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"Electric car range anxiety to be cured by battery that charges in five minutes"
Says the Times. How are the charging stations going to cope with that? Bill
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OT'ish: Greedy plumbers?
I've been talking to a rural plumbing firm about a small job that I could do, but didn't fancy doing, and had agreed their published rate of £90 for the first hour followed by £50/hour thereafter. I...
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Non Stick Pan
I have a decent (Tefal) frying pan with a burned on deposit. Would one of the aerosol oven cleaners get it off without damage?
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Combination boiler requires high demand before delivering hot water
What's a typical cause when a boiler starts to require increasingly high demands for hot water before it decides that it should light up the burner to deliver it? My guess is that there's a pressure...
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New heating system being installed
Interesting, storage heaters ripped out and new electric boiler with air transfer heat pump mounted in garden.
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Stockpiling boilers?
In the light of plans to stop new gas or oil boilers being fitted after 2025 how many folk are considering buying a ?spare? boiler? ;-) I must admit the thought has crossed my mind? I?m assuming that...
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what a load of pish
yup banning gas boilers only makes any sense when 100% of UK electricity production is carbon free until it is, simply transferring gas use to additional electric use is just daft
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Stainable caulk?
I've restored and re-fitted some old oak skirting and need to fill some small gaps along the top. I could use regular caulk and paint the wall colour over it but would prefer to use a caulk or filler...
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Scottish and English hinges
Observe the difference: Commandez en ligne vers la France avec screwfix.fr. Galvanisées pour plus de durabilité, résistantes à la rouille et à la corrosion. Adaptées aux portes de jardin et...
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Good ways to close the output power cable on a condensate pump?
I've just received a Grundfos condensate pump to use under the basement dehumidifier. The old pump (which seized up after about 6 years) had a sealed-up cable that you could strip and use optionally...
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2 years ago
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Another crimper question.
Sort of following on from previous and recent questions around crimping (and my personal / general preference to both manually crimp (if available) and solder) here, I just checked out another of Big...
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Where did it go?
Eternal September just died on me. Who forgot to pay the bill again? grin Brian
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BM346/347
Hi, If anyone is interested we still have some spares to BM 346 and 347 on stock. Vår affärsidé är att tillhandahålla produkter runt gasbrännare och gasdistribution. Högkvalitativa produkter...
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Smart meters, nearly fell off my stool.
I have just, well last week, had an email with a contact number on it to call and get a smart meter installed complete with a talking consumer device. Not run them yet, intend to do that tomorrow...
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Cheaper alternative to Shoe Goo?
I've long used Shoe Goo on walking shoes and boots which have soft soles that wear fast on rock and (more often these days) pavements and roads. But the price of Shoe Goo has increased to over £10 +...
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