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Greenhouse wifi !
Can you run a cable from the house to the greenhouse? Wired is usually the best way if you can. Alternatively have a socket added to the circuit which goes to the greenhouse near to the fuse board so...
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Unexplained pipe clunk
The missus had mentioned that something we do upstairs at work makes the pipework downstairs clunk, it clunks semi-regularly when there's nothing being used. We've only a loo and a sink plumbed in...
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3 years ago
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Outside water pipes and freezing...
We've a 15mm plastic mains water pipe on an outside wall. I haven't got around to lagging it yet so as a precaution i've been turning it's supply off in the evening and had been expecting to open it...
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3 years ago
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Under sink manifold
The kitchen sink has a manifold to connect the two sinks plus overflow, waste disposal and dish washer into a single outlet. It is prone to blockage. Its a very simple piece of apparatus. A horizontal...
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3 years ago
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A party wall question...Or probably not.
This is hypothetical but had me wondering. We shared a yard wall with a neighbour, double thickness with one brick on our side and one on theirs butt up to the rear of our houses. When they had a...
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3 years ago
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Nilfisk Aero 26 - anyone used one?
I use an Earlex WD1200 as a LVHP cdust collector in the workshop but it's very noisy so I'm thinking of replacing it with a Nilfisk Aero 26, which boasts a sound output of 64dBa - any relevant...
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3 years ago
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Snake oil, or not?
I keep getting unsolicited adverts thrust at me in my Twitter feed - two of which I wonder about. One is for adjustable spectacles, where you twiddle a knob each side to adjust the diopter rating of...
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3 years ago
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MIG welding
Gentlemen, I need to replace the liner in my MIG welder. The one that's coming out is the 'bicycle brake cable' type where the welding wire's conduit is essentially identical to the tightly-wound coil...
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3 years ago
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NHS email addresses?
I tried to email someone at an NHS hospital address, but it was bounced. The address I used was of the form - ?????.???? Does that address seem to be valid, or does the server simply not accept mail...
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3 years ago
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Battery for electric car.
At the moment I would not buy an electric car because of their price, poor range, short battery life (8 years) and unlikely to be warm inside during the winter. But maybe I could have an electric car...
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It’s the left side slope to the drain hole which keeps icing up so if you don’t chip it away within 2 days the drain hole freezes over.
It’s a bush fridge freezer which is about 7 years old
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Secondary double glazing - do these seem reasonable prices?
My daughter has an old victorian house with sash windows. She has just got a quote for installing some secondary double glazing and she's wondering how reasonable it is (it seemed a bit much to her...
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3 years ago
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Fridge/Freezer Auto-defrost failure
Zanussi ZNB3240, came with the house and probably from 2007 and has never auto-defrosted. It gets to a point, after ~ 3 months, where the fridge is ok but the freezer is only at -10c. Left off...
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3 years ago
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Compulsary New Radiators
Further to my enquiry a couple of weeks ago, I have decided to have (1700mm x 600mm x93mm) size vertical radiators mounted behind the doors of 3 bedrooms, 1 living room and 1 kitchen. The bathroom and...
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3 years ago
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Mole grips for 40mm nut
Do large mole grips like these open wide enough to grasp a 40mm diameter nut? 225mm Curved Jaw Self Grip Pliers 67823 RL-SGP/CJ | Draper Tools - Self grip plier manufactured from good quality carbon...
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3 years ago
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