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"Disposable" paintbrush
Just bought some disposable paintbrushes. Why are they disposable? They look like any other paintbrush to me. I fully intend to clean them and reuse them!
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Removing a boiler flue cap
A friend is trying to remove the cover of her boiler flue as ivy has grown into it. Are these all easy to remove? I'm not there myself so I don't know what it looks like. I think if she can get the...
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Friggin cold phone callers
Might I suggest you try the following with grateful thanks to "Paul C Dickie" ... "Come the next election, I'm going to hang some garlic in the porch lest Gordon mac Shite-Features tries canvassing...
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Ideal Home Exhibition, Earls Court
I might as well cut my knackers off as to ask this in public, but I'm going to anyway... Is it worth the bother these days - assuming you live near to London? Or is it all greewash bollocks? Last time...
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plaster skim coat
The skim coat has separated from the wall behind a couple of our radiators. Can somebody kindly give me the *drying* time before a repair can be decorated? Also a WARNING. Two sunny days on the trot...
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Wireless lights
I was looking at this It seems to be a ceiling light with a switch that controls it wirelessly, rather than with a cable looped in. Why isn't that used more? I'm looking at some major electrical...
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Is this asbestos?
I'd quite like to be able to attach things to the garage ceiling but I'm worried it might be asbestos: It's a bit tricky from photos, but does this look like asbestos? As you can see in the first...
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OT: My cat is so LAZY
In message , Sam Plusnet writes More a case of tired and shagged out after a long squark it was 20 it waited for the weekend that both kids came home and died the day after they went back
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Cutting acrylic mirror material - update ...
It's extremely easy and nice stuff to work with. As you've said just keep tool speeds slow to avoid melting it.
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wiring up sockets to a pair of T&E cables...
Can a single piece of earth sleeving be used to sleeve two CPCs from two T&E cables prior to connecting to a socket faceplate or must I use two pieces of sleeving, one for each CPC before connecting...
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Remote temperature sensors - multiple sensors?
At the moment I have three 'weather stations' which are an indoor thermometer and clock and atmospheric pressure sensor, and a remote temperature sensor. The first I bought from Tcibo, and it has been...
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A word to the wise, Beware the "Gadget Helpline"
Just signed up for a new mobile phone from I noticed on the order acknowledgement an additional Item I had not ordered Viz. membership of their "Gadget Helpline" service provided by someone called...
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Pressure Washer Accessories
I just noticed that, on Monday, Lidl UK are offering an adaptor to allow the use of their accessories with other makes of pressure washer. I seem to remember that lack of inter-connectability has been...
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OT the headline writers simply gert worse every year
A motorist with a fear of *bridges* called police in a panic while travelling along one of the country?s busiest motorways after realising he was about to travel *under* the River Thames, it emerged...
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My grandad's clock
I have recently inherited my grandad's retirement clock. (Well, strictly, it's my wife's grandad's clock, but that's not material). It dates from 1950 and hasn't been cleaned for some time - likely...
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