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Mar 18

The press are constantly telling us ( and the statistics unfortunately support them) that DIY Skills are no longer being handed down from Father to Son or Daughter.

We are sure this is not true of everyone and we intend to prove it at the DIY Dad of the year competition at Earls Court’s Ideal Home show this weekend.

At 14.30 on Sunday 20th March Celebrity Architect George Clarke and DIY Doctor’s Mike Edwards will take to the stage to offer simple quiz papers to all would-be contestants. The owners of the top three quiz papers will be invited onto the stage to perform three manual DIY jobs.

George and Mike will be overseeing these tasks with words of encouragement, advice and (almost innevitably) a few jokes.

There are many prizes available which have been kindly donated by B&Q, Dulux and Black & Decker. There are also Test Match Tickets up for grabs and expensive tool kits to be won.

Join us on stage on sunday and help decide the DIY Dad of the year for 2011.

We look forward to seeing you there.

Mar 18

red nose team And here they are!

The DIY Doctor Team would like to thank the Ideal Home Show for supporting the teams efforts in raising money from the generous visitors to the show for Comic Relief today. And thank you to all the people who donated money!

Mar 18

DIY Doctor is having a bit of a laugh on stage at the Ideal Home Show today.

In honour of Comic Relief Mike Edwards will be sporting a red nose while presenting on the ‘How To’ stage at 12.00pm – How To Skim Plaster and at 2.00pm – How to Avoid Cowboy Builders.

Martin from Tile Tracker is joining in and agrees to wear a red nose for his presentation at 5.00pm – How To Tile a Bathroom.

Donations to Comic Relief are most welcome, so please come along, have a laugh with/at our presenters and give some money to an excellent cause!

Red nose day Red Nose Day!

Mar 18

I need thermostatic control unit to open and close a 3 way valve

the valve is labelled 220VAC but seems to have a common line at about 170VAC and the Open or Close lines at 220VAC when operating

recommendations please