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CH - we don't have room thermostat
Combi-boiler at the rear utility extension of house and there is no room thermostat so have to go and turn the temperature dial on the Baxi 105HE boiler. Not easy to run a wire there but the main...
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Using all the ballance on prepaid cards.
How would you use all the balance on a prepaid Mastercard which you can't top up? Do supermarkets in general allow multiple card payments? e.g. Charge £40 to this prepaid card and the rest to a...
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Fireplace Restoration?
We're moving into a house with this fireplace. It looks like it has been over-painted many times and so it's lost any design or definition it has. The shelf on top can easily come off. I'm just...
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Top tip
If like me you wear disposable rubber gloves whilst painting, here's a way you can make the box last longer. When the pair you're wearing get covered in paint simply take them off, turn them inside...
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Floor tiles for bodge job
We have a new washing machine coming next week to replace the old one which has been leaking for years. The floor tiles around it are broken and some had started to lift, so I have removed some of...
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Continuity between neutral and earth
Hi All I have broken into a ring main to extend it to another room. Essentially cu tting the return from one socket and then connecting each side of the exten ded ring to one of the cut ends. I test...
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Bad smell from washing machine
We have a 4 year old Samsung washing machine (Eco Bubble Quiet Drive WF0804W8E I think it is called). It has been used every couple of days or so since new without any problem. When we came back from...
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Fuses, dimmers and energy-saving light-bulbs
I have a dimmer, with a slow-blow T1.6A fuse; the fuse blew when connected to a lamp with an energy-saving light-bulb. Is that normal behaviour? Daniele
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[OT] Maths GCE O-Level text books from 70s-80s ?
I did the AO Maths - it was mostly additional material (IIRC stuff like more probability, matrices, calculus) - some would have given a softer start to A Level. Next time I'm up at ULCC, I'll nip into...
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Balancing radiators - differential across radiator ?
Most sites recommend a differential across the rad of 12C - but I wonder if this was aimed at higher flow temperatures of yonder times? I manage with flow of 55C most of the year - so what would be a...
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OT. Why you get Dehli Belly on cruise ships
Cheap Asian cooks in the Galley One here for Bignal to excuse. A Muslim school has been given the inspectorate's lowest raking, after a series of failings including not providing toilet paper for...
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OT Tour de Yorkshire 2018
Could in not be run somewhere more appropriate - like say in France.
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1 cement 4 sharp sand to reinforce support for RSJ?
Today I found a steel RSJ sitting on only one brick. Luckily this time it seems to be an engineering brick with portland cement. I want to reinforce it, is 1 cement 4 sharp sand a good mix? With a...
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Traditional Materials?
Where I live I have seen a cycle that goes like this: Extension built - using timber for things like facias. A few years later the house owner has them replaced with uPVC, why don't builders use uPVC...
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OT AMWaters
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