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We have a 3 year old BAXI 80 Combi-boiler which last night for some strange reason decided it wasn’t going to provide us with any hot water or central heating. On the boiler display panel all of the temperature lights were off but the “water tap” display light was flashing constantly...

Last Sunday I received a call from a fella claiming to work for a company called Firstline Digital. He briefly explained to me that one of his Satellite installers was on a job and had accidentally drilled through the client’s double glazing on a Sliding Patio Door whilst trying to fit a...

I recently bought the missus an 03 Ford Fiesta 1.4 Zetec. We're the third owners since the car was new. We had a breakdown last week in which the engine management light came on so I decided to take the car to a recommended back street mechanic for him to look at. As it turns out, rain...

Sorry to be vague but Im no electrician. About a fortnight ago we asked our electricity supplier to remove our pre-pay token meter because we want to pay our electricty bills quarterly. They took the old token meter off the wall and fitted a very small white box which has a small digital...

We have a Baxi 85 Boiler which is just over 18 months old. Yesterday I called a local engineer to come round to give it a routine service. He spent about an hour or so checking the boiler and the upstairs radiators and gave us a clean bill of health. He even commented on how clean the system...

Any whizz kids on here who can help with this problem? I just bought a Goodmans GDVD300R recorder and have spent 3 hours trying to connect the thing to my TV and NTL set top box. I have followed the setup instructions included with the DVD recorder but I dont seem to get a picture. I...

I had a semi-retired joiner come round a couple of weeks ago to make and fit a couple of "made-to-measure" softwood units to fit over the electric and gas meters. I was put in touch with him by a mate. Anyway, he did a cracking job and I was happy when he was finished but now it seems that the...

The missus is putting pressure on me to lay ceramic floor tiles onto our bathroom floor. Im completely new to tiling but it's looks fairly strightforward to be honest. It's a ground floor bathroom and I'll be laying the new tiles onto the existing old floor which has very old tiles already on...

A friend of the missus's came round last night and she said that she has managed to get hold of a copy of the Koran. She was saying that her curiosity had got the better of her and she has actually started to read through it. Now I haven't read the Koran myself and I dont intend to read the...

I've got a problem with very slight damp on the inside front wall of the house. A few months ago I stripped off all the plaster back to bare brickwork and it's been left to dry out ever since. I've checked the wall constantly and there doesn't appear to be much damp at all. Parts of the...

Dunno if this is the right place for this but. I currently have TV, Telephone and Broadband supplied by NTL and I'm looking to switch over to a cheaper supplier. Broadband on it's own costs me £17.99 per month for 1 Mg and the TV (Family pack) with telephone costs me about £40.00-ish a...

Howdo folks. A female friend of mine has a card electric meter fitted inside a house she bought over a year ago. It now transpires that the meter is faulty and hasn't been charging enough credit. It is her first home and it has never occured to her that she might not be paying enough...

Hi all. I have a problem with damp walls and at the moment I'm ripping my hair out. Just over 12 months ago we had a local damp-proofing company to inject dpc to the outside walls to the front and the back of our terraced house. When the guy came out to do the job my girlfriend said he...

Hello, Im thinking of waterproofing the grout between the tiles around the bath after being told that the grout may not be waterproof. The bath is also used as a shower and water from the shower tends to pour down the tiles and back into the bath. I've recently fitted a Tele-flex seal...

(This has also been posted in the plumbing section) We have recently had a new boiler fitted in the kitchen (Baxi 105e). It sits on the wall in the corner of our kitchen about 12" or so above the kitchen worktop. The "ball and chain" has decided that she would like me to make up some sort...

We have recently had a new boiler fitted in the kitchen (Baxi 105e). It sits on the wall in the corner of our kitchen about 12" or so above the kitchen worktop. The "ball and chain" has decided that she would like me to make up some sort of cupboard using MDF panels which matches the rest of...