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A ceiling light bulb flickered out of use but was OK in another light, so I turned off the mains and unscrewed the fitting. The part that screws into the ceiling had 34 years of dust and gunge in it and as I was cleaning that out the "bulbholder", or what the manual calls the lampholder, c...

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I had double glazed windows installed last summer and have been having excessive condensation in my 5 x 2.5ft cloakroom this winter. Even the lampshade has been soaking it up! The cistern and cold water tap are fed off the rising main, the cloakroom is on the corner of the house under a flat roof, w...

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That's what my plumber reckoned yesterday, agreeing that the grill should be at the far end, away from the rising main. Thanks, HTG. (Incidentally, I was just a little bemused that I had to lend the plumber a marking pen, a Stanley knife, a flat file and a junior hacksaw. I would have thought that m...

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To allow some leaking underfloor pipework to be replaced, I've had to remove the kick-board and base of my sink unit, and was it damp under there! I'm 99% sure that it's not because of the pipe leaks, and it's drying out quite nicely with a dehumidifier. But at one end there's the rising main (which...

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I have a bathroom above an integral garage, with various pipes and some cabling above the latter's ceiling. There's absolutely no insulation in the void and I'll probably be installing Celotex or polystyrene and then plasterboard. (Some of this needs to be replaced anyway following a leak.) I think ...

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