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the woeful quality of painted kitchen cabinet doors
I'm in the process of getting my kitchen sorted. at the moment the preferred (although not necessarily mine) design is to have a simple "quaker" look with light oak doors on the cupboards and draws...
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Buzzing Thermostat
Hi all I have a Honeywell T6360B room stat controlling the fan on a Myson kick space heater. After only a year of operation it has started buzzing for a good few seconds on each switching operation....
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Lateral separation between gas hob and wall cupboards?
I realise this will be spec'd in the installation manual for the hob, but I haven't bought that yet and need to plan the cupboard layout. The "re-use of gas appliances" guidance doc suggests, in the...
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Under-cupboard kitchen lights - how to switch?
As part of the kitchen re-fit I need to fit under-cupboard lighting, but it's going to be a pain to run extra cables to the light switch (assuming I replace it with a 2 gang) and I don't want to have...
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Aldi LED lamps
Aldi have a range of led lamps in their current specials. What caught my ey e was a ES rated at 1050lm, staing 75W equivalent. Also a BC 850lm. Plenty of dimmer ones too. These are the first usefully...
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Topping up cavity wall insulation
We have blown fibreglass insulation in the older parts of the walls. During the extension work we must have lost some of the original cavity wall insulation. Is it possible to top up this kind of...
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Reinforcing brickwork
I have a small L shaped garden wall to build (3 or 4 courses high) from reclaimed yellow stocks, and I would like to to reinforce the right angle. It'll be a raised flower bed so I don't want to...
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How much !
Just had our boiler cover renewal letter today. £219 !!!!!!!! I can't believe we've been paying this much every year - my vague recollection is it was about £60 a year.. It's a 12 year old Vaillant...
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Church sound system.
My brother is involved with his local church which desperately needs a decent sound system. The church is traditional Victorian which held perhaps 1000 in the days of pews - but now has movable...
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Rotary pipe brush
I remember seeing a US made video with a plumber using a pipe de-burring and cleaning brush that was mounted on a cordless drill. It struck me a pretty good idea considering how much time you can...
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Thunderbird: Useful little thread colouring mod?
Sometime ago on another group someone mentioned a feature of 'outlook express' that highlighted unread threads in a different colour as well as being embolded. Thunderbird just has them in bold. I had...
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OT Global warming.
Came across this:- The most common fallacy in discussing extreme weather events + Update « RealClimate
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Lawnmower Switch - capacitor
I am replacing the trigger switch in a neighbour's lawnmower. Across the load side of the douple pole switch is a 0.1pf capacitor. As the new switch is slightly different in layout I am wondering if...
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Underlay problem?
Hello all! As a first time buyer last year I've noticed a couple of things I never wou ld have when living with parents. One of these is the underlay in the livin g room. We had new carpet (last...
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OT: Super yachts
If I won the lottery, what I would not buy, is a super yacht. A typical type of "super yacht" as bought by some of the worlds richest people might be some 400 feet long and cost around 200 million...
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