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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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Careful with that paint pot
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grout / silicone interfacea
One thing that I am never quite happy with is the interface between grout a= nd silicone. For example, where you have tiled down to a worktop, the grout= lines come down, and at some point will...
 
Why such a big concrete lintel?
This is not a supporting wall. Two courses of brick above it and nothing else. house was built in 1969/1970.
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uPVC door recolouring
Now that the Management have "Approved" the many many hours blood, sweat and tears from replacing the kitchen accoutrements inc' cabinet doors (Extremely mirror finish black, custom size and effin...
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uPVC stockists Norf Lundin / Herts?
Hi All, I'm looking for a good supplier of uPVC profiles, probably associated with supplying the double glazing trade please? I used to have one locally and they were very handy for all sorts of the...
 
Wanted - minimalist paint spraying device - what's possible?
What's the cheapest/simplest way to be able to spray paint? It's just to get paint into odd inaccessible corners on our boat, down in the bilges and the inside of the (box section) bathing platform....
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Wiring to shed
Shed in question is 10m away from house. I was going to use armoured cable (6mm?) and just plug into socket in house and drill hole through wall. Route cable along garden fence, into shed, into plug...
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Cast iron drain pipe disaster
If the end of the 15mm copper isn't jammed against the side of the cast iron, could you fit a push-fit 15mm coupler to another length, lower it onto the piece in there and push the coupler on, and...
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OT: tahograph pulse dividers
Thought i'd ask on here, as i imagine a fair few own vans (or landrovers who want to tow decent trailers for work), and some of them may have added a tachograph to them in the past. Anyone know how...
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Billy Oh sheds.
In desperate need of a new shed at Handyman Towers 11. Choice is between building one myself or buying a ready made. Seen these on the interweb seen very good. But if it seems too good to be true.......
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MDPE pipe query
I'm looking at putting a polytunnel in the garden at the 'back' of our 60 ft long stone cottage (originally 2 farm cottages). There is no water supply at all there and I'm trying to find the best way...
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