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Email client with permissions?
Looking for an email and couldn't find it, so looked in the deleted folder and found it along with many others that shouldn't be in there. So i've just wasted an inordinate amount of time trawling...
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Elbow Grease - weird rash
For several months now, I have had an ongoing itchy rash on the back of both hands, close to the area of my thumbs. For quite a while, I have been racking my brain trying to work out what might be...
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Replace Bosch Oven Light - GGrrrr
Hi all Not sure how common a problem this is or whether it is a design flaw. Whenever I need to replace the oven light, the glass cover that protects the bulb is always seized in, probably something...
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Regarding charging (batteries, not customers)
In view of recent discussions here, as I drove my motorhome back from a short trip today I thought it might be worth reporting the behaviour of the batteries and chargers, so I made notes. There are...
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Advice to people about to buy a Stihl pressure washer
Dont. This one is three years old. It failed within a few weeks of purchase the shop said 'pressure switch' and fixed it under warranty - or did they? Last week it started getting 'lazy' with...
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Hedghog Highways, fencer failed to make
OK I need some suggestions. I asked the person building my new fence to make a couple of hedgehog highways in the base, but he forgot, and I could not see this till somebody sighted came around. He...
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MDPE fittings, the good the bad and the ugly
I've been doing a little bit of MDPE plumbing just recently and it's not going well. Previously I've not had big problems with getting watertight and long term reliable connections. I have quite a lot...
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Decent replacement phone battery supplier?
I've got a rather elderly Motorola which is a superb phone for what i need. However its now some years old and in need of a new battery. Can anyone recommend a battery seller who supplies decent...
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Scale Inhibitor
I am shortly to move to a bungalow that needs a lot of TLC. I want to ensure that we do sometghing to counteract hard water. It is either a water softener or an inhibitor, Do the latter actually work?...
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Can we agree...
...that T i m knows everything, is always correct in what he says and that no amount of help and information will ever persuade him otherwise. That way we can all save time and effort in responding to...
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Lawnmower blade inflation ?
2013 price : £13.99 2021 price : £19.42 Looks like I'll be sharpening it again this year.
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Rosate 360 TF - will it still work
In my sprayer I have some diluted Rosate 360 TF according to instructions, left over from last year. Will it still work this year please, or do I need to make up a fresh batch?
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Why aren't all window hinges like this?
I was recently helping my son in law get his flat ready to sell, and I noticed that the Critall metal windows have unusual hinges, like in the photo. These are similar to parliament hinges. effect is...
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Tidy?
We were looking for a multimeter at work the other day. No fruit at the time but have since stumbled on it. We've a new 'tidy' member of staff who because it had been left out had put it in a drawer...
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Masonry paint on wood
STWNFI would like a wood panelled section of our store building painted the same cream colour as the rendered walls. Would using the same exterior wall paint as used on the render have any disastrous...
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