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Plastic coated steel roofing - expected life of coating?
Over 10 years ago we built the Mother of All Sheds. The roofing was corrugated steel sheet with a green plastic coating. This last year the coating has started to lift off the areas which have been in...
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Glowworm micron 60FF reset
Hi, I have a Glowworm Micron 60FF boiler, which keeps resetting. Reset light on solid. It happens once or twice a day. In between the resets, the boiler works fine. It makes little difference where...
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Powerline adapters through generator
Will powerline adapters work through a generator with all electrical sockets connected to it? Im trying to set up WiFi at a remote location with various work trailers, all taking power from a truck...
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Fencing questions
Having effected some temporary repairs on our fence (panel down due to wind), I was minded to wonder how feather-board fencing ought to be installed. In our case with panels 4ft or 5ft high or so, it...
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Dust sheets and apprentice
Thick as fuck. A fully refurbished function room and so I dust sheeted up, did my ceiling damage and found the missing cable and asked the brain dead one to clean up. So he then emptied the dust sheet...
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Dealing with plaster cracks
i am in a 1990's built brick and breeze block built house. i have some plaster cracks around the windows, on the walls that seem to come back even after the bathroom was re-plastered about ten years...
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TOT meaningless security
When logging into my on-line bank account I'm informed about my last login, presumably as a security measure so that I can contact them if it wasn't me. The only problem it always tells me that my...
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Replacing stamps with bar coded ones
Some time ago when I knew about an increase in the price of 1st and 2nd class stamps I bought several hundred stamps. I know that I won't want to use these before 31/1/23 so I sent off 100 1st and 100...
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Rescuing data from an inaccessible hard drive?
A follow up to the IDE/SATA to USB thread. Device purchased and it works. One particular drive, a Seagate Barracuda 160 GB 7200.7, which is probably almost 20 years old, cannot be read. I can see the...
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2 years ago
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Energy use monitor, current transformers.
I was toying with building a multi channel current logger[1] that could be used to instrument multiple circuits. Has anyone used one of these: so, do you have dimensions for it? Just wondering how...
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Irish Whiskey Academy, in Midleton, County Cork, Ireland
Irish Whiskey Academy, in Midleton, County Cork, Ireland videos & photos Video footage and photo gallery of the Irish Whiskey Academy
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Where to buy wide, thin-walled, bamboo tube?
I need some thin-walled bamboo tube that I'll cut into short lengths (about 100mm), the diameter needs to be around 50-75mm. Mr Google, eBay and Amazon haven't been helpful so I'd be grateful to...
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How did this email get to be delivered to me
See the item below, which is a translated version from the Chinese or whatever original script. It doesn't seem to be any sort of scam or phishing attempt, but I have these before. They don't seem to...
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Fox wedging
I am currently repairing a door which turned out to be assembled using *fox wedging* and thought this article might be of interest.. it came apart without too much hammering!
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Aaahhhhhhhhh Bought DAB Radio
Would you believe, no signal in house, but car ok on driveway, what a load of bad planning.
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