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Screwfix have been tinkering with their deal of the day images again, I've sort of fixed the future deals page for now ...
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Help -advice request (sent again)
Hi, contacted you a couple of week ago - had no response. I used MER ultimate car polish (light blue flat bottle) on my wife's new Citroen DS3 On the paint finish it polished up really nice. However...
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Powering a mains radio from a lighting circuit.. Permissible?
As title really, using a round pin 5a plug & socket? Would it cause bother on a periodic inspection or some survey or other further down the line? TIA Jim K
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Doesn't do what it says on the tin
Been varnishing some furniture with what Ronseal call "Clear" varnish and it's full of brown/orange streaks. I expected them to dry transparent, but they haven't. What can one do (other than buying a...
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Maplin CCTV system
Looking for a motion triggered CCTV system with digital recording. I just had the Maplin email ... they have the 'Swann DVR8-4400 8 Channel CCTV Kit with 4 Cameras' It's on offer at £399 Anybody used...
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Can ceramic disk tap valves start leaking after only three years?
I bought a set (hot and cold) of Bristan quarter-turn valves from Plumb Centre almost exactly three years ago and this morning I noticed that the cold tap was dripping ~very~ slightly. After a while...
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OT Arctic ice increasing
or the layman's version: Researchers say the Arctic is highly sensitive to changes in summer temperatures as ice rebound continued through 2014....
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OT Cars video (28 Litre Fiat)
If you're into cars, watch the video of this monster. https://grrc.goodwood.com/festival-of-speed/latest/video-legendary-28-litre-fiat-s76-driven-for-the-first-time-in-100-years#7GiqIT0u2JZmeGv2.97
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Mending parquet
We've found there's parquet flooring under our lounge carpet, and we'd like to keep it. It seems to be sanding up quite nicely. The trouble is some of it has been replaced by mortar, and some of it is...
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Resin gravel drive surfacing
Resin based gravel drives are appearing in our locality and we get leafletted regularly e.g. It looks good but what are the pros and cons of this technology? Are there any significant problems with...
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OT: Is Samsung toner particularly crap?
A couple of years ago I bought a Samsung CLP-680 colour laser printer - it doesn't get used much and, after 500 colour pages, there's about 35% toner left. I while ago it started printing badly so I...
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OT Bollocks - I dialed a wrong nunber today and the bloke that anwered the phone took my order
I called CET instead of CEF and bloody Geoff decided to play along and take the order.
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New boiler question and Part "L" etc.
Is there a requirement to upgrade the controllability of the individual radiators at the same time the boiler is replaced? In practice I mean fitting TRVs but I would rather defer fitting them until a...
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OT: St. Andrews
Does anybody else think that the scoreboard at St. Andrews looks like a giant Lego block? It does to us.
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OT: Stupid Aldi
I just shopped at Aldi and the checkout operator (who was actually the deputy manager) was pressing one key on the till 20 times when I'd bought 20 of one thing. When I looked at her with a confused...
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