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Marginally d-i-y
Anyone used the set down at Stansted lately? 1st go round the exit gate took an age to authenticate my Trustcard:-( 2nd go around because some idiot left their mobile phone in the car and I had to...
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2 years ago
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Dash Cams - Sensible purchase?
I have been wondering about fitting a Dash Camera to my car. I was surprised to find that the Nextbase cameras that I was looking at only hold at most, the last three minutes of picture data apart...
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2 years ago
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How negligent can you get?
A thousand years of history up in smoke because a workman set fire to the thatch. They were torching some lead, next to a thatched roof, and set fire to it. Surely, even one of Adam's apprentices...
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2 years ago
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Having an Up and Downer with a Chinese supplier
I bought an expensive precision instrument through Amazon and it was damaged when it arrived, with a busted box and a broken lug, which was integral to the cast instrument body. It is a portable...
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2 years ago
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sensible wummin...following my lead
The smartphone users who are ditching their handsets to take back more control of their lives.
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2 years ago
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doomed..enjoy your last years
'The UK needs to create a new motoring tax to plug the revenue gap as drivers switch to electric cars, MPs have said. The government should tax motorists based on miles travelled as the use of petrol...
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2 years ago
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3 way valve
I have some instructions for a (Japanese) heating controller which has an output for a hot water/central heating 3 way valve. The terminals are labelled: 1ph 230V, 1A 1=Neutral, 2=Phase, 3=Signal...
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2 years ago
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Legionnaires Disease Precautions
In my new (to me) house I have a shower that is a "dead leg" in that it is plumbed after the bath with nothing beyond it. What do I realistically need to do to bring it back into use, it won't have...
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2 years ago
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I ought to use lime plaster... but...
We've got an old house. A _really_ old house. I've just found that the side of the fireplace was missed when we had a chemical damp course injected, and the base of the other walls redone with lime...
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2 years ago
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Weather compensation and HW cylinder overrides - boilers?
I've just started reading up on weather compensation systems that can be retrofitted with the aim of reducing flow temperature to maximise the efficiency of a condensing gas boiler, as appropriate. In...
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2 years ago
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fuel for 2 stroke engines
I have twice been told, by different Stihl service centres, that no fuel shoul be held over winter due to degradation. Is this hogwash? We store upwards of 100 litres of petrol in a mixture of 25litre...
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2 years ago
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Keeping bees out of the loft.
I like bees so I wouldn't want to harm them but I'd prefer they didn't nest in my loft each year: apart from anything else, they seem to be destroying the insulation material. I've seen suggestions...
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2 years ago
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Stuck-together paper.
There's lots of contradictory advice on t'internet about how to separate sheets of paper stuck together by damp. The advice ranges from freezing (to turn the moisture to ice crystals) to heating it...
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2 years ago
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Dormobiles
If you spend a night in a dormobile can you get pissed legaly?....I think you are in charge of the keys and could get done by the pigs.....
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2 years ago
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Cooker hood lighting
Our cooker hood has two rather feeble lights behind two lenses that are about 15cm X 5cm. There?s no reflector above the bulbs so about 90% of their output is wasted illuminating the inside of the...
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2 years ago
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