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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

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...

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...

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...