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How to sort out my shower door
hi, i have a shower with curved doors. One of the doors keeps popping out of the track at the bottom every time you try to shut the door ( see pics) . It feels really loose. I used to have a similar door in the old house and the silver square cover had a button which released it so you could tighten a screw behind it. This…
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Drain blocking
I live in a 1930s semi-detached house (say, number 10) joined to number 12. The drains run along the back of the houses, from number 2 down towards number 14 and so on. The manhole cover is about 1m from the back door. I have a grate into which the water from the bathroom, dishwasher and washing machine pours (from pipes…
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Manholes missing?
We have lived in our house for 1 year and hadn't thought about access to drains etc until now. We can't find any manholes on our property to access our drains. The nearest manhole is just over the fence in our neighbours' alley. Are we missing a manhole on our property? Nothing was flagged up during the sale. The drainage…
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Kitchen drain
I want to redo my kitchen. If it is possible I would like to move the sink from its existing position on the side wall to the front wall. The move would be along two sides of a right angled triangle roughly 180cm x 110cm, with a straight line between the old and new positions forming a hypotenuse of about 211cm. I think…
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What do I need to connect these 2 pipes?
The slim, pipe, furthest away in photo, is the drainage outlet for my shower. It emerges from the wall on a downward slope and inside the white/grey connector thingy, is the pipe that the outside black pipe, needs to connect to. It seems to be just a push fit connection. For some reason, of late, the black pipe bit is…
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Endoscope Camera
Wondering about buying one of these to help see into confined spaces - mainly dry ones, like under and behind kitchen units, under floorboards etc. Places where I can't get my camera in to take pictures or record video. Anyone found good ones that will work with a Moto Android mobile phone (a bit old now) or the latest…
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Wren kitchens. Any good?
Anyone used Wren to supply and fit their kitchen? What was your experience of them?
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New kitchen: recommendations
We want a new kitchen fitted. The one we have is about 15 years old and was from Ikea. We've been relatively happy with it, but it was a budget option and now we are willing to pay a bit more to get better quality. So far, we've been to Howdens, who are coming out in 10 days to design the kitchen. We designed the Ikea one…
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Do they sell guttering clips anywhere?
The clip on one of my guttering connections has broken and I want looking to buy it, I assume it would be readily available but appears not. Seems like you have to buy the whole corner piece. I'm looking at the clip that clicks into place see below:
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Zinnser Perma White
Anyone else think that Zinsser Permawhite isn't exactly that white but more of a cream colour. Don't get me wrong, it's brilliant stuff but when I first bought a tin for the woodwork and doors for my bathroom I did notice it was a bit off white but didn't really bother me as I using it for all areas on the bathroom but…
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mattress 7 year warranty
after five years the mattress has after independent inspection been found faulty. the edges all the way around the mattress has collapsed. the springs are broken and there are 5cm dips, I cannot get comfortable. its a John Lewis mattress. lady at J L said we wouldn't entertain a claim as your mattress has stains on it. I…
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Qettle water boiler/filter leak after mains water off
We’ve got a Qettle boiling water tap with the 4 litre boiler and an inline charcoal filter (about the size of a rolling pin) under our kitchen sink. Our mains water has been off for about 5 hours due to a burst main locally. When it came back on earlier we heard a couple of knocks from under the sink (sounded like the…
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Failed patio windows under warranty
We own a house which was built in 2017. Two panes of four of the patio doors have failed, with condensation between them. I contacted the makers, Patiomasters, they agreed that they have failed but have said we need to find the installer to activate the warranty. The house was built by a small scale developer, only three…
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Kitchen renovation advice.
Hi all We are about.to start the process of renovating the kitchen in our Victorian terrace. Everything need ripping out and starting again. Kitchen is 3.5m by 2.54m We are planning on staying in the house for another 3/4 years so don't want to go high end but still want it to look good when we sell, so don't want to go…
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Minimum boxing
Ive no idea who designed the plumbing in out building but its crazy, 4 stories, with at least most having multiple unshared soil stacks, our carpark is a web of soil pipes coming out the ceiling and merging together. We also have suspended ceilings that are a good 30cm below the structural ceiling. So… if I look under our…
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Radiator replacement - should we go for higher BTU than needed?
Looking for some advice on radiator BTU sizing. We’re looking to replace a standard radiator with a vertical one in our upstairs spare bedroom/home office because it works better for the layout of the room. Using online BTU calculators, the room seems to need around 2550–2650 BTU. The plumber gave us a couple of options…
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Water Hammer dilemma - particularly regarding costs
Having read a few threads on this topic, I can see this is a common and frustrating issue. I am in a rental, the lady below me owns her flat. Almost every watery thing causes water hammer. Very bad from the shower in particular and I hear it from washing machine, but kitchen taps by washing machine also cause some noise.…
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Leaking under basin
The flexible pipe under this basin is spurting water. I have zero plumbing skills so is this a diy job or had I better call a plumber?
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Is this termites?
Hi, we live in a Victorian terrace and had a new engineered wood flooring laid over our floorboards about two years ago. In the past two weeks we are finding a pile of grey thick 'dust' near the copper pipe that goes from the floor to the radiator. We vacuum the dust and a couple of days later it reappears. There are ant…
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PIV positive air pressure systems for dust management
Anyone tried a PIV (positive air pressure) system for reducing dust? We don't get condensation, but we live next to a main road and the dust is quite bad. We have cavity wall insulation and double glazing. We have a couple of extractor fans that were installed with the insulation. So air is coming in other ways,…
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