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Cat pee that has soaked into joists (yum)
My good deed for yesterday was to cut out and remove the floor boards where the cats had been allowed to pee around the cat litter tray for many years. The multi tool with the vibrating saw blade from...
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Hot and cold flow with a combi - suggestions?
A friend has a BG combi boiler, at least 10 years old. When you just turn the hot on you get a good powerful flow of hot water. However when you turn the cold on you get a powerful flow from the cold...
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Oil tank - refused delivery
I've just had a delivery of heating oil refused because my GRP tank is "cracked". Looking at the tank there is some crazing of the gel coat, but it's certainly not going to leak! The tank is 9 years...
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motor insurance ploy
Can't find a suitable newsgroup, so please forgive me asking here... Last year, fully comp insurance from Direct Line on my 2002 Vectra 1.8l LS Estate, with 9 years NCB, was 193 This year, with no...
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The Planners
I didn't have any sympathy with the nimbys, but had even less for Dale Vince or Vince Dale, Vale Dince, whatever, as he came across as an opportunist wanker.
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Rasptop in a box?
I'm wondering if it would be possible to find a cheap 7" or 10" LCD screen and use that with a Raspberry in some kind of wooden box to make an easily and highly configurable low-cost laptop. It'd be a...
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Granite / marble tiles
SWMBO is thinking granite or marble floor tiles. Apart from the cost (!)*, my biggest reservation is that they'll be buggers to cut. Furthermore, as they're so heavy, it might be tricky to stop them...
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Bizarre Units
There was a thread recently about bizarre units. Today our crappy local arse-wipe freebie quotes: "During the 2012/13 programme alone 178 roads were treated. The material used weighed the equivalent...
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OT What are these lines for?
The ones in front of the Mini. Google Maps
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New site for Nod32 keys and kaspersky keys
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SSE boss Ian Marchant warns of risk of "lights going out"
The boss of the energy firm SSE warns that "there is a very real risk of the lights going out" in Britain.
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RCD Behaviour
Hi all Bit of a dum question on RCDs coming up.... My Mrs just called cos power had gone to all sockets. Apparently the RCD covering 3 socket circuits had tripped. At the time she was doing laundry i....
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Humax TV fault
Have a Humax LU23-TD2 - a 24" LCD with analogue and DTTV tuners. The DTTV side has failed - just a blank screen. No reaction when you try changing channels - and if you do a scan, it runs through the...
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Beam calculations .. well sort of;!...
Anyone know how to sort this please?.. We have a steel mast structure like a small electrically pylon. It comprises of Four lattice parts that are bolted together. Its 4 sections are 7.5 metres long...
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Daft safety messages number 243
"Remove from phoneline before opening battery compartment". Even if 50V was dangerous (which it isn't), if 50V got from the phoneline into the battery compartment, I think a shock would be the least...
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