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Thanks for that, nothing is ever as straight forward as it should be. Not that it means a lot to me, not really into technology, V+ box is 720 and 1080? Your info will help though and I will see how I get on.

a few years back we bought two of these tv's as 'HD Ready'. We have only today decided to have a V+ HD box installed, however, our tv's have dvi connection and the engineer only has hdmi cables. We have been out to purchase an adapter for dvi to hdmi and have spent the last hour or so trying...

I think having read the post about frozen gutters/water coming into house that this is the same problem that I am having - and I thought it was just me dancing around with towels and cloths with niagara coming through our bay window frame! This has happened to us twice in the fourteen years at...

Thanks for the replies, I will see how I get on. Merry Christmas

Hello, I am a bit of a computer dunce and am trying to update avg from 8.5 to the new version 9 (the free one). It is not working for me, it downloads but I can not install as it says that there is a problem. Should I uninstall avg 8.5 first? I had presumed that the 9 version would simply...

Our leather sofa is five years old and just getting to the comfy worn in stage, it has unfortunately developed a small mark on the back which is obviously where heads have rested over the years. I clean the sofa regularly with a solution called Cherish for leather furniture but the mark has...

My koi pond has alway been troubled by blanket weed. I think you will find that most ponds have it to some degree. In the past I have always used Pond Balance at the appropriate dose to keep the weed at bay, however, two years ago this stopped working for me. Last year I used the new...

I have e-mailed the NOTW yesterday but have received no reply yet.

As a matter of interest I just wondered if anyone else has been cutting out the voucher to get a free collection of Life on Mars DVDs, one a week for eight weeks. For seven weeks I have cut out the voucher and collected my free DVD from Smiths on either a Monday or Tuesday morning. This...

We are going to paint the exterior of our house this year and will probably use dulux weathershield paint. Just wondering if anyone has experience of this and does it 'do what it says on the tin', last for six years. Is there anything else you could recommend? Also we have plastic guttering...

So many Woodburner questions lately, you will have to start another section! Is it possible to bring woodworm into the house in firewood? We only burn seasoned logs and usually keep a full basket in the house at all times with the remainder kept in a store in the garden. Over the last few...

Thanks for your reply, will have a look and see if I can replace the 'O' ring later - hopefully that will sort it out. Did try to ring Aqualisa but of course they are closed today due to the bad weather! According to our instruction manual the installer of our shower should have fitted...

Our shower had developed a leak and is dripping from underneath the main shower body. I have managed to remove the front cover, the on/ off knob and the temperature control knob. The water appears to be leaking from the on off knob outlet on the cartridge body assembly, collecting in the...

Can anyone possibly shed some light on why my linksys WRT54G wireless router suddenly seems to be making our internet connection really slow and sometimes non-existant. We have been using the router happily for about two years and in the last few months have been noticing that the internet...

I clean the glass door on our wood burner every morning when I make up the fire for the day - I quite enjoy it and it only takes a couple of minutes. I put four sheets of newspaper on the hearth under the door to catch any debris. Wet and wring out a couple of sheets of kitchen roll and dip...

The engineer who services our central heating system recommended last year that we should consider changing all the valves/trv's on our radiators and at the same time have the system flushed. We have now got around to having this job done. A lot of the valves have limescale deposits and tend...

We had a wood burning stove fitted four years ago and we love it! Had it professionally fitted, appropriate stainless steel chimney liner and insulating beads etc. I think it cost about £1300.00 or so in total, but we didn't go along the back boiler route although you can set our burner up...

We recently had to change our oven element and were a bit daunted being hopeless at diy. I found a website on the internet after doing a brief search with blow by blow instructions (with pictures) of how to do the job. We removed the old element which a local supplier checked to make sure...

Have to say that we were also investigating the possibility of changing our boiler, again purely in the interest of efficiency. We also had several quotes which varied quite a lot in both cost and advise. A friend recommended a small local company who came and said basically the same as you...

I used to love the sweets in quarters from a jar - pear drops, rhubarb and custard, tom thumb drops, lemonade chrystals that made your finger go yellow. They served them in cone shaped paper bags. Cant remember the price, about sixpence a quarter I think. Do you remember when black jacks were...