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Bought my daughter a new laptop last year for her college work and with it came office 365. About 6 weeks ago it started telling her it was time to renew her subscription. I wasn't aware we had to pay out to renew every 12 months, is this correct ??

My garage runs along the side of my house and can be accessed from my kitchen. We haven't used it as a garage for many years and I have partitioned it to make a room and utility. To create better use of it I would like to remove garage door from front and install a composite door and window but...

I'm in the process of insulating a garage/play room and looking for the best way to insulate the flat roof. I was originally going to pack it full with rockwool and board over with plasterboard but I've read a few write ups regarding air flow and condensation. My joists are 150mm so i'm now...

Hello all, We have recently had a garage extension and I'm now doing the internal fit myself. Our current garage sits to the rear side of property and we have extended it forward to the front of house. My intension is to remove old garage door and build a false wall with door as we want to keep...

Hi I have a Mazda 3 04 reg, it comes with a separate transmitter for locking and unlocking. Since yesterday I have to press both the lock/unlock buttons twice to get car to respond. Upon the first press of either lock/unlock the car makes a noise as if locking/unlocking but have to press...

Hi, I have a stand alone garage that sits back in my garden. It's approx 40 years old and built with a single brick wall. We have just had a freak rain storm lasting around 20 minutes leaving floods everywhere, when I went into garage there was an inch of water on the floor. I immediately looked...

A few years ago I had a window and brick work removed and a patio door fitted. It was a standard window with brick wall below it. When I tap the wall either side of patio door level with we're the old window was it's solid, but when I tap wall either side level with were bricks we're removed...

Hi, I'm currently considering fitting some secondary glazing to my bedroom windows to retain heat and control condensation. I've looked at the stormguard kit that simply uses double sided tape and plastic sheeting an sealed with a hairdryer. Can anyone recomennend this or even suggest a better...

The extractor from my cooker hood used to go straight through the wall and had a vent on outside wall. Last year I had a garage extension on that side of house meaning that garage came past where the vent was. My buider removed vent cover, joined a 45 bend to exsisting hose through wall and...

Hi, Iv'e just spent four days laying 16sqm of patio slabs. Iv'e laid them of a full bed of 1 part cement 5 part sand semi wet mix and jointed with Geo fix. The problem I have is that some of the slabs are showing very slight signs of movement. Should I stay off them longer or should they have...

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 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 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...

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...

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..

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 ??

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...

Hi all, i have an Alpha CB24 Combi Boiler, it's approx 5 years old. I noticed towards the end of last winter that when boiler fired up to heat rads it would ignite 2 or 3 times before it fired up and stayed on, i didn't worry to much as the heating was working ok and hot water was also ok. i've...

Have had a problem with usb not recognisng new devices for sometime now. Wizard searches for drivers but never finds them. Devices show in device manager with a yellow ! . All devices that have been working on usb in the past still work ok when connected, problem is just when trying to add new...

Hi all, i had a new bath sweet fitted just over 12 months ago and up untill now everything has been fine. However i recently noticed a bad smell coming from the cold water in sink. Hot and cold run out of same tap,i think its called a monoblock, and all is ok when running hot water but when you...