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Telescopic WOODEN (or wood effect) curtain pole for kitchen
I've made a pair of tab-top curtains from a flat bed sheet. The curtain pole at present fits WITHIN the recess to the patio doors. Up until now I have "made do" with a telescopic curtain rod from...
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Emailed to me. (State of the nation)
Alvechurch Bugle 5 - 040 ( 19 - 10 - 15 ) Wheels coming off after 164 days. Dave has been in office now for 164 days (well, minus 46 days for the summe r recess ) that's 118 days he has had in which...
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OT Bridge building machine in action
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Finding wood in stud walls
OK I live in a flat that was built about 30 years ago and internal walls are just stud/plasterboard and i need to hang something that weighs a fair bit (guess it's about 5-10KG), when i moved in about...
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Joists for a storage space
Hi, We have an old stable, brickbuilt, with a pitched slate roof, basically used as a big shed. Plenty of height, so I'd like to put some joists across part of it to form a storage area - probably...
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Thread info
I came across this page while looking for something else. It might be a useful reference. It seems to have a fairly comprehensive summary of metric, UK, and US thread sizes, including diameter, pitch,...
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Solar energy doesn't need subisires?
Hahahaha Southern Solar is industry’s third high-profile casualty this month and founder Howard Johns is expected to blame government policy Southern Solar is industry’s third high-profile...
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Light bulbs
I know little about these LED things and lumens or whatever they are called. We went out today looking for some 60Watt bayonet cap fitting light bulbs and could not find any. The stuff on the shelves...
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Kettling boiler - risk running cleaner?
12 yr old Vaillant Turbomax combi boiler is kettling*, although not too badly at the moment. Not entirely sure if this is a gradual build up as only really noticed in the last day or so. Heating and...
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Cheap website hosting for a small club?
Apologies as this is perhaps a bit off-topic, but it is something that I want to do myself. I'm helping to run a small club and it's high time we provided it with a website as an alternative to...
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New gas boiler for big[gish] house - recommendations?
My daughter has decided she needs to replace the existing (unreliable and ancient) gas boiler in her big Victorian semi. It's a big house on three (or even four) floors and there are around 20...
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"Gorilla screws"?
Talking to somebody over the weekend, "Gorilla screws" were mentioned - basically, self-tapping masonry screws. Just drill the hole, and bang 'em in, no need for a rawlplug. 'course, I can't now find...
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Plasterboard joint?
I will soon be putting a new layer of plasterboard on shower room ceiling, so a small room. There is likely to be one joint in the ceiling, will it be possible to use whatever on the joint and avoid...
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angle grinder discs: use by dates
Hello, Whilst tidying the garage, I found some angle grinder discs with "use by" dates on them. They were use by 2012. Does that mean I should bin them? Why do some makes have a use by date and others...
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OT. spf DNS record help
I want to set up an spf record for using this format:- "v=spf1 a ip4:xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx -all" my question is what address to replace x , the domain ip or the smtp server range. Thanks Allan
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