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Hanging heavy mirror on plasterboard?
Hi everyone, I need some advice on how to safely hang a large, heavy mirror (1200x1200mm) on a plasterboard wall. The mirror has a metal cord attached at the back, as you can see in the pictures. I’m unsure if the metal cord alone is enough to support the weight, and I want to make sure I use the right fixings for…
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Change of garage use
My wife’s Owns a property that is like a coach house whereby we live upstairs and she has a downstairs garage. Next to that is another 2 garages that’s owned by 2 other houses that they rent off her as part of the deeds or whatever you want to call it. The house is 2 years old. As we have 2 houses we want to live in one…
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Kitchen sink drain leaking
Hello all I moved into a house recently and decided to clean the overflow hole in the sink (as pictured) as it was visibly filthy and not draining water properly. It was disgusting. anyway, I cleaned it and came to putting it all back together, just like how I took it off and when I tested it with water, it leaked. It…
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Radiator baffling me
Hi I have a radiator in a spare bedroom I would like to turn off but even though TVR says zero it was still getting hot. I’ve unscrewed the TVR & pushed the little prong and it didn’t appear seized or anything. Thing is now the radiator seems to be only getting hot at the opposite end to theTVR whilst at the TVR end it is…
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Leaky tap - please help identify part and repair
Hi, this tap connection leaks when I turn it on. Could anyone please advise me what kind of connection is it exactly and maybe explain how I disassemble and replace? Many thanks!
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Right of Way payment
Hi everyone. I have lived in my house for 26 years. I live on a private road along with 17 other properties. I own the road. 20 years ago a neighbour wanted to build a new property for himself within his boundary. Obviously he needed a ROW over the road for this new build. It was agreed a fee of 5k and a covenant was put…
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Oven tripping the electrics
Hi all, sorry this is a little long, but hoping someone can offer some advice. For around 2 and a half years our oven has been tripping the electrics, usually after about 20 mins of use. We have a care plan and have had engineers out several times to replace elements, thermostat and I think the fan. Still the issue…
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Super foil v fibre insulation
My loft insulation needs topping up. Was thinking if super foil instead but do not know much about it. Can anybody advise and the cost to insulate. Thanks
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Pest control company overcharging
Hi all, I’m just after some advice please. I had heard some scratching in my house so assumed we had rats/mice in the loft, I contacted a pest control company who charged me £250, came out, went into our loft, said he saw droppings/bite marks so he stayed 5 minutes, chucked some poison down and said check it in a few days.…
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Tumble dryer space
A house I looked at has a very small kitchen I’ve seen a dish washer in them not no dryer what’s the options: Move to a cupboard in hall Cut out cupboard under sink but no plug? Sit on work counter but it’s near boiler? Will that work? Move to a spare room but could cause damp?
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Extension decision regret - Can't get over it! what options do I have ???
We have just gone through 6-month nightmare of extension building work. We had a bad architect to start with, coupled with bad experience of the building firm, plus it's 1st time we're doing major extension as such. So naiive and short-sighted. Without boring everyone with detail, here's the sitution we are left now: We…
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Toilet flush handle has gone limp
Hi folks, the handle on our toilet flush has gone limp - instead of staying in the usual place pointing towards 2 or 3 o'clock, it has become entirely loose. I lifted the lid of the back of the unit and noticed this white plastic part that has a hole in the end isn't attached to the silver hook. Presumably that's the…
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What can I use to act as studs to fasten on to hard HDPE plastic to give more traction?
Kind of a modified DIY traction mat idea. Already bought some mats but they are not specifically made as traction mats, rather mud mats to suppress the mud and give ground stabilization. See here: mudcontrol.co.uk Want to get more traction as they slip on inclines so thinking screw in something spiky so the tyres can grab…
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Freezing house | How to improve heat
Hello all I live in an end terrace house which was built in 2004 and ii have a mortgage on it. I would say it’s a regular size terrace house with two bedrooms. However, the house is freezing!!!! The temperature today inside the house as 9.5 degrees both upstairs and downstairs and can see my breath. That’s been quite…
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Replacement blind plastic breakaway "thingies"?
Hello everybody. I have 4 x wooden blinds in my home where this plastic breakaway part is either snapped or is very close to snapping. Randomly selected Google image below. Why are they so expensive to buy?? The cheapest I've found so far is 2 for about £5 on ebay. So about £10 for me for a few tiny white bits of plastic!…
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Live 40A cable wrapped in earthing tape in kids bedroom
We had an "electrician" do some work on us for an EICR, part of that work was removing and replacing the shower cable and incorporating an isolating switch. But he cut off and reused half the old cable and left the other half live wrapped up with green electrical tape and pushed it into an old piece of plastic conduit of…
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Timmons unable to cut a key for a wall safe
I have a wall safe and one key. Thought I would get another key cut for just in case .Took my key to Timsons key cutting place and they said they can’t do it. Now it’s not a brilliant extra strong safe just an ordinary one that cost about £40 10 years ago. I think the make is Nutool. Any suggestions about getting another…
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Paint…. Is Farrow & Ball worth the price?
Moving into a new house in the next couple of months and will be needing to decorate top to bottom over the first few months. I’ve been looking at paint and wondering if farrow and ball paint is really worth the price of £120+ per 5L tin compared to the likes of Valspar Premium at £42 per 5L. Obviously I wouldn’t dream of…
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is this rising damp? pretty much a new build post 1980 so bit confused, dodgy pipe? tiling
i obviously want to get this checked and fixed, i don't see any issue indoors
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