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Re clearing out the furniture, there are several "Freecycle" type websites where you can just put up pictures of the items (with measurements) and people will take them off your hands. I did this when I bought my house with a kitchen sink unit, a window, a back door and even a bathroom suite...

So your question is "What can I do about something that has no material impact on me, and that is visually no different than it was before?" I think what you really need to do is forget about fences and lawsuits and instead build a better relationship with your neighbours. If you had done so in...

Thanks Palerider. Can you be a bit more specific - just use household bleach mixed with water? What proportions would you suggest starting with? Also, I don't have a sprayer, could I just do it with a bucket and a yard brush?

I have very dark coloured cobblelock (looks like dark grey or dark burgundy that has faded over time) over the entire front garden of my house. The area is north-facing and despite house and side-walls being painted white, the dark cobblelock makes it look very dull. Is there a way to bleach or...

I’m a Bank of Ireland customer and I’ve been using RaboDirect for my savings for years. Yes I like the better interest rate, but what I really like about it is that I can have several accounts (holidays, dental, general, etc) and move very precise amounts around them and into and out of my Bank...

Everything you have is very nice, but I think your problem is that it's all very nice individually, it's just not coming together very cohesively. My advice would be to hold off purchasing anything yet. What you need to do first is figure out what your style is in a nutshell, then it will be...

I got DeWar Plumbers out last year for a job that turned out to be bigger than I thought and they were terrific, highly recommend them.

Stay. You love your house and moving would cost you more money than staying. Re neighbours, if you have neighbours from hell, you have a better chance of them moving if they are renting than if they are owners. And you don't know who your neighbours might be now or in the future if you move. Not...

Either way, you would need a registered gas fitter to fit it for you. Contact someone who is now (before you buy it) and ask them.

I got rid of a lot of stuff by putting on the internet as "free" (a bathroom suite, a window, a kitchen sink unit and a radiator). Mine were picked up really quickly, but I saw that a lot similar items had been languishing for weeks. I think the difference was that those items were out of focus...

Thank-you all for the replies, much appreciated. It turns out that (a) some of the pipes have to be white under regulation and (b) they were finishing for the day and put in temporary solutions that will be replaced with the final options later. They also put in the white downpipe because the...

I had a plumber in to replace several downpipes - the originals were old metal ones and they were replacing them with modern plastic ones. I arrived home after day 2 of a 3 day job to find that: (1) the larger, round pipes were black but the smaller round ones, were white. (2) The...

It's similar to the fence at the front of the house below (I got this picture from Daft), the only difference is that my fence goes straight into the ground, it isn't raised on concrete like this one. They are the standard fences on all these type houses all over Ireland, but many if not most...

My house has a front living room and the master bedroom facing north and a back kitchen-diner facing south and I much much prefer having the sun at the back. As I pretty much only watch TV in the living room, not having direct bright sunlight is in fact a bonus (although I do get a lovely glow...

There is an original metal fence between the properties of myself and my neighbour. The previous neighbour had put up a wooden shiplap fence on his side of the metal fence, but that blew down in the storms earlier this year. Myself and the current neighbour want to replace the wooden fence...

I agree that the world is nearing peak grey, and tbh I've never understood the appeal anyway, particularly in a northern European country where the skies are often grey themselves! Your hallway is beautiful, very classic, and my only colour advice would be to bin the magnolia, which is far too...

Thanks @cma, did have a look for a lever last night but couldn't find one, will look again. @TTI, would you believe the name has rubbed into a smudge on the boiler so I can't even look it up online! Think I have the instruction manual somewhere though, will have a root around for that.

Thanks @SemperFi, that sounds familiar (well, except for the yellow part). Are there any markings on the lever to indicate which is which? (if so it might give me something to look for).

Thanks @peteb and @jpd. @peteb - surely that can't be the most efficient method? Wouldn't that just be lowering the temperature so you don't notice the radiators heating, but the water gets heated slightly, yet the system is still heating enough to go around all the rads? @jpd - I don't have...

I'm sure I was shown how to switch my gas boiler to heat water only (as opposed to radiators and water) but as I never needed to do that (I also have an electric shower) I failed to retain the information. However now I find I do need to heat just the water and a google search has failed to...