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Building a big shed - bureaucracy and floors
Hello, I currently have as a workshop a cheap Yardmaster metal shed. With some mod ifications (interior boarding, polystyrene in the roof, etc) it's served me adequately for the last five years or so,...
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Hotpoint Dishwasher Fire Alert
FYI I've just received a letter from Hotpoint stating there is a low risk of a module(?) overheating and in rare cases a fire hazard. Models FDW20/FDW60/FDW65A with a serial number with the first five...
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9 years ago
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CH heating not switching off, independant of programmer. Solution please?
Conventional vented fully pumped system with motorised valves to CH & DHW. Still set to come on for a couple of hrs am & pm. Mainly for dhw but ch just in case. Came home this afternoon and heating is...
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9 years ago
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PC Fan wiring Q
Going to be using a PC fan on a non-PC project. (details in earlier thread) I bought (and also recommended here) the ARCTIC F12 PRO TC It arrived ... and as well as standard 3 pin lead which is...
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9 years ago
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OT - Greenpeace finances depleted
3.8 million euros down the pan that can't be spent pushing the grubby green agenda has to be a good result. I'm off to open a bottle of red to celebrate Yahoo is now a part of Verizon Media
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Cooling upstairs of a house
A couple of years back I posted a question .. didn't get very far, thought I'd try again. I have a modern highly insulated 2 storey house, and this time of year the upstairs get very hot .... and with...
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9 years ago
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Karcher suction hose.
I wanted to use RO water to clean my windows using the pressure washer as a pump. It doesn't work with just a length of hose attached to the inlet. However it does work with a £2.37 non return valve...
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9 years ago
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Re-celling with Li-Ion or Li-Po
I'm tempted to re-cell a couple of dead NiCd battery packs with Li-Ion/Po (with appropriate charge/discharge protection!!). It looks like it should be fairly straightforward and cheap. Has anyone here...
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9 years ago
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Flue Longevity
Hi all General question to the floor I guess... How long would you expect boiler flue components to last? This is one item that, in the normal course of events, I would expect to be fit-and-forget for...
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9 years ago
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Tumble drier "Clean filter" light comes on falsely
We have a Whirlpool tumble drier (about 5 years old), on which the red warning LED, which means that the lint filter needs emptying, keeps lighting up when there's hardly anything in the filter, so...
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9 years ago
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FYI: Toolshow 2014
Hi all Their publicity doesn't seem too good, and I hesitate to do their work for them, but FYI 'ToolShow 2014' is at the Amex Stadium, Falmer, nr. Brighton, on 19th & 20th July this year. Cheers Jon...
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Re: av
I think what you really need is a brand new hard drive.
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Sending packages abroad
Has anyone on here had much experience sending things to foreign countries. I want to send a laptop to South America and have no idea which firm to se nd it with. The only way I can decide on which...
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OT Google World Cup
Is it just me or have the Google servers collapsed under the weight of World Cup activity? Most other things seem to be ok but even getting a map to load takes an age. Maybe the Americans don't...
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Loosening a ceiling rose
I have a round plastic ceiling rose in our kitchen which I am unable to rotate in order to remove it. I guess the heat from the bulb below may have distorted it, or just made it adhere tightly to the...
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