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Water tank fitted wrong way around by house builder!!!
Got a hot water tank in my airing cupboard upstairs. Never had a problem until recently when (I was told) one of the thermostats went faulty (causing hot water overflow). Anyway, have had someone to...
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Stripping a router / motor?
Hi all, I'm trying to strip a Porter-Cable 879879 router head / motor (bearings and brushes gone) but can't get the collet chuck off the motor spindle. The reason it's difficult is there is no real /...
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Ryobi Expand-It Hedgecutter - spare parts?
Hi, My hedge cutter sadly has been abused to death (by me). Without having dismantled it fully, it sounds like a stripped gear in the head that converts the rotary power coming up the shaft to...
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Garage to Septic tank distance?
I am proposing to build a garage. There is a septic tank in the vicinity. To comply with Blg Regs., what distance should I allow? If it is too much then the project is a non-starter. mark
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Water-based Cuprinol style timber treatmen or oil-based creocote?
Now that I have finished my timber lean-to greenhouse (sawn timber, not PAR), should I use water-based Cuprinol or Ronseal (as for fences) or will this, being water-based, cause the wood to swell and...
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Replacing a catnic with a wider one?
Ground floor rear extension. Pitched roof covered in large tiles with 2 velux roof windows installed in roof span. Rear wall of extension is block and brick, cavity wall with french doors one side,...
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Satellite dish pointing at roof....
Hi, A strange question.... I have had new aerials and sat dish installed by a local guy who turned up in a sky emblazened van so assume he is one of their subcontractors. I didn't have a box to test...
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Best way to get a shallow slope on a flat roof
Looking at the roof design (I have looked back through previous useful threads). I am considering 6" (150mm) * 3" (75mm) at 600mm spacing. The span is about 3.5m front to back and about 7.8m side to...
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B&Q 'off the shelf' UPVC windows - sizes
Life is always complicated. So is this post. I am planning to use B&Q windows because you can buy them off the shelf and as this is a new build I can (more or less) plan the wall around the windows....
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Sadolin Superdec - opinions?
I need to redo exterior woodwork this summer. It's currently painted in traditional white gloss (done four years ago). I've always been quite keen in theory on Superdec (which I think is the same...
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Aqualisa Aquastream
Hi there, I've just replaced the pump on my Aqualisa Aquastream (after 2003) shower and when I turn the electricity on, the pump starts going even though the switch is in the off position. I have...
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mould behind one radiator
My wife owns a flat that she's been renting out for the last 6 months. At the handover between one tenant and the next, she's found mould behind just one radiator in the flat. We're curious to know...
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Removing a back boiler - what to do with the flue?
Hi. I'm removing an old Baxi back-boiler at the back of the living room fireplace. It's a old propane powered one; I've just had a new mains gas boiler installed in the kitchen. I've disconnected all...
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Whistling TRV
About 18 months ago I had a new boiler fitted in Handyman Towers and fitted TRV's (Wickes) to the rads. The one in the spare/granddaughters room has suddenly started whistling. AFAIK they are of the...
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Fibre washer rant
What is it with plumbers & fibre washers in tap connectors? Its actually rare to find one. Usual practice seems to be to wrap loads of PTFE tape around the bottom of the connector & hope for the best....
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Delaminating saucepan
Hi, I've had this set of stainless steel Prestige saucepans for about 18 years. Recently a couple of the pans overheated on the hob and the outer 1 or 2mm layer of copper on their bases warped away...
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Replace soil stack/stench pipe with AAV
Currently we have sodding godawful stench pipe which runs in the corner of the house (it's an "L" shaped bungalow). Next door (2 storey house) has a stench pipe running to above their eaves. Is is...
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Microswitches for Triton shower
I think the main microswitches (the ones which switch the two elements, controlled via the power dial) on my T80i shower are dead - or at least one. (I resurrected one a few years back, but it's...
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Ready mixed Polly filler or ready mixed plaster ?
Hi, I have some wholes in a new flat I've moved into, quite a few, one is where the door handle of a door has been smashed into the wall going right through it and the rest are wall plug holes and...
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Marley guttering - rubber seals
does anyone know of a source wher you can buy just the rubber strip they use in the guttering joins and endcaps ... my local plumbers merchant claims you have to buy the whole fitting .... ****ing...
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