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Miele Front Loader Washing Machine Soap Dish(s) Draining Question
Hello, Have a few weeks old Miele front loader washing machine. One of their smaller front-loaders; Model is: Touchtronic W 3048. Seems to work fine, but- There is a pull-out drawer on the left that...
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Laminate flooring waterproof protection
I'm currently using my old laminate flooring to use as a wall in the bathroom until I can afford splashback. I've heard I can use furniture varnish or furniture polish is this true or will the...
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ugly solar installation
Someone in a townhouse not far from here got solar panels, for free. The electric meter is in the front and that's why they ran 1.5 or 2" conduit up the front of the house to the roof, and put in a 3"...
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New Carrier AC runs past setpoint when I shut thermostat backlight off
We have a new Carrier furnace/AC & Touch & Go thermostat. 1) The AC keeps running past the setpoint but only shows the setpoint as Ac tual temp. Set=73 Actual=73 but real temp is 71. 1st repairman...
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Melted
Whoops! For some reason a triple adapter decided to melt. Two things were plugged in at the time, both rated at 1kW, one switched on, one not. Both devices are still functional and undamaged. No fuses...
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Bat in the attic
No, but when I first went up in my attic, there were two birds looking at me, only their heads were showing, the rest was in the pink insulation. They were dead. Later I found the screening underneath...
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Seeking a custom size pocket door
Hi my bedroom has a pocket door (door slides into the wall like on star tre k). But the frame itself, inside the wall, has bent - and the result is that w hen the door opens or closes it scrapes and...
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Cordless telephones
Because well pump and air conditioning compressors have high starting current requirements?
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CRT TV into fish tank?
Is this even possible? I would have thought breaking a CRT tube in one place only to add water would be pretty difficult. The Freecycle Network is a grassroots and entirely nonprofit movement of...
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*OT* A bit of friendly advice :-)
On Mon, 14 Aug 2017 10:30:02 +0100, Uncle Monster w= rote: Water around London is recycled 7 times. They actually are drinking tre= ated sewage. -- = Come to think of it, there are already a million...
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GFCI Protection Question ?
Hello, Concerning the normal GFCI protectors/modules: Obviously they protect "downstream" like they are designed to. But does this protection also extend "upstream" ? If so, to where ? Thanks, Bob
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OT: 1945 vs. 2017
This is profound. I hope it is not prophetic as well. Trump, DPRK, North Korea,
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I have a craftsman riding mower with a 15 hp engine, peters out and won't run after about 20 min. Of mowing. Its not the gas cap.
It seems like it my kohler command 15 hp craftsman, 426cc, riding mower, model: CV15S, built between 1995-1998, has a bad coil. I already checked and tested the gas cap with no improvement. I can...
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nailing into brick
I want to hang a wood mantle onto a brick fireplace
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OT. The Slinky
The Slinky toy was developed by accident, like a lot of other things. or Slinkys were radio antennas in Vietnam. They can protect bird feeders.
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