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Loft Insulation Overlay - is it worth doing?
Hi Like many people, with soaring energy bills, I'm wondering whether to incre ase the amount of insulation in our loft. At first sight, this seems to be a no-brainer, but I've read about this causing...
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Paperwork ...
Short answer. Would you expect to be asked to provide a paper trail in your lifetime? There are those who cannot exist without such. Sadly these are proliferating even though their parents were...
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Building interior windows insulation panels
For years I have thought about building my own insulation panels for my house windows, as shown here: But that chap uses heat-shrinkable plastic to cover the frames. I always intended to cover the...
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OT: Sky dish
Former tenants left a Sky dish behind (screwed to the house and pointing in what looks like the right direction). I want to watch TV, not Sky. Can I just connect a Freesat receiver to the Sky dish?...
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Credit Drayton Controls
Earlier this week I tried to turn the thermostat head on the lounge radiator to adjust the temperature to discover it had seized solid. I have used Drayton TRV4s for all of the thermostatic valves I...
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Tek screws corrugated roofing
Hi, quick question... I know Tek screws are the correct things to use in the bottom of the channel of metal box section roof claadding. Are they also the correct thing to use if one were using 3"...
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dishwasher Vs eggy plate and roast dish
A friend has a 3 year old Bosch dishwasher which can cope with plates that have been left with egg on Sunday roast dish goes in after a soak during dinner. He scrapes the scraps off and does not rinse...
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TLC Direct/Parcel force
Praise where praise is due. I ordered £130 worth of electrical goods from TLC Direct yesterday at 16:42. Parcel force sent me a text at 08:47 this morning saying a parcel from TLC would be delivered...
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Low pressure thermostatic bath filler with shower attachment - does it exist?
Does anyone know of a thermostatic bath filler tap with shower attachment that will give a reasonable flow rate (for filling the bath) with a pressure of 0.3 to 0.35 Bar? Alternatively, can anyone...
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Aldi torches
Just a heads up for anyone as hard up as me. Aldi's 9-led Halloween Glow in the dark torches c/w 3 batteries are now down to 49p. The build quality is less than exceptional, but ours from the...
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More central heating peculiarities
Further to the "no thermostat" thread a few days ago. So my oil boiler (Boulter Camray 2) has a Potterton controller/timer on the wall above it with two sliders for CH and HW that can be on, off,...
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OT: Car Insurance
Following on from the thread last month, my renewal has come through, multicar policy, 2 cars, both of us as named drivers on each car, one as the main driver, business use for all named drivers,...
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OT (Very) Chicken in a Basket
My wife has got involved in a 1960's party and has been volunteered to prepare Chicken in a Basket (and to take a Dansette). We are struggling to agree how the chicken was typically presented. Was it...
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OT: How can I choose a CSS style sheet for printing
I find it frustrating that if I print a webpage, or use "Pint Preview", it looks completely different to that viewed in the Firefox browser. Is there a way of choosing the CSS style sheet, ie not the...
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Type F connector to TV Coax adaptor
I recently bought a new CD/radio that uses a Type F connector instead of th e usual coax type. Thinking I was being smart I ordered what purports to b e an F to Coax adaptor off Ebay so that I could...
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