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Money Moral Dilemma: Should I pay towards my son's neighbours cutting down their trees?
This week's MoneySaver who wants advice asks... My son's neighbours have several large trees in their front garden and the roots are slowly pushing up my son's driveway. He's told them, but they don't seem to have any intention of doing anything. I've suggested that I offer to pay part of the cost of cutting them down to…
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Sanity check: orbital sander
I need a sander to prepare new shed for painting. We are likely to use it to paint/repaint the fence as well. I am eyeing up Makita M9204 random orbit sander. Anything to look out for?
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Paint advice needed
Hi hope I'm in the right part of the forum please move if not. I inherited a house from my nan and I'm going to be moving into it in a few weeks and I need to repaint all the rooms and don't have enough funds to get a decorator to do it I'll be getting help from my sister and a friend to help me paint the entire house…
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Buying new integrated double oven?
My integrated fan oven tripped the electrics yesterday and now won't heat up. I have a double oven set into tall unit. The top small oven is conventional oven and the bottom one is the fan oven. I rarely use the top oven but that is still working. The fan on the bottom oven has been making loud rattling noises on and off…
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Wickes Installation service - are there any successful outcomes when things have gone wrong.
Hi all, I am having a really terrible experience after having bought a Wickes bathroom and opted for their installation service. I thought, as Wickes was a well known brand, that their installation service would be better than the usual installers - where often it can be pot luck!! A two/three week bathroom installation…
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Cupboard door not closing
Hello, So I have one cupboard door that is refusing to shut even after trying to adjust all the hinges. I've attached some photos. Any ideas? 🤔 Cheers
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Bosch Serie 6 pumping issues.
Hi.This has been ongoing for some time, and I originally found hair wrapped around the pump impeller shaft which I managed to mostly remove using a contrived tool. It always returns, so it's now time to fully remove the pump for a thorough clean.However, summat else happened yesterday - I heard two large gushes coming from…
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Vaillant condensing boiler freezing - minimising condensate?
I woke this morning to a quiet and cold house, as the heating wasn't running and the rads were cold. Having experienced it before and it being -5°C overnight, I hoped it was just a frozen condensate pipe - which it was. A few jugs of warm water later, I was able to restart the Vaillant boiler and it has run fine through…
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Ethernet between floors
We have a purpose build duplex type setup but it's a symmetrical, the lower floor is just a bedroom and ensuite with the upstairs being the main bedroom, lounge, kitchen etc. It's a modern build with concrete floors, blockwork walls (dot and dab plasterboard). There are a couple of RSJs across the flat too. Water I know…
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Heating takes ages to heat up - small house
I rent a 2 bed mid terrace which is a former miner's house, I think around a 100-120 years old. It has double glazing and was renovated by my landlord about 6 or 7 years ago. It's always been tricky to heat and the old thermostat was temperamental. It had stopped working completely a couple of months ago and has been…
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Gap in window when closed (aluminium window, wooden frame).
Any idea how this can be fixed? Does the whole window need to be replaced?
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Central heating acting up
It's a conventional system around 32 years old. It was working fine this morning but when I turned it on again around midday, found that the radiators on ground level (apart from the one directly below the immersion tank in the lounge which is hot) are cold. The ones on upper level are hot. The one in the hall where the…
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Cold hall (flat roof)
I live in a top floor flat. The section at the end is a flat roof and as a result the hall is always cold. Is there anything I can in my flat to improve the insulation .
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Hanging pictures beginner questions
Hello everyone, I’m looking for some advice on the best hardware to use for hanging two pictures in my home. Both weigh less than 5kg, but they are going onto different wall types. Picture 1: Plasterboard Wall * Dimensions: 60cm x 40cm * Weight: < 5kg * Backing: See attached image * The Wall: Standard plasterboard…
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Heat pump error
I have an ongoing issues with a Panasonic heat pump. The code is H20 pump error. An engineer came out yesterday and cleaned the pump out and realised the fuse had blown on the mother board. He put a new 13amp fuse in and it started working and was going fine for about 3 hours. Then the error came back again and I’ve got no…
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New Bathroom Ideas/Tips
Can anyone recommend the best places to buy bathroom furniture/suites? Also please share any tips or tricks, when deciding on how best to utilise the space in a bathroom? What would you recommend/do not recommend? We are knocking our toilet into our bathroom to make one big bathroom. We would like a large walk in shower…
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Drawers sticking
I have a substantial chest of drawers which have been in my home for almost 10 years. Now I find that a number of the drawers are sticking, no longer free moving and difficult to pull out / push in.As the mechanism is probably some sort of plastic based material I'd appreciate advice on what to use to 'oil' them. I'm…
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Condensation in wardrobe / insulating foil
Hi! I recently moved into a Victorian house with a large walk-in wardrobe in the main bedroom. It gets freezing cold in there and there is no ventilation. I recently discovered mould growing on some of the clothes on one side of the wardrobe (this side is an external wall). Today I removed all the clothes from that side…
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Marks on clothes
I had issues with black marks on clothes. I decided to buy a new washing machine as I never dried the rubber on the old one and it had black mould. I now dry it. Anyway I’m still getting marks on the clothes any ideas why? I can’t figure if it’s coming from the tumble dryer or the washing machine? The marks never seem to…
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Paying checkatrade builder upfront for goods
We want to have some new doors fitted. The quote was OK, but the joiner wants us to pay upfront for the doors. I have suggested that I pay the door company direct to order the doors but he says we can't. Is that normal - and is check a trade a good thing?
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