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Connecting soundbar to new TV
Hope someone can help. Trying to connect sound bar to new TV. Sound bar has white & red female sockets. Old TV had white & red female sockets - simples! New fangled TV has one yellow female, & came...
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Cheap ni-mh battery heads up ...
Homebase selling off packs of four 600mah recharrgeable batteries AA size for .43p a pack.....
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Repairing plaster board and door panel
My son has at last taken the plunge and left home. Life has not been that easy for him and he has on occasions taken his frustrations out on his bedroom. There are two nominally 150mm holes in the...
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Bathroom zoning
OK from what I can gather an extractor fan should be 60 cm for a zone 2, however I am juggling things around and wondered if the attached although not 60 cmc the fan will be located `round the corner`...
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Peter Sutherland
So this is the plot. The EU should "do its best to undermine" national "homogeneity" and promote multiculturalism, the UN's special representative for migration tells peers.
 
Asbestos in early Artex?
Is there ? I suppose a way to check is to break a piece off and look under a low pawer microscope, but how to tell if its glass filaments or asbestos?
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how come harry and co haven't posted about this gang of criminals like they do when they aren't white?
Seven paedophiles who preyed on a baby and young children acted "beyond human instinct" and were guilty of "terrifying depravity", a judge says.
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Heating Oil Tank fuel line regs
Hi all, Do *all* the unions in the 10mm copper pipe between the domestic oil storage tank and the boiler have to be compression type, or is it permissible to use certain solder joints? I could really...
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PGO TAX BGC Payment in
I'm trying to sort out Probate for an Estate, a couple of lines in a bank statement say PGO TAX00000.00, BGC, then and amount into the account. BGC is Bank Giro Credit. What might that PGO TAX be...
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Is it illegal to fit a boiler yourself
I fitted my last one, can i still fit my own? Ta Steve
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Join skirting
How best to cut skirting for a decent join along a straight run? Straight edge to straight edge, or 45 degrees? Or something else?
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fitting EFI
Hi I have a problem I need solving. with little or no specialist tooling. I want to fit a lambda sensor to my motorcycle. It is a 125 and the exhaust is chromed, thin steel . (ybr125 type) I am...
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car insurance
Hello, Foolishly I did not protect my NCB. I hadn't had an accident in years, so was hoping this would continue but it didn't, so I now have three years' NCB. I have used web sites like go compare and...
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cavity wall insulation
Hello again, Whilst searching the internet to learn about celotex for my other post about floors and ceilings, I came across a web site that said a house built today would need 100mm of celotex in its...
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celotex insulation of floors and ceilings
Hello, I lifted a floorboard in the lounge and found that the joists are about 4.5 inches thick. I was wondering whether I should put celotex between the joists; I have read about people doing that on...
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