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OT Wind Turbines
Scotland to achieve 50% of it's electricity from renewable sources by 2020. http://www.gov.scot/Topics/Statistics/Browse/Business/TrenRenEnergy
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OT ish. Packaging
Last week I install a light fitting for a customer, hideous thing in my opinion, but there you are. It had three arms, with glass droplets attached, linked by chains of droplets. It came in a box....
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tap keeps leaking at same spot
I have a shower tap that keeps leaking. I have reseated it 3 times with a tool that grinds down the metal to remove a groove that that reappears in the same spot. I began to think the brass is...
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Sticking radiator valve.
This is on the only rad in our bathroom. Installed new in 2012 so not too ancient. One valve takes 3.5 turns on to off. The other will only go about 1.25 turns. Valves are identical so I'm presuming...
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MDPE olives
A couple of years or so ago our water mains were replaced and the company used blue MDPE connected to a brass stopcock. This has been leaking for a while - getting to a steady drip-drip-drip the other...
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Parkside belt sander - sandpaper belt sliding off
Just got the new drive belt for my Parkside belt sander. I haven't used the sander since 2013 (I know because when ordering a new drive belt I found the previous order for a new drive belt - but not...
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Combi boiler depressurising?
Had a call from a tenant of mine last weekend to say that their heating was out; I went round and found it was caused by the combi boiler having become depressurised. I quickly refilled it, and showed...
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Loft water tank size
I'll start off by saying please DO NOT reply saying rip it all out and fit a combi, because that just isn't going to happen. This is not an emergency yet but by fortunate chance I've just spotted that...
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Table saws revisited
Getting fed up with hand cutting the shelving for the hi-fi. Shelves are roughly 400*500 but will need trimming down to fit the runners. I don't want to under cut and waste a shelf, but if I cut...
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Ripping DVDs.
Have Nero for this on XP - but nothing on Win7. Google found Handbrake (free) to copy a DVD to HD. Works - but took a couple of hours to transfer a 1/2 hour home movie DVD to HD. Not tried it with a...
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Painting internal brickwork
Hi, I have a fairly old (1930s) brick rear porch area, single skin, external si de is rendered and external paint. The inside was plastered at some point, and has also had external/masonry paint...
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black toxic mould ????? bad for your health
discussion for people suffering with black mould
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DAMP PROBLEMS TIPS ON MOULD CONDENSATION
ANY ADVICE NEEDED ON ALL RELATED DAMP ISSUES PLEAES CHECK OUT OUR WEB SITE nhs information on mould a link on my website where we have posted roughly 20 articles on damp and mould tips advice
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I have £250 to blow on an Inverter Welder
Any Recommendations? Ta
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Atomic energy toy
Kinda makes a mockery of the little slightly might be possibly dangerous things that H&S goes for nowadays, I guess they're bored. The Gilbert Atomic Energy Lab - dubbed as the world's most dangerous...
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