Recent content by mbeamethyst

You're right, the loft aerial not wideband but it was previously connected via a single cable to the lounge TV only - no issues with reception, all channels received and no issues during bad weather. So working on the assumption that until we connected the second TV, we had the right aerial in...

In the area we live we aren't allowed to mount aerials on the roof, any other suggestion for boosting the signal of the loft one? Thanks

Sorry its saying that we moved the bedroom TV into the living room to try it on that connection and it was still missing channels.

Thanks for all the replies. One thing I'm not sure I made clear is that before the bedroom TV was connected to the loft aerial all it had was a signal booster attached and with that we could get all channels, albeit with pretty patchy and weather dependent reception with some channels dropping...

Thinking about getting one of the above devices to use with TV for media/streaming etc - iPlayer, Sky Player etc. We have free Orange home broadband but it only runs at about 3Mb. Just wondering if this sort of speed of broadband is good enough to cope with this or whether we'd be wasting our...

I have just connected TV in bedroom to loft aerial to get better Freeview reception (on a passive splitter), but as a result have lost channels athough reception better on channels that are received. We have the same aerial connected to the TV in the living room and are getting full range of...

In our bungalow, all the socket circuits are under the floor (with less than 12" space to work in) and the nearest crcuit to where the hood is going to be is over 3m away.

Thanks. Both of these replies exactly our thinking and good to know the regs to back this up so we can discuss with the electrician. BTW way yes the property is a bungalow.

Thanks for the reply. Can you tell me why you don't like tapping off the cooker circuit? I guess we're just wondering why there is the recommendation to change the way its wired when the wiring for the hood tapped off the cooker originally whereas we thought just adding the fused spur to provide...

Hi, we've been advised by an electrician working for the company installing our new kitchen that the cabling for the extractor hood can not be connected to the 32amp supply for the hob. The previous extractor was connected in this way. He has advised that as there is no other electrical ring...

As I said it would be used as a pullout additional worktop area - I'd use it to put washing on after it was taken out of the machine or as an additional working surface or somewhere to sit at to read a magazine - effectively a small table/worktop area that can sit inside a cupboard when not...

Hi, I am thinking of putting a shelf (probably from an offcut of Corian/HiMac from the worktops) into a kitchen unit that I can pull out when required for an additional worktop area. I'm looking for drawer runners that would attach under the shelf or in such a way that they're not visible when...

Hi does anyone know whether Alno manufacture their own interior pullouts/drawers for their kitchen units or whether they are made by another company such as Blum/Hafele? Thanks

Hi, I know I'm strange and definitely in the minority but I don't actually like flat ceilings (or painted walls either)!! I know most people hate artex and I'm not a huge fan either (especially as in our house someone seems to have unleased their creative streak with a different pattern in...

Hi, we've painted our kitchen/utility room ceilings with Kitchen/Bathroom Paint. Now knocked down wall between two rooms so need to re-artex the ceiling. Will artexing over this paint cause us any problems?