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OT Arctic ice increasing
or the layman's version: Researchers say the Arctic is highly sensitive to changes in summer temperatures as ice rebound continued through 2014....
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OT Cars video (28 Litre Fiat)
If you're into cars, watch the video of this monster. https://grrc.goodwood.com/festival-of-speed/latest/video-legendary-28-litre-fiat-s76-driven-for-the-first-time-in-100-years#7GiqIT0u2JZmeGv2.97
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Mending parquet
We've found there's parquet flooring under our lounge carpet, and we'd like to keep it. It seems to be sanding up quite nicely. The trouble is some of it has been replaced by mortar, and some of it is...
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Resin gravel drive surfacing
Resin based gravel drives are appearing in our locality and we get leafletted regularly e.g. It looks good but what are the pros and cons of this technology? Are there any significant problems with...
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OT: Is Samsung toner particularly crap?
A couple of years ago I bought a Samsung CLP-680 colour laser printer - it doesn't get used much and, after 500 colour pages, there's about 35% toner left. I while ago it started printing badly so I...
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OT Bollocks - I dialed a wrong nunber today and the bloke that anwered the phone took my order
I called CET instead of CEF and bloody Geoff decided to play along and take the order.
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New boiler question and Part "L" etc.
Is there a requirement to upgrade the controllability of the individual radiators at the same time the boiler is replaced? In practice I mean fitting TRVs but I would rather defer fitting them until a...
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OT: St. Andrews
Does anybody else think that the scoreboard at St. Andrews looks like a giant Lego block? It does to us.
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OT: Stupid Aldi
I just shopped at Aldi and the checkout operator (who was actually the deputy manager) was pressing one key on the till 20 times when I'd bought 20 of one thing. When I looked at her with a confused...
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Trianco oil boiler burner lock out problem
Having a problem just in the last few weeks with our Trianco oil fired combi-boiler burner locking out on timer start up. Have replaced the Danfoss coil and photo-cell but the lock out light still...
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concrete steps
Good morning, I have got some concrete steps, which are badly eroded. What is the best way to "resurface" these? Should I apply some pva or sbr to the existing steps and then a screed of sand and...
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fence post question
Hello, I am trying to dog-proof and child-proof the garden. In one corner my neighbour has a small breeze block wall, which is only two blocks high. One option would be to make the wall taller; how...
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Dual voltage shaver points - use both?
Shaver points usually have two sockets - one for 110V and another for 240V. I know from past experience that a Braun electric toothbrush charger will work in the 110V socket (yes, plugged it into the...
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Adhesive for slate tiles on outside doorstep?
I need to replace some slate floor tiles on to an exterior concrete front doorstep. Can't remember what I used originally (about 10 years ago!) but they came loose in short order and I stashed them...
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OT; Now, over to our correspondent...
It seems to be necessary on news programs to have someone at the scene of the news for no apparent reason. T'other night it was "Now over to Fred Bloggs at Hove Crown Court". As it was 6:45 the court...
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