Home DIY

Cheers, the AEG one looks fairly pricey too but is another option. The idea is tempting but not sure if the price is worth it.

Feckin sparkies put the rounded out screws back in the shower so I was standing naked on the bath dremeling the fucking things out. Now that's a strong look on someone as sexy as me should try.
The new tank doesn't work so I need to test the next thing, the microswitch to see if it's not letting power get to the tank. Melting the screw out just to do this is making me think I should just buy a whole new shower unit. But I'm not going to am I? No, I'm going to replace every part in it, spending twice the price of a new shower and THEN I'm going to quit and buy a new shower.

Who makes the best electric showers?

Mira are up there.

Durable or just sexy?

Waterproof grouting for floor tiles.

I want to fix the wobbly floor tile.
My plan is remove grout - is there a drill attachment?
Drill a hole in wobbly tile, squirt adhesive in.
Grout.

Yeah?

A Fein, or other oscillating power tool, has an attachment/blade for grout removal.

I have one of those tools, but I can't recall if it came with a grout attachment. I can have a look later.

@Chalfie

Elbow grease.

Job has been made infinitely easier.givibg not a bath, had a look at loose tile. Woops. Came up in one piece.

Off to shop for adhesive.
Clear out old grout
Go tile
Bash down on floor.

Wait

Then grout

Homebase does the unibond waterproof adhesive/grout hybrid stuff in smallish tubs. Not sure if it is good for floor tiles. I used it for wall tiles in the kitchen.

I've got some flattened carpet in the hallway, which is a heavy traffic area, I'm hoping that there is some way to restore the pile to the carpet, thinking carpet doctor shampoo hire thingy or maybe getting a pro in but wondering if anyone else has any ideas/experience?

Is it worn away or just compressed and dirty? If the latter, I would try one of the spray on foam cleaners and a scrubbing brush first. Then if that starts to work but isn't enough, move up to hiring a carpet cleaning machine.

What kind of vacuum do you have? My upright VAX has a beast of a brush bar that would help lift flattened pile.

All the microswitches in the shower are working. I've run out of things to test. Maybe it's a flow issue in which case I'm fucked because there appears to be no way to isolate the shower's water supply. Oh wait, need to check the solenoid.

Solenoid, 4, it's fine. Cunt

I was having a bathroom extractor fan fitted by an electrician. He's installed a fused spur and a cable, which is now dangling in front of the window where there is an existing hole in the glass.

Unfortunately the electrician sees to have gone AWOL and hasn't answered a phone call, email or text in about 6 weeks.

Under the regulations can I finish this job myself (attach wires to fan, screw fan window unit together in the window opening) myself? (I'm in Scotland if it matters).

If it's further than .6m from the bath/shower edges (i.e. outside of zone 2) you do not need to notify building control. There are still issues about the way you do it.

Just realised Scotland might be different.

Scrape all the shit offthe floor, hoover, scrape shit off tile?, Or just smear in adhesive?
One of the surrounding tiles feels loose. But I don't really want to fuck with it. Should I smear adhesive underneath without lifting or should I try to lift it up?😭

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Lift the loose ones. Note their orientation (mark them up). Remove loose adhesive and apply some fresh, obviously aiming to get more into the larger voids.

I have a very annoying light switch set up in a hallway where there are wall switches at both ends and both have to be on for the lights to go on. Typically they both get set to "off", I walk in to hall, and have to switch them both back on.

I'd like to remove one of the switches and replace with a blanking plate - can I just connect the wires behind the switch with a terminal block or will it burn my house down & kill me to death? thx

You have two way switching and it sounds like wires have been swapped over. If you have a multimeter or a non-contact test pen it's easy to figure out what needs to go where.

Fixed, the grey wire in the above diagram had come away from the back of one of the switches. thanks!

Thanks for this. Suspect Scotland may be different as you say. Might give it another week and then ask a different electrician.

How competent are you?

If it makes you feel any safer, I'm currently trying to work out why the extractor fan in a toilet has 240v going to earth instead of neutral.

Has that come away from the floor due to movement?