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Karcher suction hose.
I wanted to use RO water to clean my windows using the pressure washer as a pump. It doesn't work with just a length of hose attached to the inlet. However it does work with a £2.37 non return valve...
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Re-celling with Li-Ion or Li-Po
I'm tempted to re-cell a couple of dead NiCd battery packs with Li-Ion/Po (with appropriate charge/discharge protection!!). It looks like it should be fairly straightforward and cheap. Has anyone here...
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Flue Longevity
Hi all General question to the floor I guess... How long would you expect boiler flue components to last? This is one item that, in the normal course of events, I would expect to be fit-and-forget for...
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Tumble drier "Clean filter" light comes on falsely
We have a Whirlpool tumble drier (about 5 years old), on which the red warning LED, which means that the lint filter needs emptying, keeps lighting up when there's hardly anything in the filter, so...
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FYI: Toolshow 2014
Hi all Their publicity doesn't seem too good, and I hesitate to do their work for them, but FYI 'ToolShow 2014' is at the Amex Stadium, Falmer, nr. Brighton, on 19th & 20th July this year. Cheers Jon...
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Re: av
I think what you really need is a brand new hard drive.
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Sending packages abroad
Has anyone on here had much experience sending things to foreign countries. I want to send a laptop to South America and have no idea which firm to se nd it with. The only way I can decide on which...
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OT Google World Cup
Is it just me or have the Google servers collapsed under the weight of World Cup activity? Most other things seem to be ok but even getting a map to load takes an age. Maybe the Americans don't...
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Loosening a ceiling rose
I have a round plastic ceiling rose in our kitchen which I am unable to rotate in order to remove it. I guess the heat from the bulb below may have distorted it, or just made it adhere tightly to the...
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VW Generators
"Move over Golf, how about a VW home power plant? Like its cars, can Germany's smart grid network of Volkswagen mini-generators win over Britain?" Move over Audrey II, this is a real power plant.
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Water flowing into garage floor
For a while I've been more and more troubled by water flooding into the garage, every time it rains particularly hard. Its a concrete sectional job, with a slab concrete floor. The reason it flows in,...
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Is this a World record?
I managed to drive a woman (in this case my Mother) 70 miles without her asking if she could have a piss stop. That's got to be a record.
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Woodchip subsitute
3 days' work to avoid £2.99. Emulsion is not normally gap filling, you'll need something else to do that bit. NT
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Measuring internal dimensions
Normally a little bit of error on an internal dimension doesn't really matter but it'll be important on this job. Both 'ends' are buried (so it's not possible to read the scale of a tape) and one end...
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Beading Floor-skirting and Bath Trim Seal
2 Questions: 1) I am putting beading on a vinyl floor/skirting board boundary: is it recommended to stick both surfaces - floor and skirting - or, I have seen suggested, just do skirting to allow...
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