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I read on here the other day about someone enquiring about frost stats (can't find it now) we have a problem that a frost stat would cure. We have a garage that adjoins the kitchen which has a 1400x600 single rad in it. It can get very cold in that garage and the previous owner installed one of...

The 30 amp circuit is just feeding the downstairs ring main. I am loathed to even try to use a choc box cover because of the brittle condition of the sheathing also the way the wire has been space out I think it would need a large choc box they have a blank terminal between each wired...

My brother in law asked me a few weeks ago if I could move a 13amp twin socket in his bedroom to waist level as he had a broken back and now ha severe problems bending. I started on it this morning - just taking a break for an early lunch - oh my. He as lived in that house for 30 years and I am...

Well, after moving the old fridge out via the front door I've gone and smashed the 13amp twin socket off the wall in the hallway. Both the socket and the backing box are cracked. I purchased new socket and 25mm backing box and notice that although both are plastic, the backing box also has...

Shame on you...you forgot John Lennon!

That's them! Just need the double adapter now and I'm away!! It's a shame they are not still generally available because they did have many handy uses. I notice that Screwfix have the small 5amp round pin sockets for sale - although I couldn't find the plugs - what a price though! - but...

easiest way is to go to the home page then click on VIEW in the browser menu, then SOURCE, you can then see that pages code. By the way search engines do still use metatags, even Google recommend you include them in their site optimisation help pages

I never like sites / companies / services - whatever - that do not give contact details, just a web-form message as means of contacting them. I'm probably being over-caucious but that's MY data they are holding!

If yours was a legitimate copy of Word the Product Key would have been very obvious - a large Yellow sticker with bold black letters headed Product Key and will consist of about 20 letters in blocks or 4 or 5 separated by hyphens. When you installed Word you would have been asked for this...

I was in Ireland last week and travelling towards Galway when the hire car conked out in the middle of nowhere - except for a small cottage, the occupants of which made me very welcome while I awaited help. The lady of the house was ironing and I suddenly realised how old her electrics must...

Good to see snobbery is alive and well :lol:

But with the exception of retouching spots, it was all done with light - 'photo'. NOT by 'painting' the picture to obtain an image that you would not be able to re-create or even ever see in reality. Yes, some people did bleach out backgrounds, and I have no objection to that in digital...

I have an SX600 and experienced this problem twice, the first time I wiped the contacts and re-installed the cartridge and all worked. The second time it was a faulty cartridge

we had two problems with our new digital aerial installed by so-called professionals. 1. they installed he aerial and all was perfect but gradually over a two week period the picture started to 'block' more and more. I called them out again and although they didn't admit it, I heard 'the lad'...

When our garage was wired up for a socket and a light the 6mm cable was fed through a flexible plastic(?) tube concreted into the patio before diving 2ft underground where it was laid on top of gravel then cheap flag stones cut in half were laid on top of the tubing before the soil was filled...

1. The cable is under floorboards the rises through conduit - which is plastered over - then in to the back of the sockets. 2. In retrospect I think he actually just pointed out that if I wanted another socket is was relatively easy to add a spur at a later date

When we had out house re-wired a couple of years ago, the electrician bored me silly over what design of circuit I'd like - he was very good at talking 'electric' but not so good at explaning. but from a cost point of view we went with a 'ring' design however the kitchen was put on it's own ring...

Thanks for all your input. I am inclined to think that double-glazing is a bit of a con when you conside the costs involved. My bro-in-law has two huge sliding doors on the back of his house which I would guess that going by the estimates I have, will cost him in excess of £6K to replace...

Our double glazing is about 11 - 12 years old and a number of glass units are now misting up (yeah, just after the 10yr warranty expires!), it is going to cost an arm and a leg to replace all the units that need replacing - which I just can't afford right now. I have since seen ads for...

I had a feeling that might be the case. The problem I have in trying to figure out the order of flow. The first radiator to warm up is downstairs hallway, then we have two in the living room which seem to heat up at the same time! Same upstairs, 1st and 3rd bedroom seem to heat up at the same...