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Mobile Phone Signal Booster.
Do they do work? Any recommendations please. mark
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Moggie in a flap!..
Anyone have any experience of those microchip cat flaps the ones designed to only let your puss thru the door?. And ones that make a better job of sealing it when it is closed. Cheers...
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Is it easy to replace DKO970 control box in Wallstar 15/20 oil boiler?
I kept the "old" DKO970 when the engineer fitted a new, allegedly compatible, TF 832.3 in its place a couple of weeks ago. I have my suspicions about whether the new TF 832.3 *IS* truly compatible...
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OT: Pi Shop
they called it a "store") http://store.raspberrypi.com/ http://store.raspberrypi.com/shame
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OT I must be old
Dunno if this is a proper definition of old but I worked at a high school today and most of the teachers were younger than me. This is the first time I have actually felt old.
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Securing wall hung pan
Just finished the tiling and got the pan out of the box ready to bolt to the wall. The instructions indicate that a thin silicone rubber gasket should go between pan and tiles, but none is supplied...
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Replacing a Myson Unit 3 CH pump.
Hi all, I'm trying to help out the old lady we keep an eye on over the road. I popped over just now and for some reason when straight to the circulating pump. It's a Myson Unit 3 and if you undo the...
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How to zone underfloor heating
Our re-furb is grinding ever onwards approaching completion asymptotically (i.e. never getting there!). We have wet under floor heating in one part, and conventional radiators elsewhere, both heated...
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Ravenheat boilet pcb's
Is there any market for second hand pcb's for ravenheat CSI 85 B (T) boilers? i have 2 of the buggers as spares now, as the boiler has just been fitted with it's 3rd new main pcb, Green light on, pump...
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[OT] Geoff - fancy a trip to the Antarctic?
"It?s a familiar problem. You are in a rush to finish jobs in the run-up to Christmas, the weather is freezing cold and then your boiler packs up and cannot be fixed without a critical spare part from...
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Mystery object
Any ideas what this might be? It was found amongst items when clearing a house:...
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loft insulation and access
Right, having loft insulated with fibreglass on Jan 14th for 99 pounds. I will have to remove the various loose laid floorboards currently used to walk around up there. I do not really have time to...
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Alert Pal Alarm Camera anyone?
Recently received an email from LocksOnline (from whom I've bought mechanical bits and pieces in the past) attempting to sell me a security system. Details here: idea seems to be that when (if) it...
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No Smoking on the Underground
Many times I have stood at Baker Street or one of the other stations where steam locomotives used to haul and thought, what a smokey horrible place it would be if they still ran. Well... Steam train...
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Cavity wall top-up
When the roof was off, I noticed there were a few places the cavity wall blown fibre had sunk (or never got there in the first place). Google's not showing anything - can you get a bag of the fibres -...
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