Latest threads in UK Do-It-Yourself Forumshow only best voted threads
Subject | Author | Posted | Replies | |
---|---|---|---|---|
|
OT. Another snout in the trough
How does being a journalist qualify anyone for this job? Mail Online - M E Synon's blog
1
|
10 years ago
|
1 | |
|
HWRC - Hmmmmm (Council / Legal type issue)
The local Household Waste Recycling Centre (Managed by subcontractors Gurney May)is bugging me.... The other week I drove past as I occasionally do to drop off a few plastic bottles and was met with a...
21
|
10 years ago
|
21 | |
|
IT OT - ad blockers and browsers
I'm in a lose/lose situation at the moment. I was a long term user of Firefox but recently it has become unstable, and crashes running such things as Will It Rain Today. So I switched to Chrome as my...
10
|
10 years ago
|
10 | |
|
Resealing a wrist worn GPS unit (Garmin Forerunner 305)
I've just had to pop the case of my old Garmin Forerunner 305 (pretty much following the instructions on this site ) . I'm at the reassembly stage and wondering what the best glue to reseal it would...
—
|
10 years ago
|
— | |
|
Register eco-stuff about gas and coal
Commenting on a Cap Gemini report. The thing that struck me was "Cheap gas in the USA has had a related consequence in Europe, the report notes. "With this low price, gas has replaced coal as fuel in...
12
|
10 years ago
|
12 | |
|
EDF Freeeeze & NPower
Had a flyer with the post this morning from EDF pushing their new Blue + Price Freeeeze Mar 2017 tariff. No real information at all on the flyer like the standing charge or per unit cost. Wander off...
10
|
10 years ago
|
10 | |
|
OT: new baby
Folks, I have to announce the arrival of my first child, a lovely little girl. My wife has lots of DIY lined up for me - changing nappies myself, wiping up sick, etc. 1. Will I be curtailed from doing...
38
|
10 years ago
|
38 | |
|
Revitalising the Green Deal
Hoorah - "7 Make retrofit more financially attractive: Retrofit needs to be made more attractive, whether through the Green Deal or otherwise. Again, our recommendation is that the Government urgently...
17
|
10 years ago
|
17 | |
|
Phone-off-hook indicator
Elderly people living on their own often have an emergency call system whic h is a button they can press that calls an ambulance service. For that to w ork, all phones in their house need to be on the...
37
|
10 years ago
|
37 | |
|
sealing & terminating a virgin cable connection
Thanks for helpful answers to previous posts, it now decided BT is the way to go for b/band once I have moved. That means an existing internal Virgin box connection needs moving & sealing to protect...
11
|
10 years ago
|
11 | |
|
Cutting Gas Bill but now damp smell
Small terraced house where the south facing kitchen and living room have been knocked into one space, leaving one front room separated by a closing door. To cut down on the horrendous gas heating...
12
|
10 years ago
|
12 | |
|
Sill height?
Am I right in thinking that the "sill height" of a window as measured from the floor is not actually the height of the top surface of the sill but of the bottom of the visible glass? I'm trying to...
7
|
10 years ago
|
7 | |
|
Printer fault
Have a fairly old Cannon i865 printer. Only gets used for colour stuff as I have a mono laser too. Was printing off a short instruction manual with some colour pics and the colour part was a bit...
14
|
10 years ago
|
14 | |
|
lathe metalwork
Hi all, Just wondering has anyone had cause to attempt to turn an internal morse taper on a lathe? If so, how much more difficult is it to turning an external one? Given the horrendous price of...
5
|
10 years ago
|
5 | |
|
waste pipe adaptor
Hi gang, Is there such a beast as this? I need an adaptor to convert from a push-fit 1.25" waste elbow to a 1.25" solvent waste elbow. So basically the connector I'm looking for will be essentially a...
7
|
10 years ago
|
7 |