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OT: How do they do that?
I bought a leasehold flat on 4th August but not living in it and it is empty awaiting a tenant. Today (31st Aug) EDF send me an energy bill to my home address. How do they know my address? The...
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Bungs for sewer back-flow?
Since the recent Coverack inundation and finding an archive newspaper ref to a similar event ,locally , 60 years ago. Where we are the problem is roof-run off rain getting into the sewer system , from...
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Cleaning radiator pipe tails
The tails on my radiators are messy mainly from previous owners not so much painting them but with being part painted when they have tried to paint the skirtings. Some are not particularly straight so...
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Fixed/barbed spade connectors
Evening all, Was fixing up the electrics of a 1972 Beetle t'other day and came across a couple of spade connectors used as connections to the dip/high beam relay that have seen better days. They're...
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curtain rail
I'm looking for one curtain rail to fit a bay window, total length 3200mm / 10'6". The curtains are quite heavy; the drop is nearly 3 metres. I've always used Swish Deluxe in the past, but that seems...
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OT: Worth a read, definitely.
Estonian Justice Minister, who lived through Soviet rule, teaches Greece's champagne socialist Justice Minister a lesson about communism.
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OT(ish) - small wind turbine longevity
A smallholding near us has a farm shop, nursery, grows much of their own vegetables. All nice and green. They also have a pair of small wind turbines near to the buildings (at least, I assume that...
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OT: Thunderbird Reply
I keep getting caught by this. Is there any way of making the Reply button in Thunderbird Newgroups reply to the group instead of the poster? I know there is a Followup button but Reply is just more...
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Microwave magnetron cover replacement
Our trusty combi microwave oven began sparking yesterday, or rather the panel between magnetron and oven cavity did. Some of the panel was carbonised on the oven cavity surface, which I managed to...
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Air compressor.
Fixed. It was the capacitor as several people here suggested. £5.95 inc P&P and it's working fine. And I got about a pint of water out of the reservoir. :o(
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OT Condel again.
Speaking the obvious truth as usual.
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Making a chainsaw saw horse for chopping firewood
I was researching how to make a saw horse to chop logs for firewood and came across this: ... hard to think of anythign simpler! A German man cleverly engineers a firewood chopping device out of his...
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R. Cott. 24
A plumber called! Briefly, before setting off on his annual holiday. There was some head shaking and muttering about the plan to re-install the boiler. Something to do with sludge hardening off in the...
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The word Wanker springs to mind
Actually that was the second word that sprung to mind. A Sheffield man has had a tattoo of an Ikea pencil to show his love of the Swedish homeware giant.
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Help! Radiators plumbing
Removing 2 radiators for gas central heating for decorating. Turned off thermo valve, turned off lock shield valve. I then checked with the air valve and all ok. I then removed the the thermo valves....
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