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SketchUp - Ping John Rumm
Hi John, You clearly make extensive use of SketchUp in visualising and documenting many of your projects, and it's almost certainly second nature to you now. I would like to start using it, and would...
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Pinewood on outdoor table
Replacing some rotten wooden slats with pinewood slats on a very small outdoor table. Yes I'm a cheapskate. Don't wish to buy a whole tin of wood preservative of which only a tiny bit would get used....
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2 years ago
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Power supply for lock-up garage
I have a lock-up garage that uses a minimal amount of electricity - electric door, light and trace heating for the water pipe (winter only). Up to now I have been paying about £4 per quarter on a...
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2 years ago
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Can 2 CH systems run off 1 header tank?
An annex was added to my house prior to my purchasing it, which has its own independent HW & CH system. As a result I have 2 CH header tanks in my loft. My question is whether the 2 systems could run...
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2 years ago
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Looking for analogue clock with wifi/radio to keep correct
Our faithful old quartz clock that lives (lived) on the wall in the breakfast room finally geve up the ghost today when I set it forward the hour for BST. It just refused to restart (it was a bit...
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2 years ago
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Heat loss from hot pipe??
There is a horizontal 22mm copper pipe containing hot water at 55C; local ambient is around 25C. What rate of heat loss, per metre, should be expected? In theory, I should be able to work it our from...
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2 years ago
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For the angle grinder fans
Who needs all that fancy machine tooling: :-) http://wiki.diyfaq.org.uk/index.php/Angle_Grinder_precision_engineering_
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2 years ago
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Combi CH system
My bungalow has a new (last August) Combi heating system. The Hot Water part works fine but the Central Heating does not. I have struggled to analyse why. The boiler is installed in a cupboard roughly...
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2 years ago
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Oil fired boiler running constantly
We have a conventional oil fired HW/CH system, floor standing boiler ground floor, HW tank first floor and cold water tank in the loft. The system is divided into four zones (three CH and one HW) and...
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2 years ago
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How to cool the inside of a portable cabin
We have just had a few warm days and I was for most of it working in a portable cabin. Not really that portable as it is connected to a gas supply and has CH. Suggestions for coping with the...
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2 years ago
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Is the price of propane/LPG for dometic heating capped?
As per the subject, is the price of bulk LPG for home heating capped? We just had our tank refilled and the price haasn't changed significantly since the last time it was filled. In fact I don't think...
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2 years ago
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Monty Python
Tiring of DIY I put the telly on and discovered that a whole sequence of Monty Python episodes are being shown on Freeview channel 91. It's actually much funnier than any modern comedy. Bill
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2 years ago
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OT: Towing a bin lorry
On my way home earlier, I saw a bin lorry being towed. It was being towed backwards with the rear wheels lifted and the vehicle running on its front wheels. I wondered how was this done? How do they...
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2 years ago
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DIY parcelbox ideas
It's quite a long way from our gates to the house so I'd been thinking of buying a parcelbox (like this one but my thoughts are moving towards DIY using some dense blocks left over from an earlier...
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2 years ago
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Cutting paving stones
Morning, I need to cut along some paving stones that are overhanging the edge of a raised patio. I shall get a suitable blade for a circular as I suspect this will give me a better chance of a...
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2 years ago
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