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replacing new cooker element
replacing new cooker element is it easy to do?
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DIYers, Install a Sky+ Box yourself
Last summer I came across a Pace Sky+ box at a boot sale for £15. £2.50 for coaxial cable and £1.25 for connectors at our local pound shop, already had some cable clips. Fortuneately, the sky installers installed a quad LNB when setting up my original Sky DigiBox, so I had 3 spare outputs on the LNB making it easy to…
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Cheap but good hot tub
I'm trying to find a hot tub, preferably made out of decent wood like cedar or teak, but is around 2 grand. I can only find nasty inflatable tubs and pines tubs. I want a tub that looks decent, doesn't cost the earth to buy and run, and lasts a few years. Am I just setting myself up for a wild goose chase, or does anyone…
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Q about electrical certificate
Can anyone answer this for my friend. A tradesman is doing a job (general building work inside the house) for a customer. She then asks him "While you're here can you do this little electrical job for me". Tradesman is not a qualified electrician but knows what he's doing so does her a favour and carries out the electrical…
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Are they causing cracks?
Hi Im just wondering what other peoples thoughts on our situation are and if this is in the wrong place please feel free to move it for me. We are in an end terraced council property, the house next door (not part of the terrace), is only joined to ours by the front corner wall (IYKWIM) and beyond the side exterior of our…
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Urgent Plastering Problem - Damsel in distress - advice please
I have had my bathroom ceiling recently re-plastered and the Plasterer removed an old pine, tongue-in-groove ceiling (as I requested) and added a new plasterboard ceiling, which he plastered over in its place. It looks great BUT I'm now informed by Building Control there should have been a visquine (spelling?) vapour…
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Billy Bookcase... base panel
Hi, We recently bought some second hand Ikea Billy Bookcases and had to dismantle them to bring them home. I was putting them back together again today but can't work out how the base fascia panel attaches (the one that goes under the bottom shelf) on the corner unit. Can anyone shed some light on this? there are holes for…
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Can i return this electric oven?
Hi This is basically due to my stupidity, but would like to know if i still have any rights. I previously had a Gas oven that came with the house, but was actually on it's last legs and needed replacing. i've always thought electric ovens look better in the kitchen than gas ones, so decided to buy a new electric oven from…
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Double glazing glass
Currently getting quotes for double glazing and I am being offered different options on the glass. Can anyone tell me if pilkington glass does make net curtains look yellow from the outside. Also does anyone have experience of soft coat glass, is the quality ok? Thanks
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Do you know where your stopcock is?
I read a post on The Simple Dollar recently where Trent was advocating the value of being self-sufficient in as many areas as possible e.g. painting and decorating, fixing your car, plumbing etc. A lot of people argued the toss, pointing out the time and opportunity cost of acquiring so many skills, but his response was…
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New washing machine prob-aaggghh
Hello, Just had brand new hotpoint washing machine delivered. all plumbed in ready to go turn power on- ok lights come on turn machine to cycle to start 1st test wash. small noise and from inside the machine a white flash and now no power. any idea- have checked all fuses all ok- no circuits blown etc.. i am just unlucky…
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Washing machine in shed?
I am in the process of buying a house with a small kitchen, I have space for a washing machine but not for a dishwasher. I really really want to have a dishwasher, in the garden I have a summer house with power and water supply - cold only, but my machine is cold fill. How easy would it be to connect my washing machine in…
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washer/dryer problem
Hi, wondering if anybody can help. I have an indesit wld126s washer/dryer, which is just about two years old. Recently if I select certain programmes (most Of ) them actually, it goes into a wash but as soon as it empties it goes spin/drain/spin/drain cycle and ignores the rinse, conditior etc and continues like this until…
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Ideas on how to fix fruit to wall?
Hi all I have a blank wall in my kitchen and my fruit bowl is forever tipping over and fruit gets bruised at the bottom etc. I had a brainwave the other day about having small narrow shelves on the wall and placing the fruit individually along it! I think it will be attractive, practical and the kids will really enjoying…
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Help with removing bathroom tiles!
Can anyone PLEASE help me, I'm trying to remove bathroom tiles from the wall but I need to save some to do a repair job. Is there a trick to removing tiles so as they don't break? I cannot replace them as they are no longer in production. :confused:
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Leading has come off side of dormer window, help please (UPDATE)
I've just been outside and noticed that a big piece of leading (if thats what you call it) has come off the side of a dormer window. Its hanging on at the corner atm, so reckon its salvagable if i can get up to it and stick it back on, as its in one piece, but what do i stick it back on with please? I'm assuming it must be…
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Argos Shed "base Not Included"
Hello, Could anyone pleae assist me: I have just ordered a shed from argos 705/3445. In the info supply its states "base not included". Does Base mean the concrete or slabs the shed rests on? As that is what im thinking ie a patio or gravel etc.. otherwise its just a metal gazebo!! Or does it mean floor? I have contacted…
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Lec elan fridge is freezing
I hope this is the right area to post this sort of thread. I'm in rented accommodation and when we moved in the landlady let us keep her old fridge freezer. As it was old etc she didn't want it anymore, but she also said if it broke she wouldn't fix it. We'd have to dump it and replace. Well it seems to be going a bit mad…
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White Gloss kitchen units?
Just starting to look for new kitchen units and found slab white gloss in Homebase yesterday which suits me fine, no awkward corners to clean etc but I'm wondering just how easy are they to keep clean and do they scratch?
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Chimney stack... help
I just bought a house and the chimney stacks have been removed on the ground floor. After having the living rooms re plastered I noticed smail damp patch where one of the chimneys had been 'cut off' and where a blocked off firplace is above. I lifted the floor boards and it seems, to me anyway that the chimney stacks are…
