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Aged Birmingham Resident sought
In the early 1960's there was a Ministry of Labour Employment exchange on Soho Rd., Handsworth, Birmingham. I've been attempting to locate this on Google Maps with no success. Can anyone help?
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Repair to DG windows
I've got a couple if uPVC double glazed windows which have become very drafty around the opening casements. It seems at the the "nylon looking" seal in the frame, which the casement frame closed onto,...
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3 years ago
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Cuprinol Wood Preserver
I've just used the very last of my 5L tin of VOC Cuprinol Wood Preserver, and am looking for a successor. Modern stuff appears to be water-based but contains the same active ingredient. However, there...
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Younger folk & DIY mentality
Another example. We're fashioning a kitchen at work. Gave my eldest son (recently turned 30) the tools and basic instruction necessary to make a hole for a sink. Much pissing about later there's a...
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OT mobile phone battery
Last week while making a phone call on my mobile it cut off with no battery power after around 40 minutes although previously it had been plugged in charging for a lengthy period (days). Further...
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3 years ago
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Greenhouse wifi !
Can you run a cable from the house to the greenhouse? Wired is usually the best way if you can. Alternatively have a socket added to the circuit which goes to the greenhouse near to the fuse board so...
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3 years ago
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Unexplained pipe clunk
The missus had mentioned that something we do upstairs at work makes the pipework downstairs clunk, it clunks semi-regularly when there's nothing being used. We've only a loo and a sink plumbed in...
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3 years ago
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Outside water pipes and freezing...
We've a 15mm plastic mains water pipe on an outside wall. I haven't got around to lagging it yet so as a precaution i've been turning it's supply off in the evening and had been expecting to open it...
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3 years ago
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Under sink manifold
The kitchen sink has a manifold to connect the two sinks plus overflow, waste disposal and dish washer into a single outlet. It is prone to blockage. Its a very simple piece of apparatus. A horizontal...
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3 years ago
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A party wall question...Or probably not.
This is hypothetical but had me wondering. We shared a yard wall with a neighbour, double thickness with one brick on our side and one on theirs butt up to the rear of our houses. When they had a...
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3 years ago
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Nilfisk Aero 26 - anyone used one?
I use an Earlex WD1200 as a LVHP cdust collector in the workshop but it's very noisy so I'm thinking of replacing it with a Nilfisk Aero 26, which boasts a sound output of 64dBa - any relevant...
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3 years ago
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Snake oil, or not?
I keep getting unsolicited adverts thrust at me in my Twitter feed - two of which I wonder about. One is for adjustable spectacles, where you twiddle a knob each side to adjust the diopter rating of...
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3 years ago
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MIG welding
Gentlemen, I need to replace the liner in my MIG welder. The one that's coming out is the 'bicycle brake cable' type where the welding wire's conduit is essentially identical to the tightly-wound coil...
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3 years ago
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NHS email addresses?
I tried to email someone at an NHS hospital address, but it was bounced. The address I used was of the form - ?????.???? Does that address seem to be valid, or does the server simply not accept mail...
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3 years ago
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Battery for electric car.
At the moment I would not buy an electric car because of their price, poor range, short battery life (8 years) and unlikely to be warm inside during the winter. But maybe I could have an electric car...
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