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Default operation for quite a few TV aerial installers too, from what I've seen and experienced recently i.e. possible problems with existing routed coax to faceplate == get out big drill bit, straight through a convenient wall, pop on a plug.

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Just to confirm, for anyone searching and finding this... I've just had my first bill from the Post Office for my new line install (which really was a new install - see above) + first 3 months of line rental (in advance, but refunded if you move). True to their (verbal) word, the new line part...

As far as I'm aware, the answer to all your questions is "yes". I currently have a new line installed via the PostOffice, and this required a new drop-cable/master socket with the work undertaken by OpenReach, just as it would have been done via BT - so, in my case it was never going to be a...

One way to slightly reduce the cost, if you really are going to suffer a reconnection fee, and with the added bonus of not fixing yourself to BT for 12 months, is to get a different service provider to get OpenReach to do the work. I was quoted a maximum of £110 (possibly less) to get a...

Ahh, OK. So this is what I was originally wondering about i.e. what the BT Wholesale checker results might actually be based on. Now...my original BT line, which I had never used, had been there for many years and, as it turns out, was disconnected at the pole anyway. So...the new line I'm...

Just out of interest, I popped by new phone number into the BT Wholesale checker again. Seems that the response has now changed to be closer, although not the same, to that of my direct neighbours: I understand the caveats that this prediction is likely based purely on geographical...

Sorry - think I was being over-sensitive there. Thanks very much - useful (if, sadly disappointing :() stuff.

I wasn't questioning your integrity/opinion, I was wondering what you meant by "sh*te", whether it was based on personal experience and what that experience was. I've got no axe to grind with Tiscali, neither do I have any reason to support them. I found a few customer reviews post-your...

Oh dear...that doesn't sound too positive. Now...my family have Tiscali and, aside from some initial issues with their house wiring, don't have any problems - they are local, but five miles away, on a different exchange, and can only get a maximum of 1MB anyway (genuine distance/exchange...

Thanks. I'll enqure with my neighbours - I know at least one, who's number I've tried, definitely has BT broadband, as I pick-up their wireless hub on my laptops :D. It'll be interesting to see what they get in reality vs. their speed prediction. Personal bad experience? I guess it's not...

It's cable. To clarify : I'm not going to cancel my cable-based broadband with Virgin Media (at least, not for quite a while, and I'm due the free 10MB upgrade soon) it's just that I might be interested in an additional ADSL broadband package, being that the price increase from phone-only to...

As above, it was a new number. I already have a (soon to be cancelled) Virgin Media phone line, so there was no transfer of an existing number*. I guess this begs the question as to whether BT assign new numbers that may not fit the (exact) geographical location. As above, both my new and my...

Well, that's what I'm trying to determine i.e. whether there's a reason behind the difference that it would be useful for me to be aware of. Possibly not - I already have Virgin Media broadband and wouldn't be considering an additional ADSL service unless the speed/price ratio looked...

I've just (today, in fact) had a new line fitted by OpenReach, currently just being used for the PostOffice telephone service - new drop-cable and all, as the old line was defunct, and certainly hadn't been used by me in the last 3 years. At some point relatively soon, I'm probably going to...

Ooops - read a post elsewhere from Chris before and got my names mixed up. Original post edited to be more Steve-like :) Had a look in B&Q yesterday and didn't see much...but I was mostly looking for a bathroom fitting at the time, and I was discounting anything based on GU10s/focussing on...

Ahhh..thanks Steve, that's really useful - on both counts. Basically I'd discounted low energy GU10s as all being LED (and therefore, I would guess, poor for kitchen lighting?). So, I guess there's a compromise option there I didn't know about... I also like that first one in the link with...

Ehh...I'm guessing you were replying to a different post? Either that or you're reading something into this that wasn't intended :shock: .

I've got a 4mx3m kitchen - normal ceiling height, work surfaces down either side, cooker one side (with extractor and light), sink the other, with Windows running most of the way down the sink side... I currently have two normal fixed bayonet light fittings (no shades) about 1m in from either...

I'd be having a look at your condensate drain as a first port of call - back left of the boiler as you look at it from underneath, no need to take any covers off. Check to see if it's full on both sides (i.e. you have a blockage somewhere). If not, does it have a wire coming from it? If so...