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Baxi Barcelona issues

Baxi Barcelona, under service contract - in May this year started giving intermittent ?explosive ignition? ? when it ha...
17 comments posted 10yrs
posted by rick_hughes
17 comments posted 10yrs posted by rick_hughes

Apprentice weekly update

We were in separate vans working in Epworth. At home time (I take a van home to Barnsley he has to drop the van off at...
4 comments posted 10yrs
posted by adamwadsworth
4 comments posted 10yrs posted by adamwadsworth

Any Health and Safety Practitioners here?

I seem to recall that if a machine tool such as a milling machine is relocated then it is deemed to then be a new insta...
0 comments posted 10yrs
posted by Somewhere
0 comments posted 10yrs posted by Somewhere

OT: Android startup question

SWMBO uses a very old clamshell mobile phone which has been dropped on many hard floors, into water and so on. It still...
3 comments posted 10yrs
posted by Billaboard
3 comments posted 10yrs posted by Billaboard

Radiator on dry-lined wall

I've just had a 120+year-old wall replastered. The plaster was only held together by load-bearing wallpaper, so had to...
21 comments posted 10yrs
posted by jgh
21 comments posted 10yrs posted by jgh

Cable for lighting

I will be wiring in 2 x LED ceiling lights,is 1.5 mm twin & earth the correct size, or should it be 2.5 mm?
37 comments posted 10yrs
posted by noname
37 comments posted 10yrs posted by noname

OT pets

Life would be very sterile without pets. Bill
21 comments posted 10yrs
posted by wrightsaerials
21 comments posted 10yrs posted by wrightsaerials

Drayton TRV4

Only 3 years old but the upper seal has failed. Anyone know of a reliable spares supplier? I need replacement seals (pa...
5 comments posted 10yrs
posted by me
5 comments posted 10yrs posted by me

low pressure shower valve

I have persevered with poor flow and temperature control from my shower for some time but recently decided to do someth...
5 comments posted 10yrs
posted by pknwblue
5 comments posted 10yrs posted by pknwblue

Wifi extending

Local to me AP's have become so many, that I have begun experimenting with adding a second AP. AP 1 is on the top floor...
9 comments posted 10yrs
posted by harry.m1byt
9 comments posted 10yrs posted by harry.m1byt

Budget kitchen units

A young relative is looking to install a low-budget (actually, the lower the better) run of basic kitchen units, base a...
28 comments posted 10yrs
posted by mail
28 comments posted 10yrs posted by mail

Knotting solution V Stain block

Got some softwood with lots of knots which is going to be painted. Knotting solution is expensive, but I have some Stain...
11 comments posted 10yrs
posted by davidlang
11 comments posted 10yrs posted by davidlang

Cheap blinds

I'm sure I used to get aluminium horizontal blinds from Dunelm for about a tenner. 6*4 ft windows. Looks like they don't...
1 comments posted 10yrs
posted by rsandr
1 comments posted 10yrs posted by rsandr

Mounting a hand rail.

The solution was to use plastic connector blocks. Screw 2 stacked blocks to the rail lengthways, then 2 stacked blocks...
1 comments posted 10yrs
posted by spam
1 comments posted 10yrs posted by spam

OT: Dropped mobile phone in water

I picked up my DW's mobile phone to hand it to her and promptly dropped it in a jug of water. I have no tools handy for...
35 comments posted 10yrs
posted by NOTSomeone
35 comments posted 10yrs posted by NOTSomeone