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Fibreboard
Insulating fibreboard, green 6mm for going under wood flooring - this is the same as LDF? Any info on it welcome too, primarily for the wiki. NT
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DVD regions
Have just bought the DVD of one of my favourite films - Alexander Korda's "The Thief of Bagdad". On trying to play it in my DVD player, I get the message "This DVD may not be played in your region."...
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Ch4 tuning problems (nr Manchester)
This is an odd one. My parents TV has been acting strange ever since digital switchover. Channel 4 has vanished and has been replaced by a Welsh version with a noise to signal ratio rather than SNR....
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Problems with this group?
Late last week my news fetch prog stopped working quoting a problem accessing the crossover file. Got things sorted by deleting its history. Thought no more of it - but then a post on an Acorn forum...
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Can you identify this tree
Hi folks, I realise this isn't a botanical group but I also know from years of visiting here, there must be somebody (possibly many) who will be able to help. We have a friend who has a tree in their...
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letter slots vs boxes
We're thinking of replacing the old front door, which I think is the main heat loss area in the house now, with a new "modern" one. Among other things, I'm considering switching from a letter slot in...
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Moving a CU
Hi. Original CU has 2.5m long meter tails back to the meter cupboard. I would like to move the CU to a new location, which would result in 5m long meter tails from meter cupboard. the new meter tails...
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Quick Consumer unit query
Hi, I have 12 mains interlinked smoke detectors, each has battery back up. This is currently wired into a single 6A MCB at the CU. I also have 4 new mains interlinked battery backed up carbon monoxide...
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OT Times newspaper Nexus 7 offer
Anybody tried to sign up for the Times (newspaper) digital deal with a Nexus 7 32GB thrown in for an extra £50.. "The newspaper is offering a 32GB version of the Nexus 7 for only £50 if you buy 18...
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Initiate a phone call remotely?
I've just renewed my BT Line Rental Saver contract for the line in my holiday flat (including free evening and weekend calls) and BT now seem to be imposing monthly - rather than quarterly - billing...
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uPVC beads with end square end and one mitred end
Hmm - slightly confused... Last windows I fitted had all mitred beading - the only trick was to get top + bottom in first, then the sides. New windows, every bead is mitred at one end and square cut...
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It does not take the pikeys long does it?
I put my old gas cooker outside on Sunday night. Gone at 7.55am Monday.
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Insulating effect of curtains
Patio doors - double glazed, but HID removed the heavy curtains in the summer as they were old. Perfectly valid they were, but just how much contribution to the room insulation did they give, as I...
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upvc push fit union just failed for no apparent reason!
Anyone else had this problem with push fit? In my case the 15mm pipe (cold water feed to washing machine) was also pvc.= The pipe just popped out of the union for no reason I can find and spewed =...
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Thunderbird bug - Question
When I open this newsgroup, Thunderbird sometimes fully expands several random threads that I've not been reading anyway. Is there any way to prevent this happening? A setting somewhere perhaps? It...
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