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how to remove standing water in my shower pipe?
in my shower, as you look down the plughole there is a lot of standing water which has a slightly dirty tinge to it. i have poured a drain cleaner down but it has not removed the standing water. it is fairly close to the plughole surface so whenever i have a shower, the water tends to back up in the shower tray. not to a…
Checking our security after intruder in the garden.
This morning our neighbour called to say that she thinks that we had an intruder in our garden last night so I'm writing to see what suggestions people have in order to add a bit more security. We live in a terraced house and the only way to our back garden (apart from throught the house) it via our neighbour's garden.…
Shower Rail - Track
Hello, Just moved into my new flat and was all set to hang the new shower curtain (something easy that i can do myself, hooray!) when I get stumped by the rail around the bath... It is a track curtain rail, when I have the following (similar) hookless curtain: (cant put in links sorry!)…
Best way to get big pinboard on wall?
So in our spare room (which is also the study), I really want to have a large floor to ceiling area as a giant pinboard. Inspired by one I used to have at work, the idea is to have it painted the same colour as the walls, so it blends in, and you can pin stuff directly to the wall. I have a huge collection of postcards,…
Shower problem Mira 915b
Hi Hope someone can help please. Been having shower problems - now know what the problem is, however whilst investigating the original fault we have now created another one. Long story short - have 2 showers in the house, both are mixers and pumped. Downstairs one was fine, pump came on, no probs. Upstairs one was great…
How to remove a shower knob ?
Help please ! Our mixer shower is not working particularly well, I reckon it may well be the filter blocked. All I want to do is get into it to have a look, see if there's anything obviously wrong. But can I get the knobs off the front ? Can I heck as like ! Here's the relevant parts list :…
Green Goo from plug sockets - 3 bed room - how long does re-wiring take?
Hello I've had green goo oozing from various plug sockets around my 3 bed room maisonette (built late 60's) for quite a while now and its recently got increasingly worst. It looks like the whole place will need rewiring but I'm wondering how long that would take and how does it work exactly? Will they need to rip floors up…
Lifting laminate floor to get to central heating pump?
Good morning. About this time last year I happily fitted a laminate flooring over where our central heating pump is thinking that the pump would probably last longer than the laminate anyway. Hindsight is a wonderful thing and the pump is now buzzing and stopping/starting intermittently. I need to get to it to check it out…
Cleaning up bricks
Hi all, (another question, sorry) We have ripped out some wood cladding from one of our bedrooms to see if there is a fireplace behind it. Fortunately, there is and some lovely brickwork which we would like to expose (original idea was to plaster it and leave a "hole" where the hearth was). The brickwork needs a good clean…
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