Comments for Gareth Halfacree

Comment on Dyno-Rod Complaint by Sheila

Sheila — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 18:16:34 +0000

I have had a leak from my bath for well over a year, it has rotted my floor boards, caused a massive crack in my kitchen ceiling, leaked onto my electric cooker which is now starting to seize up, leaked down onto electric sockets endless times causing damage to my toaster, kettle, microwave and other random items.

I have lost count of the number of times I have called dyno-rod out to repair this leak as they are the contractors with my British Gas Homecare agreement and still nothing has been sorted.

I personally think dyno rod would do well to sack all their engineers and employ monkeys as it would be a lot cheaper and have no effect on their customer service levels, it may even result in a decrease in complaints.

Comment on Dyno-Rod Complaint by Steven Roe

Steven Roe — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 11:58:30 +0000

I have had dyno rod out to my property 4 times now and still they have not cleared my drain. I have spoke to a lady at the Enfield branch (not helpful at all) and stated that their engineer told me that it was a two man job. I thgen called to make another appointment for the next day. I then get a call the next day saying that they aren’t coming as they did not have a two man team available, and she knew nothing of needing a two man job. After speaking to her again she was not willing to help in any way of form. Now been three days without sink, bath, shower, basin as the waste is blocked. I pay £30 something pound a month for my homecare agreement and find myself having to go to get a decent drain blckage company to sort out the problem.
I WOULD NEVER RECOMMEND ANYONE TO USE DYNO ROD.

Comment on Powered by Ubuntu by Gareth

Gareth — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 20:23:02 +0000

Go to Applications, then Accessories, then Terminal. Type “cat /proc/cpuinfo” without the quotes and it will tell you what processor you’ve got.

Comment on Powered by Ubuntu by BauerPower

BauerPower — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 20:01:13 +0000

i currently got a new laptop. it has linux ubuntu installed in it. the sticker that is attached to the pc which says pentium dual core, while the price list that comes with specification has core 2 duo. how can i check the hardware specification using linux ubuntu.

thanks!

Comment on Dyno-Rod Complaint by Tim

Tim — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 13:20:32 +0000

We called Dyno Rod out from Irvine in North Ayrshire on Sunday 6th November but they wanted double time so they came out today Monday. We had a slow draining loo in our restaurant and thought we had a serious blockage in the system.
Out they came, walked around with rods in hand, asked us to run water in loos and sinks, announced it was all clear in the drains outside and told us they don’t clear toilet pans and that we had to have the pan taken out first! So walked off waiting for us to get a plumber to remove the pan! Did NOT even attempt to plunge it or anything!
In disbelief, my daughter then went in with a plunger an hour ago, and after 40 mins graft, cleared the blockage herself and all is running OK.
If they think we are going to pay them £80 for their so-called 15yrs experience against a housewife’s hard graft”, they have another think coming.

Comment on Dyno-Rod Complaint by d ajmani

d ajmani — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 17:04:58 +0000

Dyno rod plumber came to inspect why my shower was not working properly. He suggested that the cartridge needs changing. He said it was no more than 1 hour job. So i agreed and bought the cartridge. The plumber came took 2 hours but could not open the valve to change the cartridge. H

Comment on Xbox 360 and miniDLNA by medwards

medwards — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 22:55:16 +0000

Thanks for posting this. It worked successfully for me, but unfortunately I was testing against my current IP and since then I’ve swapped in an new router and DHCP leased a new, different IP.

I updated my dlna conf file to get it working until I could get a nice hostname assigned but it appears the Xbox won’t refresh its presentation url (or, *shudder* the IP that the dlna device runs off). Any ideas on how to force it to refresh short of system reset?

Comment on Xbox 360 and miniDLNA by Bnlopes

Bnlopes — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 15:00:44 +0000

Thanks a lot man. I`ve just changed my minidlna config on my NAS (Dealextreme NAS 652) and now I can stream from my external harddisk to my xbox without need of the pc. Great, that’`s all i wanted!

Comment on About by Lee strom

Lee strom — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 22:04:41 +0000

Gareth you reviewed the imwatch a few months ago for expert reviews. Can you tell me if you have actually seen the imwatch. The company do not seem to be responding on twitter or Facebook to queries about the product and despite looking on the web I can’t see any real pictures of the product on line just graphic mock ups. Is the company for real and are you sure the company blue sky are real. I love the product but I am smelling a rat

Comment on Dyno-Rod Complaint by Liz

Liz — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 07:37:27 +0000

@Peter Ritchie
Posted February 25, 2011 at 3:00 PM
Who would you recommend if not Dynorod – we have blocked drain

We live in Manchester and used The Manchester Drain Company 0161 403 0312. Cant remember what the cost was, it was nowhere near £100. That was 8 months ago and still the drain is running clear. But I guess as their business name suggests they only cover Manchester, we live in Altrincham.