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Help! washing machine making a racket!
Hoping someone can give me some advice. My washing machine has just started making a really loud knocking noise when it spins, scared the life out of me and the kids! I stopped it and emptied it and that's when I noticed that the drum rocks back and forwards now where as it used to be fixed in place. The machine is 7 years…
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Damp company
Hi, could anyone recommend a company that will investigate and treat damp in our kitchen. We're not good on diy ourselves so really looking for a reputable company who will find out what is causing the problem and fix it. We're in the North West. Thanks
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Need some advice Re: Sky
Sorry, couldn't find a better place to put this... I'm thinking of getting the phone/bb/sky package for 16 quid a month. Says on the site that a sky plus box is 99 pounds though. Anyone know if i have to pay this upfront? Or all in one go? And whats sky like generally? Anyone use them for broadband? Any probs i should be…
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Kitchen Worktops
I've just had my kitchen plan changed from a white kitchen to a high gloss black (not much of a change!!) but I'm not sure what colour/style of kitchen worktops to have. :undecided The kitchen plan is a white floor (already bought), black units, mirror mosaic tiles as upstand with a grape/raspberry colour between the tiles…
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necklace dropped between floorboards
any ideas on how to retrieve this? my dd (bless her) has managed to drop her special gold neckace right through the crack of her floorboards. (it's 1st floor in a victorian tenemant with bare boards- she can't see it though but has an idea of where it might be). we're thinking - hook it with a wire but i'd be grateful for…
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Building a walled section in the garden?
Want raise the beds of my garden on one side, so just basically a 3 or 4 brick high wall, does a mini foundation need to be done? or is it a case of laying bricks?
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how to dryline a ceiling
Hi all I have a house where some of the ceilings need updating in the house. I have heard about drylining it with tapered edge plasterboard and then filling it and taping it?? I have no money whatso ever to pay for it to be done - i however have plenty of time and friends to help My questions are: Can i board over the…
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Garden Rooms - what do I need to know?
Apologies if this is in the wrong place........... Living in a flat and working from home things are becoming a bit squashed!! A garden room would be a good way of extending my space without having to move BUT having looked into them, the cost is way out of my budget:eek: Is it possible to modify a summer house or other…
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Extension - who do I need to tell?
I am doing an extension to my house. I have got planning permission, building regs, done the party wall act, etc. However, do I need to tell the bank (i.e. who provide the mortgage) as essentially they own the house, don't they? .....also, do I need to tell the house insurance people .....as I assume the house will…
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Solid/Engineered wood flooring?
We are looking at having quite a large area of our downstairs in wood flooring. I looked at Howden's solid oak flooring yesterday and the assistant in there said that as we have chipboard suspended floors the wood flooring could be glued directly onto that without any need for underlay. Am I right in saying that because it…
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Lath and Plaster Ceiling - what should I do?
All the DIY I attempt turns out the same way - you set out to do one thing and then while doing that thing you find something else that needs doing that is far more difficult/expensive than the first thing and the whole lot just snowballs. Ok. Old Victorian terrace. Decided to replace the partition wall between the back…
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how to fix glass strip of mosiac tiles to wall
Hi Im trying to fix a border strip of glass mosiac tiles to my bathroom wall, but when i apply the press the mosiac tiles ot the wall all the adhesive squirts through the gaps and the small tiles move. looks very messy and takes ages to get right. does anyone know of a good technique to stick glass mosiac tiles on to the…
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Electrical question - washine machine plug seized in socket
Our washing machine stopped working, so we got Dyson to come and have a look at it. Apparently the guy who came can't do anything as the plug has fused to the socket (as though it has melted) and he says we need an electrician. It doesn't sound to me like a job that needs a qualified electrician. My thinking is... 1. Turn…
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Waxing/liming Old Oak Units
Hi, after scouring this forum I can't seem to find an answer to my question. I hope somebody can help me. I have a very good quality kitchen - american red oak, however it is now 21 years old and looking a bit drab! I don't want to ruin it with painting however, is there maybe a process that can be done to maybe lighten…
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Anyone got the Dreams/Kaymed Kildaire bed?
http://www.dreams.co.uk/en-gb/ProductDetails/?cid=MEMORYFOAM-DIVAN&pid=371-00016&language=en-GB Been faffing about looking at beds for months now. Tim (Deegan) kept saying Tempur were all name & no trousers. I was pretty sure about getting a Tempur one, but we did like a Dreams (Kaymed) Chaucer one, pocket sprung with…
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Damp patch inside but not outside
i've just been stripping the wallpaper and a large piece just above the skirting just literally fell off. It was just damp. Its on an exterior wall but when i checked the outside wall it looks and feels perfectly dry. Had a check and there doesn't appear to be any mould. Its fairly close to where the sky cables come in but…
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Help! Gas condemned and no heat/water/cooking for 3 days!
Hi everyone, We live in a housing association flat and got a knock on our door this afternoon (lucky I wasn't at work) by a gas engineer. He told us Transco had just condemned the gas supply and cut all fifty flats off so we don't have hot water, cooking facilities or heating. The document they put through the letterbox…
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Washing Machine (DIY repair) forum?
Can anyone recommend a good UK-based forum for discussing issues related to a faulty washing machine? I don't think that MSE is really the right place to discuss the problem, so I won't go into detail. Suffice it to say that there's a semi-intermittent fault with our machine, which I am quite happy to dismantle and resolve…
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Cheap divan base?
Keen to buy a Sleepeeezee Touchpocket 2000 5' mattress. Unfortunately have checked existing bed (very cheap and nasty 5' divan + mattress) and the divan base is sagging, so I probably should get a new base as well. The mattress is £510 online, which I don't have a problem with, but a 4-drawer solid divan base is going to…
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question/advice about changing fire
we have a coal fire in the lliving room with a back boiler for the central heating, i think its a rayburn...it has been in for years, but when we moved in about 14 years ago we had to renew the flue, and we have put a new front on the fire, to give it a modern look. what i was wondering as the price of coal is going up,…
