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connecting cables in ceiling void?
When I do a final install of ceiling lights LEDs with transformer. (just a temp hook up at the moment to test all is working) Do all connections have to be in a junction box or can I just use block...
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Workshop/Garage Heaters
Hi all, What with the colder weather just around the corner, an old man's thoughts turn to keeping warm. There are various space heaters on the market. Electric ones are just too expensive to run and...
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Polishing a bath
We have a Victorian cast iron bath which we bought refurbished about 20 years ago. It has some sort of, I guess, epoxy coating, but it was refurbished by a specialist company in their workshop and we...
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Decorating ideas
My lounge is currenly wallpapered with a fairly plain paper - a subtle mottled effect. It needs redocorating as the joints are starting to show. I would prefer to paint - but would not want the walls...
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Make a car exhaust system last longer by painting it with something?
Anyone know of anything I can paint new (non stainless) car exhaust components with to inhibit corrosion and this make them last longer? TIA! Al
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Staircase design
Thinking of building one - any problems with this design? NT http://www.oddities123.com/amazing-spiral-staircase/
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How to clean the cartridge filter on Wickes hoover
Anyone got any tips on the best way to clean the cartridge filter on a wickes wet or dry? Brushing it over the bin is horrible, putting it in a bin bag and giving it a good bang puts dust inside the...
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Connecting soundbar to new TV
Hope someone can help. Trying to connect sound bar to new TV. Sound bar has white & red female sockets. Old TV had white & red female sockets - simples! New fangled TV has one yellow female, & came...
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Cheap ni-mh battery heads up ...
Homebase selling off packs of four 600mah recharrgeable batteries AA size for .43p a pack.....
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Repairing plaster board and door panel
My son has at last taken the plunge and left home. Life has not been that easy for him and he has on occasions taken his frustrations out on his bedroom. There are two nominally 150mm holes in the...
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Bathroom zoning
OK from what I can gather an extractor fan should be 60 cm for a zone 2, however I am juggling things around and wondered if the attached although not 60 cmc the fan will be located `round the corner`...
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Peter Sutherland
So this is the plot. The EU should "do its best to undermine" national "homogeneity" and promote multiculturalism, the UN's special representative for migration tells peers.
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Asbestos in early Artex?
Is there ? I suppose a way to check is to break a piece off and look under a low pawer microscope, but how to tell if its glass filaments or asbestos?
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how come harry and co haven't posted about this gang of criminals like they do when they aren't white?
Seven paedophiles who preyed on a baby and young children acted "beyond human instinct" and were guilty of "terrifying depravity", a judge says.
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Heating Oil Tank fuel line regs
Hi all, Do *all* the unions in the 10mm copper pipe between the domestic oil storage tank and the boiler have to be compression type, or is it permissible to use certain solder joints? I could really...
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