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OT - Still think it's not going to make any difference ?
Police prepare for violence as 500 migrants are moved to a German village with a population of just 102 Andy C Some 100 men, women and children stepped off two buses in the rural village of Sumte,...
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Algae & Moss Removal (corrected)
I recently posted about how to clean a lot of fencing panels prior to re-staining. I had tried Sodium Hypochlorite & Lauryl Dimethylamine Oxide mix, this worked very well on my sandstone patio, but...
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Algae & Moss removal
I recently put a post up on how best to prepare wooden fence for re-staining ....... I had tried Sodium Hypochlorite & Lauryl Dimethylamine Oxide - which was excellent at cleaning my sandstone patio....
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Jungle Camp Calais
BRITAIN-BOUND migrants at Calais have now become so violent that terrified truckers are arming themselves with TASERS and PEPPER SPRAY, it emerged today.
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Health and softy gone mad
"Christmas crackers not to be sold to people under the age of 12" - three months imprisonment for letting a kid make a popping noise - a heftier punishment than selling spray paint to someone under 16...
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Putting ladder on flat roof
I'm hoping to install a new aerial to an existing pole on a chimney stack on a bungalow. That side of the building has had an extension with a flat roof so it is very easy to get to the base of the...
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Smart meters
So what's going on with these? Why are we getting 50 million meters in half as many households? That's illogical. How come my neighbour just got their old spinning disk meter replaced with a basic...
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Vaguely OT: SIngle-mixer taps
Noticed in an episode of "Mad Men" - set in the mid 1960s, that an apartment had a single-lever mixer tap, which presumably uses ceramic 1/4 turn valves. Were such beasts available in the US in the...
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OT Came across this. (Monkey trial in USA).
Unbelievable how dopey Yanks are.
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levelling a stone shower tray?
I am just asking before I take out the old one (plastic) and replace with a stone tray. The floor should be wooden floor boards not chipboard But like most DIY in this house nothing is ever...
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Permissible inconvenience while council upgrades bathroom
The local council have approved a grant to upgrade my mother's bathroom. She is infirm and needs to have her bath replaced by a walk-in shower. She owns the house. I have been told she will have a...
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Ceramic cartridge replacement
Bloody ceramic cartridge tap started leaking at 5 this afternoon, just after the shops have shut. I took the cartridge out to have a look, and it leaked even more (after reinserting it). What...
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OT One Vulcan still flying!
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Facemask
I stopped a spraying job today as the mist was getting in my face .... realised I need to buy a mask. Whenever I have bought disposables .. not been too impressed with them. Are the 'newer' breed of...
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Need New Shower Head
Hi all, I've just put in a new shower cubicle which looks rather splendid I must say, but the trouble is it makes the existing shower head, hose & bracket look like utter shite, even though it's a...
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