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Morning can anyone offer some advice on cable size for an electric fire? I'm shortly having some plastering work done and have had my gas inset fire removed, was looking top replace it with an electric type from screwfix think they're about 2-3kw. What type of cable would be used for this...

I was thinking of putting some landscape fabric down first, should stop the concrete coming up and the weeds. Seems the garden was on a slope, before i purchased the house and the previous owners leveled it. Trust me I dug down approx 4 feet in one place and never reached soil! Forgive my...

Err, Just grass seed I was planning on. Nothing fancy happening just some room for the kids to play on.

Hi anyone know anything about planning law? I have planning permission to build 1st storey extension, but am only allowed to come out 5m. Existing single storey extension is 5.8m. Seems petty to me but council won't let me take it out full distance on top. someone told me if I build it and...

Hi, Anyone know how much soil I would need to order for a garden 3.5x5m? I have just broken up all the concrete that was there (i will be leaving it there) and was thinking that 10cm of soil on top would be ok?

Worked perfectly Igorian, got all my licences back and most importantly my joke emails :D In all honestly mate thank you very much You're the man!!!

Igorian, you're a star mate, found it! How do I open it? I assume it contains my old emails?

Hi I did pay for them, but unfortunalty they only last for a year so i have to pay again to get the lates updates. Really don't see the point as the versions I had worked fine. Done a search for emails using the extensions provided but nothing is found, which is strange because i have emails...

Hi mate, looks like I have found most of the programs and reinstalled them... only thing is most of the licence keys were in my email. Searched the disk but I can't find any of them... would emails be backed up? What would be the file extension for outlook .eml, .email?

No he didn't do a repair, for some reason the repair console was asking for an administators password.. I never set one up so I didn't know it. Then went for a quick format, should have known when the message appeared that all data would be lost!! Tried booting with ghost... didn't seem to...

Hi My Pc has been plaing up recently and a friend offered to fix it and lost everything!! My only option was to reinstall windows, he said my programs would still be there but they're not. My only savour is that I used norton ghost 10 to make a duplicate of my hard drive some months ago...

Hi, The current set up is 2.5mm ring circuit 32amp. I know, that part P is a bu**er. My authority doesn't accept self certification.. they insist on a qualified electrition installation.

Hi guys could anyone advise on the maximum allowed current on 2.5mm wire please. My mother has one oven in her kitchen at the moment but would like to install another one. The circuit the oven is on is bestoke to the kitchen but is only 2.5mm. it has a 32amp breaker. The ovens will be no...

Thanks for the info guys I bought N. ghost v10 from Amason.

Hi I have a laptop running xp and have recently purchased a second hard disc for backup purposes. It conects via usb and everything works ok. The only thing is I'd like to take a 'snapshot' or exact duplicate of the main disc so if any thing happens I could actually boot up from the new disc...

Ha ha, thanks for the replies. It's just I've noticed that normally people use bricks up to ground level then standard blocks with render for the next 600mm or brick on the outside and block in the inside. I'm not the greatest at bricking but I do a decent job with blocks so was wondering if...

Quick question - if building a conservatory can you use breeze block from the foundation level (underground) on both sides or does the outer side have to be brick/engineers brick?

Cheers woody.. so technically then there is no regualtion that states how far apart buildings need to be.. they could even touch? I'm just concerned that the regs dept will tell me that I have to move my building in a touch. Which would obviuosly have cost implications to me :cry:

Thanks for the reply... is 50mm gap between the building sufficent? or will my neigbour have to knock his render off to give 100mm gap? would that be sufficient?

Hi my neighbours built an a 2nd floor extension on top of their existing extension about three years ago. I queried the plans at the time because the guttering protuded the boundary line between us. The planning office guy told me that it would be ok as if I ever built a 2nd floor extension we...