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I just called O2 to upgrade my phone only to be told that I'm 2 months "early" and I would have to pay a £60 termination fee to do this. I countered this by saying that I'm not terminating but upgrading and continuing and will STILL be paying the £30 per month for my line rental and airtime so...

I'm an avid golfer, I love the game despite it being so frustrating. A load of colleagues reckon that it's just a waste of a walk. Are there any fellow fairwaymen (or women) out there or are you of the opinion that golf is not so great? Can we at least try to keep this one on topic please...

I have a wall round back of my house that is built of concrete block. It's in two sections, a small 4ft section from the house to the gate opening and then long 30ft section that butts up to the main boundary wall. During the high winds in mid January (we had 112mph), the small section's...

Hi all, I have an oil fired system (ACV boiler - old, no model number visible on it). Heating was working ok earlier today but went to put it on a while ago and nothing. I went out to the boiler house and the boiler pipes are all hot (to the pump is scolding). I turned the boiler up to Max and...

Hi all, At the minute my whole bathroom is tiled floor to ceiling in 200x200 tiles and, frankly, it's horrible. So... I intend to remove ALL of the tiles and replace the ones only around the bath and shower area (using larger 485x340 tiles) so my question is this; What is the best way to...

Hi all, I have an oil fired CH system with 10 radiators. In the past two months I have found myself having to continuously bleed the system as a small panel in the hall and a large panel in the bedroom are only warm to half way up and full of air. Once I bleed the system it's fine for a week...

Following a post I made this morning about being in a slight road accident (hit from behind) I wanted to gauge your opinions on accident claims (and the companies, motives etc) Loads of people I have spoken to today about the accident have been telling me to claim for this and that (whiplash...

Sitting at the traffic lights this morning my engine power cut. Next thing I know a woman in a Clio has smacked in to the back of me wrecking my rear bumper. What's the position on this, surely default blame sits with her as she should have been paying attention to the fact that I hadn't moved.

I need to create a bootable image of WinXP from a CD in order to run it on a Netbook that has a corrupt Win32 shell file. I'm using PowerISO to create the files but what do I need to convert to to make the file readable as a boot image for the netbook via USB data stick? Cheers

I'm looking to try and find a garage/workshop or lock-up to rent but can't seem to find anywhere that seems to deal with this type of property. Does anyone have any suggestions for how to go about finding such property? Many thanks

I have the opportunity to get a Costco card through my employer. It's £30 for the year and I'm tempted by some of the offers that they showed us while on-site. My question is, does anyone use them and is it worth it in the long run? Thanks all

Hi, I live in a really really old cottage with oil central heating. At present there is no thermostat control and the timer is an old rotary one that only has one set of timing sets (i.e. I can only set one on and one off time). How easy would it be to replace this with a nice digital one and...

Hi all, I have a 1200 litre capacity tank (I think, I basically worked it out on length x height x depth - remembering my math at school that should give me cubic capacity it was 1197.88 or something). I had a faulty gauge and resultantly ran out of oil. I had a new gauge fitted while I...

Ok, I'm stumped by my BM and need some fresh thinking. When driving, if I hit a bump or even slight pothole on the rear passenger side, the car bounces violently, shuddering almost and loses traction on that side momentarily. There is also a knock noise that comes from it when this happens...

Hi all, I have not long moved house and we have one DG unit that has blown, it's filthy inside and mists up every day without fail. The unit is 600mm high by 400mm wide (so not huge) and has a putty bead inside and out (although the external bead has seen better days). I intend to replace...

Hi all, I have a leaky radiator in my spare room and it's off at the minute, however I am looking to replace this at the weekend. I have noticed that both the microbore pipes are on the same side (i.e. they come through the floor together and go in to what looks like a double in valve). Can...

Hi all, New to this but just moved home and seem to have the same problem in 2 rooms with the same set-up. In my dining room there is a centre ceiling lamp and 2 wall lights. The ceiling lamp is controlled via a 1 gang 2 way switch at one end of the room and also by a 2 gang 2 way dimmer at...