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A fiend of mine has had a new bathroom suite fitted and the toilet has a button flush on top of the cistern. The trouble is he has very bad arthritis in both hands (retired plasterer) and has to use a sawn off bit of broomstail to operate this and cannot operate the quick flush saving water. I...

I am having the front of my house cladded, and with a view to having an alarm fitted and maybe cctv wondered if the external sounder or camera needed a 240 v mains supply provided as well as 8 wire alarm cable. Obviously would like to prewire these before cladding. Thanks.

Over the winter where the gritter turned round it managed to spray a patch on my front lawn with its rocksalt etc.This in now dead grass as I dont think lawns like salt, my question is do I dig it out if so how far down and fill with new topsoil and re seed, or is there something I can mix with...

Our Bosch Maxx WFL 2860 (and old one) has never missed a beat in 10 or 11 years, but just recently is taking about two and a half hours to complete a wash cycle on economy. It still washes and performs ok but 2.5 hours for a wash, any Ideas or is it that time to start seeking a replacement...

I need to replace my thermostat on my 2000 focus (its stuck open) there are no temp markings on the old one and aparently I have a choice of 82c or 88c any ideas. It's a 2.0ltr zetec. TIA.

I dont watch it but my wife has informed me that the man from uncle is in coronation street. This could lead to a whole new story line, and I might watch if he gets his buddy Illya back and starts bumping of the baddies. :shock:

Hi was just wondering I have an asus m4a 88 tdv evo mb with it's core unlocking facility, a mate has a phenom11x3 555 processor and I wondered if I pop it in my mb could I unlock the 4th core for him and would it remain unlocked when taken out and put on his mb. Tia.

So it seems to be a bit shoddy at the moment and not working were all paying back a debt we personally didn't have. So how does that work then?

You might find this a bit odd but a couple of what we call thunder bugs(the sort that get into glass fronted paintings etc) have penetrated my 6 month old Asus VK246h and are visible as little greyish dots, it's not a pixel problem as they moved about at first and it's not a little prog like...

I'm about to rip off the old felt shingles on the front of my house and replace with Hardieplank. As per I will be insulating with 75mmCelotex ga 4000 and my question is what sort of vapour barrier should I use? most of the ones I've looked at are for pitcheed roofs. As this will be hanging...

Has anyone installed the 3 machine license deal from Ms (£89) from the cd, Just wondered if both 32 and 64 bit install is a selectable option from the one cd. I have 3 machines 2 can have 64 bit but my older machine will need to be 32. Or will I have order seperate 32bit and 64bit cds (in...

Good luck to them in their futures. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfgOYsWnisk[/youtube]

Got a chance of some Accoustic Research speakers for free/ donation to charity, they stand about 4ft tall have what looks like 2 sub woofers at the bootom each, and various speakers running up bass mid range etc. 8ohm impedence (forgot to write down model no ) They are very big, I just...

Has anyone had any expierience of them? and in particular the most common form of heat distribution around a house ie rads, warm air or underfloor. Just been thinking about it for a possible new build with no gas supply except lpg or oil. Tia.

What good is Zero or nought, just sits there day in day out doing sweet FA. Thats the first thing the bloody Governement outa sort out the lazy good for nothing waste of a good number.

No it is not. Scientist has idea,a brilliant earth shaking idea, what does he do? He does what every scientist has done and bung it to the Engineers and said "sort that" and " I'll take the credit ta " Barstuards

In the alarm and phone forum Just made me laugh.

Don't know where to put this mods feel free etc. A friend has just moved house today, I know about light fittings etc which they took but the loft ladder? Is that part of stuff you can take. Thanks for any advice.

It's probably one of the most used on the keyboard so how come you still have to hit shift to get it. :?

Hi I have a P shaped bath and a curved shower screen, at the bottom of which is a slide on piece of plastic which then sits into the raised lip of the bath to stop water getting out when having a shower. It's become very brittle and discoloured and I've tried all the local merchants and they...