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CU is in the porch, the lamp is new (well - the rose/ceiling fitting is)and as fitted by the electricians on Monday. Shade is glass. Its definately an electrical type smell, not a regular burning smell if you see what I mean. So should I be clicking off non essential breakers ?

Just one normal ceiling light in the porch ( new too - replaced at the same time ) I'll give them a ring first thing - in fact I wil ring them now and leave a message for them to come and check first thing. They are a reputable firm which my boss/landlord uses for everything and are very...

Just a quickie for peace of mind - Monday we had a new consumer unit installed to replace an old wired fuse unit, plus several new wall switches and sockets - this after a PIR inspection which revealed the house wiring ( 1983 installation ) was basically sound but was in need of updating in...

You try and bodge it together - it fails - then your supplier will say you did it. Change it while the offer is there ! IMO the issue is not so much a hairline crack leaking water, but a hairline crack weakening the cistern asa whole and then it failing under the weight of itself and the...

You could always hinge it from the top and use car tailgate type gas struts to hold it up . . .

Clamp the Aluminium between 2 peices of wood - tightly then try the slowest router speed . . . Never tried this but it seems to me it might stop it ripping.

Sorry to hear of your loss too, when my wife died my housekeeping skills disappeared completely ! took a new job and home to 'wake me up' again. Another way of getting rid of tea / tannin stains in mugs or cups or the insides of teapots is to fill them with hot water and drop in a Steradent...

Clutch slipping . . .? Ignore that - just read the post properly ...

I know nothing about fish ponds ! But as it seems you have electrics and services already installed for the pond, could you not fill a pond in and make it less deep - say 3 foot or even 2 foot deep, and have a new external filter of some sort put in ? You could then have it as a planted...

Staple chicken wire / wire netting to it.

Free until you get spotted taking them - beaches and shoreline are covered by byelaws making it illegal to remove stones and/or sand, and the fines are hefty !

Have just had Vitra Cotta natural floor tiles laid in our bathroom, very nice they look too - they went down on Friday and have been left undisturbed until today. They have a matt type finish - should they have anything on them to seal them as they are in the bathroom and will get wet ...

Thanks bobby, emailed them and their email address just gets bounced back by the mailer deamon ! Might have to give them a call - see if they are still around !

What am I doing wrong - if anything ? I type in my sig' it is small enough - contains nothing tht is not allowed in the signature rules, the box to always show my sig' is ticked, but it never appears, well to me it does not anyway. I logged out and refreshed the page and things like that...

Hi - I am after some advice on Bamboo, my wife is Indonesian and there are some wonderful plants over there. I am always in awe of one Bamboo I see over there - it grows in a clump, has Green stems and the stems are up to 6 " in diameter, and is very very tall. Can anyone point me to the...

Thanks for that :D My kitchen is quite long - 2/3 the length of the cottage, the cooking is done at one end where the windows draughts and extractor fan are, room thermostat is on the opposite wall to this - maybe 20 feet away, stairway also starts midway down the kitchen and so everything...

To clarify - the system has just been installed by my boss in my (tied) cottage. That is to say professionally installed - he just arranged it ! I have been in this cottage for 10 years and this is the first heating we have had apart from one night storage heater - so the difference is...