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I work for a council mainly carrying out maintenance to tenants properties. There are occasions when we need to drill through walls but need to find out exactly where the other side of the hole will be. Obviously a long drill will go through both walls in one go, but as said, there are times...

I understand the principle behind Cold Bridging and find that at work we're coming up against this problem quite often. Other than major re-working of walls is there a practicle solution to the problem?

Ocassionally in my job i need to drill a 4" core through walls for vents etc. If i were doing 3 or 4 a week i would just go out and get a name brand diamond core drill...but for me it might be one every few months. For those that drill cores regularly would you say a cheaper make drill such...

I'm working for a local authority carrying out small works repairs to their housing stock... With this summers weather there has been loads of call outs to leaking gutters, most of which have been blocked fallpipes ...easy fix, but some have been leaking from running unions, corner pieces...

Ok, the old question i guess but i'm interested in opinions before i spend some serious lolly..... I'm about to change jobs back to the building/construction trade, building maintainance for a local authority and want to get myself a combo pack of 18v Li Ion cordless tools. So, opinons on...

Hi, Further to my recent post about the virus Security Shield, i've tried running antivirus and malware programs and have now lost the use of the keyboard on my machine. Obviously i'm using another machine to post this....the laptop i have the issue with is an Acer Extensia 5620Z running...

Hi, my machine has picked up the self downloading virus/malware Security Shield. I've ran various cleaning/killing programs inc SpyBot, MalwareBytes, SuperAntiSpyware & Windows Defender and although i think some or most of the virus has been cleared it is obvious some is still hanging around on...

Hi, I have an old'ish Hewlett Packard desk top pc that won't start up properly because of over heating i think. The start up screen comes on ok for a while and then the machine turns off after much noise from the fans. To be honest i'm not bothered about the machine it's self, but i am...

Hi, Having had a completely new roof top ariel, booster and coax wiring last year our digital tv reception became wonderful, even though it was split to 3 seperate tv's. However, for the past week or so we've found the itv channels on digital have become pixilated with a poor picture...

Hi, We are in need of a new combi boiler and are in the process of getting quotes in now. So far 2 engineers have had a look at our current set up (Glow Worm compact) and are both quoting to replace it with an Ideal Logic plus 30, with a 5 year warrenty. However, having looked on the net...

Hi, I've recently changed broadband from Tiscali to TalkTalk and received a new router from TalkTalk. The router is a Huawei Echolife HG521, when i searched for problems with this router on the net i got lots of responces which shows the unit has problems. My Tiscali router which i still...

I'm going to replace our loft aerial for a chimney mounted outdoor aerial and would appreciate advice on a few points... We recieve our signal from Bilsdale on the North York Moors direction from us to the transmitter is North - North East, having checked Wolfbane the antenna suggestion is...

I seem to have a problem with Windows Media Player when i try to rip multi CD albums. The 1st CD rips OK, then when i put the 2nd CD in Windows Media Player can't seem to understand that the title is the same but IT IS DISK 2, so it copys the music from CD 2 with the track info from CD 1...

Hi, I have a really weird problem with Outlook 2003. Having loaded the disk on (pukka disk no problems there) and set the email account up all works well until i shut outlook and go to open it again. It comes up with the fatal error box, which then disappears by itself, the next time i...

I am using Excel with 'today' in a cell giving todays date when the document is produced which is what i need when printing. However, all documents are saved and when i go back to a saved document some days later the cell is of course displaying 'todays date' which is different from the date...

I started my machine today and had a quick browse on the web (all saved sites nothing new) and the screen froze. After switching off and re-starting i now have the desk top up for a few seconds then it disapperars for a few seconds and so on for 3 or 4 times then the desk top disapperas for...

Can anyone tell me what a cubic meter of soft/yellow sand weighs ? I know if it is wet or dry it will be different but as a general rule from the merchant what would it be.

I have just bought an Advent 9912 from PC World, everything appears to work ok but after 10-15 minutes it shuts down and the bottom left of the machine (below the keyboard) is very hot. I have re-set the sleep times etc to never, so it shouldn't be that causing the machine to shut down. I...

Hi, we have just bought 2 licences for our new business of FileMaker Pro 9 on the re-commendation of a friend who uses it at work. Having watched the FileMaker online video with the spinning wheel showing all the different parts of a business it certainly looks the database for us. Now the...

I have recently bought a second hand portable Valor calor gas heater, there was a bottle with it that lasted about a week. Having just put a new gas bottle in it i have found the heater goes off by it's self sometimes. There is a definite click when it turns off, is there an over heat...