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ping Huge - window screens!

Have you had any luck sourcing window screens? I've seen some recently on Amazon, and was wondering if you'd tried them...
4 comments posted 9yrs
posted by firstname
4 comments posted 9yrs posted by firstname

Spendidly whacky!

Steam-powered-bicycle.. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/steam-powered-bike-geoff-hudspith_us_590798cae4b05c39768170b...
21 comments posted 9yrs
posted by adrian
21 comments posted 9yrs posted by adrian

OT: Car Hire

Hi, Any recommendations for decent car hire companies in southern England? Anyone got any recent experience favourable...
17 comments posted 9yrs
posted by cbx
17 comments posted 9yrs posted by cbx

Have I fixed it or not B&S 14HP 28N777

Tractor mower. I have been bothered for a few years by it burning oil, running rough intermitently and oil sucked into...
3 comments posted 9yrs
posted by harry.m1byt
3 comments posted 9yrs posted by harry.m1byt

2 port zone valve - switch rating?

I can't find any data on Danfoss's site (as an example). As a general rule, is the microswitch in a zone vale suitable...
17 comments posted 9yrs
posted by tw_usenet
17 comments posted 9yrs posted by tw_usenet

Screeding a new shower, part 1 - grid drain

Photos: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0BxGOCqCJ0x5Fb05oemlzZjJrSzg?usp=sharing This is going to be a wet room,...
12 comments posted 9yrs
posted by tw_usenet
12 comments posted 9yrs posted by tw_usenet

Disc Brakes

Why don't they make the pads just a bit bigger so that they don't allow a lip to develop on the periphery of the disc?
120 comments posted 9yrs
posted by Somewhere
120 comments posted 9yrs posted by Somewhere

OT _ Manholes in Roads

Good road surfaces often seem to be ruined by sinking manhole surrounds which then accelerates due to the pounding of w...
17 comments posted 9yrs
posted by Somewhere
17 comments posted 9yrs posted by Somewhere

OT: Upside down envelopes?

Anybody had any upside down envelopes? A few banks seem to be sending them with the flap at the bottom. Weird.
5 comments posted 9yrs
posted by imvalid
5 comments posted 9yrs posted by imvalid

Door to garage - building regs

I need to cut a doorway from a utility room into a garage but would prefer not to have a 100mm step, or to slope the ga...
5 comments posted 9yrs
posted by nospam
5 comments posted 9yrs posted by nospam

Window Furniture

I'm having some (6) sash windows fitted, and I was wondering about sash fasteners and any other bits. I'd imagine they...
8 comments posted 9yrs
posted by patchmoney
8 comments posted 9yrs posted by patchmoney

service light flashing no heating or hot water

Baxi solo,service due in August,service light flashing and beeping,can I overide this to get hot water and heating pleas...
1 comments posted 9yrs
posted by biscuit
1 comments posted 9yrs posted by biscuit