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Garden furniture that lasts.
Is there any garden furniture that will last if left outside all year round? I have seen steel products but not found any that is zinc plated. Are the cast aluminium or maybe cast steel products any...
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Building Alaska
Anyone else here watching this series? The distances and costs involved of getting extra supplies to site is staggering. Not much H&S to be seen is there? Mike
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Gas Meter Safety Check
The energy company want to undertake a safety check of my gas meter. No objection to that, obviously. But given previous communications I think they intend to "fail" it anyway and replace it with a...
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RGBW LED strip lighting - any good makes?
As we're doing the dormer now, I rather fancy some LED strip lights, set in the extruded ali channel you can get for them. Probably use them as the main lights - 2 strips in each half of the ceiling...
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Dick Strawbridge: Chateau cavity issue
Just watching Dick Strawbridge trying to put pipes through walls in his Chateau and being defeated by rubble filled cavity walls with the rubble jamming the core drill. Would this work: Drill smaller...
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OT: Picture puzzle
We found ourselves in a foreign city the other day and I spotted this odd "chimney" that I took a very crap photo of. For the benefit of Brian it's a tall (nearly 150 metres) tower with what looks...
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Connecting TV to aerial
My daughter has recently moved houses. The property is well decorated, however there are no connections for the TV aerial. Is there anyway to bring leads from the roof into the lower floors without...
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Securing a charity collection box (safeish neighbourhood)
Part of my ongoing clear out plan includes putting items out the front by the pavement and asking for contributions to a charity. I have a plastic collecting tin with a "wasp waist" 2/3 down. To make...
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Must be a Virgin
Passing a neighbour's house this morning I noticed the general thickie that had put the internet connection through their brick wall had done so at knee height. It looked like shoddy rope-work to me...
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Remote window opener - in bathroom - and other Qs
Sadly SWMBOs MS is not so good, so standing is a PITA. We're coping in the main, but there are some odd issues that would be great to nail. One is the smaller "top" bathroom window. It's above the...
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England just not windy enough for wind farms, admits renewables boss
The head of the wind industry?s trade body in the UK has admitted England isn?t windy enough for any more wind farms. ?We are almost certainly not talking about the possibility of new plants in...
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RCDs on Ring Mains Supporting Computer Equipment
Hi all Further to previous posts about electrical testing, I was wondering about the likely issues with RCDs on general office power circuits. We recently had a couple of supplies added specifically...
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Chainsaw
I'm after a chainsaw. They span from £50 Titan to a lot more for Makit as. What should I look for? Are Titans good enough for occasional jobs? It won't get used a lot. 16" bar needed, or more. NT
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Tapered grub screws ... ?
When needed, the mitre bar on my Shopsmith Mk 5 uses a tapered grub screw to lock it in the table track. The grub screw jammed so I had to cut it out with a dremel and now I need a replacement. Where...
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Setting clock hands ??
Ok just a cheap battery alarm clock, I dropped it and the second hand dropped off so had to dismantle it to get access. Puttng back together how do I syncronise the hands...hour/minute and alarm. My...
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