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OT: Why can't a petrol engine start itself?
On Wednesday, 28 March 2018 00:25:00 UTC+1, Archibald Tarquin Blenkinsopp Many of mine have required prolonged periods of foot to the floor just for normal to sluggish driving. Consumer expectations...
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Part P and house extensions
I am currently planning an extension to the house and whilst I will be gett ing a builder in to construct the shell I will be undertaking various other jobs myself. One of the DIY jobs will be the...
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Kinetic remote/wireless light switches
I posted a while ago asking about kinetic light switches. Anyway, if anyone is interested, I got some of these, And i'm well chuffed with them. It's paining me that they are drawing 0.3W though, i'll...
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Skanky insulation
I've been messing about in the ceilings in the upstairs flat at work this week, sorting some lighting out. There's insulation up there, looks like fibreglass stuff, some of it looks like it came on a...
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OT - Saucepan handle
One handle is broken on our large saucepan, so I made a rather crude wooden handle and glued it to the lugs. Only then did my son tell me that this is the saucepan that goes in the oven, for stews. I...
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OT - Ideal boilers (and boiler quality in general)
Just went round a couple of new developments purely to be nosey, and I noted that both (different developers with very different quality) had Ideal boilers in the show homes. Advice here seems to be...
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Ideal Icos HE 18 troubles
Some years ago, it failed and it turned out to be PCB failure, the onboard transformer. It was expedient to get a replacement PCB (#2) at the time, then I later sourced, fitted and tested it with a...
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Rod Speed
Anyone seen sight or sound of him? According to another group I'm on that he infests, he hasn't posted since January. According to Reddit, he may be quite old; Hopefully he's popped his clogs.
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Flushing heating system and rads
I had my Worcester combi boiler serviced last week, and the engineer suggested that the system needed flushing out as the water in the system was discoloured. I spoke to a local plumber who told me...
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Re: “Powerflushing” a CH system. How much?
£600 seems a little high. £400 might be closer, depending on system size. A special offer just for tomorrow is probably standard for little old ladies who are assumed not to know much about stuff....
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“Powerflushing” a CH
My mother has had some combi boiler trouble recently, first a diverter valve that wasn’t switching properly when HW was called for and now a mysterious leak from somewhere internal. According to the...
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Stick on real wood veneer.
Sorry to ask for some DIY advice, but has anyone any experience of using either stick on or iron on veneer on a fairly large panel? Roughly 750 x 450 mm? I've found a few places online that supply a...
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Does old PVA glue go off?
I've just recreated the classic chandelier drop scene in 'Only fools and horses' (whoops), and now have a wooden chandelier light fitting assembled with clamps, rubber bands and many squirts of PVA...
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One for the plumbers
Confused at Marford. The plumbers flew in and fitted the new boiler, associated heating manifold connections, diverter valve and coupled up the DHW header. For some reason they appear to have fitted a...
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How many people does it take to change a light?
Conversely, in my Dad's day as an LEB engineer: The Engineer (him) would predict the position of the fault in an underground cable (proper Wheatstone bridge stuff then); Labourer or two would turn up...
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