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RE-post need paint for concrete sign
I think I posted this a week of more ago, but I cannot find it, so please bare with me. I have a cement house sign with embossed name. I wish to paint the letters to make it more prominent. However I...
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window painting
Pressure has been gradually building (over the last 2 years) to re-decorate the exterior finish on our wooden windows. My original ambition was to use a penetrating preservative woodstain; Sadolin...
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ALDI Thursday offers
FYI Drill bits sets, spanner sets, ratchet straps, brackets, tool bags, organisers etc.
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small of dampness....
how can you get the small of dampness out of chipboard flooring after the leak has been repaired ? .....
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Which plastic to mend my kettle lid?
Hi All we have a 'standard' cordless kettle, mostly made of Stainless Steel, with a hinged lid for filling etc. The plastic retracting catch which keeps the lid closed has started to fail (somewhat...
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TOT: Weeping for long-gone days
I?ve had a cold; a common-or-garden, not-very-severe but nevertheless quite pesky cold. It?s well known that the common cold is a great modifier of mood; in fact some experts say we?re all slightly...
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no no
does a no no work ? ...
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Can anyone recommend an inexpensive whater-based white one-coat gloss paint?
Can anyone recommend an inexpensive water based white one-coat gloss paint? I went into Wilkies today hoping to find some, but all they had was oil based gloss. I used water-based stuff back in the...
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Apprentice interviews
charles posted Which translated means "Ha ha ha, I've got a job and you haven't, so beg for one you miserable worm. Ha ha ha, I'm all right Jack."
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Fan oven repair - false economy?
Fixed the gfs oven twice but never managed to put a bun in it.
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Cleaning/refurbing a ceramic frying pan
Bought a couple of nicely priced ceramic frying pans from Lidl some months back. We followed all the instructions about not using abrasives to clean them, and not putting them in the dish washer. At...
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Tiling hall - part 2
Following up on my previous post about tiling a hall. The plywood is now screwed down. Most of the cuts are OK with a 5-10mm gap between the wall and the plywood. One or two sheets weren't quite right...
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Tilting a Television Aerial
My freeview reception from my wall mounted aerial on the rear wall was fine until a neighbours tree grew all of its leaves. The aerial height is just a bit below the topmost height of the tree. Would...
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OT EUSSR
This German) woman has it dead right. Brilliant speaker!
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Text messages, now you see, now you don't
This has happened twice this week, not quite the same and its an older Iphone I'm using... I messaged someone, after which a comment appeared such as who is that, then a reply saying it was from...
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