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Thanks for the replies. Some of the mortar I can kick off! Some is solid as arock. I've got about a dozen fresh bricks in store. So I may compromise and make the wall a couple of courses smaller. The gas company dug up the pavement near to the wall last year. I suspect that didn't help.

Part of my front wall has just collapsed. It's a fairly low wall on a slope, only about 7 courses at its highest point. Some of the slabs and piers look to be intact. But would it be best to recover the individual bricks and then rebuild again from the foundation course? It looks like a...

Thanks. The black plastic seems to be grey underneath. I thought a quick touch up would fix it. How much do the chipsaway firms charge for this? Has anyone got recommendations for a firm that does this? Though I suppose it's all local mobile franchise operators and the quality can vary...

Just scraped the front bumper reversing out of the driveway. Fortunately, its a black plastic bumper. Will using a "Back to Black" product improve matters? Or will it just make things more noticeable?

This is definitely a problem with the aerial connection. A new aerial cable has no effect. Adjusting the aerial connection (pushing in, or pulling out slightly) fixes the problem for a while. But it always returns... Maybe a duff connection? My dad also has problems with an...

Yes. That seems to work with mine. So, I can keep the light switched off most of the time. Then on the rare occasions when I need an outside light, I can switch on-off-on.

Thanks. The uPVC fitters were highly recommended to me by another tradesman that is straight and trustworthy. But if they try to pressure me to have ventilation tiles fitted, I'll have to blow them out! Over-fascia vents look the way to go...

[/url] It's a combined TV + receiver. Samsung Syncmaster. I tried one of those separate tuner boxes before, but they were useless. They certainly did have faulty connections...

My security light comes on for 4 seconds, goes off for half a second, comes on for 4 seconds, goes off for half a second etc. What settings do I need to make it "manually operated"? When I turn the security light on from inside, it stays on permanently until I switch off from inside. It...

In the Yorks area, we converted to digital about 6 months ago. I then bought a Samsung digital TV and everything has been working fine. I am in sight of the Emley transmitter, so signal should be strong. The following fault started a few weeks back: * After switching on, colours look...

Currently ventilation is from gaps in the woodwork. And it's more thsan adequate. The gable end faces west and you get a breeze blowing through. However, when the house was built in the 70s, people had minimal loft insulation. So the loft was warmer, I suppose.

1970s 2-bedroom detached bungalow, gable-to-gable (one row of ridge tiles). Chimney stack. I am looking to get my rotten wooden fascias replaced with uPVC. One company said I would need ventilation ridge tiles and/or ventilation roof tiles added. Ventilated soffits would not be enough. I...

I am replacing wood with 16 mm uPVC. Will that be strong enough to hold the cable?

Sounds like it is something the fitters can handle. I am getting replacement fascia, not the cap-over-wood. But I presume the cable anchor is screwed into a joist. I'd better get up in the loft and look around. I'll have a similar problem round the back with the TV aerial!

The cable is about 8 metres long. The pole is right next to my drive, so the cable only passes over my property. The top half of the gable end of the house is tiled. So the cable *must* be attached to the fascia. There is no open brick work up at that level. The cable meets the house at the...

I'm having my wooden fascias replaced with uPVC. The phone line from the street comes in through the fascia. There is a fastening on the outside of the fascia. Question: Am I allowed to remove the phone line cable in order to replace my fascias? Or do I need to get BT involved?

Thanks. That explains why I couldn't shift them!

Replacing a ring element on a Creda cooker hob. Four wires are connected to the element. The new element uses conventional screw terminals to hold the wires. On the old element, the wires seem to be held in place by split pins, like a hair pin, that go through an insulator block and clip...

What's the cheapest place to get replacement mower blades? I have a Qualcast Easi-Trak 32 rotary mower. It's a fairly common model, I think.

I don't understand why you are using a router *and* a modem. All the broadband services I have used before, I just connected my computer to the router and the router to the telephone line.