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Bosch Fridge Freezer gone wrong - 6 days old!
Hi all, I bought myself a new £360 bosch fridge freezer last friday, and well in 5 1/2 days its developed a fault. I bought it from sainsburyskitchenappliances.co.uk and the customer service has been relatively good, however what I'm wondering is whether I am able or 'should' be able to get a new fridge freezer sent to me…
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No Heating, Leak in kitchen Ceiling - Please Help
Hello Please help I have no heating and there is hot water . There is water mark in kitchen ceiling. I checked and water dripping from RWC 3 BAR valve from the water tank upstair. Boiler make: Vaillant 620 E Please help me this my first post Many thanks
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Qualified Electrician?
I got an electrician coming to my house next week to fit and hardwire an electric oven. Is there a way for me to find out if he is qualified/registered? I've have in the past experienced bodged jobs when calling in people to do work for me and don't want to risk it again. I got his phone number from a friend of a friend as…
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Bonding a medium sized hole
I have a gap about 1 inch in depth and 1 meter high by about 2 meters long where my old bath used to sit. I need to fill/bond this gap so that I can tile the wall as we have moved the bath. Now I have bought some bonding and was after a little bit of advice as to the best way of doing this. Should I remove the floor boards…
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Built-in Replacement Frost-Free Freezer Advice Please
I'm having trouble finding a frost-free freezer of the right size as a replacement for an aging freezer in a built-in Hygena cupboard. The max width and height is 57cm and 98cm respectively. I could only find an AEG model what is 60cm wide - too wide to fit. Any links or advice would be appreciated - thanks. :)
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Woodburning stove recommendation please
I am in the process of buying a house with a bit of land in the sticks and am planning to go as carbon neutral as possible by coppicing my own wood supply, I want to buy (and install myself) a woodburning stove thats capable of heating a main room plus a back boiler for hot water and possibly heat some radiators in other…
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gas or electric cooker?
I'm currently in the process of buying a house and unfortunatly the area it is in does not have mains gas. Me and my partner just decided to get an eletric oven for the ease and assumed bottled gas would be more expensive than electric. The thing is I've been looking at range style cookers and the gas ones seem to be…
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Washing Machine Bits fell off - this is safe to use??
Hi All Need some help! I have just taken a load of washing out of the machine and with it came one of the plastic toberone shaped things that are inside in the drum that mixes the washing up?:confused: If I put another load in will it still work or do you think it will die completely? Thanks for your help
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Cheap Bathroom products?
I really want to get some new stuff for my bathroom but don't want to spend a lot. Where is the best place for me to go? I have already got tiles from a local shop but I have no idea where to get everything else from... Some of the local shops are too expensive.
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Letting in water!
Not sure if any of you guys can help me here, but any advise would be so appreciated. We have a 2 bed 1930's semi detached house thats is literally streaming water! When the weather is very cold or heavy rain the hall wall (outside wall) literally has water all over dripping down, its saturated all over, the wallpaper is…
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Radiator help needed please
All radiatiors are working except one. It is a double, cold top to bottom. Have tried bleeding it when the heating is off and no difference. It was working and now just stopped. You can feel heat at the bottom on the pipe that enters the radiator. It has a tvr, I think that is what you call them that is turned on full. I…
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Kitchen Wall Units
I've practically finished fitting my kitchen but having assembled the wall units it has come to light that four of them do not have the new style hangers but have to be screwed the traditional way through the backs. Has anyone got any tips on hanging these? I did think about buying some of the hangers and fitting them to…
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How can you tell if a wall is a supporting wall
Probably a simple answer but was wondering if there is a simple way of telling if a wall is a supporting wall?? the wall doesn't run throught the entire house ie from front to back It just splits the kitchen from the dining room
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What's happening to my wall? strange device on wall?
Hello everyone! Hope everyone is in the best of health. This is my first post on this board. Can someone please have a look at the pictures below. I hope the links work. The pictures are from my bedroom. Does anyone recognise this? <a…
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Non standard kitchen cupboard doors
Hi all, My kitchen if very 70s and in desperate need of a makeover. I was thinking of gutting it but am having second thoughts as the carcasses are very solid, mostly wood, and it seems a shame to bin them. The other complication is that my kitchen doesn't seem to fit standard units. It's a galley kitchen and the units in…
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Loft insulation
Hello All, Does anyone know of any offers for loft insulation at the moment? I think the B&Q BOGOF offer has finished. TIA, J
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Fitting Wireless Thermostat
Does anyone know how you fit a wireless thermostat to Vokera compact Combi Boiler. I've asked several Plumbers & Electricians but no one know how to do it. Is it a job you can do yourself? Thanks Louise
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Heating grants?
I have recently moved into a flat which only has storage heaters (not very good in the cold weather) and an immersion heater ( seems a waste of electricity for one person). I would like to fit radiators and a combi-boiler, but obviously this isn't going to be cheap. In doing this I'm obviously going to be using a lot less…
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Draft/Heating Question
I brought a flat in March of this year and have had no problems with the heat in the flat until the recent speight of 'Arctic' weather. Even with the heating on, the flat is still cold! Out flat is very open plan and I thought a draught might be coming through the sash windows to the front, which we will replace with uPVC…
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No Central Heating Or Hot Water
I have gas central heating via a combi boiler. Since the weekend the hot water was running cold but the heating was fine, although the timer wasn't working. The engineer came on Monday and had to order part (plate?). He came back yesterday and fitted the part and put on a new digital timer. Came in from work tonight and…
