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Can my ancient gas oven be fixed?
I have a single oven Creda Capri. I don't know if its the thermostat but the oven is not heating up and the flame stays at the same level. Is it worth calling out a repair man or buying a new oven?
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Electric heater or central heating to heat one room
I've just moved into a rental flat in Glasgow. It's been renovated fairly recently and it's a small flat with just a bedroom, kitchen/living area and small hall and bathroom so I figured it would be reasonably cheap to heat. Problem is it doesn't hold heat at all. Less than an hour after turning off the gas central heating…
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Built-In Elecric Oven Recommendations
Hi all, After having nothing but trouble with our all-singing all-dancing gorenje oven (which is now out of warranty and broken again :( ), I am looking for a replacement. Can anyone recommend: A: a reliable brand (looking to spend no more than £300) B: a decent retailer (can be online or high street) As only one element…
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loft conversion
What are the regs regarding loft conversions please. Do you need planning permission or just building regs. Is there any differnence in permission needed to put in a velux or a dormer window.
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White Spirit out of Carpet?
Hello all! I've had a shocking home improvement week! New double glazing installed but as a result of this there was a huge amount of mess in my flatmate's room. I got professional carpet cleaners in but the only thing that worked was white spirit - 16 litres of the stuff! The whole flat now absolutely stinks of white…
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Planning permmision and boundary walls
Hi My mum is in the process of purchasing a property with the view of building an additional dwelling on the the land to the side of the property. The land beside the house is the equivilent to the same size of the house she is buying which is semi detached. If my mum was to build a house attached to the one she is buying…
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Neighbours Extension
Next door have started building a sigle storey extension, which can be seen from our lounge over the top of our fences and looks awful. We don't have a big garden and this is going to probably block sunlight. I've checked the planning stuff and apparently you can build an extension without planning persmission up to 3…
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Rewire nightmare
Morning all, - Sorry ive also put this under consumer rights I was hoping for some advice on the following as the world of contractors, house renovation etc is new to me. We needed to undertake a rewire of our 2 bedroom flat and thought the best thing to do would be to do it whilst we went on holiday reasons being; we…
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Advice on glass splashbacks please
We have a kitchen 30 ft x 15 ft. two thirds of it is working kitchen and one third, dining table (old pine though), old multiyork sofa (mostly occupied by the dogs) and very large SMEG bright red fridge/freezer (50/50 size). NOW we gave up on ready made units and had a local carpenter make ours and hand paint them for us -…
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Boiler died again
I posted about 3 months ago about my boiler repeatedly failing (pump keeps breaking) and it has died yet again. The Viessmann engineer claimed that I had to have my system flushed or they wouldn't replace another pump. They didn't mention that until we had gone through 3 pumps. So 4th time around I had another engineer…
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bath and shower screen - looking for a bargain
I posted a couple of weeks ago about the hole in my bath caused by the shower screen 'falling off' (according to the lodger but I don't believe her). I have been trying to get plumbers round to give me quotes but haven't had much joy. They either don't turn up or don't send a quote to me which is driving me nuts! I got one…
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Door order and installation help!
Door buyers or anyone wanting a door installation please beware of the company you choose... Placed an order for a door from Yale Door back in October, so it would be in time for when I moved into to my new home. The door came up to over £1000 (which included making the door, key free, letter box, door knocker, accessories…
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Gas safe engineer
Can you recommend a gas safe engineer in the Leeds area,hope there are some with good reviews
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How to remove exterior paint from stone walls?
Wondering if anyone has any hints to remove exterior paint from stonework (apart from trying wire brush and elbow grease)! Only a small patch at front of cottage, and on window sills, but back of cottage has been covered..Obviously realise that the best solution would be sand blasting, but looking for cheaper alternative…
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Painting/covering copper pipes?
Hi, Have just had a lovely new chrome heated towel rad installed, but the copper pipes feeding into the bottom of the rad look odd, I just wondered if it would be OK to paint these silver? Can anyone recommend either a paint to do this, or whether there is a covering I could use? The pipes aren't straight, they sort of…
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Keeping heat in a conservatory
I've put underfloor heating in the conservaory so we can use it all year. I am looking at ways of retaining as much heat as possibe. I know its not an easy thing to do and I'm probably going to get loads of people telling me to stick a proper roof on it, but thats outside my skillset. It has one full hight wall and three…
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Power shower either too hot or too cold.
We have just started using our power shower but it does appear to be mixing the hot and cold to get the right temp. It is either too hot or too cold. Can anyone help?
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Blue sparks in hammer drill?
Hi folks, Been a complete novice to using a hammer drill I bought this one at argos http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/7106062/Trail/searchtext%3EHAMMER+DRILL.htm Only a £10 I know but 113 customer reviews give it a good rating. 1 I have noticed that when I use it I can see blue sparks in vent at back, if…
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Is this a phone or TV aerial cable?
Hiya, I'm trying to solve the mystery of the missing TV signal that's been in my house since I moved in. There's a wire that cones out an upstairs wall, down the side of the house and towards a box that has the cable TV wires, phone wires and satellite wires running through it. There's a picture below - can anyone tell…
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Power Shower
I need a new powerful shower but have an old gravity system boiler. The shower we have at the moment is truely pathetic. Please can someone give me some pointers towards getting a shower which will get me wet in less than 30 minutes!
