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Correct tool for the job Pt4

You want to check your e-bay delivery estimate date. Do you: a) Prod at a little screen with your greasy and pudgy fing...
2 comments posted 10yrs
posted by swldxer1
2 comments posted 10yrs posted by swldxer1

OT: Useful things to do with CO2

Costing the Earth, BBC R4, Wednesday 9.00PM http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b081lkm1
19 comments posted 10yrs
posted by me
19 comments posted 10yrs posted by me

Ping TNP: Gridwatch scales problem

ATM the coal dial is reading 20GW but the text below says 8.07GW. Similarly the nuclear dial is reading 12GW while the...
3 comments posted 10yrs
posted by me
3 comments posted 10yrs posted by me

An LED question

In my garden I have some globe lights, all are fed from a transformer giving nominally 12v ac from a radio switch I can...
24 comments posted 10yrs
posted by briang1
24 comments posted 10yrs posted by briang1

Baxi control board

Baxi Barcelona, which has been upgraded to 100He spec On the original control board there were 2 jumpers .. Both were r...
6 comments posted 10yrs
posted by rick_hughes
6 comments posted 10yrs posted by rick_hughes

LEDs and Temperature

Just reading of LED needing to be kept cool and I was wondering why. Is it because standard components are used which w...
102 comments posted 10yrs
posted by Somewhere
102 comments posted 10yrs posted by Somewhere

Setting up boiler for optimum efficiency

A discussion in a separate thread has prompted me to look further at the set up of my gas boiler. I have a heating syst...
32 comments posted 10yrs
posted by rick_hughes
32 comments posted 10yrs posted by rick_hughes

Smellng gas

I'm beginning to think I have an hyper-sensitive sense of smell, or at least I am more alert to it. I am constantly rep...
2 comments posted 10yrs
posted by harry.m1byt
2 comments posted 10yrs posted by harry.m1byt

Biasi 24S Boiler Problem

Biasi 24S Combi Boiler My son has just moved into his house which has a Biasi 24S boiler, 2002 vintage. For the first f...
4 comments posted 10yrs
posted by news
4 comments posted 10yrs posted by news

Exploding 40 watt eco halogen MR16 bulb/glass

Our shower has an extractor above it with a light within it. The extractor fan works from a separate cord to the light...
3 comments posted 10yrs
posted by Luc
3 comments posted 10yrs posted by Luc

New Car Battery

Car needs a new battery (drove it Saturday, wouldn't start Tuesday) Do I just key in the existing one into ebay and buy...
97 comments posted 10yrs
posted by dicegeorge
97 comments posted 10yrs posted by dicegeorge

Ping TNP: Gridwatch anomaly

Seems a bit strange that the dials for the French-UK interconnect are currently showing positive on both UK Gridwatch a...
2 comments posted 10yrs
posted by bob.minchinREMOVE
2 comments posted 10yrs posted by bob.minchinREMOVE

Anyone got experience of online estate agents?

My house is in an area where they sell really easily so I'm thinking of using https://www.visum.co.uk/Pricing/Sales All...
76 comments posted 10yrs
posted by stainburn
76 comments posted 10yrs posted by stainburn

Summerhouse rain water

A friend has just completed the instalation of a hexagonal summerhouse and it starting to think about guttering. I sugg...
4 comments posted 10yrs
posted by Somewhere
4 comments posted 10yrs posted by Somewhere