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OT: Engine remaps
I've always tried to buy cars with enough poke, but we bought a Volvo 1.6 diesel because it was a pretty colour and free road tax. I've not enjoyed it at all, i'd say it was so flat on the bottom end...
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diy-kitchens.com - chuffed
I'm often disappointed, sometimes pleased, rarely chuffed. But we ordered some kitchen from the above (in part due to reading good things in this group) and i'm well chuffed. They aren't dirt cheap...
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Taking a couple of mm off a door, belt sander?
I have a few doors in my life that are sticking, I have NO skills with a plane, it isn't really enough to warrant getting a circular saw and I cant really be arsed removing the doors anyway.... So...
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TOT: my afternoon with Radio Four
On Mon, 17 Feb 2020 19:52:55 +0000, williamwright wrote: So, what did you do to fix the gate? Cheers, T i m
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Glazing panel doors
I'm proposing to replace a couple of small plywood doors (serving hatch) with framed glazed doors. I intend to make the frame from softwood and glaze the door with 3mm perspex. I'll cut a groove in...
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Fastening wooden fence posts on top of brick wall that is capped with stone slabs
I want to fasten a couple of wooden fence posts, about 1.5 m high, with a fence panel fastened between the posts, on top of a brick wall that is capped with stone slabs. The brick wall appears to be...
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Re: great film on
On Mon, 17 Feb 2020 11:51:27 +0000 "Jim GM4DHJ ..." wrote: ...oh, I don't know about that....
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OT: Garden landslide
My house is in what once was a clay quarry and the back garden rises, in a couple of stages, to about 50', maybe more. The last stage is very steep, impossible to get up and was covered in ivy. At the...
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Flooded Cars?..
Seeing a great number of cars in water recently, some just up to the sills some to the roof bars. IN this day of lots of electronics in cars what are the chances of them working again, or are they all...
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Sky Q and many channels at once - how does it work?
How does Sky Q get several channels through one cable? When Sky HD came out, we had to add a second cable to the dish to get two channels. But Q does not need 6 cables to get 6 channels.
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OT: liability
Next door's damson tree split its trunk and went over the fence into our garden. It may have spludged the fence on the way over, can't tell yet as it's a chain link embedded in a lonicera hedge. I...
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Re: Banks new requirement....
I was under the impression that had always been the case. With purchases over £30 requiring a PIN resetting the count ?
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Re: Banks new requirement....
What is with this "going to be"? - it has been happening for a long time. Partner seems to have it about every other time she uses her cards.
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condensation in kitchen, black mould and all that stuff
I am sure that many of you will recall that for awhile - years - i have been be moaning the problems of my kitchen, condensation and mould (1950's bungalow). I have it all year round but in winter it...
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paper or mesh plasterboard jointing tape?
I?m about to lower and plasterboard a ceiling. The existing ceiling and ornate coving is too far gone for a (economic) repair and plaster skim. The lath and plaster flat part of the ceiling has been...
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