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Creative Uses For Old Plumbing Copper?

We won't call them "landfills" or "dumps", by then they'll be known as "mines". Invest in your future, buy a defunct landfill, do it for the children... DJ

Posted by IdaSpode in Home Repair 20 years ago 
Fire

Including tyre dumps. Vehicle recyclers' yards. Factories. Warehouses. Including Ocado distribution centres. https://www.labcwarranty.co.uk/media/2005/150827building-regs-approved-document-b2-fire-en.pdf

Posted by polygonum_on_google in UK Do-It-Yourself Forum 6 years ago 
Garden pump

Water enters the open hose end, and slow rotation moves the water up toward the centre of the wheel, where a coupling free to rotate dumps it into stationary hose. Downside is size. NT

Posted by tabbypurr in UK Do-It-Yourself Forum 6 years ago 
OT: GB power grid blackout cover-up

And every day it dumps my battery on to the grid between about 5 and 7pm - when electricity is most expensive. Funny how generation works.

Posted by RJH in UK Do-It-Yourself Forum 1 week ago 
OT: What to do when you're going to die

There's no such thing. 240 litres is the size of the general recycling, garden waste, and landfill bins. Who the hell wastes 240 litres of food?!

Posted by James Wilkinson Sword in UK Do-It-Yourself Forum 8 years ago 
Slugs

Our bins are blue for recycling, and black for landfill - flies congregate on the lid of the blue recycling one, and ignore the stinky landfill one.

Posted by S Viemeister in UK Do-It-Yourself Forum 6 years ago 
Recycling / binning old motherboards

Around here we put batteries and small electrical items in a separate bag and leave it by the bins. A motherboard would be classed as large.

Posted by Bod in UK Do-It-Yourself Forum 10 years ago 
FM aerial repair

I'm told there are now some combined dab/fm aerials on the same boom, the fm horizontal and the dab vertical, which is fine if the transmitters are co sites=d. I do not like the vertical dipole idea.

Posted by Brian Gaff in UK Do-It-Yourself Forum 11 years ago 
Switched live colour

With a switch which uses a normal TW&E pair it would *usually* be the black or if new cable, blue. But you can get TW&E with two reds (or two browns) specifically for this purpose. Where a Triple and Earth is used for a thermostat there are even more variations possible.

Posted by Dave Plowman (News) in UK Do-It-Yourself Forum 19 years ago 
Yes folks, its cheaper to heat with electricity!

(Numbers used - earth rotational energy ~2.6 x 10^29 J - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotational_energyworldwide energy usage 50 TW, based on TNP's figure of ~0.3 TW for the UK, and assuming the rest of the world used the same energy per capita) TL

Posted by The Luggage in UK Do-It-Yourself Forum 18 years ago 
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