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Where to buy 2.5 metre lengths of studding?
Can anone suggest where I might buy a couple of 2.5 metre long lengths of (something like) M10 studding? I can find 1 metre lengths by the dozen, but nothing longer.
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Compact colour laser?
Hi all, I'm possibly looking out for a compact colour laser printer and have some requirements (sort of in order of importance). 1) Reasonably compact, height being the least important. 2) No 'sticky...
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Surge protection
I have a surge protection extension in the kitchen, used for TV, decoder box and radio. It is very old. I read here recently that these devices may present a fire risk. To my knowledge we have never...
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replacement doors for house
We need two doors in our house replaced, one in the kitchen going out to the yard, and the front door to the house. Who would do such work in my area, London SW12? I can spend a little more money, I...
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Speedfit to cap gas?
Someone has written 'gas pipe under floorboard' on the upstairs wall. You pull the board up and there it is, with a speedfit cap on. That can't be OK, can it? Or can it?
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OT: offer of help
Hil's remote pacemaker monitor stopped working, so I rang the NHS contractor. They arranged to exchange the unit. The next day the new unit arrived. I went down the drive to get it because it would...
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OT: Snow chaos in Basingstoke
Isn't that where that (in)famous roundabout is ?. Must be hilarious when you cannot see any white lines too. Hardly any snow in Sussex. What we had overnight (about an inch) went fairly quickly and...
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Kitchen wall prep before refit
I'm undecided, Whether to make good the kitchen walls, then fit a kitchen. Because it would be nice to start with, and work in, a nice clean, square envirinment. Or given that the vast majority will...
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Cable grip in back box
I got a 2 gang surface mount back box the other day that had cable grips in it, which I thought was a good idea. But it only had two, and they weren't opposite but one on the side and the other top...
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Genealogy - again
I asked this here before, so apologies for a re-run of the question. I am trying to get family tree data into a sensible and easily understood form. I am not really interested in the subject, but...
 
How do estate agents get addresses?
A mix of council and privately owned in the street, postie this morning had an easy delivery round, just to some of the addresses, ours being one of them. The only item a card from an estate agent...
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Condensing boilers in extreme cold weather
Watching the news last night the reports on the current cold affecting much of the USA showed several people demonstrating the extreme cold by throwing boiling water into air just to see it...
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yodel
First time a yodel driver came to my door to apologise for delivering to the wrong address ...
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Hiya Everybody. Here We Go Once more, With Snow All Over Again! At City Of Ulster
Sternberg notes that there isn't any come-back from anybody if you happen to let off steam or moan about your writing stuckness - no one is there to sanction or censor you. 'Perfesmile recensioni' ( I...
 
Gridwatch: New Belgian interonnector is up and running.
On Fri, 8 Feb 2019 11:19:22 +0000, Andy Burns wrote: IOW pay more, get less. I imagine that with the French tendency to riot at the first opportunity, Les Verts will be running for cover in the...
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