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Mattressses
It is donkey's years since we last purchased a mattress and I had forgotten what to look out for. I started today with a visit to "Dreams" in Watford followed by surfing the web. I am now more...
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Bar mixer shower running cold only
This has been getting progressively worse. It's a bar mixer shower valve (Bristan). It used to be that shutting it off and back on got the hot flowing, but now that has ceased. The hot water is...
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Log burner
We had back boiler removed so now with an empty fireplace, we thought about a log burner. Went to shop and looked at a fire costing about £600. By the time the dealer had worked out costings, it was...
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Stripping multicore wire?
Does anyone have a way to strip the outer sheath without damaging the inner ones?
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1 year ago
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Gas Hob Burners problem
A zanuzzi kitchen Hob with four gas burners has the steel Top Caps rusting. (They Comprise of Steel Discs with an enamel layer on the top side ). They are dropping Masses of Rust from the Steel under...
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How do I adjust Wahl clipper blades?
I bought this: Asda for £9 and I thought it was a good deal. But I like to cut my hair super short and on this clipper the shortest cut is about 2.5 mm, give or take, which is not short enough. The...
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Sockets in bathrooms?
So er.... we (can) have earth leakage breakers, so why don't they want us to (like they can stop us) putting sockets in bathrooms near water?
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Boiler water treatment
Anyone know what the colour of the water would be in a CH system treated with an inhibitor? Twice in the last few days we've found 1 - 200 ml of dark brown oily water on our gas hob, and the extractor...
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Usenet Legal Q
I know there are guys here pretty clued up on Usenet. 2 related Questions .... I was looking for a UK specific Legal usenet group, the only one I could find was uk.legal and that seems to be just 100%...
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OT: The ampersand invasion
Why does everybody have to put an ampersand in front of any name? Yes, I believe it's to do with Twitter, but people automatically assume that I am on that stupid platform, and I'm not. There is no...
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OT: Energy boost payment for oil users
I have received news that the long-awaited Energy Supplement, or whatever it's called, (AFP) for those thousands of us in East Anglia who have no gas supply and have to rely on oil for our heat, is...
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OT The new van strikes again
It's pissing is down at 8am with a temperature of about 3 deg C and the side door decided to fall off it's top runner and take the piss out of me. The last van only broke down twice in 12 months and...
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LiPo battery question
My daughter has some headphones with a rechargeable battery that is losing capacity. It’s a small thing of 180mAh capacity and while there are plenty of similar batteries on eBay, they all just have...
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Repairing a microwave
My microwave oven is probably 20+ years old (Panasonic). The turntable judders, stopping and starting. I wonder how easy this would be to repair. Is it like a turntable on a record deck? Is there a...
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ABS TPMS
why don't car makers make more ABS TPMS systems rather than having four stupid UHF transmitters with batteries flying around in circles?....stupid
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