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its only a cheap amp (too embarrased to name make) but only 3 years old. I 'd like to try and repair before forking out for another. I checked all wiring to speakers and connections, all seem fine and when it cuts to this low tinny sound, it's both speakers, the same noise. if i turn the...

I have an old peugeot 306 diesel 1800 (1999). Over the last 6 months the battery seems to be running down and not re-charging so I go to use it and it doesnt start. The colchester wilko garage tested it for free as i assumed i needed to buy a new battery but they said it was fine and to give it...

We are currently decorating 2 upstairs bedrooms in our 1900's detatched cottage. After taking the wallpaper off, half the plaster fell off (lime plaster) so we are taking it off to re-plaster them completely. As the end bedroom has 3 outside walls and colder than the other bedroom (and obviously...

This may sound daft but worth a try.... We have a normal doorbell (doorbell push button outside with bellwire through wall to battery run door chime unit inside.) We can't really change this without a lot of disruption. Ideally we want to keep the chimes where they are as we can hear...

Just getting a quote from a painter to paint the rendered outside faces of the house. He said he could do Dulux trade, or Johnsons trade, which is half the price of Dulux. My question is - With exterior paint, do you get what you pay for ie will the Dulux last longer? The painter said...

we have a butler sink and 2 paving size slabs of granite which we want to install either side of the sink which then in turn will rest on angle iron brackets on the 2 end adjacent walls. Our question is - the end of granite that rests on the sink edge, we were going to just rest on a bead...

Does anyone know where you can get any/or similar plastic edging strip for the bottom of the plinth that ikea supply with their kitchen cupboard plinths. Mine has split and after calling ikea, they said they dont sell it separately I'd have to buy new plinth to get the length of plastic...

We have salvaged an old butler sink and some second hand granite worktop someone was throwing out of their kitchen refit (!?) to put in our utility room. We just need to put two squares of worksurface either side of our sink, with 3 rounded cuts to fit round pipes where the granite work...

We have just had an old gas fire removed and it has been 'capped off' and about an inch and a half comes out of the concrete floor. We are now re-decorating and getting new carpet and ideally would like it to disappear completely as we definitely do not want a fire in this room again (and...

We have just had a very reasonable quote from a local independant window installer who gave us a very good quote for new double glazed pvc-u windows the brochure he left from his supplier had a euro-cell logo on it. Can anyone tell me if this is a good make or not? thanks

Can anyone recommend a wall light for a passage way in our landing upstairs its an old cottage and the only suitable place for a light is on the end wall of a narrow long passage. (ceiling too low for any fittings) We thought a wall light with a discreet sensor would be good so if anyone got up...

Hi We have just had 3 lovely match and brace doors made for our cottage and have bought some suffolk latches from here http://www.handforged.co.uk/proddetail.php?prod=33638 Does anyone have any step by step fitting instructions please on how to fit these "from the anvil" suffolk...

I have a set of 8 classic "ant" design plywood chairs with stainless steel legs (seat and back made out of one piece of bent ply) Anyway 2 seem to have "gone" at the curve of wood between the back and the seat, the ply layers look like theyve slightly come apart, making them dangerous to lean...

We are looking to heat a flat roofed 5m x 5m x 8ft high extension to our house (already built), which will be used as a study/garden room.(I work from home) it has 2.5m wide double glazed patio doors:south facing. We want it to be heated seperately from the house, (as I dont want to heat the...

We are looking to heat a flat roofed 5m x 5m x 8ft high extension to our house (already built), which will be used as a study/garden room.(I work from home) it has 2.5m wide double glazed patio doors:south facing. We want it to be heated seperately from the house, (as I dont want to heat the...