...

Hey! I moved into a new flat recently, and it is fully electric (which is new to me) and taking me some time to figure things out. I'd appreciate some guidance so I can feed back anything I need to my lettings agency. So, I have an immersion tank with 2 switches. I've been investigating and...

I'm tiling a bathroom and now got to make the bath panel to be tiled? I was thinking to to make a structure panel in stud work and plywood 12mm, then tiling on it straight away. Would this work? is the plywood good enough for wet area?

I had to open few hole to fish out cable for downlights. How do I make good on the right way?

Got plumber who set up towel rail pipe at 498C/C. How wide need to be my towel rail? Thanks

I done some dob and dab and on few occasion the cut off for the electrical box is wider than the cover plate and can see the box. What would be the best and strong way to make good around it? Thanks

Hi Guys, I have a Vaillant 828 2E boiler with a timer switch 110 fitted - about a month ago the timer switch stopped working so I order a replacement, the new replacement switch came and I replaced it, after three days of running it also stopped working, so ordered another one, then again after...

I have got installed new stair and now need to get ceiling up. I have no idea from where to start with batten. I have attached photos below. Any advise would be appreciated

Got loft conversion with hip to gable wall freshly done and finished with sand cement pebbledash. What would be the right procedure to start painting it? what about the first coat and then second third etc. I also have the wall below still in pebbledash already painted few time from the...

I have to replace my windows board and was thinking of buying some length of windows board and cut to size than machine the side and make it rolled edge as per the front having a nice 45° sharp corner. I got a router but never done any rolled edge. is there anyone helping me to understand what...

Hello, I moved in to my new home mid august and in starting to decorate noticed the skim had lifted away in a corner. The painter started pulling it off and underneath there is this coarse and rock hard layer. Anyway after tapping the wall etc there are places where the plaster is crumbling...

Hi all, I wonder if you can help? I was about to change an old white plastic dimmer switch for a 1 gang polished steel face plate. Recently moved to a new property and met by what appears to be fairly antiquated electrics! Opened the faceplate fo be met by two red wires. One has a piece of brown...

Hi all, I have a Glow Worm Betacom 24C and a Boss TPSRF31 wireless thermostat and receiver. My issue is this: with the heating switch in the on position on the boiler and the thermostat set well below the ambient temperature (at time of writing ambient is 22 degrees and thermostat set down to...

My towel rail gets too hot to touch. Its electric, no water feed so i assume its water filled. Is there anyway to lower the temperature? I have provided a picture of a screw/valve? Situated on the top of the towel rail. Didnt want to touch it, but is that possibly a way to do it? Any help...

I have to build a 1m height false wall to hide the toilet cistern. I only got 200mm. How would you place your 4x2?

I need a longer length of the track in the picture, but I have no idea what’s it’s called in the trade nor what to search for. could anyone advise of it’s name, where I might be able to get some? It’s for a bike carrier, my MTB is XL and is a bit dodgy during travel. Thanks.