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Patio Door uPVC Profile
Some good advice on here - another if you don't mind. I had a patio door set fitted by a friend of a friend about 15 years ago - uPVC - Outward hinged pair. No complaints - but they do not have hinge...
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Fitch/Flitch beam for purlins
I could do with some help on asking the right questions before I get someone to fix my sagging roof. Due to some modifications some years back the roof has a slight sag due to an unsupported section...
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Breaking news
The news seems to be full of reports that flood plains have flooded and that areas that have been flooded regularly for the past 500 years are flooded again. It's all due to global warming!
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Damp soaking down a wall
My daughter has bought a house with a rather nice 7 foot wall along one side of the garden. It is in good condition but others in the development have some badly spalled bricks along the top. Her wall...
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Bath too long!.
Got to replace a damaged bath got a split in it. Problem is went and bought one asked for a 1680 mm and the bloke in the wholesalers said this is the one you want to which measures 1700 so got to...
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Odd use of iphones
I have noticed that despite TV and computer monitors having a "landscape format" screen and many photo subjects are suited to a lanscape format photo, a certain generation always seem to take...
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Petrol Mower
I have an old Mountfield Empress mower here with a 3.5hp Briggs & Stratton 4-stroke engine. The problem is that it will not start when the weather is cool to cold (i.e. now). In spring and summer it...
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HU if you use News.Individual.NET
ClickandBuy, the company formerly known as Firstgate, has announced their closing of business in the first half of 2016. When started up, many of our users made use of ClickandBuy to enter into a...
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Fetching bricks
Here's one way to fetch bricks from the builder's merchant. That rear tyre is holding up well. So far. http://imgur.com/INbLmvm.jpg
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Volts, amps and electric power supplies/components
Hello All. Is it at all useful (or accurate) to think of volts as being "pushed" aroun d a circuit by the power supply and amps as being "drawn" by the components fed by it? In other words, is it...
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Don't you just have to love Calor Gas?
I came home tonight to a very cold house. The central heating was not running, so nipped out to check the gas tank and it showed half full. Then I noticed that the various regulators and pipe work...
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Another Q on screw fixing external wood cappings
Week before last asked some advice on how to fix Tanalized 50mm thick wood capping onto brick/block wall. (60m of it) Final decision is to fit with Concrete screws .. Frame Screws Managed to get 150mm...
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Xpelair XRH Remote Humidistat stopped working
My Xpelair XRH Remote Humidistat has just stopped working. Just outside the 12 months warranty of course. The thing uses a nylon woven band to sense, and I guess some type of microswitch to activate....
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Thistle one coat plaster re plywood.
Trying to use the products at hand. I have two areas of plywood that I will be attaching showerboard to. The plywood has remnants of old tiling plaster but in some places bare plywood where the tiles...
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OT: BT Protect
A bit OT, but is very quiet these days, and I'm sure opinions will be available here. My ISP is I've been with them about 10 months ever since Virgin Media threw me off. Quite happy with them so far,...
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