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What have people found to be the BEST wood preservative on fencing
Yesterday I attempted to fit a new radiator for an old one which was corroded. Please bear with me... I fixed the new brackets on the wall and hung the new double rad and because the new rad was...
We recently painted our garage floor with some epoxy floor paint. Nice colour, nice finish, perfect. We waited quite a few days before putting the car on it and then two days later when we took the...
is there a certain order to bleed radiators??
The council have given me a new garage door and have put a 7 inch slide bolt at the bottom on both sides. How can I lock these off so no body can put a padlock on with the bolt across so I cannot...
hello we have a blocked bathroom sink tried everything to unblock it but no good the toilet and shower and bath all are ok! last resort later today is caustic soda if that doesn't work any ideas...
I have a heavy brass plated door knocker,can anyone suggest a good product that will give it a decent chrome finish please? I've looked in the DIY shops for a ready chromed door knocker but they are...
I have an H.W. & Co wash hand basin, jug, soap dish and powder dish. The trade mark is Modena. I am not sure if this is Hawley Webberley & Co or Hancock Wittingham & Co as the web does not help me....
I have problems with the above. The hot water is no problem as this fires up when a hot tap is opened. Hpwever the heating does not come on. I think it might be something to do with my timer. It keeps...
Any clues why the water temperature in our washing machine seems to have become hotter than it should, i.e. the woollens are coming out shrunk, presumably because the water is too hot.
We decided to knock a wall down that had a radiator on it. Now we have no wall, but the radiator pipes just hanging down. How do we get rid of these please? The alternative is that we move it through...
__Hello,_-_I once had a lass (…) who used a simple kitchen trick to polish up the silver cutlery I have. The lass is long gone - as is the means of keeping the silver shiny. Is there somebody please...
Hi I just bought a second hand electric oven to replace my broken one, the one I just bought has a three pin plug attached where my old existing oven is wired into the socket, is it safe to just plug...
I wonder if anyone else watched last night's episode of the '100k house' series. At one point, a house floor was covered in some kind of board, and then painted with concrete epoxy paint. I can't find...
I have bought some magnolia paint - I really wanted cream
It's silk. Can I add some white silk and mix really well
I was thinking of a ratio one part to about 20
Many thanks in advance...
My bathroom sink has a plug which you depress to close and press again to open....................it won't open and the sink is full of water.
Hi all So I have a Worcester Greenstar FS30CDi boiler as part of a closed hot water system. It feeds into a Gledhill StainlessLite cylinder with an immersion heater. I've just been on holiday for a...
Every other day I have to top up the pressure in my heating system as I must have a small leak somewhere.
Is there a method to finding where the leak is?...
Hello ABers, wonder if you can help. We need to find a new flexible gasket/washer for the pop up plug/strainer to our 20+ year old kitchen sink (manufactured by "Astracast"). The company tell me that...
Is it possible to succesfully apply a pasted border to a fairly low relief wallpaper ?
Most border rinstructions advise me to apply to a 'flat surface'.
Cheers.
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