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OT: new baby
Folks, I have to announce the arrival of my first child, a lovely little girl. My wife has lots of DIY lined up for me - changing nappies myself, wiping up sick, etc. 1. Will I be curtailed from doing...
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Revitalising the Green Deal
Hoorah - "7 Make retrofit more financially attractive: Retrofit needs to be made more attractive, whether through the Green Deal or otherwise. Again, our recommendation is that the Government urgently...
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Phone-off-hook indicator
Elderly people living on their own often have an emergency call system whic h is a button they can press that calls an ambulance service. For that to w ork, all phones in their house need to be on the...
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sealing & terminating a virgin cable connection
Thanks for helpful answers to previous posts, it now decided BT is the way to go for b/band once I have moved. That means an existing internal Virgin box connection needs moving & sealing to protect...
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10 years ago
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Cutting Gas Bill but now damp smell
Small terraced house where the south facing kitchen and living room have been knocked into one space, leaving one front room separated by a closing door. To cut down on the horrendous gas heating...
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10 years ago
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Sill height?
Am I right in thinking that the "sill height" of a window as measured from the floor is not actually the height of the top surface of the sill but of the bottom of the visible glass? I'm trying to...
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10 years ago
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Printer fault
Have a fairly old Cannon i865 printer. Only gets used for colour stuff as I have a mono laser too. Was printing off a short instruction manual with some colour pics and the colour part was a bit...
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10 years ago
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lathe metalwork
Hi all, Just wondering has anyone had cause to attempt to turn an internal morse taper on a lathe? If so, how much more difficult is it to turning an external one? Given the horrendous price of...
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10 years ago
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waste pipe adaptor
Hi gang, Is there such a beast as this? I need an adaptor to convert from a push-fit 1.25" waste elbow to a 1.25" solvent waste elbow. So basically the connector I'm looking for will be essentially a...
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10 years ago
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Noise nuisance
Are there any regulations about noise by workmen? My neighbours in a terrace are virtually rebuilding the house. The banging, drilling and Kangol hammering go on every day, all day. Have I any rights?
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10 years ago
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Building cost estimates
Can anyone provide a rough rule of thumb to calculate the cost of adding an extension, either single or two storey, to an existing house. Per sq ft or m2 whatever. I realise any such rule of thumb...
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Re: slow Internet after bt line repair
In message , Tim Lamb writes uk.d-i-y added to spread the enquiry base.
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10 years ago
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When a power pole falls down
and the power for the whole neighbourhood goes out and you walk along the road to put road cones to warn drivers not to hit the pole and wires, you need to have a good torch. Why are powerlines black?
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Roller canopies in winter - Ping TMH?
We've got a wind-out canopy, fixed to the back of the house, to provide a bit of shade in summer. So far, I have always taken it down for the winter, put it back into its nearly 3M long cardboard...
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Sealing a weeping soldered pipe joint.
Arse - messing around with the CH/HW system plumbing and I seem to have managed to make a soldered pipe joint weep (presumably the joint was bit marginal and I forced it in a way that caused it to...
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10 years ago
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