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Thanks for the replies & I'll check out that silent fan (I guess 'silent' is optimistic but it must be best to get one that at least tries to be quiet!) There will be a separate shower enclosure and there are external walls too so we could do either above the shower or on a wall - are you...

Sometimes it's worth going back to basics before you check the spec too much, the Asus looks like it has a separate numeric keypad while the HP doesn't. My wife is doing a degree in environmental science and when I chose a laptop for her I asked her to put down a list of requirements in...

Hi, We're having a new bathroom put in, new floor, windows, wall moving so it's all being ripped out and starting from scratch, I was about to try to get the best fan I could after reading on here about how important extraction is when we had a new bathroom in our old house. When I asked my...

Thanks for the replies, petit_pablo - it's not just the complication, I'm sure I'd work it out (not so sure about my other half though!). I also want to be able to connect to it externally. thanks SilentDancer I'd not heard of the wave, I'll take a look at it. On first glance it certainly...

Hi, I'm about to have a new boiler installed, we've been recommended a worcester bosch greenstar 30si compact and a DT20 controller. In my last house we went for the digital controller that came with the Vaillant boiler and found it too complicated to bother using, I'm worried we'll find...

Hi, We've just had the ceiling re plastered in the box room - new plasterboard etc. All the walls have been skimmed, also. I was told it would be ready to paint in 3 or so days but from what I have read this could be much longer. The skim was thin but I am guessing the ceiling was a...

All done - thanks guys - mostly for helping me to not panic! for completeness if anyone else has the same issue and comes here looking - once I'd left it overnight the pipes under the sink had all dried so the u-bend (which I now gather is also called a trap) came off easily. Last night I...

Thanks all - sry I had to go into work last night - it didn't drain at all overnight so I'll have another go at removing the trap with some rubber gloves on.

Hi - I managed to accidently poor fat down the sink and it's blocked (a cup full of fat was left in the sink and without looking I turned on the tap to wait for the water to get hot to wash up - next time I turned round it was blocked and full of fatty water. I got the water out as far as I...

Oh - thanks for the reply - the timed fans are a lot cheaper so that kind of suits me - I thought the idea was that I only needed the fan on when it got humid so a humitity sensor seemed like the sensible way to go? Why do I need the extractor fan on if I've just popped in to clean my teeth...

Hi, We're just about to have a new bathroom installed, someone else is doing the install (I'm not good with DIY!) but we're providing the parts. I'm after a humitity controlled extractor fan. I used this fan size calculator...

So you should too. The customer is paying for your recomendation of what boiler will do the job, avoiding shoddy boilers, getting the correct spec boiler for the size of house, your time & knowledge etc etc. Yeah good point that - I think a lot of it might come down to my lack of experience...

I agree, coming from a customers point of view :) I think you have to understand that most (well some at least) of your customers arn't stupid they just have little or no experience in your field of expertise, if you ask me to configure or troubleshoot a Cisco network spanning over 50 sites...

Hi, Thanks for the replys. I have a baxi bahama 100 at the mo and to be fair I have no idea how long it would take, I just got the impression it wouldn't take long from talking to the engineer - I didn't actually ask him how long it would take him so you may well be right. From the...

now £1600 I'd be more than happy with - don't suppose you cover Swadlincote do you :) I'm not entirely sure what TRV's are but I asked him if anything else needed changing or if it was all upto scratch and he said that everything else was fine and it should be a straight forward install. I...

lol - OK both fair points, do you think that £2250 is a normal quote then for a basic boiler swapout and half a days work? (you'll probably have a better idea on the length of time it would take than me but I'm guessing half a day from chatting to the engineer that came round). As for any...

Hia, I've been quoted £2250 to have a new baxi platinum-28 combi boiler installed, it looks like (from some internet searches) I can buy the boiler on it's own for just under £1000 so he's charging me around £1250 for a days labour (or maybe even half a day!). I know he's corgi registered...

do you have an upto date virus checker? There was an old virus that did this.

does it work in safe mode? What operating system is it? worto.

lol - thank you I've got the one I'm after now. Cheers, worto.