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Useful hack for broken rivet.
I have a Roman blind that I took down for redecorating and needed to put back up. One of the clips that hold it up broke. It is a pressed steel cam that locks it into place, riveted to the mounting...
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Bi-fold Doors/windows
I have been watching a few building You Tube videos lately and have seen several extensions being built where the brickwork is dutifully cavity insulated only for a massive opening left on one wall...
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Analogue to DECT converter
We have DECT phones, with the base station plugged into the analogue phone port of out router. We also have an old rotary dial phone, but the phone sockets are still connected to the master socket,...
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1 year ago
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Making good
I have been building a couple of tall bookcases with cupboards below. I used melamine coated chipboard from B&Q. To prevent drill bits travelling to far into the 18mm boards, I employed collars with...
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Smart meter initialisation query
Had two smart meters installed on Wednesday 1st February. They supplied a bluetooth based home display but it's too far from the meter to the nearest point I can find so it doesn't work. (It's a flat...
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Kettle won’t stay on
Our previously reliable electric kettle has taken to turning itself off a few seconds after turning it on. If I hold the switch down it boils as normal. It’s turning itself off long before and steam...
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Australian Radioactive Capsule
I have been interested in the furore over the lost capsule, but it did make me think about radioactive sources found in the home such as in smoke alarms. Now I know these are quite small and...
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Road planings on top of concrete
im expanding my driveway and am planning on using road planings. The current driveway has a concrete slab within it and I wondered if i can lay the new planings over the top of the concrete?
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OT: Landline phones with bluetooth?
I've just received an email from Plusnet reminding me that all their prices are going up on 1st April by over 14% (inflation plus 3.9%) This will bring the price of the Anytime package to over £10...
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Anyone with experience of Drayton Wiser?
I'm looking at smart heating controls and have come across the Drayton Wiser Anyone here with such a system that would not mind answering some questions I have about the system? 1. is Geo fencing...
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Interesting Kitchen cabinet door issue
Hello all, I have several kitchen cupboards and wall cabinets. They all have the typical kitchen hinges for the doors. I am finding that the screws for the hinges into either the cupboard or wall...
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1out of 3 aint bad.
3 parcels due to be delivered today, but as it happened I was out Fedex put it back on the truck. Josie from some form of amazon delivery put it riund the side and dropped me a note. But they had sent...
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Making rubber printer rollers more grippy?
My printer is getting old and sometimes doesn't manage to pull a sheet of paper from the drawer. In the printer, two "rubber" rollers on a rotating bar often fail to grip the top sheet. Where can I...
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SOT Printer Expert Wanted
Hopefully a d-i-y fix! 6 year old HP inkjet HP Envy 4523 worked fine till yesterday when it stopped printing magenta and yellow. Performed the cleaning routine which ends with printing a quality...
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Macrium Reflect 8.1
I have the free version of Macrium Reflect 8.0. I tried to upgrade to 8.1.7336 but they want me to enter into a 30 day trial. I usually don't mind paying for software but I want to move away from...
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