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Wiring Up Garages
I have a 100 Amp supply into the house and at peak use we maybe get to 25 Amps in the house. No electric showers or hob. I want to take a 40 amp supply to the garage via a 10 sqmm three core SWA cable...
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Re: Ping Bill Wright ...
Does anyone know what is going to happen to It is carrying Bills site at the moment and most Google searches are favouring the PARAS version over the domain.
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20th anniversary of WWW today
Twenty years ago today, the organization that created the World Wide Web made its underlying technology available to everyone on a royalty-free basis. To commemorate that occasion, the very first...
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Splutter! How many pieces?
He is some expert with the saw, shame he was not so good at the stands!
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Nitrogen Gas Bottle...rent free?
Hi chaps, looking for a large nitrogen gas bottle solution rent free as it's just do i have the gas handy should i need it so wont use much. Obviously i don't want to be paying rental so a rent free...
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Wall Trellis
Hello. My better half would like this stuff - - more interesting link - fitted to the front of our house, for the encouragement of plants. My question for the assembly is; are there any damp...
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Fuel bills
One to watch out for. My fixed price gas/electricity deal is coming to an end shortly and I have been sent a new proposal. Basically they want to charge £100/year "meter rental" (regardless of how...
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OT: how the hell..
can you drown in a poxy hotel swimming pool unless you actually wanted to? I cant even think of a cocktail of party chemicals that would make you so drongoed that you didn't realise...
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Dulux Satinwood
Good god alive, how awful is this stuff? Dulux, good name. Satinwood, well I'm doing wood. It says Buttermilk on the tin but I don't think it's the colour as it's a far better description of its...
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OT-Bad Maths?
So according to: "Mathematician" Coralie Colmez claims that if you do a DNA analysis on an unreliably small piece of evidence and get the same result as the first time, this strengthens the case that...
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stair parts - pre-primed ?
I can get my stair parts for around 300 quid, or 350 pre-primed. I thought, oh good I just need to gloss them, but the website says, "pre-primed, just need undercoat and top coat". So for 50 quid I am...
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OT: Percentage help please
A friend phoned today and asked me to explain the following to him. By the time I'd finished, he was more confused than ever. Could someone please spell it out in simple terms? Smith and Jones buy a...
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OT More about the EU.
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Expanding foam + easily removable
Instead of dissolving, which would require large amounts of rather nasty, flammable and toxic liquids, no matter which dissolvable [plastic] material you chose, why not design the form to be...
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New gullys - piccies
Links are all pictures of 2 rainwater gullies I made this weekend: There's a 4" concrete pad under both (that was Saturday's work). Brickwork was Sunday - including showing the kids how to mix and lay...
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