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RCD and power cuts
There's a fault on the underground cable 'somewhere', Northern Grid can't find it, and so we're getting a ridiculous number of power cuts. The 'reset the clocks' routine is well rehearsed and I can't...
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Electrical fault
I caused a short circuit when working in the central heating. I assumed that it had knocked out the RCCD but when I went to reset it the RCCD is on and the mcb for the downstairs ring main is on but...
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How do people manage .....
'Worked' for a very nice lady last week. She wanted a curtain pole put up, but the curtains had the large sewn in rings & she had bought a cord operated track - which was the wrong size anyway. Next...
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Saving Water
So what D-I-Y plans have we all got to help the big water companies prevent a drought this year? "LOWER than average levels of rainfall during the start of the year have prompted a call for home...
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OT Interesting link here.
I wonder why this isn't being reported in the DM?
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Anyone got an old laptop
I'm looking for a laptop with a camera and microphone for the MiL in Indonesia to use for skyping and emails. XP / Win 7 whatever, it doesn't need to be high spec Anyone got such a beast lying around...
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What base to use for "scary sharp" sharpening method?
A question to those who use the so-called "scary sharp" (wet and dry abrasive paper on a hard flat base) method for sharpening chisels and irons: what do you use as the base? Plate glass seems to be...
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knocking a door way into a wall
Hey folks, In my new (old) victorian terrace, there's a fairly useless room at the back that is only accessible via an external door in the back garden. It's too small to use as a work shop, but it'd...
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Fridge knackered - repairable?
We have a bog standard larder fridge about 4 years old which is suddenly not doing anything at all - it might as well be unplugged but for the fact that the light is on! Otherwise, dead as doornail....
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connencting plastic to cast iron soil stack
Bathroom renovation question again. Since knocking the so-small-you-had-to-limbo-round-the-door separate WC and the every-so-tightly-packed we-managed-to-stuff-a-bog-in-here- too bathroom into one, we...
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Upstairs airbrick
I'm renovating the bathroom. Knocking off the crumbling 90 year old plaster has revealed a bricked-up and plastered over air brick inside: There's a draft around it so I was thinking I'd drag that...
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Incandescent versus fluorescent candle bulbs
En el artÃculo , Tim+ escribió: They were very heavily subsidised for a time by the energy companies who were misguidedly given taxpayer funds by guvmint to promote 'green energy'. I stocked up when...
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James Mays Man Lab
Did it detect Hammond's teeth?
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OT: on paywalls
That's not something I'd have noticed, as I have Firefox set to delete most cookies on closedown.
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Plastic side walls/curtains for veranda
I work for this company, products are excellent. Ideal for adding protection on a terrace or patio. The cassette is installed vertically and the retractable roll is pulled straight out. It is attached...
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