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You put a rotting cat in your septic tank?! Where did you find it? Have you tried one of those magic tree things?

Can't you get special stain removal agents from somewhere like Wal-mart? They should be with the other soap powders somewhere but just ask a friendly wal-mart employee if you can't find it!

Thanks Crafty, I've got a surge protector already so I'll just make do with that for now (I'm on a student budget!). Thank you too, sparky...

Thanks for the advice. How does it help though, to connect the earths of appliances if they're not connected to earth?

I'm hoping to move to The Netherlands before the end of the year but my friend over there was living in an appartment with non-earthed sockets and she says it's common in old houses. Should I be worried about running my British stuff over there? Should I buy myself a nice pair of rubber clogs?

Occasionally, the lighting in my room goes slightly dimmer for a couple of seconds and then back to normal. What could be causing this and why doesn't it effect my presumably sensitive computer equipment? Is this a "brown out"?

To be honest, I don't think that changing their processor supplier is gonna turn Mac into PCs! The whole point of a mac is that the same company that writes the software knows their hardware inside out. So far as the end user is concerned, it shouldn't matter whether the processors are made by...

Thanks masona!

So anyway, I've got this new (cheap) workbench and it came with these black plastic things that I think the manufacturer refers to as "chucks". They fit in the holes that have been drilled into the workbench surface. I figure they're for clamping onto wood or something whilst you work on it, and...

Am I the only one that find Ebuyer's website stuuuppidly slow? It's been loading for over five minutes and still nothing... IF YOU NEED IT, I'd buy one off ebay. A cheap 400 W is probably fine for your computer... but first... To test your current PSU for fault, unplug it and then try this...

I think the stuff scattered on the insulation is the same stuff that is binding the roof tiles to the beams of wood overhead. I don't understand Masona's advice - you want me to put a screw (or does it have to be a "joist screw") in the side of the ex-joist? You mean like the joist that isn't...

Aww, spoilsport! Mum couldn't afford to have it done proffesionally, so if I don't do it, it wont be done at all. I'm not in any rush. I've got a year or more to do this but I would appreciate the learnin' and reduced expense of being able to do this myself. I'll get the measurements later...

What kind of area needs 2 kW of light? Can't you just use lower wattage bulbs? At least the area wont need to be heated... (btw, after the price hike, for me 2 kW = 28 p/hr!)

That wasn't much fun! Our ladder only has three rungs so I had to improvise for the rest! Anyway, here's the recon; Edit; how do you get the pictures to show? __________________________ Moderator, all done :wink: Instead of this

Sorry if my terminology isn't up to scratch but I'm a total DIY noob (20 yrs old and the height of my dad's DIY was sellotaping my bike brakes on as a kid!). Anyway, mum wants to store stuff in the loft but the "loft hole" is barely big enough for me (slender) to climb inside. It's also just...

I see. You seem to have the technical level about right. I did A level physics a couple of years ago so I have a theoretical idea of electricity but applying it to practical situations is something else. We never actually discussed the idea of 'neutral'. What I don't understand now is why you...

I understand, yeah, I feel kinda stupid for no being able to figure that out myself. I don't know the difference between live and switched live (is switched live the same as neutral) though. I never really understood how alternative current worked... i figure it goes back and forth along the...

Yeah, thanks to you both - I'm pretty sure I understand the configuration now! As for the dinning room dimmer switch, I had to make a sketch and put it straight back because I didn't have a clue... Picture

Thanks, I'll try that. They're just ordinary, plain, boring 100 W bulbs. Also, whilst I'm on the topic of light switches and wires; I recently changed the pull switch in the bathroom and noticed that the black wire was unused. In the old switch, two red wires went to opposite ends and the...

The main lights in the living and dinning room are controlled by a swtich panel with two separate dimmer switches. The one controlling the living room light works fine, but the one for the dinning room used to flicker and go quite dim until it was practically off. Now it's stopped working...