We have a small porch with a dwarf wall. The cavity had no insulation inside it. I have been cutting Kingspan board and slipping it into the cavity. All going well, but I have fitted a piece into the...
We are trying to change power supplier. The new supplier asked for meter readings, but only gave 5 boxes for me to fill in for the electricity reading. I told them our meter has 6 digits. I have spent...
Replacing some spotlight type G10 LED bulbs. Asda only seem to do dimmable ones, but I'd like to get these if possible as they have a longer lifespan than others available. So is it safe to use...
I am trying to fit a new downpipe on the outside of the house. Haven't done it before, I'm female and didn't get much of this type of stuff at school. I'm not sure which screws are best to use for the...
I have had some missing shelves built back into a cupboard and I want to paint them. They are bare MDF, and I would like to use gloss for the top coats to make it hardwearing. I bought some MDF primer...
The holes are 1cm diameter, some are a bit less. Polyfilla would drop down into the cavity I think. Would that expanding foam be an option? and then Polyfilla on top? Or is there anything I could use...
I am thinking of installing an ecoTec 938 and wondered if anyone who has one, could tell me how they have got on with it from an owners perspective? The other contender is the 838. Thanks.
I usually back up 'My Documents' to a USB stick. However I have had problems with a new stick - a Verbatim Store n Go. The files went on to it fine the first time, but the second time, when I tried to...
When the women made their walk on entrance to the sound of, cheering wows, screams, and the like, The ex weather girl presenter in charge for the day, said............ ............. '' Welcome...
I have a 13 month old car which has had an intermittent fault since it was 8 months old. It has been in to the dealer 4 times now, the problem being that they have never witnessed the fault. They have...
Following from an earlier thread about racism, with a similar heading: Is class consciousness (and the closely related 'snobbery')Dying out? Are old people more conscious of class ? Do we still have...
My lovely 12 month old Volvo V50 D3 has gone into the dealer for the second time with this blocked. The first time at 7 months old, they said nothing could be found wrong but the car that was driven...
I re-installed Xp on Friday. It went fine except for a subsequent problem accessing my Netgear router settings. On Thursday I could access it no problem using 192.168.0.1 and backed up my settings....
It's Xp. Have only ever done this once before and that was quite a long time ago. Any tips to help me avoid getting into difficulties would be very welcome. Thanks.
My computer is playing up - booting painfully slowly and often loading programs slowly. I have tried system restore several times going back as far a few weeks ago, but it doesn't help. Is there any...