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Pipe clips.

If I ever find a plumber... the plan is to use surface mountings for the boiler flow and return pipes. Pipe insulation...
4 comments posted 9yrs
posted by tim
4 comments posted 9yrs posted by tim

R. Cott. 16

Anyone any experience of dry screed overlay boards? Claim to have 4 times lower thermal resistance than equivalent chip...
14 comments posted 9yrs
posted by tim
14 comments posted 9yrs posted by tim

OT: backing up PC data

I've been using Squirrelsave for several years, but have just had an email sayng that they are stopping the service. Has...
25 comments posted 9yrs
posted by nomail
25 comments posted 9yrs posted by nomail

Idiot Proof Free Backup Software for Vista 32bit?

This is an odd one and I don't have any good answers. I am looking for idiot proof backup software preferably free that...
30 comments posted 9yrs
posted by '''newspam'''
30 comments posted 9yrs posted by '''newspam'''

USB plug ID

Maginon SZ 24 camera and I would seem to have lost or mislaid the USB charger lead. The same socket serves for an A/V c...
8 comments posted 9yrs
posted by harry.m1byt
8 comments posted 9yrs posted by harry.m1byt

Fusion Power won't work.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-40558758 Kicked into the long grass.
18 comments posted 9yrs
posted by harry130747
18 comments posted 9yrs posted by harry130747

What is best drainage for garden?

i have very sloped garden and have installed underground pipe drainage to ease flood at the bottom, however after recent...
7 comments posted 9yrs
posted by mostyn.harvey.13ac1e08
7 comments posted 9yrs posted by mostyn.harvey.13ac1e08

Problems fitting a rain diverter for a water butt

https://www.dropbox.com/s/6y6qws7hx3dkjhs/2017-07-12%2014.45.49.jpg?dl=0 https://www.dropbox.com/s/d3vsmlarlzv3iys/2017...
7 comments posted 9yrs
posted by stainburn
7 comments posted 9yrs posted by stainburn

External wall - breeze blocks

Our neighbour has an "extension" which we can see the side of, which appears to have an external single wall of breeze...
9 comments posted 9yrs
posted by jethro_uk
9 comments posted 9yrs posted by jethro_uk

Exterior masonry filler.

What's the best masonry filler these days? For the sort of moulded stonework you get on Victorian buildings? To be pain...
31 comments posted 9yrs
posted by dave
31 comments posted 9yrs posted by dave

Slim (very slim?) rocker switches

I need some rocker switches that I can mount in thin[nish] panels sucj that they don't stick out of the back of the pan...
9 comments posted 9yrs
posted by cl
9 comments posted 9yrs posted by cl

OT Washing Machines

Private Eye once called her a "pillock". They were quite correct. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-40571843
41 comments posted 9yrs
posted by MrPounder
41 comments posted 9yrs posted by MrPounder

Mechanical timers for electric power?

I'm looking for the sort of thing I have on a worktop oven, knob which you rotate to turn the power on and it winds dow...
24 comments posted 9yrs
posted by newshound
24 comments posted 9yrs posted by newshound