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Incralac brass lacquer
Has anyone any experience of using Incralac or similar lacquer on non-ferrous metal - if so has the finish lasted well outdoors. The blurb for the Incralac indicates that it should, but if anyone has...
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Bookshelves
I want to build some bookshelves. What's a good material to use for the shelves themselves - around 30 cms deep? I know this sounds like a daft question, but I want it to be reasonably cost-effective...
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Strong alternative to chimney corner bracket
I want to put a satellite dish plus motor on a tenement chimney, but unfortunately one south-west corner of the chimney is already in use for someone else's dish, and the other south-east corner is...
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Safety mods to an electric lamp bought overseas?
Just back from a family trip to Egypt learning to scuba dive. Boy, it was fantastic - best holiday *evah*, etc etc Anyway, while we were out there SWMBO and Offspring #1 managed to find the time to go...
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OT: Shoot the moon
An amusing thought landed on me last night while strolling to the pub. How about someone manfacturing solar cells that are actually fake? Like the stone cladding popular during the eighties, they...
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Battery-operated mains
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OT Copying/recording video.
I have a DVD player/recorder that has a hard disk as well as DVD slot. It also has an instruction book an inch thick. I can copy stuff from the TV onto the hard disk in the recorder. I can transfer...
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Nuts am I unfit...
Just digging a short 4 ft trench by 2ft deep (ish) to add a new gully drain connection to the main sewer chamber. Picture of moderate spoil heap: Picture of a 2ft high pile of concrete from the path:...
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new fire surround with cast iron fascia
Was thinking of a stove, but for various reasons decided to keep the open f ire. It is a Baxi Burnall fireplace with a 1930s tiled fire surround that is jus t about OK, but really does need to be...
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Gov web site doesn't like W's !!!
Sign of my age I know, but was trying to get a pension statement request logged onto the appropriate gov web site for which you have to register with the gov gateway: When I try and type in my name...
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A New Low In Delivery Practice?
I am still using the delivery arrangements I found on purchasing the property. Having no letter box, post is delivered to a box on the gatepost, and small parcels can be put in an old just about...
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Standby Diseasel Generator...
A fried of mine is after a generator that can supply around 7 to 10 odd KVA that is Diesel and is self start. I bought one of a firm up in the west midlands a couple of years ago and would have gone...
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Replacement door of non-standard height
An elderly relative whom I help with odd jobs needs a new side door on his garage as the existing one has rotted away. Unfortunately it's a non-standard height of 1770 mm. Virtually all doors on sale...
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planning in a pickle ?
Eric Pickle's latest idea has created 2 types of "permitted" development, w hat we have now and the "enhanced" version with bigger allowances but with a "lightweight" planning consultation to give the...
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Re: Cowboy plumbers - question about elderly neighbour
In article , Rod scribeth thus It -might- be the gas pipe, that is sometimes done or at least it was done whether or not its OK practice now I don't know. If they have run a water pipe outside then...
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