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Woohoo...
A couple of pairs of work strides I bought a couple of years ago in the sure and certain knowledge I would fit into them eventually, have yeilded up to me. Fantastic - not a burst seam in sight, in...
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LED Strip lights on LUL
Whilst standing on the platform at Moorgate waiting for a train I observed that the "strip light" tubes had "LED only" above them. Have LUL adopted LED tubes instead of fluorescent tubes?
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Fixing worktop upstands
One job outstanding with my kitchen is to fit the upstands to the back of the worktops. Rather than wait for the builder to come back, I might as well do it myself. Just wondering what adhesives to...
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OT "Saver" bashed tins
Whenever I go to the supermarket I see that the "Saver" range of tinned goods have a very high proportion of dented tins. In my innocent youth I used to believe that tins that were dented on the...
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Grit roller drive ideas
Some of you may already have come across caravan movers, but for those who have not I will try to explain... They are basically an add on item for a caravan, to enable it to be moved along via a...
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Flies !
For the past few days, our house has been plagued with flies. Small ones (I'm not an expert. They are small and black). Not bluebottles. Our HV zapper seems useless. And we're not big fans of...
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Shower head
How does this work then? Mike http://www.lidl.co.uk/cps/rde/SID-6F370450-A4347997/www_lidl_uk/hs.xsl/our-offers-2491.htm?action=showDetail&id=4816
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Un-levelling compound
OK, I know the usual self-levelling compound isn't really self-levelling. I have a porch floor that I need to raise the level by 30mm to meet a cill level at the front and 40mm at the back to meet the...
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3M VHB tape
I just bought a GoPro Hero video camera (to mount on my race car). It came with a grab bag of mounting hardware, although sadly not a standard tripod mount (*). It does have a selection of "stick-on"...
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OT: Cunning new scam.
Of course it is. Everyone's heard of the dead cat Bounce. Dead famous it is. ;-) Tim
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Toilet cistern filling up past level
We have one of these new type 2 button push type cistern/toilets and have just noticed, well heard it really, that it is filling up after a flush past the water level which is marked on the inside....
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Went into DIY shed today
to buy some wood. It was the one that's really not sure if it's a trade building supplier or a domestic retail outlet. Whilst I was there, I happened to have in my hand something that I needed to take...
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permanent ladder standoff beneath gutter?
I'm looking for something solid yet not unsightly I can attach to the house, so I can lean my ladder against that in preference to leaning against the 4" plastic gutter and breaking it. I've got a...
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VOSA
Does anyone know what it costs to get VOSA approval on a small custom-built trailer? Bill
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Should our sink waste hole reducer be sealed?
Our steel kitchen sink has a circular reducer which takes the diameter of the waste hole down from something like 3.5" (or whatever it is in mm) to the usual size. Presumably it allows you to put a...
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