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underfloor void completely filled with concrete
A friend has bought a victorian house and discovered that in the front room the underfloor void has been completely filled with concrete, right up to the underside of the floorboards (with the joists...
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Citylink - useless, useless, useless.
I think it does vary from branch to branch and the "round" driver. Here there're fine as are all the other delivery services....
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Any noticable difference between sky+ hd scart or hdmi?
As subject, I'm short of hdmi inputs and wifey would be banjaxed with a switcher. .
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Oh dear, the IPCC have got it wrong again.
rise of 3 degrees will not melt the Greenland ice sheet as it has been warmer in the past and it didn't melt then. http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v493/n7433/full/nature11789.htmlA
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I hope everyone's watching the genius of invention on bbc2 right now
Well dumbed down, but what do you expect ?
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The Genius of Invention
Hmmm, Anyone else regarding this with a mix of hope and dread? Has the potential to be good, but will probably consist of an hour of patronising waffle.
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Irish wind for British bog lights
Once it's up and running, you can think of the slightly shamrock-flavour power that's coursing through your house. UK and Irish ministers will today sign an agreement that could see some of the...
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Open fire in a smoke-control area
OK so we've established (with neighbour's help) that the chimney is clear, now I've found out that she's in a smoke-control-area FFS.... There's a list of "authorised" fuels here: 'm assuming that...
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Honeywell motorised valve
I noticed that my rads were taking time before they started to warm up ie a= bout 10 minutes before any rise in temperature. Checked the motorised valve and it appeared open ie the lever was forward...
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11 years ago
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Acrylic glued to painted alloy panel
I'm attempting to repair a caravan alloy side panel. The usual trick of using filler, smoothing and painting cannot be used due to a difficult to match ribbed pattern on the existing area of panel -...
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philips dimmable ballast followup
So, regarding the philips dimmable dual ballasts that are churning out RF a= nd killing radio 4 FM on a radio 1.5 metres away. I sent a note about this to BLTdirect who passed it on to philips. A...
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4 foot fluresants
I have 2., 30 year old fluresant lamps in the kitchen. Now one of the connectors has fallen appart. ( the tubes are new) I have spent a while looking on line but am unable to find the connector as a...
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Cleaning Toilet pedestal of metal marks
We have just bought new bog-brush - one in a metal cylindrical holder, with the top of the metal cylinder fixed to the brush handle. In brushing the bog the metal has either scratched (which I doubt)...
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How often to sweep a chimney?
Mum's got an open fireplace, 1930-1950 semi-detached property. From what I can make out she last had it done about 5 years ago but I don't think she's had more than 3 or 4 "one-off" fires a year since...
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Insulation difficult
There's a small space near the cooker thats peculiarly inaccessible. The on= ly way to get anywhere near the ceiling there is to lie on one's back, any = other position is simply not doable due to the...
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