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Help with tracing electrics
I have a (approx) 6 x foot toilet, Currently has 4 x halogen lamps (in seperate locations), I want to repace halogen with a normal central located light fitting (using LED), I am trying to locate the...
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The best jobs in life are the free ones
I received an email today from a local animal rescue centre asking if I could help them fit a shelf under the the soffits of a house to help this hand reared baby bird take it's first flight next...
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Question for interior designers, etc, re warm vs cold colours
I am about to choose a colour for my living room walls. I'd like to use a very pale blue. I mean, a *very, very* pale blue. You might call it a blue- tinted white, almost. My hope is that this colour...
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Way OT - homoeopathic shower gel?
I was getting near the end of a bottle of gloopy shower gel. So in my usual tight fisted way I added some water from the shower (by squeezing the bottle and then letting it suck water in from the...
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Tiling hall
I'm about to tile the hall of an old Victorian house. Total tile area approx 16m2 of 8mm thick faux Victorian tiles. Proposing to put 12mm plywood over 22mm floorboards. Can anyone tell me the...
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OT....Deer antics in our garden question
We are always getting deers in out garden during the night, but last night they somehow pulled up two flowers and left it undamaged next to where it dug it up, it's as if a human had dug them up very...
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Whats it called and where would I Get it
I wish to lock a fence to a T track and want to use one of those over centre clamps, the type that pulls the bolt head tight to the top of the track when the little cam lever is flipped over. I've...
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Paint not drying
I spent yesterday evening painting the window frame in our toilet -- glossing over an undercoat I'd applied the day before. This morning (10 hours later) the paint isn't even "touch dry" -- it's...
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OT: Huge wind farm scrapped
Sense is coming to the fore. Campaigners feared proposed Nocton Fen wind farm, on land owned by Sir James Dyson, could ruin views of Lincoln cathedral
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Ingersoll Rand tool quality.
Are they as spectacular as I have been told? (i.e. Like a better version than Festool) Just curious, like. Cheers!
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Re: OT Using Eurostar
According to the Eurostar service information page - there doesn't appear to be any significant disruption at present Cheers http://www.eurostar.com/uk-en/travel-information/service-information/
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OT Totally mad Russian aircraft pix
1930's russian bomber images - Google Search
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OT: African swarms makes BBC swoon
I see the anti-British TV media forces of evil are at work making anyone who thinks the African invasion of these islands is anything but justified, a racist or inhuman. Truth is of course that an...
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[OT] Accumulated electrical 'stuff'
Is it just me? Where does this stuff come from? Just been going through a stack of *15* quite large Addis stacking boxes, all of which contain computer or related stuff. Some is easy, like TV coax...
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Omnicron alarm
Have a fairly ancient Omnicron 9000 burglar alarm I installed - bought from TLC. With a flush mounting remote keyboard at the front door. Recently bought a new SLA battery for it too. The remote panel...
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