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LIghbulb flickering- What does it mean?
I have a light bulb - energy saving one, which is flickering when I turn it on. It flickers, and somtimes tacks over 40 seconds to actully turn on. What does this mean? nothing has changed in the past 6 months. what does flickering mean? -an engergy saving one-
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What is this on my house?!
Hi, My curiosity has got the better of me and I figured someone on here may know the answer... In my street of semi-detached houses the telephone wires from the telegraph poles run to the front of the houses but spanning the gap between the separate semis at the back are cables of some sort. What could they be? Thanks…
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Bosch KGV33NW20G fridge freezer - any good?
I think my venerable, 17 year old Zanussi ZF 36/46 is on its way out - it's taking a long time for the fridge to chill food, and more importantly wine ;) . I'm going to defrost the freezer tomorrow, but if that doesn't improve matters, I'll have to replace it. To be honest, now that there are two of us, the fridge is a bit…
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Can you help me find these shelf brackets
Hello, We are trying to find the correct shelf brackets for the shelf in the below image which sits inside a kitchen cupboard. It has precut round holes in. We have no idea what they are called and have looked in B&Q. Any help would be much appreciated. Thank you
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Is BOC Ripping Us Off
I hire an oxygen cylinder for use in my workshop, and now, apart from an annual cylinder hire fee of £60, British Oxygen have the nerve to charge me a £2.00 invoice fee. How the heck do you pay without an invoice??? Is this charge fair, justified or legal, I am happy to pay the cylinder hire etc. but am I due to pay this…
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Putting on TRV's - any help
We are going to replace our non TRV's with TRV's over the summer. We have got the right size one's but are unsure how easy they are to replace - bits I have seen on the internet seem to imply it's quite a difficult task? Also out thermostat is in the living room and we want to put a TRV on that radiator as that room heats…
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Heat Recovery/Recycling
The layout of my house means that a lot of heat collects at the top of the stairs in a central hall area. In the summer this is from heat transmission through he partially insulated sloping areas of the ceiling (loft conversion) and in the winter it is from downstairs heat travelling up the stairwell, not practical to fit…
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Kitchen Planning
We are in the very early stages of planning a new kitchen. There are some walls to come down to make it much bigger than it is now. Before we start all that, I wanted a price (for kitchen, not building work) so we know if it is feasible, and what we are working towards. Having stalked this forum for a while, read all about…
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electric shock off disconnected plug
Hi all I had switched off the wall socket and disconnected my sander when I got a small electric shock from the plug pins. Is this normal?
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Painting an exterior wall - need some paint advice please
I need to paint an exterior wall of a building, preferably tomorrow and Saturday when the weather is supposed to be dry (hah!). The (concrete rendered) wall has had a few coats of white paint over the years, and quite a bit was flaking off. I've scraped off anything loose or bubbling AND treated it with algae/fungus…
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Cavity Wall Insulation
Hi all I just wanted to share my views with the forum regarding cavity wall insulation. I had this done in 2004 after receiving a partial grant from one of the energy suppliers. Boy oh boy do I regret having it done. The type that was injected was a white mineral fibre wool type. As I have gotten older and been doing…
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Double galzing damaged by insurance cleaners
Hello. Someone daubed paint all over the front of my house. The insurance company sent out Polygon to clean it up. They did it with a water jet. There is now a lot of condensation in the main pane and it is so much that the window is obscured. I have been onto Polygon so many times and today a man phoned and said that he…
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Replacing tiled roof with conservatory roof?
We are looking into getting a single storey tiled roof extension re roofed with a conservatory roof. The extension is about 25ft x 9ft and currently has a lean to (or single pitch) pan tiled roof. Can anyone tell me what the building reg, planning and listed building requirements would be and give me a vague idea of…
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Taken Down Chimney
Back in March, my next door neighbour removed an ajoining chimney without mine or my upstairs neighbours approval. She claims that it was unsave (the renderring was crumbling slightly) and I wrote to my neighbours son at the time (my neighbour in in her 80's) and said that I did not approve for this to happen and could not…
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Cupboard door hinge/wood problem
After a bit of a saga with a broken integrated washing machine. I bought a new machine. The problem is that the machine height is a different height to the old one so the kitchen cupboard door which is attached to the washing machine is about 1cm lower than the other cupboard doors. It would normally be a simple case of…
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Ceiling Coving - plain but big
Hello. I am trying to track down a supplier of ceiling coving to replace the ones in the house I have just bought. The originals are the plain simple coving but they are much bigger than usual. with a diagonal span across the face of the coving of 175mm. I can find suppliers that produce fancy covings of this size but not…
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Chest freezer
Hi all, probably a really stupid question but................i want to put a chest freezer in the spare bedroom upstairs as theres just no room anywhere else in the house, are there any issues with this or not? The floor is carpeted and the room does get quite warm in the summer however probably no warmer than your average…
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Loft insulation / boarding
Hi, We moved to our new house (1901 built) 5 weeks ago and one of the 1st things I did was get things going for the loft insulation to be sorted. It's a lovely (big) loft space, that I am hoping to get boarded out so we can use it properly for storage in a controlled manner rather than the usual shoving up what you can…
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Restoring old hardwood furniture???
Hi there, im about to try my hand at buying-restoring-selling old and unusual peices of furniture. I have done a few pieces in the past for my own home (they need re-doing) lol I know the basics of stripping, preparing etc but I never do get the finish quite right. Can anyone recommend good quality finishing products,…
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Damp problem
Every time it rains I get a damp patch on the bedroom ceiling where it meets the chimney. Only a relatively small amount of damp - measures high but not really visible. Chimney seems sound, lead work replaced, roof felt replaced, ventilation increased. No water getting into roof (paper laid out but stays dry whilst…
