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Wired door chimes
Inn a radical departure from the norm, I've been asked to fit a wired doorbell! Slightly odd, client wants one bell push on the front door, but two chimes - one in the house & one in the detached...
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Renewable Heat Incentive.
Rep turned up today to see about fitting evacuated tube solar water heater. All more or less as I thought. You get a =A3300 grant/subsidy and =A30.17/Kwh assessed for seven years. It is assessed on...
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Water damaged circuit board
After much poking around, I think I've found the connector that's suffered some water damage when my iPhone 3GS got drowned recently (connector 4). I can see a bit of white stuff around some of the...
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Sign of things to come ?
This morning, for the first time since February's cold snap, the UK became for a few minutes a net exporter of electricity. Was this surplus wind power? No. There was no wind. Was this thousands of...
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Suggestions for a sliding mitering saw?
I am about to start modifying a double loft bed (Ikea Stora) into a not so high single loft bed which can take an ordinary depth single mattress. There are lots of pieces of wood that need to be cut...
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OT: computers again - hacking question
I'd be grateful for any thoughts on this. If someone puts "Bert Coules" (with or without the quotes) into Google, my website ( normally comes up as the second search result, after my Wikipedia entry....
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OT: How do you make a cocktail with liquid nitrogen?
I suppose it could be DIY related. ;-) More seriously, I just don't understand what happened here. "A teenager has had emergency surgery to remove her stomach after drinking a cocktail containing...
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OT. On the box last night.
Building Britain. We seem to be getting more and more government propaganda on the Beeb these days. This was about persuading people that extending Heathrow was a good idea and also HS2 was...
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House stripped of copper
hello. Im thinking of moving house, the house i'm looking at is a good price and doesn't have any hideous problems. The previous tenants where evicted and ripped out all the copper pipes however the...
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buying a gas hob from Italy - "gas safe" problems?
The hob we want to buy is significantly cheaper (almost 50%) if we buy it directly from Italy (where it is made) instead of from the UK retailer. Would there be any problems from the "gas safe" point...
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What a PITA
SWMBO wanted an extra socket in the kitchen. Unwilling to start chopping lumps out of the rather nice tiles, I opted for a worktop socket from TLC has to be the worst designed pile of crap ever, with...
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Cutting into a Staircase for Access
At the moment I can access under the house through the kitchen floor. It's come in useful a few times, but now I intend to have a decent kitchen floor and remove the trap door access. I think the...
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fan oven fan failure
Hello, Last year I bought a Hotpoint fan oven. A year later the fan in the oven does not turn and just hums. Hotpoint want £70 for someone to come and look at it. I think I reported it to them just...
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OT: Computer stuff
Well then I reckon I must be very lucky, along with all the rest of my family, and just about everybody that I know. My PCs here all run for months on end without being rebooted. This one was turned...
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Siemens oven giving trouble again...
Hi all, Last year, I posted about our Siemens oven and the problem was correctly identified to be the element*, it was replaced by a non OEM (and quite cheap!) element. The oven is now having the same...
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