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Good Afternoon, In the last week I have bought a XH95 (49"), it was from a deceased estate at auction, but the remote is missing, and I must say I am very impressed after setting it all up,I have the sound via hdmi Arc into a panasonic home theatre system, and the input is Virgin Media Tivo into...

Good Afternoon everybody, I have a chance to buy the above tv from a close relative for £100, ish, and for the life of me I can't find the specs anywhere, I'd like to know things like....the refresh rate, probably 50 or 60 maybe 100,? the year of manufacture, things like that, if somebody can...

Hello, I live in a 50's bungalow, with 11" cavity walls, stock on the outside, commons inner leaf, I would just like to improve the insulation while I am doing some decorating etc. The whole bungalow has had that fluffy white stuff injected, it must of been 30 years ago approx, ( we have been...

Good afternoon all, I recently purchased this above little freezer which was all I needed to give a little more volume to our existing main one. I bought it through a local auction house for £20, and was well pleased, until I plugged it in. Firstly, I must say it looks absolutely brand...

Hello everyone, We live in a bungalow in the Warrington area, and I have removed the chimney breast, battened and boarded the now straight wall, and now it ready for skimming either with Multi or board, I have done skimming before and consider myself competant/ish, but to...

Good afternoon everyone, I would like to upgrade the sound on my Sony bravia tv...KDL-46EX503 remote RM-ED035, and as it is now = cable >virgin box>HDMI >hdmi port1(ARC) onTV, and that's it. The Tv has a optical port available, +3 more hdmi ports. If, I...

Hello, What kind of lighting do you chaps prefer/reccomend for a 6x3 m room? I dont want wall lights, or spot lights, or them on a bar, but I very much like thorn diffusalux, maybe a 2x58w 5ft or a 1x 71w 6ft? or any other alternatives. Thanks.

Good evening all, I have just had an extension built at the back of our bungalow, the outside walls are now inside walls, and I want to paint them, can you advise on the preparation please. They are stock red facing bricks all in good condition, should I use a diluted...

Good Evening all, Just a general ask about the above car, and what people think. I have my eye on a 59reg locally, only 39k miles, i know they have aDPF,are they reliable if serviced correctly, research tells me they are more reliable than a mk3 tdci 130.? Thanks.

Hello all, I have a Glow Worm 24 hxi boiler, open vented system, 2 honeywell zv's, honeywell room and cyl stats, S-plan wired, with a st699 programmer. This system works perfect, no problems at all since it was fitted 12 years ago. However, the HW and CH selection sliders are...

Hello everybody, I've attached some photo's of the current set up of the shower+wash basin (no bath) waste into the gulley, this gulley then joins the soil pipe underground by a branch, this soil pipe then joins the main sewer pipe which runs parallel with all the other...

Hello all, At present we have a virgin media V box (samsung), connected to our 13ish year old panasonic tv, by a skart lead,...If we were to have a wall mounted TV, obviously this skart lead wont reach, do I use normal co-ax cable between...RF out and the TV? Thanks.

Good evening all, in the 1950's bungalow where I live, all the walls are common brick, and floors are concrete, the plaster seems to be a sand/cement base with a green skim, what should I use on bricks where I need to do some plastering, if I intend to wallpaper and...

Good Morning all, I am looking to buy a outside security light and there is a lot of choice out there, I dont want to buy any old rubbish from the sheds etc, and also should I go for a seperate sensor? I have this one in mind from Screwfix...which gets a lot of good...

Good Evening all, Could anyone please tell me when black alkathene started being used on incoming water mains?, and approximetely when did it all change to blue metric mdpe? I live in a 1950's bungalow that has a 21.5 o/d black alkathene,and the i/d is only 11/12mm, I...

Good evening all, I want to have a complete re-tile on my 50's property. It isnt leaking at all, but at over 60 years they have seen better days for sure. Could any of our knowledgeable roofers just give me a rough idea what I'm likely to pay please. It is a...

Evening all, I was reading with great interest a thread in which Agile (tony) reccomended a gate valve on the DHW return, ... "If you close the cylinder coil gate valve and then open two and a half turns it will probably give you better heating without having any...

Good afternoon all, I live in a 50's bungalow, solid concrete floors, with a 11" cavity wall, outside leaf is stock brick, inner leaf is commons. I have problems with damp under one particular window, which I think Iv'e sorted. I now need to re-plaster the commons...

Good evening everybody, I live in a 1950's bungalow with solid concrete floors and 11" cavity walls. I think I have cured the damp wall by lowering the ground level out side to 2 brick below dpc level, and more importantly replacing a single air brick which...

Good afternoon all, I have a separate kitchen ring main, the washing machine and dishwasher are both pluged into different 13amp switched sockets on this ring, both of these sockets are underneath the worktop and behind the said appliances, the circuit is protected...