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I think to sell online you need a bank account, an account with the seller and paperless 'certificates'. You have to register with the seller and give them all sorts of access to your most intimate details. If you have paper certificates you'd have to post them off anyway. You don't want to do all t...

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I noted this problem too - our utility room used to be the warmest room in the house thanks to the dodgy old boiler. it was so inefficient that the amount of heat radiated from it - rather than pumped into the hot water system - kept the utility room toasty. now however with the shiny new class a co...

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I'm not a pro so I pass on this interesting piece of advice from one who is: I was fitting a heated towel radiator too and used nice shiny chromed copper pipe to come up through the floor to the radiator inlet / outlets with plastic pipe and push-fit fittings below the floor onto the chromed pipe. M...

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Just had the same problem on my washer. Door lock thing easy enough to get out: (pull plug out!) lid off washer, two screws out down at door lock, pull up interlock switch from inside, note connections and disconnect wiring. New one is ~£10 from your local repair shoppe (they sell thousands!), insta...

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have you got an old metal cold tank feeding your hot water system? these old tanks are prone to rust. it could be yours has reached the terminal stage. have a look. you'll probably be disgusted by what you see anyway - that's why never drink the cold water from the tank!! - or the hot water fed by t...

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damp circle: that's weird. was there a circular window there at some point, maybe been filled in with rubble and plastered and now an easy path through for the cold and moisture? Otherwise damp in the corners is due to the moisture in the air and lack of air circulation into the corners. You could s...

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on the bricks: is this a single thickness external wall or are you looking at the internal layer of a cavity wall? is the internal plaster directly on to the brick (above the skirting board) or is there plasterboard that terminates above this brick with holes? Are all the bricks holey or just one? s...

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You say you are a lower flat. Could it be a water leak from the flat above? I say this as a victim of such a leak: a slight leak from a washing machine upstairs over a long time was never noticed because it didn't cause pools of water, it just 'disappeared' into the floor / ceiling space. There will...

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I'd like to fit a spyhole viewer to a shiny new PVC door. Can I just drill a hole through the middle of the door? I'm presuming it's a steel frame but can anyone advise me if I'm likely to come across a steel plate in the middle of the door? If the doorskin is just plastic - rather than plastic coat...

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Probably yes. Have you got the paperwork for the door closer? It will detail how to ease off the piston that controls the door opening and closing. Normally there are two screws: 1 for the door swing and the other for the door closer (last 6 inches or so). I would imagine the door swing is set to a ...

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Since you have internet access, if you Google "virginmedia.com" and search their help section for email and then go to the get started section.

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Check out the suggested lighting circuits in the projects section of this website. It could be the connection to the switch is being taken from right at the light fitting so: live & neutral in to terminals 1 and 2 say, live off to the switch from 1, switched live (on a neutral-coloured line) com...

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Sounds like the thermostat is detecting the overheat (you say it's activating - can you hear it clicking?) but is it wired up properly to cut off the power to the element? Check the wiring diagram you got with the thermostat. The power to the element comes off the switched terminal of the thermostat...

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Pressure stays at 3 bar: is the link from the mains riser to the boiler's heating circuit still in place and open? this would keep pumping in more water even as you bled it out the other end. Make sure this is closed / disconnected after repressurising the system. Bath water cools off: if you had so...

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The plasterboard should be given a couple of coats of PVA to just seal the surface. That should allow the tile adhesive to grab hold. There's no need to skim coat with plaster or any of that; once it's under the tiles who will know? Course you'll never get the tiles [i]off [/i]again without destroyi...

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