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Thinking of getting power to our garden shed and wondering if the electrician can take it from the White meter box outside the house or wether It has to come through from our consumer unit which is under the stairs and no room for another cable specially an armoured one!? Cheers

Hi! I have a 9yr old building with slate roof and at the moment a raging storm has taking one of the slates, should I go back to the builder or go to my insurance company or get someone to fix it? cheers

Hi! we have a really damp cottage and asked to have it surveyed, this is the report:- The property was surveyed,the weather was cold and wet. The property has single glazing to the front and double glazing to the rear , of various ages. The property is in a fair/poor state of decoration with...

Hello! I was reading a while ago about electrical connections to two properties from the same service box(white one outside from the provider) and we have the same situation here, the second property is our granny flat. i was concerned when I read that there should be a fused main swith between...

Hi, the soil vent pipe from behind our toilet is reduced to 55mm Is that OK ? probably the wrong terminology but hope you understand cheers

I've been using a Long "Range Outdoor USB 150Mbps Wifi Wireless Adapter" to connect my laptop to my home broadband from my workshop, It works really well but I can't connect anything else. Is there any way I can get it to to transmit wifi so that I can connect my phone or other device...

Sorry if this has already been covered, I had a qwik look but I'm feeling a bit crook and my eyes are not working well today, do I have to put in fire rated Loft Access Door or can I build my own with ply? there is nothing up in the roof space other than the roof trusses and cosywrap, cheers

We've built a flat above and its a bit noisy, people walking about and dropping stuff etc., not too bad but just thought that as we are getting flooring laid, either carpet or vinyl, maybe there is an underlay or other product that we could use to deaden the sounds a bit cheers

Hello, hope you can advise me,I'm putting up plasterboard ready for the plasterer to come and plaster it, some of the joints are not too good! I'm just wondering how much the plasterer can cope with, just how big a void can he fill? or should I fill the gapes before he gets here and If I do fill...

I'm going to build shelving/cupboards and counter for my studio, it'll be painted finish, there will be a lot of double handling as I live on an off shore island with limited transport, so with that in mind what do you think would be my best sheet material for this and how thick, I'm thinking...

I hired a very expensive Architect to design my new studio, when he put the plans in to building regs people he missed out a window and he also put the toilet right infront of a window which is only a foot above the floor, we should have noticed that before we started building but didn't, the...

Hi, my instantaneous shower heater TritonT80 was not heating the water enough, first I thought it was struggling with the colder water in the pipes, but I noticed a bit of the plastic cover at the top was slighter out of shape like it had melted a bit, so I took the cover off and one of the...

I've been called as a witness in a court case,I'm told that unless its on medical grounds that I have to attend, Its a bad time for me, has anyone else had this? and what happens if I just don't go? p.s I didn't witness a crime but some people stole money(lots of it) and they purchased lots of...

Mothering Sunday! do you do anything? flowers for your Mum chocolates for the wife and mother of your kids? pub lunch? or is it just another opportunity for the card manufacturers to exploit us and you just ignore it, or maybe all those things, I'll be taking the wife out for a pub lunch, I'll...

just recently I've started feeling really tired by mid day, it seems too small a thing to go bother the doctor with, maybe its the weather but I feel that I could just curl up and sleep, what do you rekon guys, strong coffee maybe?

Mr Charlotte Church (Gavin Henson) came into my local the other day,look at the way his entourage are sucking up to him, he calmly drinking his pint and they appear to be looking for his approval, he later invited us all back out to his boat (gin palace) and that's another story!! :lol...

Hi guys! some may remember last year,I put a camera on a nesting blackbird in our garden and we saw the chicks hatch and eventually leave the nest? Its back, this time it's built its nest in a flower pot in our porch! I think the eggs (four of them) will start to hatch on or around the 16th...

Just been looking for software to back up Wii games,discs, loads of conflicting advice out there, some say easy some free and others say DON'T! anyone here got any personal experience/advice/recommendations etc with this. cheers Richard

Just thought I'd share this with you, anyone interested take a peek at this amazing picture, toggle on to full screen. http://www.lunarworldrecord.com/image.php

Just had a great evening, went to a Nativity play at our local church, my two grandsons singing their little hearts out, along with the rest of the school kids(there's only 18 kids in the school), Caroline works at the school so was involved in the set up, it was brilliant, better than any poxy...