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Tricky electrickery
Why is it the jobs you think are going to be quick and easy, never are? What follows is a rambling tale of woe of a tedious job that kept on giving! So the other day, I had someone round to service...
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bark.com
Why have I never heard of these before? Has anyone here got anything good to say about them, or how they compare to checkatrade or mybuilder?
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Peugeot 207, 2009 Diesel
Hi, My daughter has an old 207 and it has a central locking issue. What I will attempt to describe is not a feature that can be turned on/off via settings (I think). She can unlock the car using the...
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Time for a re-re-think about PSTN/POTS?
"I have Plusnet for phone and FTTC at about 1km straight-line from the nearest Cabinet. I plan to rely totally on a mobile using a *smart phone as a wifi hotspot. Unlimited calls/texts and some data...
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TOT Dam Busters
At the time of writing Channel 5 Action is showing the Dam Busters film. Someone has gone to a lot of trouble to re-name the dog as Trigger.
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AA in Durham NC, 1948 newspaper article, with photo
AA in Durham NC, 1948 newspaper article, with photo https://imagehost.vendio.com/a/30377179/view/aa-durham-1948002.JPG https://imagehost.vendio.com/a/30377179/view/aa-durham-1948002.JPG
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Question on skirting fitting on undulating wall
Hello all, I've had a laminate floor put down in my study after stripping and repainting the walls (some plasterboard, some solid brick and plaster) and adding two surface sockets with cable trunking...
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Biomass boiler
We're looking at buying a house. It's rural, detached, and ticks all the boxes but has a biomass boiler. This is in an outbuilding, I haven't yet seen it. Apparently the current owners get a yearly...
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Official reference requests : boiler inspection, electricity in-property input
I know of a badly-maintained rented residence. I need to provide, so to speak, ammunition to fire at the Landlord. (1) I am sure that there is legal requirement for an unvented hot water system over...
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Need a vent for a kickboard
I'm looking for a vent to go in a kickboard on some kitchen cabinets, the kind that I have, and which was also on the ones I'm replacing for someone else, takes up the entire height of the board and...
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OT Reading M4 Westbound Travelodge question
As uk.d-i-y the place to find most answers in the world I'll ask here. I am booked in on the Westbound side Travelodge. However I am working to the West. So to get from work to the hotel it looks like...
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Why did the Peeler cross the road?
Why did the Peeler cross the road? He couldn't get his dick out of the chicken
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EV cars are thick!
Why are electric cars so stupid? Is this article correct? Can you seriously run flat the little 12V battery in your electric car and it's not clever enough to automatically charge it from the 400/800V...
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You can dramatically increase your laptop battery life by using these two simple tricks...
I've been a Thinkpad fanatic for almost 20 years, but I never realised how silly I was by not disabling these two features. So: - Boot into your laptop BIOS/UEFI setup. - Disable "USB always on" (Your...
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Anything's possible
Old phone, battery expanded to triple thickness, looked like an imminent explosion, using it as a quad core CPU only, so let's use a AAA battery. https://i.imgur.com/F7uPMRv.jpg...
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