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Kitchen Splashbacks
SWAMBO has decided she does not like the idea of tiled walls and instead has opted for using splashbacks. Since I have never had any experience of using splashbacks, I would be interested in feedback...
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Gas in water?
About three weeks ago we had a major water main burst which supplied a lot of the south of the borough of Kingston Upon Thames, Thames water bypassed the problem area somehow and although the pressure...
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Mystery item arrives
A hire van came this morning and the young man gave me a small package. The package had the curved arrow logo on it (Amazon presumably). There was absolutely no cover note, invoice, or anything else...
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3 years ago
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Pressure washers
(no, really, I do want some advice on one!) It's spring, so I was cleaning the patio. It stopped. It had tripped the breaker for its circuit, the main breaker in the garage box, and the breaker for...
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What hinge to allow a door to fold fully back?
Hi, I'm looking to see if there is some special kind of hinge that will allow a regular (pine) internal door to open fully so that it is flush(-ish) against the wall that it is hinged to. With regular...
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3 years ago
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Side road resurfacing
Originally concrete slab, later tarmaced. They are resurfacing and have scrapped up the tarmac down to concrete - how long do they normally leave it, before returning to retarmac? It's been two weeks...
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find details from a bank account?
I had workers in last year to work on my garden They did a good ob so I would like them again this year. Sadly I have lost the contact details, all i have is the bank details From where I paid them....
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3 years ago
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Desk ideas
Hi All, With a future now of working from home, we have decided to renovate our study. The current iteration of the design has some painted units along the back wall and a large desk on the opposite...
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3 years ago
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OT Can anyone guess what the van did this morning?
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3 years ago
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Cement mixer
Anyone got one? Are you glad you have it or do you wish you'd hired as and when? And what have you got, is there any point buying something other than a Belle? I've a few jobs to do and i'd probably...
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Driving Licence
Do people still have the paper bit of their UK driving licence, I have not seen mine for decades.
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Reusing white tiles
I have a pile of old white tiles, is it worth re using them or would the cost of the extra thickness of glue end up more expensive? They were glued onto crumbly old lime plaster. And if its worth...
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3 years ago
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Grass shears
I'm hoping to find an alternative to a crappy strimmer I currently have available. Many years ago, I tried a grossly under-powered but cheap grass shear device - like a mini-headge cutter. It worked...
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3 years ago
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Painting freshly mortared brickwork
I'm having some spalled bricks removed from the chimney stack and they will be replaced with engineering bricks. The stack is painted to match the rest of the house. How soon after the bricks have...
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OT: Image reversal during TV interviews
Occasionally I notice that live interviews of people on TV are reversed L<>R. It's very obvious when there is text of some sort in the background - books on a shelf, or street or shop signs. Why do...
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