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Hi I've just knocked off all the tiles in my shower (three sided type) ready to re-tile. The shower base is a contcrete acrylic type that is heavily scratched. I don't really want to replace it as it is cemented in but was thinking of screwing lenghts of 3x3" over the top of it to the walls ...

Hi, Im realy looking for some advice before I invite a roofer around as I don't want to get caught again. I live in a terrace house and the house next door had a two story extension on the back. Almost 3 years ago I decided to do the same and I found out that next door had built right on the...

Hi, I've just had an extension built and decided to take some of the bedroom to install an en-suite shower room. The plumber was going to install the shower tray directly ontop of an mdf floor, which I wasn't very happy about so installed 18mm marine ply for him. I've now found that he has...

Hi, just checking if someone could offer some advice please. I have an old property that had black mortar on the walls with artex over the top. I had a few plasterers around all said to go with dot and dab dry lining. I agreed and had the work done. Within two months I heard 'cracking' and the...

Hi, My computer has been getting quite slow because of all the items at startup. none of them appeared in my startup folder but I came across a utility called msconfig that enabled me to choose which items I wish to load on startup. Unfortunatly though the program keeps booting in a safe mode...

Hi I have a Lynxsys WAG54G wireless router, when I log onto the adminstation pages for the router it says that the down load rate is Downstream Rate: 8128 Kbps, Upstream Rate: 448 Kbps. Which I assume is an 8mb connection, however when I run a speed test on my laptop the best I ever get is...

Hi, I'm currently in the middle of an extension to the rear of my property, it will add and extra bedroom with en-suite. On the plans the en-suite was supposed to connect to an existing soil stack but my builders in thier wisdom installed a RSJ too high and is in direct level where the exit of...

Hi I used to have a teired? (stepped stages) garden. But now I've built a retaining wall and filled the hole with concrete debrey left over from my extension. I'd like to grass the area for my children to play on but I'm unsure how deep the topsoil should be and how much in tonnes to order...

Hi, I know this isn't a pc problem but was hoping someone could help. I used to have a 36" crt tv with surround sound built in so if I played a dvd, xbox or sky everything was in surround sound. Just upgraded the tv to a 50" plasma with no surround sound built in so bought a home cinema...

Hi does anyone know how close you can run 2.5mm power cable next to satalight coax? I'm burying 2.5mm cable in conducit in a concrete floor and was going to run coax in a seperate conduit next to it. Will there be any interference? It's sky plus cable if that makes any difference?

Morning can anyone offer some advice on cable size for an electric fire? I'm shortly having some plastering work done and have had my gas inset fire removed, was looking top replace it with an electric type from screwfix think they're about 2-3kw. What type of cable would be used for this...

Hi anyone know anything about planning law? I have planning permission to build 1st storey extension, but am only allowed to come out 5m. Existing single storey extension is 5.8m. Seems petty to me but council won't let me take it out full distance on top. someone told me if I build it and...

Hi, Anyone know how much soil I would need to order for a garden 3.5x5m? I have just broken up all the concrete that was there (i will be leaving it there) and was thinking that 10cm of soil on top would be ok?

Hi My Pc has been plaing up recently and a friend offered to fix it and lost everything!! My only option was to reinstall windows, he said my programs would still be there but they're not. My only savour is that I used norton ghost 10 to make a duplicate of my hard drive some months ago...

Hi guys could anyone advise on the maximum allowed current on 2.5mm wire please. My mother has one oven in her kitchen at the moment but would like to install another one. The circuit the oven is on is bestoke to the kitchen but is only 2.5mm. it has a 32amp breaker. The ovens will be no...

Hi I have a laptop running xp and have recently purchased a second hard disc for backup purposes. It conects via usb and everything works ok. The only thing is I'd like to take a 'snapshot' or exact duplicate of the main disc so if any thing happens I could actually boot up from the new disc...

Quick question - if building a conservatory can you use breeze block from the foundation level (underground) on both sides or does the outer side have to be brick/engineers brick?

Hi my neighbours built an a 2nd floor extension on top of their existing extension about three years ago. I queried the plans at the time because the guttering protuded the boundary line between us. The planning office guy told me that it would be ok as if I ever built a 2nd floor extension we...

I have an old terrace house and was thinking of coverting my loft just for storage use - no windows required. Any advice on this - the beams on the roof and floor are both 3x2" I was basically just going to board over the floor and platerboad the walls. (hopefully cutting down the dust...and...

Hi guys, Any advice on grouting - the grout in my shower keeps cracking and I'm concerned it's going to allow water seepage. I used 20mm ply board water proof and flexable adhesive and grout and it has still cracked. But only in the shower! Any advise on weather it may be the steam or...