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    Advice and Opinions for Pipe Colour Wanted

    Hello again everyone, We have a small house we are going to rent out to a relative and want to make the outside look as presentable as possible before they move in . We had all new pipework fitted when we renewed the bathroom about 8 years ago but this has faded and looks grubby so is in need...
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    Paint removal from aluminium windows

    Hello all, I'm hoping some of you experts can help with an issue that has bothered us for some years? Our daughter's house has white (manufacturer's coating) aluminium windows and doors which look like new, and work perfectly well, but have lots of smears of dark grey masonry paint on the...
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    Whirlpool Generation 2000+ Oven

    Hello all, My Whirlpool Oven has just tripped the circuit breaker and now won't work at all. After turning the power back on, the LCD display just reads STOP (which is normal after a power cut)) and I can't do anything with it. Before it tripped the power, it was making a tinny, rattling...
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    POP3 Not Working

    Hello all, I'm having problems with my Hotmail (Outlook) account. I have a Sky email account that is linked via POP3 to my Hotmail account which has worked perfectly for around 3 years. However, for about the past 10 days, the Hotmail account hasn't been receiving the emails that are...
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    Tar/Bitumen stain

    Hello again all, I'm just wondering if anyone can tell me the correct primer to block out some kind of tar/bitumen stain that is bleeding through the wallpaper in my grandsons house? It must have been painted on the wall as some sort of ealry damp-proofing and has now started to bleed...
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    Open-ended Terrace Loft

    Hello all, I hope someone can give me (on behalf of my Grandson) some advice. He has a terraced house and the ends of the loft space are partialy open - you can see through to the neighbours loft at one end. There is just the shared chimney in the centre of the space but there are wedge...
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    Non-HD Channels

    Hello all, I wonder if you could tell me why the channels on my tv (all througgh sky) that are not in HD now seem to appear very blurry compared to the ones that are in HD. I know that there is a difference if you flick between the same SD and HD channels but many of the other channels that...
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    Re-using Norton

    Hello all, I've done a few searches here in recent dyas but can't seem to find something that matches my query. I hope someone can advise or point me to a thread that will help of possible. We bought a new laptop at the same time as my son bought his home computer last year and got Norton...
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    Cracked cieling

    Hello again all, We have now decided to do the spare room and its the last job left for a few years at least. It is just a simple and straight forwad square room that we are repapering so should have no trouble there, but before we do that we need to sort a persistent crack in the cieling where...
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    Protecting window panes

    After getting some good advice for another problem I hope I can get more for something else. We are going to paint the outside of our bungalow again, this weekend if the weather stays fine and it is covered with rough pebble dashing. We have done it several times before but always seem to get...
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    Paper strip

    Hello, this is my first question but i've had lots of advice from reading here before. I got in from work today and saw nearly a full strip of wallpaper hanging from the cieling and it was only stuck to the edge by the coving but had come right off the plastering.The rest of the cieling is...
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