The problem with the chest strap was more the fight for space between breasts and hrm strap do they pick up your pulse further down your chest.

The locksmith sounds like a shark and my neighbours want nothing todo with him again. I will go and check if the door handles are offset.

They are both in their 80s so mistakes will happen. Key safe wouldn’t have worked for the last incident as a key was in the inside lock so no key could be put in the outside lock to get back in.

Damage is carpets and chipboard floor that needs drying or in the case of the floor may need replacing and is under the kitchen where the leak seems to have come from, no where near the rising main. The lights keep tripping in the flat below, might be still wet or might need replacing.

With the rear seat up I couldn’t get either road or mountain bike in the boot with the rear seat up. With the rear seat down I could get 2 bikes in the wheels removed. My bikes are large so maybe if you ride a small framed 26″ wheeled bike you might just squeeze it in.

For bivvy sites near exmouth I would check out Woodbury common it’s crossed by a couple of roads and loads of bridal ways that you could push down lots of little wooded areas to offer some cover. The only possible disturbance would be be military or more likely cadets on night time training. Just steer clear of the firing range clearly marked on os maps and you will be fine. Lovely views down over budleigh and the cost.

Brilliant stove, very powerful and costs peanuts to run. Can cook some pretty impressive meals on 2 rings.

My advice would be to run it on super unleaded a few pennies a litre but it seems to burn much better.

Island records presents rock steady. It is just awesome. Was a Rodigan recommended album.

Thanks for the advice, I do need it to take mud guards but don’t really need panniers as I only commute 2/3 times per week max so can take clothes and food to work etc.
I do want a road bike not a hybrid. Commute is very rural much more likely to meet wildlife in the road rather than a car, plus it will be my only road bike so needs to be quick enough to keep up with mates on road bikes.

Palmer are they black or silver.

Does anybody know if their is a table of pull ratios etc so I can see what might be compatable.

To answer one of the questions 650m of climbing in 21km but it’s very steep hills although at least the last big downhill is into work and with a few sets of traffic lights takes the last 7 or 8 mins.

I struggle with the shower before I set off as I have to be in work by 8 and often start at 7 so showering at 5:30 ish wakes up the whole house. I guess they will get used to it.

We have exactly your situation we plan to upgrade to a pressurised system soon. The hot water does flow slowly by comparison but you get used to it. The only real downside is the run of pope from the hot water tank to our kitchen sink is pretty long so with the reduced flow rate it takes a while for the tap to run hot. On the up side my wife’s insistence on leAving it running while she washes things uses a lot less hot water.

Try Misumi.com

Ok an update. I have checked the 3 elements by selecting different oven grill settings and all 3 work individually. The fan works and the thermostat kicks in and out turning the heating elemements on and off although I still need to get a thermostat to confirm how badly it is under heating. We have seen a sudden drop in performance chips that took 25mins to cook are now only just done after double the normal time.

In the circotherm mode (Fan mode) it only appears that the rear element around the fan is on and the Neff guide seems to suggest that this is correct.

Thanks for the link hustler but 2 of the elements are genuine and non genuine oven element and the same for the grill element. The grill element seems to work fine and as I have said I replaced the oven element around the rear fan only 3 months ago. Am I correct that when in the fan oven mode only the rear element should be used not both elements.

If it was the element then surely the thermostat would keep the element on all the time which doesn’t appear to be the case

It is a fan oven I thought their was just the one element on the back wall of the oven is their an other element somewhere.

Up into double figures for donations now and although I get a varying amount of ache for the rest f the day and possible the day after I have never had bruising that has come to the surface. I don’t think you helped your case by doing the heavy lifting. I would urge you to go back to donate again and just mention it.

Simple things like a really long bath time with lots of new things to play with (kitchen bowls, spoons, cups, jugs) etc. can be really fun. Try to think of one thing to go out and do each day even if it is just walking to a shop to buy milk. It really helps to break up the day.

I always end up building dens in the living room with chairs / clothes dryer and bedding sheets. They love it and will play in their for hours.

You definitely don’t need VAGCOM to reset the service warning on that age of passat. If the youtube link doesn’t help just google 05 Passat service reset and their will be loads of links to ways to reset the service light using the ignition key position and the clock adjustment buttons on the dash binnacle. If you are still struggling Ihave the instructions printed out at home for our 51 plate Passat but it is a few days until I will be there.

