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Leaky wall?
Today I discovered a damp patch had appeared on an interior painted wall. The patch is about 2ft across and half way between floor and ceiling, in a bungalow. In the roof space I can't easily get...
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OT: Redirecting gmail
I have a friend of a friend (so I can't see what he is using now) who is temporarily short of free cash and wants to maintain a business while he is fighting a major bank who destroyed his previous...
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Technical Question for Electricians
A 5kVA motor operates from a 240V 50Hz supply at a lagging p.f. of 0.6 and is in parallel with a heating and lighting load of 3kW. What is the overall p.f. and what capacitance is required to improve...
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Don't believe everything you read
When we moved in 3 years ago, in the lounge there was a surface-mounted plastic pattress on the wall backing on to the kitchen. It was right in the corner with the lounge external wall, and about a...
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Well - that was a mug full of fluff and crap...
6 year old bathroom fan was getting noisy - it's an in line (in duct) Soler Palau - this one: Thanks to the extremely well thought through design, if you undo the two silver bands, it slides out from...
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Identify this electrical fitting
This is a screw down fitting to to take a lead out of a hole in a flat surface. Anybody know what they are called, I need to get a replacement. Tried looking at Maplin and a few other sites ... with...
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Cutting fluid for Alluminium
is down today ... so resorting to GoogleGroups I need to drill & tap some 3/8-16 UNC blind holes in 6061 aluminium heat treated to T6 Just ordered a new set of taps and a 5/16" drill .......... For...
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Sharing a door bell moan.
Dear Byron, Today I have installed a "720k" wired door chime that I purchased from my local Screwfix a couple of weeks ago. I am writing to let you know that I have completely discarded the useless...
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OT - Poor LAN Speed
Hi Folks, I recently installed a D-Link PCI DGE-528T 1Gb ethernet card on my rather old PC (Asus P5N-E SLI mobo) but it's only returning a max sped of 100Mbps. I've played around with various settings...
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Tling layout...opinions
About to start on other wall, is the No 1 image the better layout by having a larger piece in the middle rather than 2 small pieces either end, it does mean that the full tiles ( B & C) will not start...
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Woodburner glass
I have a cracked pane on my generic chinese woodburner. I see that there are eBay suppliers who offer "cut to size", but if it is cheaper to buy a standard size am I likely to have any trouble cutting...
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Are old Ikea catalogues available anywhere?
About 2002 I bought some Ikea black storage units with cherry-fronted drawers and cherry-framed glass doors; deeper than a Billy. They've lasted well and survived a number of re-purposings but now I'd...
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Patching artex ceiling mess?
I'm a bit stuck as to what to do about this awful mess: (no login required to see photo). The previous people who lived here obviously artexed around the old cricular light fitting and so the fitting...
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Occupancy sensor
I've just fitted a new LED ceiling light with a built-in occupancy sensor. It works well, actually rather too well, because I can't seem to reduce its sensitivity. I want to mask the sensor from a...
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OT - Old PC - Free Operating System Ideas
I have an old desktop PC - AMD Sempron 2300+ with 1Gb RAM and XP I want to get rid of XP and try a free OS to see if I get an improvement to make it worth donating it to my grandson for web browsing....
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