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Hi, Please bare with me i'm not the greatest electrical person in the world. About 6 months ago a property a few doors down and across the road from us damaged some underground electrical cables whilst having an extension built, this tripped our Protek consumer unit constantly while the...

Hi, I have 3 bathrooms on 2 floors, and 2 of the toilets on the ground floor are back to back of each other and sweep into the same soil pipe. The problem i'm getting is that when i flush one of the toilets that are back to back on the ground floor, the flushed contents of either one backs...

Hi, I have 800mm thick 20mm to dust hardcore laid in my back garden inside a new 6000mmx3000mm patio thats being built. The builder has left me in the lurch and i want to get it finished myself as winter is approaching and he is taking forever. My question is: Would a whacker plate...

Hi, I have a fully pumped system with a 3 port valve and a cylinder stat and a gas central heating system, and the normal mains feed to all cold water outlets. now the problem. I have a very full cws tank, and water coming out of the overflow pipe to outside, also the water in the cws tank...

Got a Rover 75 and the exhaust sounds as though its just developed a hole in it. Just managed to crawl under the car at the weekend and the exhaust looks like new? Went down to my local exhaust place today who talked in double dutch car language, but wanted to charge me over £400 for a...

Been out the plumbing game for some time now. Can you buy an external gas fired wall mounted boiler? The reason i ask is the house we are in now has a wall mounted boiler in our bedroom, and we are both getting migraines, which i presume would be down to the boiler, could be wrong but i...

Hi, I am currently making some Disco lighting screens. I want to connect 4 lamp holders inside the boxes i have made and then fit coloured 60w or 100w lamps inside. Option 1: Can i wire the lamp holders all together and just put one 13amp plug on. Or Option 2: Will i have to put one...

Hi, I'm going to dig out a foundation to build a small "brick built" shed about (approx 6ft x 4ft) in my garden. The ground is clay and i have a large Leyland conifer tree about 1 metre away from the new build. I have crawled the net and this site but am confused on a safe depth for the...

hi, I have a seperate 750 watt amplifier which is powering 700 watt speakers. The problem i have is the amplifier is making a loud buzzing noise through the speakers when turned up even if there is nothing playing through it. Now, if i remove the earth wire from the plug off the amp it is...

Need some help guys. I want some decent software that has the capability of superimposing someone onto a video or still picture image. So for example, if i have a cartoon movie on my computer, i then want to superimpose my son into this cartoon image. Someone recommended me Adobe...

Hi, Can anyone suggest some sensor lighting? I need a small downstairs room to light up when the door is opened. I have seen these devices which you put on the door and then light up when the door is opened, but i think they look tacky. What i want is a light that detects body movement...

Hi, have a Vauxhall Frontera and every now and then when started from cold revs the engine without you putting your foot on the accelerator. I presume it's the automatic choke sticking, or thats what it seems like. Anyone got any info on this problem?

Been out to a customer today as an emergency. Knocked on the door to be greeted by a screaming woman who pushed me upstairs as quickly as possible, i walked into the bedroom to see her husband sat on the floor with his thumb over the top of a pipe and a lovely cream carpet covered in black...

Hi, maybe a wild question, but does anyone know how you can get old messages off a mobile phone you no longer have? Old phone and sim card was run over by accident at work with fork lift truck, but i know there are still messages coming into the phone that i need to access. Anyone?