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Well, that was silly
I spent most of today restructuring, reordering, and largely renaming a considerable number of data files on an external 3TB hard drive. I then dropped the drive onto a wooden laminated floor. It now...
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Temporary removial of solar panels
I have some solar panels on my roof which need to be moved to aid a flat roof repair. I was thinking of covering those that need moving, unbolting them, and laying them on the flat roof, or do they...
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Iceland 10% off
well had to use the barcode on the app on an android phone to get the 10% off this morning so there
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RCD Tripping
I have an RCD for the upstairs ring and a separate one for the downstairs ring. Lights, oven, boiler are on their own fused circuits. The downstairs RCD tripped three times yesterday morning but I...
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Clamp for washing-line post
The houses here have concrete posts for the clothes line. They're about 2m to the cross-rods for the line (and about 75 years old and in good condition). The line is too high for most people (I'm...
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v for frequency?
Since when did we start using v for frequency? v is velocity, f is frequency, lambda is wavelength. Using v for frequency is pure insanity....
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Semi-Seized Tap Cartridge
Hi Fellow DIYers I have a monobloc-style mixer tap with two quarter turn taps. The cold tap is stiff-to-seized. My thoughts are that this is limescale as we are is a pretty hard water area - East...
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Take your pick
does anybody remember the young girl who turned down a scooter to open box 13 only to win a holidwy to a place that held memories but she was too young to have a place like that and they gave her the...
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Heat pumps - ThisIsMoney
<>Seems mainly the usual "oh, the horror" followed by inconvenient facts. Heap pumps can fail to heat your home: (1) if it poorly insulated (2) if the radiators are under sized This comes under the...
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'New' PC losing time when powered down and how to refrsh recovery partition
Made an on-the-spur visit to Chichester yesterday and had a browse round the BHF shop. It's huge, I seem to recollect it was a Waitrose 45 years ago. The electrical section had the usual collection of...
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OT: Suspicious transaction on current account
I noticed a payment to Google for advertising, this clearly was an unsolicited payment. I have had a lot of mailshots from Google recently, showing up on my phone, but I have no payment details at all...
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OT: buying a car remotely
SWMBO has been looking for a 4WD Skoda Yeti but can't find anything around our "patch" that's worth buying. Several promising cars appear in adverts but are too far away to look at, so remote purchase...
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Makita 18V second fix nail gun - expensive!
I've had a Rapesco 181el nail gun for years and, although it's needed a couple of repairs, it has been great. The only real gripe is the need for a mains supply and that it's hard to get up close to a...
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Woodburner soot
Does the nature of the soot tell you anything about the quality of your fuel or combustion? I swept my chimney the other day and the soot wasn’t fine black dust but rather coarser gritty brownish...
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Screwfix app
Placed an order online to collect from Screwfix when they reckoned that collection would be speeded up if I used 'the app.' Intrigued by this, I installed the app and logged into it. When I looked at...
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