Recent content by jbaker10

I bought an Art Nouveau soup tureen at the week-end. It is badly in need of a very thorough polishing. I have been doing this with a high street polish for pewter but not getting very far. Each duster I use gets completely black rapidly and though a bit shinier there is not a huge difference...

I've been given some conflicting views on whether relining a soil pipe is a good or bad option. Does anyone have a view here - if it doesn't work in your experience where is the most common area that it fails? Thanks for your help, John

I think I was mistaken. The only correlation I can find is with flow of waste through a soil pipe. I have an upstairs neighbour whose soil pipe runs through my kitchen(which is an estension tacked onto the back of an older terrace). I have had big problems with smells that occur when the...

I'm not sure where the leak is coming from. I can't identify any correlation between heating on or off or when hot/cold taps running or not. Yesterday evening a little pool built up - not a major flood or anything but enough to be annoying. To be honest my biggest worry is that it a leaking...

I would be upset if the hard drive was kaput, PC is only 9 months old. Seems to be working very well now - no noise at all. Fingers crossed for the momemt. Thanks, John

May seem a silly question, but I have noticed discolouration spreading up a wall recently. I emptied a cupboard nearby today and there was water underneath the boards. I scraped out some earth and it is very wet. However, at some stage recently it must have been worse as there were little...

My PC crashed twice today. When I ran CHKDSK and restarted the error report generated advised me to upadte my CD recording software. I did this through HP (Ihave a Pavillion). I have just completed this and the PC seems to be running vwery smoothly. Has any one else encountered this? When I...

Thanks Igorian, The devices are only a couple of meters apart so well within range. They don't have antennas so nothing to raise. John

I have bought an AirPort Base Station to link my stereo to my PC wirelessly. PC is wireless enabled LAN 802.11g. The base station does not pick it up though. It flashes orange which according to Apple manual means that no signal is detectable. The software supplied also fails to load saying...

Prior to carrying out investigation work the stack was boxed in, but now it is all visibile to ground level with no evidence of cracking, etc. The assumption I made was that it was cracked under ground with leakage underneath causing the smell. Now that the pipe has been relined professionally...

Thanks Shaggy, The smell is coming directly from the stack, no smells from any of the sinks, toilets, machines that drain into it. I'm stumped because the smell is coming so strongly from what should be a sealed system, at least as it passes through my kitchen. I am pretty sure the vents...

A soil pipe which drains two bathrooms and a kitchen from an upstairs appartment runs into my kitchen and empties into the main (under my kitchen) drain and thence to the sewer. Intermittently over the last two years it given off a bad smell. I got a drain contractor to check for blockages and...