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Ways to Schedule Work
I'm running out of time/ability/patience, and need to get someone in to finish up my house. Basically, a load of light building works - plastering (mainly patching and skim), replacing floors,...
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I failed my amateur electrician exam
Yesterday I had a near-disaster when replacing a faulty immersion heater switch. I connected Lin and Nin to the mains, and Lout and Nout to the immersion heater. The effect of this was that the...
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White goods power consumption
Having recently installed solar panels I'm now searching for the power cons umption of various equipment in the house and am struggling. For example, o ur kettle says it's 3 kilowatt. Fair enough, but...
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Using foam offcuts for insulation?
I have many binbags and boxes of kingspan offcuts and expanding foam trimmings, Rather than bin them could I use them for insulation under floors? But loosefill insulation comes in round granules,...
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Useless advertising straplines?
"Every day, more pictures are taken with the I-Phone' So that's a least two pictures every day, then? Somewhere in the world at least two pictures are taken with one (or more) I-phone(s) every day....
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touch dimmer switch stops working after a few days - any idea why?
Hi All The recent thread about blowing bulbs reminded me of this: Some years ago I fitted a pair of touch dimmer switches from TLC: These are for for ceiling lamps in our living room. These were...
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Part P changes
Haven't seen anything about this here (and can't find anything on searches), so I'm going to post and be told that it was talked about 10 times last week. As of 6th April 2013, the following took...
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BSP thread compound
I know - it's been done before - but there are seeming a constant stream of new products. So what would people reccomend for parallel BSP joints (brass) that I never want to get apart again - and...
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An invention for better dishwasher maintenance
Our dishwasher failed some months ago. It made a big noise, came to a full stop and its fuse was blown. There also came some smell of fire from it. Without any more inspection I made the quick...
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Tiling issue
A bathroom in a rental property was tiled a few years ago (not by me!). The tiler tiled over a black glass-like panel, which extended along the full length of the bath and up to around 800mm above it,...
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OT: Source of this?
A friend reports he is getting this small image overlaid on many posts in several forums he uses, usually over an embedded image included with the post. I'm guessing some software accidentally...
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Motorcycle battery
We are going overseas for four months, and I'm wondering what's the best way to ensure that my m/c battery is in good shape when I get back (people will be using the car). This battery is new, and I'd...
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DIY challenge for kids
Hi, My wife has just asked me if I would like a project towards her MSc at our kids local pre-school. To create a light box /projector for a pre-school. The idea is to introduce some technology to 2-5...
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Heating is back on...
It's been switched off for around 2 weeks now but we couldn't bear the cold any longer! Anyone else got their heating on in the middle of May?
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Nothing is ever level or square....
I've been doing a lot of small DIY projects whilst renoving up my new house, over the past few weeks. I'm fairly new to DIY and prior to this house I'd have called out a tradesman out to do even the...
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