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Dry lining boxes in the floorboards
Following advice I am mounting (or trying to) single 13 amp sockets with a flip lid into the floorboards. I ordered Appleby dry lining boxes from Screwfix. <>After a major struggle I managed to get...
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On topic
a different life I was in the trade and could not work out what he was doing. Handy lad with all the gear. Watch to the end. I'm not surprised the fire service do not approve.
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Turdis
Hi All, Pump out type toilets that are used at festivals etc. Do they have a separate tank of flush water with blue in it? Or does the liquid get filtered and recirculate? I?d always assumed the...
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OT: Deal or No deal
Scraped off the internet somewhere.... "No-deal Armageddon has finally struck. But thanks to our wise prime minister, who secured an extension till October, it didn?t strike in the UK. At least, not...
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Clutch failure?
Ah, the benefits of electric cars!!
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Removing a broken screw
Had half an 80 mm screw (5mm diameter) break off level with the surface of mortar between bricks yesterday. It was held in by a plastic wallplug. Having wondered about using a screw remover, drilling...
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Microsoft Office on W7 64 bit and W8.1 64 bit - Xpost
Last week spent some time removing bits of Office 2003, 2007, 2010 and working 2013 from four Windows 7 PCs. In order to do a clean (as reasonably practical) install of Office 2016 (365). No issues....
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Venetian blinds - angled up or down?
Which way is it more efficient to angle the slats of venetian blinds to keep a room cool: * downwards, so that warm air behind them stays there instead of being drawn into the room (but sunlight...
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OT: New washer/dryer
Hi Daughter has a 3rd floor appartment (probably not relevant) and in her kitchen she has a built-in washer/dryer (with a cupboard door over the front). The dryer part has never really worked - it...
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swa cleat spacing
Hi all, I'm finally running the cable to the garage. What is the spacing for SWA cleats clipped to the side of a wall ? SWA is 10mm x 3 core. Thanks, Simon.
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Static electricity monitor for blind.
Hi does anyone produce a probe that can detect rising electrostatic charge, say on a person. I have a friend who you can hear crackle when they use my vacuum cleaner. I do not have this trouble, but...
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fixing cables to various surfaces.
Just a bit of info here, regarding the fixing of cables to various surfaces. It is possible to use a No 4 self tapper in place of the nail in a normal cable clip. Maybe not the little clips that have...
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DIY NAS. RPi4B?
Hi all, I've been running OMV on a RPi2B with a 3TB external 2.5" drive (powered by the RPi) for some time now and whilst I'm still not fully conversant with the OMV software, I do seem to be able to...
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Hot tub? Anyone got one?
Stayed in a couple of holiday lets recently that had hot tubs. I didn't think i'd be into it but love it. Toying with the idea of getting one but I doubt we will but just wondered if others have and...
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tarpaulin
does anybody here call a tarpaulin a hap ? ...having an argument about it
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