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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

I posted a couple of weeks ago when we had a problem with our oven which turned out to be with the element. We managed to replace the element without much trouble and the oven has been fine, until now. There is a very loud noise coming form the oven when in use and it appears to be related to...

We have just redecorated my daughters bedroom and I decided to revamp her roller blind. Taking the present blind to pieces and replacing the material. All is going well apart from keeping the new material fixed in place on the roller. The old material was fixed using double sided tape onto...

Can anyone offer some advise please. For the last couple of weeks we have been having trouble with out internet connection through both my computer and my daughters laptop. You get connected and gradually over a period of about twenty minutes everthing gets slower and slower until...

My oven, as above, is not heating up. Fan is working, usual lights come on when the dial is turned but no heat whatsoever. Is it safe to assume that this is a thermostat problem and if so is this something easily fixed. Thanks.

I have noticed a cluster of what I assume are woodworm holes in our beech woodblock floor. They first came to my attention a few months ago and although I had not noticed them before I wonder if they have always been there. We have lived here for then years or so and must admit that we have...

We recently called someone in to check out one of our tv's as the reception on it is poor with some ghosting occasionally. He tried fitting a signal boosting box to the set which made the situation worse. It was then suggested that we would need our aerial replaced anyway in due course with...

A few years ago I bought a small tree fern, dicksonia antartica, in a local shop for about ten pounds. I have watched it achieve a bit of height over the last two or three years and it is now at last gaining a bit of 'trunk', whole plant to top of this years new fronds is nearly four feet...

Yesterday my daughters Laptop was stuck in a 'boot loop' (this is the second time in a few months that this has happened). Laptop is HP Pavillion DV5157EA purchased June 06 with additional warranty for 5 years. After first incident we took it back and the store had to take it back to the...

I am not very technically minded when it comes to computers but our hard drive seems to be quite noisy of late and I am wondering if there is anything we can do to sort this out ourselves or if we need to take the hard drive for a service or something. It is making a sort of laboured whirring...

my daughter has pressed something on our scanner and now it will not turn off. It has a green flashing light and the pop up screen says shutting down ..., but it isnt and wont. Looked in the troubleshoooting booklet and this is not covered. Any ideas? Should I just unplug it? Thanks.