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Hi, I've posted this in the plumbing section, without any reply, so thought I'd try here instead! We've had major problems with well water and manganese filters in an old cottage, and the water engineers have suggested that maybe the water pipes are not adequately earthed. They seem to think...

Hi, We've had major problems with well water and manganese filters in an old cottage, and the water engineers have suggested that maybe the water pipes are not adequately earthed. They seem to think that the whole water system may be acting as a huge battery and causing copper from the pipes...

Hi, We moved into a property about 9 months ago which has a large brick built septic tank (it used to service 2 cottages, but now just ours). The previous owners said they'd never had any problems with it and had never had it emptied in 10 years. After several days of really heavy rain, we...

Hi, We have moved into a house with 8 BT installed sockets, but only half of them work! Having spoken with BT, it appears that there were 2 lines running into the house, 1 residential and one business, with BT reconnecting the residential one. Both main sockets are located together (the...

So I've got a replacement shower pump which looks fairly straightforward to change, but it recommends the use of a surrey flange. Can someone tell me what one is, and how I can tell if there's already one fitted?! Cheers, TT

Hi, We've just moved into a house and discovered the shower pump is very noisy and intermittant, so I guess it needs replacing. In the pile of paperwork left by the previous owners I found a receipt for it (an Aura 45) from 2003. Is this about the right life for a shower pump? So, what...

Hi Guy's, Had a flexicom 30cx fitted about 6 months ago and all has worked well until the last few days when the pressure bleeds off (1 bar down to 0.2) over a period of about 6hrs. I've scoured the house for leaking rads, all ceilings are clear (all pipes run under upstairs floor boards...

I've got an old Gloworm Swift Flow combi boiler that is hanging on in there at about 13 yrs old!! I've noticed that recently the pressure creeps up from about 1 bar to 2 bar when the heating comes on, so I believe the Pressure Vessel needs recharging. I last did this about 2 yrs ago. Is this...

Hi, i've got a 2001 Passat. Just went to check the fluids under the bonnet, pulled the unlock lever ...... and nothing. It's just very loose as if it's connected to nothing, the tag that should come out from the grille doesn't. Had a mate have a quick look, took the under shield off but he...

Hi, My daughter's Nissan Micra (1994) has a manual sunroof that has jammed open. The winding handle is extremely stiff but does turn slightly, but it has no effect on the sunroof. Does anyone have an idea on how to fix this, or how to get the roof back into the closed position at least...

We've presently got an ancient Gloworm SwiftFlow 120 combi boiler, which is about 12 yrs old, and kept going with the help of a Gloworm cover policy. However, after our last call out to replace the fan, the engineer reckoned that they were about to be dropped from the list of covered boilers...

Hi, Just started up my pc and the start menu, task bar and all icons have disappeared, leaving just the desktop wallpaper. The only way I can access anything is to ctrl,alt,del and use task manager, new task, then finding the relevant prog to use. Any ideas?? Thanks, TT

Hi, I've had my freeserve address for many years, and have never had any problems downloading emails to Outlook Express (whether it's been FS, wanadoo or orange), until now! I've just had to have my hard drive re formatted, and now OE won't download emails. I've been through the Orange...

Sorry, me again! I've just added a 2nd SATA hard drive, but am unsure how to format it. It's all plugged in, but when I look at Disk Manager it hasn't been allocated a drive letter. It's recognised as a disk drive and has a healthy status, but has no file system or volume letter listed...

I've had some problems with my hard drive that resulted in it being re formatted and then having XP reinstalled. I've now discovered that the 2 USB ports on the front of my PC do not work, but the ones at the rear do (everything worked fine before!). Any advice, please? Many thanks, TT

Hi, Our shower has started to cut out. After being switched on it runs for about 5 secs then stops, but will comtinue to run if you hold the start/stop button in. I think it's probably a switch fault and was wondering if it's easy to replace? I've had the cover off, but the latched switch...

We've just looked at a house that has an LPG combi boiler with a bulk LPG tank. We've no experience of LPG (and neither has any of our friends!), so I'm after some general feedback as to the pro's and cons of it. Does the system need any special maintainence, are the boilers more expensive to...

Due to a water leak I'm having to repair the tiling at the bottom of a shower cubicle, about 12 tiles in total. I've replaced the damaged board behind the tiles, tanked it, and am now about to tile the area. My question is, after fixing the tiles, do I need to let the tile adhesive dry before...

Not quite tiling, but it's a related question! I've just removed a ceramic shower tray to redo the tiling of the cubicle after a leak, and the flexible sealant that was used to bed the tray won't come off. Any top tips to get this stuff off without scratching the tray, apart from a bucket...

Hi guy's, Posted recently about a problem with our Swiftflow 120, HW not getting very hot unless you backed off the tap to about 1/2 flow, then it took an age to run a bath! Shortly after this, the boiler failed to light up at all, although the pilot light remained lit. The Glow worm...