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Just been doing some research and it looks like if I buy a drainage channel and lay the full length of house wall I could keep my level at only one brick below damp course. Can anyone confirm this ??

Hi all, I live in a house built in the early 70's and i'm about to lift the original patio in back garden and lay new paving. The issue I have is that the exsisting patio is only one brick below the damp course, some thing that has always bothered me. We have suffered from condensation...

Hi did you find a solution to your problem as i have a similar fault ???

Only thing i have noticed is that hot water has started to take longer to get to boiling ..

No never.

Hi all, I have a Alpha Boiler CB24, approx 7 years old. For the last couple of years I have had an intermittent fault were, when the heating comes on or the hot water is run the boiler fires up and orange light comes on as it should but only for about 5-10 seconds, it then switches off and on 3...

I've already unticked the auto restart button and no roxio software on pc. I been looking through forums for a couple of days now at similar posts but can't seem to sort it. It started a few months back after i had taken a look in the bios but not sure what i did. Was hoping the format would...

Gotta admit, i've surprised myself. Was expecting to be taking it up the tip today after f**king it up but it appears ok. Still doesn't turn off though. Goes through the shut down process and just as it should switch off it reboots itself. I've unticked the box in settings that makes it reboot...

I have an 8 year old pc that had become very slow, wouldn't accept usb connections and would not shut down correctly. It hadn't been used for about 3 months but i have some time on hands this week so decided to tackle it yesterday. It's a mesh system and i still have all the back up disks it...

Thanks for the advice, Saved me time and money. New printer it is then.

The laptop is a Dell Inspiron, it's 3 years old and is running on vista..

I have an old Lexmark Z12 printer that i want to connect to my laptop. I've been into my local computer store to get an adaptor for the parallel lead and they quoted me £20. I've just found one of these leads online for £3. Is it possible though that because of the printers age my laptop will...

so would you suggest i get someone to take a look and is likely to be costly ??

It's an Alpha CB24. I had plumber out recently as it doesn't always fire up first time, heating works but sometimes takes 2 or 3 attempts to fire up. He suggested that the seal may have gone on the inner pipe on flue but that means nothing to me and he didn't seem to concerned..

Just been up my loft and noticed a water like fluid on loft boards directly below my flue. The flue has an elbow and the fluid seems to be coming from were the elbow fits over the main pipe. Should i be concerned ?? my boiler is a combi and the the flue goes up into loft and out of roof..

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Hi all, i have 2 freeview TV's in my house and my neighbour has a freeveiw box. We have recently noticed that when another neighbour fire's up his petrol lawn mower we lose signal and get very bad picture freeze. Anybody know if there's a cure for this ??

thank's John, was a bit concerned given the weather incase the pipe's were freezing up.. i'll leave till the mornin now and hope it improve's..

Just back from work and when i turned on hot taps they started banging and vibrating and water splutters out, similar to when system has been drained and there's air in pipe's after being re-filled.. cold taps are ok but water seems a little discoloured. I contacted severn trent and they have a...

Just reading through contract, it's says nothing about flue not been coverd, look's like they sent me a right jobs worth, the cover was with Alpha and the service was carried out by a local contractor, but the alpha agreement has just been taken over by homeserve so it look's like i'll be...