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TPO
Anyone got any hands on experience with tree preservation orders? Our local council is selling land containing three trees which an independent arboriculturist has deemed worthy of TPO status....
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First class sofabeds
You know how it is... your friend invites you to stay for the weekend and everything sounds great until they let slip the fatal word 'sofabed'. And then it doesn't seem so appealing any more. We've...
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10 years ago
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Quick reminder, test your heating
Getting to that point of the year where it would be handy to find all the broken bits before you really need em ;-)
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10 years ago
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Possible new email swindle?
I've not come across this one before.... My best guess is you respond and then they start to ask you for money to forward your application. _____________________________________________ TRANSAERO...
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10 years ago
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Broken Combi
Our combi has been broken since Wednesday, the maintenance chaps are not to blame. It has been an intermittent fault so very difficult to diagnose the problem. Anyway to come to the point, years ago...
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10 years ago
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Insulating options for a Victorian semi
My Victorian semi (c 1873) is not suitable for cavity wall insulation - something to with rubble filling and/or not enough of a cavity. I'm not sure exactly. However, with huge bills, I have to find a...
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Paint Stripper residue
There's a box in my parents porch that is used for parcels, or items that are too large to go through the letterbox. Well, the lid needed a new coat of varnish, so stripped the old stuff off using...
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10 years ago
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Efficient gas fire insert with air intake from below the floor?
We have an open gas fire in an old coal fireplace that sucks the air out of the room & blows it up the chimney. I'd like to replace it with something that meets the following specifications. * closed...
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10 years ago
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Fitting a couple of extra radiators
Got the system drained down, and I'd like to take the opportunity to fit a couple of extra new radiators - one GF kitchen, and one FF bathroom (heated towel rail in fact). Access is fairly easy, and...
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10 years ago
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New lid needed for coal/log bunker
I need to replace the lid of our coal/log store; this is a very simple block-built structure with a sloping (rotten) timber lid which just lifts up just like a car bonnet. No need to be attached with...
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10 years ago
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Male switches?
Installed an awning over the patio in Handyman Towers a few weeks ago. Fully electric job, wall mounted switch in an IP65 box. Now, since the awning has a motor, it's clearly a boy's toy. However,...
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10 years ago
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Dulux Weathershield gloss
I have been decorating the kitchen and ran out of gloss white but I had an unopened tin of weathershield so I used that, white gloss is white gloss bu t when I finished and was cleaning up I noticed...
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10 years ago
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What's the science behind supermarket fridges?
In the smaller Tesco and Co-Op they have drinks and other stuff in big open-fronted fridges, but the drinks are always really cold. How do they work? Are they just more powerful than a home fridge...
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10 years ago
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Tool chests
Following Dave "patronising" Plowman's comment on my lack of imperial spanners, it occurred to me that I must have some, since as he so charmingly pointed out, I've been working on old cars for years....
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Feeling Smug!
I have just replaced a couple of tap washers. I am feeling really smug about it as the taps came apart so easily as I had greased the threads in a nurdy moment when I had first bought the house new in...
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10 years ago
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