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In My Home MoneySaving sticky
Please be aware of the MSE Forum rules, notably that you mustn't post personal information. Take extra care when uploading photos and make sure that they don't contain personally identifiable information. 🏠 Here are some Forum threads you might find useful: * Please ensure your electrics are up to date * Find Instruction…
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Nathan furniture .
Bought 3 pieces of Nathan furniture about 25 years ago for a four figure sum . Took me 4 years of interest free credit to pay it off . A couple of years ago much to my disgust my wife gave 2 pieces away to charity . Today on antigues roadtrip they auctioned my other piece off . It made one pound . The lowest bid ever on…
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Rat proof container for bird food? (not a big dustbin)
Hi Does anyone have a recommendation for a container to store bird food in, that will be rat proof please? We've been keeping it in the big plastic lidded containers that we bought it in, but a couple of these have been chewed through in the last couple of days. I've seen the big metal dustbins with lids, but ideally I'd…
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SORTED - THANKS. Plumber left us with no heating and a further £850 cost
We have always had heating issues in our house, since it was built in 2003. Various plumbers over the years and boiler changed. Most recently, only half the radiators would work. This year, had a plumber, recommended by family and online, come to check boiler as it was leaking. He was really good, and said to call…
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Short notice on access gains (possibly the wrong forum)
Hi, I’m wondering if someone could give me some advice. I've recently had a bit of an issue, where a neighbours property, which is owned by a housing association has erected scaffold, which is overhanging our property’s airspace by about 2 metres (no big deal), but they never asked permission, nor informed us of this) and…
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Blocked pipe... at our wits end
So... we have an almost blocked drain in the kitchen, it all happened completely out of the blue and is the first time we ever had one. I tried to get rid of it by heating some water plus baking soda, fully dissolved, and then into the sink. Strangely, this made things a lot worse... pipe was now totally blocked. Hubby has…
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Confused regarding a bathroom door
Hello, Doing a new bathroom as part of integral garage conversion. Internet gives me to go with solid core doors for bathroom for better sound proof. also suggestions of wood plastic composite and laminate doors. I am looking at a budget of max 100 which is better for moisture and sound proof. Any suggestions will help…
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Condensation/Mould Solutions - PIV
Hi I am wondering if anyone has any advice on PIVs, Positive Ventilation Units? I have an issue with condensation appearing on windows, mainly to north side of the house. Along with black mould forming in the lower external corners of the north east and north west corners of the rooms of my detached bungalow. Without…
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2nd Floor weight limit
Hi all! I've been doing a lot of reading around this and not found a concrete answer but I know there's a few structural engineers lurking in these forum's so hope someone can help. I live in a 1960's detached house an am looking to put a voice booth on the 2nd floor. The total weight, including myself and equipment would…
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Wall lights - how to remove
Hi, Grateful for any help with this. We'd would like to remove some existing wall lights. How much disruption would be involved - do cables need to be removed? Or can the existing cable wires just be terminated in those plastic blocks and then buried in the wall/plastered over? If so, does each wire get placed in its own…
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Blocking up part of the window. What needs to be filled in the new cavity
Hello All, Currently doing a integral garage conversion. Got this garage window blocked up to half last week. A new window will be fitted for the rest half. What needs to be filled in this cavity. This wall is the external wall of the house as this is the integral garage. (attached some pics) I see a small sheet in between…
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Roof problems
We moved into our home about a year ago and the survey we had done said the roof was sound. We've now got leaks in the roof thanks to the lovely weather we're having and I've been trying to get someone to have a look at it for a couple of weeks. Finally I found a guy on yell.com with lots of good reviews to come and have a…
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Loft insulation advice - PIR over boards?
Hi hoping for some advice on adding insulation in our loft. There's sporadic rockwool installed between joists I would say 3-4 inches deep and then the loft is fully boarded out. Two options I'm considering: We don't really use the loft for storage so I am thinking of installing 75mm PIR sheets directly on top of the…
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Electrical wiring in garden shed and garden - unsafe?
Hi, in our home previous owners ran cabling from the house to a garden shed and from the shed on to garden lights which are cemented into the garden. As far as we can tell(?) the cable looks to have been run from an internal power socket - at least that is where it looks like it leads from. The cable has been run across…
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Best way to join two two electrical cables outside for security light.
Hi folks, In the past I usually had to connect the electrical cable directly into the security light fitting, but with the two led lights I have bought they have already a cable coming out of them, so its a matter of finding a connector adapter to connect their cables to the existing cable coming out of the house. I have…
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Blyss Kita DDK1500WT152DA manual required,
This towel warmer is fitted to a flat I've just moved into and the 'Filt' message keeps coming on. Filter is clean, no manual with it. Any ideas or a manual? Thank you.
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Loft hatch, boarding and insulation questions
Hello, I recently got two quotes for adding a hatch (in London, England), improve the insulation, and install boarding on my loft.The two companies seems to use two different ways of raising over the joists to increase the insulation to the 270mm standards: * one uses a raised leg system (I guess this or similar) * the…
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Windows
Spotted these in one of our windows: According to FENSA documents, we think the windows were installed in 2006. Is the seal itself gone or should we consider replacing the whole window? Is DIY possible? Other windows around the house seem ok.
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Meaco Dehumidifer readings too low
I've had my dehumidifer for just under two years. Yesterday it returned from repair under warranty, as it was displaying an error message on the screen. I also paid extra to have it serviced/cleaned. Since turning it on yesterday I think the humidity readings on the screen are far too low. It's currently displaying 48%.…
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Why is my wall wet?
Okay so I woke up this morning and noticed these wet patches on my wall. It hasn't rained for 3 days and it wasn't there yesterday so I'm a bit confused as to what it is. Today is the first day of frost. The ceiling isn't wet, Only the wall and there are no gutters or anything above that. You'll see a picture of the roof…
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Emma Mattress - fitted sheet frustration
Has anyone else found it impossible to find a fitted sheet for an Emma hybrid KS mattress (depth 23cm) that actually fits? While I like the mattress itself, I’m finding it extremely frustrated that I cannot find a fitted sheet that actually fits properly. I’ve tried numerous brands and sizes, and none of them fit snugly.…
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