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Wireless energy monitor recommendations?
Hi all, The recent questions around issues with daughters pre-paid top up key (now resolved thanks) have made me think they might like / appreciate some sort of real-time energy monitor display. I...
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Domestic oven temps ...
I know I could buy a thermometer (I may yet). but JOOI would anyone agree with my suspicion that pretty much all modern ovens don't get anywhere near as hot as the dial claims they do ? Certainly as...
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Cable entry to 'non combustible' consumer units
Moving further on in my consumer unit replacement exercise I have just been looking at my 18th Edition 'On-Site Guide' and it says in section 2.2.6:- (c) The cable installation entry method shall, so...
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Magic Indicator
On Mon, 8 Jul 2019 10:18:54 +0100, Nick Odell snipped-for-privacy@themusicworksh And isn't this the same for nearly every 'group' or small percentage of the population (members of groups or...
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One for Brian
With respects and a lot of admiration for you. Get the latest news, sport and what's on from across Lancashire, updated constantly, from the Lancashire Telegraph.
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Plumber's Snake Oil?
Someone has just asked me about the device sold to stop your water pipes and tanks furring up, which consists of a coil wound around the pipe that is then excited by an oscillator. Personally, I think...
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Re: TOT: a real dilemma
I keep seeing this term and don't know what it means. Off to Google......
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Re: a real dilemma
Well, I suspect if he has been there some time most will have encountered it by now. I used to have a friend with this as well, every so often he would say something very rude about the opposite sex...
 
Aaaargh!!! Electrical current detectors aren't always - Powerfix. Recommendation for new?
I have a Powerfix IAN30295 KH 3236 multi-function detector with laser. One function is to detect AC Wire. I thought I had checked this out properly with a live and dead stretch of wire, but apparently...
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Really simple Point of Sale ap for Android
Any suggestions for a simple ap for an Android Tablet to help with catering van. Basic help with adding up orders and calculating change.
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Wago 222-412 test port - blanked off when connected?
Having "interesting times" with my extension of the 13A ring main in the office. I don't have power where I expected it, so I am trying to do some sensible, logical testing. As discussed elsewhere I...
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Council Highways causing chaos
The is a local village road, which has 5x double decker buses per hour (10x in total). For years I have been complaining about cars being parked (abandoned) on both sides, causing chaos, because of...
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Met my first apprentice again yesterday
It's been a long time. There are some things you cannot teach them even if you wanted to:-) I can still grow hair on my head and he was bald.
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Pre-Pay service electronic keys?
Hi all, Daughter recently took on her stepsisters flat when she passed away recently (39) and in the process of cost-cutting, went from British Gas to Bulb as her electricity supplier. She was sent a...
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Water softener and green seepage
Since having a water softener installed, some of the Yorkshire fittings***** have a green powdery leakage. Clearly, the nuts on the fittings need to be nipped up again, but is the greenness indicative...
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