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Hi folks. I have effervescence/blooming started on 3 external walls. All 3 are garden boundaries shared by neighbours and are 25 years old. We've only been here 2 years but it wasn't doing it last year so who knows why it's started now. I'm wondering if maybe it's because the top of the walls...

hi, i would like to remove a password on payslips on microsoft edge so i can send it to my accountant. if go to manage passwords bit it doesn't show the documents as having a saved password. i think this means cos the password was added by my ex employer i dont have access to remove it. anyone...

Hi folks, Having issues with Storage heaters in the birds flat which has been empty for a while but recently she has had a pal staying there till he gets set up with another place. He says Storage heaters are not working. Having never had anything to do with leccy heating and also never having...

I have a 60 plate Combo 1.3 CDTi. Am buying a new van and want to get this one sorted for sale. It has the minor fault light showing after about a mile every journey. Using the method I found below I find two codes stored. 0683 and 0704. 0683 doesn't seem to exist on that list but 0704 is some...

I'm currently ripping my bathroom apart for a complete renovation. I was hoping to insulate between the plasterboard and inner leaf with foil faced insulation boards as it's a cold bugger of a room but as I have suspected for a long time I only have 25mm between the two. I don't really want...

A mate has a MK4 Mondeo which won't open it's bonnet. Know nothing about newer stuff as I drive old hacks but a look round the interweb suggests the only option is to remove tray under the car and reach up to remove the plate that holds the latch in place, then use a screwy to open the...

Saw this on another forum, beats my daily grind anyway. :) http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=5e2_1333668975

Whoops wrong section :)

Anyone on here changed the rear lower wishbone bushes on a MK2.5 MX5? Doesn't look too hard to get it out but I assume I will need to mark the position of what looks like eccentric bushes. I'm guessing they will need pressing in too.

Can I ask what everyones opinions are on making a joint between EPDM and what I think is green mineral felt? I have no choice but to do it this way if I use EPDM and a search on here indicates it's perhaps not a good idea to make a joint between the two. All the posts i could see about it...

:lol: http://photoshoplooter.tumblr.com/

my phone won't work if my broadband modem is plugged in. the computer wouldn't connect one day so after much fannying about i managed to get it to work by unplugging the phone. i didn't check the phone was working at the time though. then i noticed the phone wasn't working a few days later, the...

try this, then go lie down in a dark room and try not to vomit. http://www.xrite.com/custom_page.aspx?PageID=77

anyone else ****ed off with this pop up annoyance? seems to be placed in just the right place to **** me off by popping up and obscuring text.

as davebgas pointed out in the now locked vent thread it was 2008 that the classification changed not 2005 as i said. 2005 was the date that BG started refusing contracts for vents and upgrading them for existing customers. apologies to kirkgas for making that mistake as you were right...

minor disaster with the driveway this week and im not sure what to do about it. the wifes car has been leaking petrol onto the tarmac. i didnt notice and its a bad leak. its stripped away the bitumen and left the aggregate loose. there is a sizeable patch of petrol left on the tar and i dont...

i was thinking of taking advantage of the 10% off that this site gives through screwfix to buy the g4 kit. are they any good? i used to install alarms but ive been out of the game for 10+years, seem to remember accenta were around back then but cant rememeber the quality of them.

whats a late 60's waste pipe likely to be made of? clay? plastic? im getting more and more concerned by the situation below. its obviously been seeping for some time judging by the ground below the blockwork, ive only been in 2 years. today for the first time i noticed drips hanging on the...

whats the standard size of earthing for the isolation switch (its got its own rcd) of an electric shower? the one coming out of the rcd and attaching to the main cable earth post is pitfully small in my house.

in my garden i have an area of heathers around 2M by 2M. its all very attractive but its starting to get a little unsightly as its a bit overgrown and its difficult to remove the weeds that are growing in between the heathers. my question is how far can i cut them back without killing them...