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Damp-proofing kitchenfloor
1928 house. I think there is no membrane under the kitchen floor (concrete?) which has tiles (in good condition) on top of the original quarry tiles. It is above ground level but small amounts of...
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Durable, weatherproof adhesive for sticking UPVC board, back-to-back?
Hi all, I need to stick two long lengths of 10mmx100mm general-purpose UPVC board back to back. This will be an exterior job and needs to last. I have several surplus tubes of exterior frame sealant,...
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Lidl cordless SDS
Lidl have a 20v cordless drill today at 50 quid. Doesn't actually say SDS in the title, but shows and mentions SDS plus bits in the text.
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Aussie wind
How does the .au situation compare to .uk? From what I can see they have 73% coal, 13% gas, 7% hydro, 4% wind, 2% solar, 1% bio. "Turmoil in South Australia's heavily wind-reliant electricity market...
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OT Amazing salvage project.
On December 5th, 2012, the car carrier ‘Baltic Ace’ collided with the container ship ‘Corvus J’, in the North Sea, 65 kilometres off the Dutch Coast. The Baltic Ace sunk within 15 minutes. The...
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DIY surgery
Only in Oz An amateur surgeon in Australia pleads guilty to removing the left testicle of a man who could not afford professional medical treatment.
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Paint help for kitchen.
Hi, my kitchen walls have started to peel. Not sure if its the old house owners have used normal paint or not sealed the plaster before painting. My questions are :- 1. I have areas that i have used a...
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Despite indications to the contrary there may be a good fairy? Tumble drier recall.
A long and rambling tale, so sit ye down by the fireside and pour yourself a cup of cocoa. :-) It were back in '05...or was it '06? Don't rightly remember but in them days there was 12 months in a...
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Oil Tank Question
My oil tank is: Length= 5ft, Height = 4ft, Width = 2ft. It holds 1100 litres My question is, how much oil is represented by 1 inch on a dipstick? Regards and thanks in advance Syke
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OT Bandwidth to stream audio show - isp
I've been trying to find out which (if any) isp is better to sign up for to enable streaming audio. A few chaps here (not me) want to run a weekly radio show. The www articles explain the bandwidth...
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Doomed! We're doomed
The wet sheep and flowerpots of the olympic european commune have truned th eir attention to Antarctica in orde to warm things up: What was once a good thing for Adélie penguins is becoming too much...
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Aging Fimo
We have a considerable collection of small items made from Fimo - the plastic clay stuff - things like buttons and badges. They have been hanging around for perhaps 20 years or more - mostly kept in a...
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Legrand electrical things
Today I got a message at work from partner. Pull cord switch for bathroom light is broken. Not the usual things like the cord unknotting, or the whole thing falling off the ceiling. But a tiny bit of...
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Old boiler engineers
Hi all, Mum has an old wall mounted, low capacity, b/f conventional gas boiler and she's trying to keep it running till she revamps the kitchen. It works fine (for what she needs anyway) but now and...
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Tough brass
This mornings task, was to make a 1" OD pulley for a small rope, which raises the bin lids to make it easy to put rubbish in the wheelie bins in their shed. I fished out a bit of scrap brass which had...
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