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Electricity costs.
My electricity plan is finishing this month. (Scottish Power two year plan). No gas. Best deal I can get is around 20% more!!! Is this what everybody else has found?
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Ping F
Send me an email fella. I don't have yours on this machine. It's about you house alarm.
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Very OT, memory card
I'm asking on behalf of an elderly gent. I know nothing about these things New SanDisk 32GB SDHC memory card used in dash cam. VLC won't play dash cam footage and reports "AVI index is broken" The...
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Blown plaster caused by disintegrating brickwork
Back to DIY after a long break and I'm easing in with what should be (have been!!) a simple job, redecorating the spare bedroom. However, after steaming off the old wallpaper I discovered some very...
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OT: LibDems and irony
I see a number of references on Twitter to a speech Cleggy made at a debate last year before the EURef, in which (expecting to win it) he likened some of his fellow speakers (such as Dave's friend St...
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Aldi Hose Fittings
Just treated myself to a set of Aldi metal hoselock type fittings. Less that ?5.00. I feel I have cheated someone - there seems at least ?10 worth of metal in them. Absoultely lovely - shame to leave...
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Roof insulation: Cold call from firm that sprays closed-cell foam between roof rafters.
G'day! Today, I had a cold sales call from a company offering to spray closed-cell (polyurethane?) foam between my roof rafters. I thought I'd run this past you folks, because a lot of you understand...
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OT: Windpower real numbers
Interesting article in the current edition of The Spectator: We urgently need to stop the ecological posturing and invest in gas and nuclear
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Cutting into wall-mounted CH copper pipe ?
SO following the sage advice here, fitting an external expansion vessel seems to be the way to go. Seems they need to be plumbed into the CH return pipe ? On my boiler, this is a larger (1" ?) copper...
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Dead flat light work table?
Hi, Real man's DIY question here... I don't have a proper workshop (yet), but I need to start making stuff for the house. I have a shed that can take an 8x4' sheet on its side for storage, just to...
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Old tools
Been working on a little project recently which involved a lot of 10mm holes in wood, for coach bolts. Rather than flatten my cordless drill battery, I dig out my ancient B&D mains powered drill,...
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LLoyds shares
since they're going on sale, anybody know where you can buy some at the opening price ? Googling "Lloyds shares" returns pages of results all leading to Lloyds share-dealing services. Which is not...
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OT: chuckle territory
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/Matt%20homepage/Matt%20-%20May/1705-MATT-PORTAL-WEB-P1-small.png...
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Post Supports
I am contemplating building a small freestanding pergola, and considering the fixing method. I want to avoid potential rot, so have discounted directly concreting in the uprights. The last time I...
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Resticking wallpaper
I have a few places where wallpaper is slightly unsticking, and access is a bit tricky. It occurs to me that some form of syringe with a largish bore needle might serve to introduce a little PVA to...
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