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Wax on sunroofs
Have just been polishing my car - and the wax says not to use on glass. I understand that wax can cause funny things to happen on windscreens, so fair enough as a bit of advice. But is it sensible for...
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Has anyone coma across plans for Climbing Frames anywhere?
I'm thinking of building a climbing frame for our grandson and, while we can probably come up with some reasonable ideas, some sort of plan and recommendations for materials etc. would be useful. Has...
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feckin' windows 10
anybody just had an update and now their mouse has stopped working?.....did this not happen before?...fecked up a load of drivers?.....hate bloody computers...
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Actual LED TVs? do they exist? (2023 Update)
Are any TVs just LED? Or is LED just a backlight to an LCD panel? I thought they'd invented TVs where every dot was a tricolour LED, but I can't find any such thing.
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Replacing LEDs in strip lights
I use this sort of thing: When they eventually fail, it's the LEDs that have gone. Isn't it possible to buy a strip of LEDs to slide into it instead of buying a new power supply and chassis aswell?...
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septic tank regs 2020
Can anyone explain to me in very simple terms what the new septic tank regs are? I have been looking on you tube and found a site which said all old eptic tanks have to be replaced regardless of how...
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UFH query (bathroom zone on CH return)
The abandoned bathroom project is looming on the horizon after about 15 years of remaining a stripped out cave so I'm addressing the heating dilema... The house refurb started off with a 4 zone UFH...
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Paint matching questions
There is minor damage to the wall of our close (common stairway for readers in England). I'm just wondering how to carry out a temporary repair. The Factors (managing agents) claim that matching the...
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Gram Input
Hi All, Back in the day when I were too poor to born (I were knitted by the WRVS an d dropped throuh?t letterbox when me mam weren?t looking). My ?HiFi? Consisted of a busted Dansette clone with no...
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New London taxis glued together.
There was an interesting program about making London taxis on Channel 4 on Saturday night. The main taxi body is made up from various bits of aluminium which are glued together. The glue has to be...
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Tin of bitumen
I have inherited a very old 5l tin of Evode rubberised bituminous waterproofer that's the consistency of very thick treacle. It must be at least 25 years old, I should think. If I can add a little...
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3 years ago
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SDS died?
My SDS (Lucky Screwfix Hedgehog) has started making a loud chattering noise, there seems to be a lot of play on the bits sliding in and out of the SDS chuck, and it's not chiselling as effectively as...
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non slip rubber - what is the non-slippiest?
I do a bit of windsurfing and the masts have got narrower over the years. I have an adapter that goes on the mast and then the clamp on the boom clamps to the adapter. Unfortunately the adapter is...
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Flat roof question.
Flat roofs in Germany are ?always made to force ponding for some reason. On a Grand Designs program, from many years ago, a house in East London was given an expensive makeover with a big extension...
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OT: Skeletons of the Mary Rose: the New "Evidence"
Did anyone else see this hilarious Channel 4 "documentary" "proving" that the Mary Rose had an African crew? How they managed to pack so much BS into one hour is nothing short of astounding! It should...
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