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Filling/Smoothing Between Paint Coats
Hi all Having applied the first coat of paint to the kichen walls, a number of minor(ish) issues have been highlighted. These are mainly indentations in filled chases and the like. The paint used is...
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Water softeners
Any recommendations as to technology and suppliers for a whole house water softener? Needs to cope with a 37kW combi and two bathrooms in a 3 bed semi. Allegedly those that measure water throughput to...
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Oh the irony
Was investigating a damp patch on the dining room ceiling. Traced it to a weeping speedfit connector that has lost its seal due to a build up of limescale. The connector is on a 'magnetic descaler'...
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Casting question
A question for those who know about casting techniques.... Was watching this the other day: (kind of explains the price they charge for their planes etc!) During the section in the foundry, after...
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Knock off, or just flattery?
I though this: familiar: design seems to have a Bosch ring to it: like the old GST 85: (their AG looks rather Makita ish as well) I wonder how close a copy they are quality wise?
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13 Amp Nut
within the pre-programmed firmware of Squirrels, there seems to be an instruction sequence that involves detaching round nut-like objects from branch like things like wires, before applying angle...
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Finding flat/square holdalls/kit/tool bags, etc?
Artists' folio?
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Totally OT Old mobile phones, ring tones and women
Actually it's my new mobile phone a Nokia X6-00 to replace my Nokia 1100 that could no longer get a signal. RIP you old beauty I'll miss you [1] The phone is only new to me, it is the gf's old phone....
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Releasing seized thread
The bath tap in our house is old (~40yrs). The valve which diverts the flow into a simple shower fitting no longer works. The whole thing should screw out but the threads are locked solid. Here is a...
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Cutting coving around warm air vent?
I'm trying to install ceiling coving in a four walled room. I'm encountering two problems: 1) two vertical (floor to ceiling) pipe boxes one in a corner and one on a straight wall and 2) more...
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TOT: Speech
Number 1 daughter gets married next week, so I'm writing my Father of the Bride speech. Any good jokes? Clean if possible. She's a paramedic in London, he's a policeman in Kent if that helps.
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How long are boiler spares available?
Hi, My Ariston non-condensing boiler is a bit on the blink. It's ten years old,= and I'm toying with the idea of just scrapping it and getting it replaced = with a condensing model. It would be a...
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Karma...
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What plastic sheeting is..
The stuff used in greenhouses without eaves. ie the stuff is bent around a radius with plastic joiners to the edge of normal glass top and bottom. The old tatty instructions calls it plexiglass. Not...
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That's not 61mm
"Nik Wallenda braved wind and heavy spray to make the 1,800ft (550m) walk from the US to Canada on a two-inch (61mm) wire." A man from a celebrated family of professional daredevils has completed a...
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