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Seagulls
Over the last year or so a large flock of Seagulls has invaded our neighbourhood. We are on a small hill, so they tend to land on some of the highest buildings? roofs (ours included), and make a hell...
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SOT: Interesting fast delivery
I'm finally sorting out my 'indoor shed' (a large room I use as a workshop). I decided to order some flooring, and selected some interlocking tiles. THe best place to buy these turned out to be...
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Blow torch
Is yours the Rothenberger Superfire 2? ROTHENBERGER is one of the world's leading manufacturers of innovative, technologically sophisticated pipe tools and pipe processing equipment in sanitary,...
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Cutting disc expiry date
I bought a pack of five Erbauer metal cutting discs from Screwfix about 18 months ago. Three were used and the rest stored. I needed to use them again yesterday, but noted on the metal centre of the...
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Petrol lawnmower trouble
I've got a Hayter petrol lawnmower with a Briggs and Stratton 4 stroke engine. In a moment of madness I turned it over to remove some blockages from the blade area. There were some glugging and...
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Salt driveway weedkiller ?
Posted recently about the profusion of weeds *since* having my driveway weeded and re-sanded. Fed up with fiddly chemicals etc (which are of limited use). What are the implications of buying a sack...
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Laying slabs question
I've been instructed by HID to lay a slab path. Because the vegetable bed on on side is some 100mm higher than the existing well tramped down grass path, I'm thinking of putting in treated wood...
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Leaking roof
A friend has a leak through her roof. It is a 3-storey "town house" and acc ess is difficult, so we have not seen the source of the leak. She has recei ved an estimate from the only roofer who turned...
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7 years ago
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That gap around the sockets
I've never really found an acceptable solution to the annoying gap that shows above, below or to one side of a socket/switch after plasterboard wasn't cut just right to line up with the back boxes....
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Using a fibreglass roofing kit on a bathroom floor.
I recently did a flat roof in fibreglass and am very happy with the result. I now want to create a wet area in my bathroom which is below ground, the floor is screeded. Can anyone see any problems...
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OT Not the age of Aquarius after all.
'The phenomenon is of sufficient scale to be considered as part of the Geological Time Scale'
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Karcher K4.99 low power.
Hi all, I was just having a tidy up in the shed and found a Karcher K4.99 that I think I was asked to look at with/for daughters ex. I've just powered it all up and it runs and stops on the trigger...
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Releasing company fuse from mounting board and cooker cable size?
I want to cut about 2" of the top of the board that holds an electricity meter and the company fuse. To do this I need to remove the board. I can see how to unscrew the meter, but there are no visible...
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Riverside Cottage 7
OK so all the plumbing apart from some microbore buried in the walls is stripped out. Radiators in fair order stacked on a pallet ready for scrap or? Today's questions:- What do people do with...
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Reinforcing the back of a TV or monitor
We have (had) a standard 20" Sony TV in our motor home, mounted on the wall. It has been fine for a number of years but now I notice that the plastic around the VESA mount has broken in one corner and...
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