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Long time no ask, but I hope someone out there can help as always. Most grateful for any assistance. At present I have several one foot fluorescent tubes under my wall units in the kitchen. These are fed electricity through normal twin & earth wires down the back wall behind and emanating...

Thanks for your quick response unfortunately the suggestion is somewhat impractical. I would either have to dig up my driveway recently relaid, or drill holes through three walls and channel out several metres of floor concrete to accomodate rerouting master and bringing back extension cables...

With the living room stripped right back for plaster skimmimg, wife wants all sockets and switches updated. No problem with electrics and TV stuff. Unfortunately the B'ham Cable Phone outlet stands proud of the wall on a white plastic "box". Sticks out like a sore thumb as it is...

Many of you have helped me in the past as I am really a silver surfer PC illiterate! Basically my new HP laptop keeps telling me I need to back up the system(?). With my new laptop, allied to my first Grandson, the number of photos, docs etc has increased dramatically. The pub experts...

We have a "lean to" conservatory with glass to the front and one side, both of these have large patio doors, approx 19' x 9'. The sloping roof is made up of panels of double polycarbonate. This looks a mess, discoloured and very noisy when it rains. I have seen a recent advert in a magazine...

Sorry for the delay in coming back but my son went away to his mayes for New Years Eve and arrived back this morning!!!!! He tried another adaptor we had and now everything seems OK. However I would like to thank both EFCLee1 and Igorian for their time in replying to my original request...

My son's Old Evesham PC that was very badly infected. Took it down to nothing by formatting the hard drive. Reinstalled XP to factory settings. Put in Virgin Media wireless and have used the USB Netgear Adapter, as in the past to gain access to Internet. However after a few minutes the...

Over the years as an avid DIYER all trades on this site have been fantastic, you have all helped me produce really good results and I have learned so much. However I believe you professionals are being let down so badly by some of your colleagues out there. My daughter bought a brand new...

Thanks ChrisFrost, you were right about the Virgin Box, it is not the same as Sky and I purchased an External RF Modulator. £16 from Amazon. Received this morning, easy to set up and works with both Samsung and Pace Virgin V boxes. As you have to set channel on Modulator to the Channel on...

Thanks for replying. Yes the five channels work perfectly utilising the normal roof top aerial. I have tuned in the new box to the 6th channel number on my TV, that is how I described a very poor grainy picture, this followed my tuning in. I went across the whole range of the tuning ie...

I had a Scientific Atlanta Virgin Box in bedroom. I connected TV via scart and ran a coax from Arial outlet to amplifier, that also received a coax from ordinary roof top arial. From this amplifier coax down to kitchen where TV had normal 5 channels plus Channel 6 showed whatever was on set...

For years I have had a second set top box in bedroom - Scientific Atlanta supplied by Virgin. The TV in the bedroom was connected to this box via the scart connection. I then used the coax arial outlet at the back of the set top box to feed down to our kitchen via amplifier that also had...

Strange to see my old thread ressurected. As an update, I did get rid of Norton and install Virgin Media. It has worked well, has quarantined a few "invaders" and I am more than satisfied, it did what it said on the tin!!!!

Over the last few years you guys on here have helped me completely refurbish my house - literally, thanks. I have finally come to the last job, refurb the downstairs cloakroom. Have stripped it all out and am left with a shell. (6X6X7.5 feet) In a time long ago, previous owners had an...

Decorating my bathroom, turned off Xpelair at isolating switch and noticed there is no fuse between this switch in the live wire to the Xpelair unit. This is shown in the fitting instructions to be needed, but an electrician pal says that as it is connected through the lighting circuit...

Had the same problem with my pavior drive last year. Went to local store thinking the GUNK old engine degreaser would do it, as everything else had failed. They suggested GUNK Driveway cleaner. Stuck it on the large stained area, 20/30 minutes later washed off, brilliant, stains...

Vokera Mynute 35e. (6 years old) Controlled by programmer, when timer thereon operates to tell to turn on Boiler doesn't, but shows flashing red light plus code no. 1. I can reset it and it then works, so not too desperate. I would obviously like to get it fixed, any ideas what could be...

With the greatest respect you seem to have spent hours trying to save a couple of quid. £11 for what fits your purpose seems good value, but yes you may find others for a couple of quid cheaper, is it really worth all the effort and aggro?

wobblywal many thanks for your reply. Following on from your suggestionI examined the back of the V+ box and found, two scart outlets plus the HDMI, which of course since buying my new HD ready TV is the outlet we are using. Connected the scart outlet to the conservatory TV and BINGO it...

For many years I have had a normal Virgin cable box connected by scart to the TV in my lounge. The cable box had an ordinary aerial outlet for normal coax connection to a TV. I used this connection to feed to a TV in the Conservatory which is adjacent to the Lounge, brilliant in the summer...