I just found the same guide from Google while looking for a new DAB aerial to buy. It really works brilliantly, I was just trying to improve the reception on the 16 or so stations we could receive and stop the under water bubbling interference that we get in anything other than perfect weather. 15 mins and a length of spare coax and 1 F connector and we now receive 33 stations in perfect clarity, and that is with the aerial hung behind a fridge as well.

If you are struggling for DAB reception give it a go. Only slightly miffed that it had already been posted on here.

Thanks everyone for all your help. Bought a new netgear router and computer connects through cat and blue ray player connects through power plugs.

bigyinn, thanks for all your help the firmware was a few issues out of date but updating it hasn’t sorted anything so I will try and pick up a new router.

Any recommendations for a new router ADSL just normal house use, couple of laptops, couple of phone connections and hopefully DVD player streaming via power plugs. Rarely is much being used at the same time.

It is a DG834G and it has been run for the last couple of years horizontal and does seem top get pretty hot.

I am leading towards the router being broken.

bigyinn, did all that but it was already set to get IP Address automatically.

Running windows 7 on both of the laptops I have tried.

The corresponding number on the router 1 – 4 illuminates with a flashing led as if transmitting data when you connect the CAT5 cable to it.

Ethernet port is running fine with updated drivers etc.

DHCP is activated, I can log into the router through http://192.168.0.1 through a wirelessly connected laptop but not through a laptop connected directly to the router with a CAT5 cable. does this help to diagnose the Ethernet ports as being dead.

I am trying to connect the Laptop directly to the router with a brand new CAT5 cable, have tried 2 new cables with no difference.

I am turning the wireless on the laptop off so that I can be sure that any connection to the router is via the CAT5 cable as the wireless works perfectly on about 8 different devices.

I have also tried all 4 of the CAT5 connections on the router with no joy. Could it be the router is broken.

Purely on the ugly front you should get a Fiat Multipla it would swallow the bikes and really is butt ugly.

Sounds like the balance has been adjusted all the way to one side, is their a knob to adjust balance.

Theotherjonv do you know what your knee measured. I measure 16″ so would be xl by g forms size guide.

We have a glass hearth 12mm thick onto a solid wood floor. The bottom of the legs never get more than warm to the touch at floor lever for a raised stove like our. We got the hearth made by a glazing company to get a good proportion seem to remember it was about £140 4 years ago. I seem to remember it is larger than the regs insist in front of the fire to look in proportion.

This is the stove and the fitting that was installed in the outside of the chimney.

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The top 45 degree bend from the stove is actually a T with one end of the tee coming down to the trapdoor on the outside of the chimney. It does work well but a decent chimney sweep should easily be able to sweep from inside without making any mess. The guy who fitted the stove charges us £40 to clean the chimney so I let him do it rather than buy my own brushes.

Ours is installed just like this without the twee teapot on the top.

http://morso.co.uk/product/morso-3142/

Find a decent installer would be my advice. We have a morso 3142 Badger which is installed using the rear flue going directly into the wall. It works brilliantly and looks very smart. Do they really think that Morso and plenty of other stove manufacturers would have fitted a rear flue point if it didn’t work.

We installed ours to have 2 45 degree bends so sweeping is still easy and it has a rear access point into the flue from outside of the chimney to make it even easier to clean. We boarded up the old shallow fire place behind the stove with the correct fire proof board.

I would look at ECU or fuel issue. I have a Passat with the same engine and they are remarkably good at starting without glow plugs down to about freezing. Their is no way that dodgy glow plugs will stop an engine once it has started and driven.

It could also be an air leak into the fuel system.

Unless it is occurring regularly it is going to be very hard to correct as you will never know if you have sorted it or it just hasn’t occurred for a while, I would probably just get breakdown cover and wait for it to get worse or possible never occur again.

Obviously changing a really old fuel filter is always a good idea especially if you have been running any non standard fuels.

I have done it.

Mix up caustic soda with water as described on the bottle to the strongest mix (mine said for paint stripping).

Pour caustic soda into frame through bottle cage bolts on seat tube with frame upside down using a small piece of aquarium hose and a small funnel.

Leave for 3 days I did try each day. After 3 days you could just see that liquid was seeping down the seat post.

Remove saddle and put end of seat post in a vice and twist.

No damage to frame, seat post is obviously no use afterwards.

Make sure you collect and clean off any spilt caustic soda it killed a big patch of my lawn even though I washed it off almost instantly with lots of water.

I tell them that my wife is just about to give birth in the living room, it was correct once and seems to get rid of them pretty rapidly.