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BBC Top Gear Magazine UK – September 2012
BBC Top Gear Magazine UK =96 September 2012 world reknowned brand brings you a mixture of inaccesible supercars as well as reviews on the more sensible options and other motoring advice. BBC Top Gear...
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This gutter needs cleaning
I cleaned it. the rain water run to the fall pipe:-)? The highest point seems to be where the guttering and the fall pipe meet. http://wiki.diyfaq.org.uk/images/b/bb/Gutter.JPGSo
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Anyone feeling Google-generous for humidistats?
What I want for the bathroom is (see previous thread) not made by Manrose. Can't find the Xpelair version I had installed in a previous house about 20 years ago. I want to have a combined...
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Basin & back nut wrench review
Maybe one for the Wiki, feel free to chip in. ------------------------------- Back nuts & tap connectors can be really difficult to remove due to age, corrosion & tight spaces. Several different tools...
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Manrose electrical equipment
I'm trying to design the layout for bathroom fans and Manrose kit seems to come up a lot cheaper than brands such as Xpelair. Sometimes a quarter of the price, although I am finding it difficult to...
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Electrical maintenance - tripping main breaker with earth/neutral contact
Modern (and ancient) circuit breakers are on the live wire. So when they trip (or are turned off) they break the circuit but leave neutral and earth connected. I can't be the only one to have knocked...
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Mending a plastic knob
I have a fairly cheap shower with plastic windows. One of the knobs holding a shower window to the top rail has broken. The part that is broken is a hard plastic "washer", 1in in diameter and 1/4in...
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Neon indicator for 3-way garage lights
My garage is attached to the house with a 3-way lighting circuit. Sometimes the family leave these lights on and this is only discovered when someone goes outside and notices the fact. One of the...
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OT The neighbours are still good fun
She has just been round to ask to look at my CCTV as she had found a pair of trousers in the house that are not hers.
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drains and manholes, part one
Hi, Some may remember that my patio does not have a slope nor any drainage, so when it rains heavily, water pools. The slabs are uneven so I would like to lift and re-lay the patio one day, and would...
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Multimeter
Yes, I know, I've over-simplified here.
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Leaky house cont.
Some time ago I posted about my damp 1928 detached house. What seems like dozens of "experts" have looked at the place and a consensus emerged that one of the problems was the roof verges at two of...
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tile grouting - technique ?
Most of the rounded edge tiles you get now do not have any glaze down the s= ides of the tile, and the glaze ends on the tapered section. So the grout c= annot be much below the surface of the tile in...
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The years is 2027
The year is 2027. The temperature of the earth has fallen 3 degrees overall as a new ice age dawns. With the demise of the UN, the IPCC has gone the way of all things, but one figure is shambling up a...
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Source for old wallpaper?
Is there a good UK source for out-of-date (but not antique) wallpaper? Google only seems to throw up US (and hugely expensive) suppliers. Ideally, I'd like to match this pattern: I think must have...
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