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Access to lighting wiring under loft floor
Two issues here. (1) I would like to be able to access the wiring into the ceiling roses from above for maintenance, but I also want to floor in the whole loft with T&G loft panels. At the moment I...
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Perception of the hardness of brick is often at variance with reality
Listen to any DIY man and he will tell you about the extraordinary hardness of the bricks that make up his house. If you were to take these complaints at face value you would believe that most British...
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Multi tools
Any advice from owners as to which brand is best? Bill
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kitchen mixer flexi tails with female "tap connector" on non-tap end
My kitchen mixer tap has flexi tails with the small double o-ring into the = monoblock, and on the other end not compression connectors, but the same fi= tting as a tap connector - a female with a...
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cooker switches
Hi, About a week ago there was an interesting thread about someone looking for a vertical cooker switch with integral socket. I wasn't sure if anyone was still watching that thread, so thought I would...
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En-suite in bedroom... amputee... wiring regs
Courtesy of once-scrapped hospital #2 screwing up Rehab, after Canadian run= PFI hospital #1 did a fantastic Op, a relative will be in a wheelchair for= some time. I redesigned & refurbished much of...
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Replacing loose bricks.
The cause of a loose socket has been traced to loose bricks (or their remains). The socket pattress was held in by plaster around it edges. As the fragments of brick were doing nothing more than...
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Replacement of loose bricks - cast in concrete or point in new bricks?
The cause of a loose socket has been traced to loose bricks (or their remains). The socket pattress was held loosely in by plaster around its edges. As the fragments of brick were doing nothing more...
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No Lions in Essex
why did the police count all the animals at Colchester zoo?. Why not just count the number of lions http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-19391572And
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OT - home network setup and networked Outlook?
I'd like to rejig my home network a bit... we currently have a desktop PC and sundry wifi-linked laptops amongst other things, and the vast majority of our data files reside on the desktop PC, along...
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That is not art
It's a period. A women only art exhibition at the Edinburgh Art Festival opens to men this week.
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UPVC door bowed
Several months ago, we had a new UPVC door fitted at the front, then another new one fitted at the rear as part of the job of having all of the windows replaced too. Two different installers. The...
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Odd surface trunking
A tenant has broken a 2-gang surface box but from a quick look it seems to have a short length of trunking attached that goes down to the skirting (to cover the cables). It's a Crabtree box but I...
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Laptop funny
I've got a weird problem on my laptop. Which likely isn't anything to do with it. I read a number of forums, and one of them, the Rover SD1 Club, has changed to much smaller font size than the others,...
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wood for exterior(ish) use...
I asked a question about lime render and s/s expanded mesh a few weeks ago,= as I'm replacing the exterior render between two bay windows, which is woo= den studwork really. Now a new problem. The...
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