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Bizarre usage of bottled gas - less used to keep house at high temp rather than low temp
We've just moved into my parents' holiday cottage for a few months because we've sold our house and not yet found a new house. My parents chose to run the boiler off bottled propane rather than oil...
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Freezing pipes.
If you think your pipes might freeze, leave a tap dripping. The one furthest from the stop tap.
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OT snow
I've not set foot outside today but the snow on our side streets must be bad as the taxi drivers are only traveling at 2 miles per hour!
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Inhibitor for aluminium heating boiler?
After a couple months heavy use our central heating boiler has once again filled its condensate trap. This is an IDEAL ISAR HE50 with an aluminium heat exchanger installed 10 years ago. The liquid...
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Glue 21.5mm overflow pipe
I want to glue some of this pipe, which I presume is uPVC. It's a pinhole. The solvents in the usual solvent weld things are not usable in this case, so I'm looking at glues. It needs to tolerate...
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OT: ROFL. Siemens wind turbines as bad as Bosch dishwashers
Fortschritt durch Wichsen 500 UK offshore wind turbines need vital repairs earlier than expected in an enormous renewable energy blunder which could cost more than £500 million.
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Leaking soldered joint on copper pipe
Just a quick(!) question, why would a weeping soldered fitting continue to weep at the same rate when the supply is turned off and the pressure removed (by opening a tap) ? Is this just a "They all do...
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Condensate drain
Just been on my mate's garage roof, removing ice from his condensate drain. Hopeless positioning, pipe run is about 12 feet with the last foot inaccessible from inside because of overhanging eaves. I...
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Combi boiler DHW oddity ?
Weather related ? Turned on HW tap in bathroom sink for first time today, and there was a reddish taint to the water for a few seconds. Some sort of suspension. All other taps seem OK. Heating is...
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Gas deficit today
On the news just now... Apparently gas consumption today would be 400M cubic metres, but there's only 350M cubic metres available, so a gas deficit has been declared. This means large industrial users...
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6 years ago
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Tricity Bendix Washer AW 1400 W stopped working
Our 18 year old WM[1] refuses to run[2] any program and flashes/beeps the "End" lamp with an "error code" of 8 which isn't a listed code in the user guide. I've tried searching for answers using...
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Gridwatch
The grid may not be breaking records for demand, but the number of people watching it certainly has. And the donations keep trickling in. Thanks guys (and the occasional girl)...
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SOT: electric vehicle cars
I assume domestic chargers for electric vehicles are single phase. If you had access to a three phase supply could you get a better charger?
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win 7 downloads
Just delete all the files in that directory Tim. Where is the download folder stored on Windows 7? Is it in the program files? document files? or is it a completely separate folder somewhere?
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OT Adobe acrobat
Idly poking around my desktop (gently snowing outside) I came across a huge download file of every Acrobat pdf looked at since I changed to W7pro. I guess somewhere there must be an option to save or...
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