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Hi BoxBasher and thanks for the advice... I too have a good deal of Customer Services experience (I used to have 24 staff working for me before a complete career change) which is why I am appalled at the way this situation is developing. The only 'industry regulator' I used to have regular...

hairyjon - very annoying when that happens :evil: Try checking out http://www.adventspares.co.uk/ as they might be able to help. I've not browsed through their website but they seem to list lots of different items.

Thanks for all your replies which confirm that I am on the right lines in my action. However, whilst I'd love to write a letter (recorded delivery) to Orange I can't find an address for them! I spoke to their call centre and the person there wasn't willing to assist in progressing the matter...

In April 2005 I took out a mobile phone contract with Orange via one of their retail stores in my local city. Just recently I decided it was time to change my phone, and move my contract to another provider. I telephone Orange who inform me that I have a 24 month contract and if I want my PAC...

I used to work in the IT industry and whenever an LCD screen failed outside of warranty (or was physically damaged) we used to write off the laptop - this was even when we had Toshiba trained repair engineers onsite. Glad to hear you will probably avoid engineer rates - always nice when you...

But again, tarmac needs good sub-base preparation. But yes, it can look the business when done properly. The only caveat I'd add would be that in shady, damp areas it can be prone to moss.

I've used 100mm of Celoxtex between rafters with 30mm below the rafters as a thermal break. This is nice and cosy warm even without the radiators installed in the upstairs rooms. I can't comment on how good Tri-Iso 9 or similar is but take a look at the following for some background...

This is a £300 laptop - in days gone by it would have cost you way too much for the screen to make this kind of repair economically viable. However a quick look on ebay revealed a secondhand/used screen at £69...

I have to agree with Thermo - you quite often find nice, new block paving that looks extremely impressive... until 12 months or more have elapsed and it looks like the proverbial brown runny stuff! Also, allow for the fact that the amount and type of trafficking will have an adverse affect on...

A lot of it is a matter of opinion (and also how good your eyesight is)... If there have been lots (and I mean lots) of coats of paint applied then the pointed profiles may not show that well. I am using 10mm aggregate for pebbledash simply because it will be painted to match the rest of the...

As others have mentioned it all depends on the actual pitch of the roof. What exactly is shallow? My own extension is 22degree pitch but it is cross battened and double felted with a 125mm headlap on the slates. The slates I used are also a wide duchess so things may vary depending on your...

:lol: Can you take her coat at the same time???

Phew... didn't expect quite so many replies or suggestions (including the condom protection :lol: ) I currently have a Nokia 6230 and have always liked Nokias so maybe I will go for the 5140. Also it will probably be better than trying to explain to my girlfriend why I am 'using' so many...

After finishing my kitchen refit the only thing left to do was the tiling which would involve some intricate cuts... so I used a grinder with diamond disc for the main cuts and a dremmel for the fiddly bits. It was quite easy using this method to get tiles to fit perfectly around pelmets and...

Don't worry - I know you were... all I was saying is that even for a normal bloke (no comments to the contrary please) it isn't that easy and requires a decent amount of hard graft. Therefore anybody else reading the post would have some warning too :)

I did the conifers (original height 15ft-ish) at the back of my own garden the hard way because of a lack of access - cut each conifer down to 4 foot high, dig round and through all roots using spade, axe and pickaxe, drag stump and roots along garden and down the side path to skip at front...

OK, so as the subject lines says, I am in the market for a new mobile phone and need some advice and recommendations. More specifically I need recommendations from other builders, or at least people who are up to their necks in sand, cement, insulation and other general dust all the time. I...

Heard lots of stories from ex-Time employees, not always nice. Anyway... back on topic... mark_uk - any news for us??? I think we were the ones rambling and not you (not that I like cagoules and tucking my trousers into my socks!)

A SCSI card should show as a 'mass storage controller' or something similar if I remember correctly (long time since I looked at a PC with Win98) - but then again I might be wrong! Either way, the fact it has a :!: means that Windows cannot initialise the device and if reloading drivers...

This is probably an internal PCI modem or similar and not necessarily related to your scanner problem. Of course it does beg the question was this :!: present before the memory upgrade? If not then something other than memory has been touched, maybe the internal modem removed to insert the...