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OT - Saucepan handle
One handle is broken on our large saucepan, so I made a rather crude wooden handle and glued it to the lugs. Only then did my son tell me that this is the saucepan that goes in the oven, for stews. I...
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OT - Ideal boilers (and boiler quality in general)
Just went round a couple of new developments purely to be nosey, and I noted that both (different developers with very different quality) had Ideal boilers in the show homes. Advice here seems to be...
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Ideal Icos HE 18 troubles
Some years ago, it failed and it turned out to be PCB failure, the onboard transformer. It was expedient to get a replacement PCB (#2) at the time, then I later sourced, fitted and tested it with a...
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Rod Speed
Anyone seen sight or sound of him? According to another group I'm on that he infests, he hasn't posted since January. According to Reddit, he may be quite old; Hopefully he's popped his clogs.
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Flushing heating system and rads
I had my Worcester combi boiler serviced last week, and the engineer suggested that the system needed flushing out as the water in the system was discoloured. I spoke to a local plumber who told me...
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Re: “Powerflushing” a CH system. How much?
£600 seems a little high. £400 might be closer, depending on system size. A special offer just for tomorrow is probably standard for little old ladies who are assumed not to know much about stuff....
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“Powerflushing” a CH
My mother has had some combi boiler trouble recently, first a diverter valve that wasn’t switching properly when HW was called for and now a mysterious leak from somewhere internal. According to the...
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Stick on real wood veneer.
Sorry to ask for some DIY advice, but has anyone any experience of using either stick on or iron on veneer on a fairly large panel? Roughly 750 x 450 mm? I've found a few places online that supply a...
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Does old PVA glue go off?
I've just recreated the classic chandelier drop scene in 'Only fools and horses' (whoops), and now have a wooden chandelier light fitting assembled with clamps, rubber bands and many squirts of PVA...
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One for the plumbers
Confused at Marford. The plumbers flew in and fitted the new boiler, associated heating manifold connections, diverter valve and coupled up the DHW header. For some reason they appear to have fitted a...
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How many people does it take to change a light?
Conversely, in my Dad's day as an LEB engineer: The Engineer (him) would predict the position of the fault in an underground cable (proper Wheatstone bridge stuff then); Labourer or two would turn up...
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Pipework to shower
In my loft I found a bit of a leak. The hot and cold to the shower both have a in-line stop tap and then a non- return valve / check valve. (30+ years old) The stop tap is weeping a bit and other...
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OT: does anyone know of a good UK photography newsgroup?
Does anyone know of a good UK photography newsgroup? Bill
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The Ultimate D-I-Y project
The restoration of Donald Campbell's Bluebird will be featured on 'The One Show' tonight, March 20.
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Castors, Redux.
Thanks very much whoever it was recommended "glide feet" instead of castors for my speakers. Bought a set of these, which work very well; Thread Height: 13mm, 20mm, 25mm. Why Buy From Us?.
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