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Hmmm...Difficult one this. I suspect my other half of being a bit naughty with a workmate. I know she chats with him online via F******* and sometimes things do get a bit close to the bone. What I have discovered is that they sometimes videocall via F******* chat. I am not really...

Hi. Have a strange fault with my 9 months old Acer Aspire. I normally use it plugged into the mains. It has over the last couple of months developed an odd fault. Basically, if you unplug the laptop from the mains & use it on battery power, when you try & re-charge it, it charges...

Hi. I had a NEXT 5 lamp ceiling lamp (halogen capsule bulbs) up in my living room, which has always been fine. I had the lamp on until pretty late the other night, and when I switched off to go to bed, I had forgotten something in the room, so I turned the light back on, and BANG! All 5...

Hi. Probably covered at some point in the forum, but couldn't find it... My son's bedroom dimmer switch is a rotary switch & has always worked fine. It clicks positively when you switch it on or off & rotates smoothly. As of tonight it no longer clicks on or off, and would not dim or...

Hi there. I have a 4yo Packard Bell Spirit 550 PC which has served me well over the years. I mainly use it for some gaming, but also for recording audio (me playing the rockstar with my guitar actually!) I normally just plug in via the mic socket on the front panel, and normally use the...

Evening All! Tonight I did the stupid thing of dropping off whilst running a bath. The bathroom is above our livingroom. Our upstairs flooring is chipboard. The water has found it's way through the ceiling & has been dripping for a while now. I have mopped up what I can from upstairs...

Hi there. I have for the last few months been having problems connecting to the internet from time to time. I use Virgin Media via cable. Sometimes when I try to connect, I get the usual dns error page as if I am not plugged in or the modem is switched off etc. I have contacted...

Hi there. Is it possible to have a TV located in one corner of a room, which is the opposite corner from the Virgin cable entry point. I have changed around my livingroom & I don't want to trail the cable all around the walls & I have recently had new carpet laid so I dont want to floor-mount...

Hi there. I am having my dining room carpet lifted this week & a laminate floor laid. The floor currently has a vent in it which has a grille over it. The floor fitter mentioned that he would just cover over it when he lays the floor, but I'm not so sure, surely it is there for a purpose...

Hi there. I would like to replace my ageing UPVC sliding doors with a nice set of French doors. However, the chap who came out to survey said we cannot fit French doors due to the size of the opening. It looks pretty normal-sized to me. Can anyone give me an idea why we cannot do this, as I...

Hi there, Just wanted to know, can you use a Ryobi 3-hour charge battery in a Ryobi 1 hour charger? Also, does anyone out there know of a really cheap place for replacement Metabo & Ryobi batteries??? Thanks once again, Gary

Hi there, My preferred plumbers/engineers installed an Alpha CD13R for me today, at a cost of around £1500, is this boiler any good? We have allowed him to fit whatever he recommended. Gaz

Hi there. On one wall of my living room (an outside wall, next to patio doors) there is a cream coloured item, quite bulky - about 5 inches high & 4 across. It has a small 3-way switch at the right hand side of it's face with the top position marked by a square, a circle at the middle...

Hi, After 3 or 4 days of having my living room radiator set at 0 on the thermostat, I tonight turned it back up but the radiator has refused to heat up. All other radiators are fine. I suspect it may be a sticking TRV as I have since been informed that you shouldn't turn them to 0. I will...