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Fats Waller: "Your Feet's Too Big"
It's one of my favourites. I can't find a recording of it anywhere Anyone got a recording of it to share or sell? Jim Hawkins
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How best to heat a house with electric only?
I've inherited a small cottage. Don't want to sell it, can't live in it yet. Intention is to let it for a while. There is no heating other than an open fire which is prone to filling the place with...
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OT: Another offshore wing farm bites the dust
What with the government discouraging any more on-shore wind farms, and commercial firms backing out of offshore arrays for various reasons, it seems that the prospects for much new wind generating...
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Funny plumbers
Plumbers do actually have a sense of humour! Recently sighted vans; "Plumb & Plumber". And the all female "Here Plumb the girls".
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underfloor heating for a kitched - withour removing the kitchen units?
Hi all, I have a kitchen in which there is virtually nowhere to site a regular radiator. I just wondered if it would be feasible to install underfloor heating, just where the floor is exposed. I'd...
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****ing tradesmen ...
In article , Jethro_uk writes What a ridiculous overreaction, you've yet to have the tradesman back for a fault finding visit and you're already looking to sue his ass off. Please do go ahead and...
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I love my Miele but...
Bulb in swmbo's Miele integrated microwave blew. Pull the whole caboodle ou t of the cupboard. Remove about 10 screws and slide off the outer sleeve to gain access to the bulb. This has to be a bad...
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Central Heating run time
I have often thought it would be useful for monitoring purposes to be able to see how many hours the central heating is running for on a day by day basis. This would show the effect of thermostat...
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10 years ago
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OT:IP Camera problem
Just purchased an(other) no-name IP camera from Amazon. The first I got last year has been great - well worth £30. Anyway this one is slightly different. I never use the IE OCX, just the cameras own...
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10 years ago
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Bouncy Joists
We've got a 1984-built extension in the house we've just bought. We've noticed that the joists are a bit bouncy. Someone who I won't name has suggested that the joists are 4x2 and are in imminent...
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RCA to HDMI - this simple?
The kitchen TV has been showing signs of increasing illness and yesterday it sadly died, its internal fuse had blown. I pulled it apart to take a look, replaced the fuse and found the screen driver...
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10 years ago
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B&Q's colour matching of paint
Usually they're fairly accurate, but I just bought 5 litres whose colour is almost exactly correct when first applied, but which then dries to a much lighter shade. Usually emulsion paint *darkens* as...
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10 years ago
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Pipe connection
I wish to fix a 100mm plastic pipe into a garden vac to enable using a trai ling hose. The opening exists in the Vac,'s plastic (?) shroud and I have a short length of plastic pipe to make the...
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10 years ago
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OT Government caugth fiddling deficit figures
Deficit is twice as big as government admits. http://www.cityam.com/article/1386812628/deficit-185bn-not-90bn-committee-mps-warn
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Cheap Chinese LEDs - an update
Of the first two 7W dimmable PAR 38s, one has just failed, after ten months of being on every evening for hours on end. Still, that's a 50% failure rate. Not much chance of a refund there. Of the...
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