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Hi, I'm installing a shower in the corner of my bathroom and plan to use acrylic wall panels on the walls. The walls are brick, plastered with skim and then currently have standard 4" white tiles from floor to ceiling. I've started removing the tiles and they're mostly coming off easily. The...

Hi, I'm installing a shower in the corner of my existing bathroom and plan to use acrylic wall panels which I believe are 3-5mm thick. The room is currently tiled floor to ceiling with standard 4" square white tiles. I've started to remove these and they're coming off quite easily. The...

Looking for any suggestions on where to start... I've got a 2011, 1.6 diesel Citroen C3 Picasso. Has done around 90k miles. I've owned the car since Nov 2021. Summer 2022 I started having an occasional issue with the engine juddering and losing power when driving uphill (actually only ever...

Hi all, I'm planning to install a shower cubicle in an existing bathroom. Two of the walls are brick which are currently plastered and then tiled. The third wall forming the cubicle will be a new stud wall which I intend to face with tile-backer board. The existing tiles on the two brick...

Hi, Refurbing my bathroom which currently has timber joists covered with 25mm thick T&G wood floor boards, and had a carpet down on that. I want to tile (slate actually) the floor and have seen suggestions that the floorboards should be replaced with marine ply, and other suggestions of just...

Hi all, I've just bought a house and was planning to change the locks just to be on the safe side. The house has uPVC doors with Euro cylinder locks, so I've measure up the cylinder and it measures 50mm external and 40mm on the internal side. I can't find any cylinders of this size?? They are...

Hi all, I've just had a leak on my gravity fed central heating system so have had to drain the system. While I was doing so I thought I'd take the opportunity to completely drain everything, flush it out, run some cleaner through, and then re-dose with inhibitor. First two steps are now done...

Hi guys, I've got a digital photo frame which displays photos off a USB stick but have a problem with the orientation of the images. I've done a bit of 'Googling' and I understand that most digital cameras and image software these days use 'EXIF' data attached to digital images to display the...

Hi guys, I've got a leak from the 110mm waste pipe from my toilet. Directly below the toilet is a (inverted) t-joint on the waste pipe so that the longest part runs almost parallel with the floor and the shorter bit points up towards the toilet. The toilet waste goes into the shorter bit...

Morning guys, I've got a fireplace in my house that has had the reveal finished with what appears to be some form of render. I am wanting to paint it and looking for some advice? I am assuming that masonry paint would be the best paint to use, but what do I need to do to prepare the...

Hi, I've got a 500GB external USB hard drive. It was working this morning, but whilst copying some files off it, it stopped transferring and now wont work at all. When I connect it to my PC it says it needs to be formatted before it can be used. Before I do that, is there any way of...

Hi guys, I've recently started having documents I open in Word open as 'read only'. I then have to close the document again, open it again and it says the file was opened read only last time, do I want to open it 'read only' again - click 'no' and all is fine... Anyone know why it is...

Hi guys, We've got three PCs which are all identical. I bought an Nvidia graphics card for one of them last month and after a few teething problems its all working fine. Whilst trying to sort those teething problems I was advised that I would have been better getting ATI cards so that's...

Hi, I'm trying to install a new graphics card in my destop pc. The heat sink on the card blocks the sata port that my dvd drive is currently plugged into so I switched the dvd to port 2 (SATA ports are numbered 0-3 on my MB). The dvd shows as being connected to port 2 in the BIOS, but there...

Hi guys, I need to put a new starter motor on my '52 plate Fiesta Finesse. Does anyone know if I'm ok disconnecting the battery while I do this, or will that knacker up the electrics / engine mangement?? Thank you!!

Is it possible to, very quickly and with no tools, tamper with something under the bonnet which would cause the engine warning light to come on? Im selling my car- a '52 plate petrol fiesta. Had someone look at it last night and he brought 'a mechanic' with him to check it over. He looked...

I'm having problems with my monitor when I first turn it on. The screen comes on as normal, but then after 3 seconds the screen goes black. The indicator LED stays blue to indicate the monitor is turned on. I then have to turn the monitor off and back on to get the screen to come back on, but...

Hi, Got a '52 plate fiesta which has failed the MOT test on the rear brakes. The passenger side is under-powered on the foot brake, the drivers side doing next to nothing on the hand brake. The hand brake does hold on a hill, but presumably it must be the passenger side brake doing it all...

Hi, I'm using Firefox on Win 8 and it has just upgraded itself to Firefox 25.0. Since doing so, the text size in the bookmarks sidebar has increased so where I used to have around 70-80 bookmarks visible without scrolling down, I now only have 30-35. I've tried changing the default font...

Hi, We've recently bought new PCs which came with Win8. After the initial shock of the touch-based OS on a PC, we've got used to it. Now we've had an update notice for Win8.1 so updated it. What a mistake, I wished we just stayed as we were. Brought back all the c**p I had got rid of...