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Polarity Detection?

When a bored squirrel strips a foot section of lighting T&E, how come it instinctually chooses the live side? -&- They...
1 comments posted 4yrs
posted by email
1 comments posted 4yrs posted by email

AVG continuing annoyance

Partly self inflicted but.. C-Cleaner offered a 1 month free trial of their full service. As they had been whinging abo...
21 comments posted 4yrs
posted by tim
21 comments posted 4yrs posted by tim

Light bulb wattage

I have light bulbs with these markings on. I wanted to check the wattage of them? I was thinking they were 1.4W but that...
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posted by kmathers
10 comments posted 4yrs posted by kmathers

Colour of plumbing orange/ black / white / grey /

Does it matter what colour of plumbing fittings are used for soil stacks, pipes etc? orange/ black / white / grey / Can...
1 comments posted 4yrs
posted by dicegeorge
1 comments posted 4yrs posted by dicegeorge

Smart meters for stupid people

Over the last year I have been called, texted and emailed over 100 times by EDF telling me I want a smart meter. I don't...
47 comments posted 4yrs
posted by tnp
47 comments posted 4yrs posted by tnp

Austrian gas rationing. How would that work?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-60925016 Talk of gas rationing in Austria. My limited experience of gas supply fail...
14 comments posted 4yrs
posted by tim.downie
14 comments posted 4yrs posted by tim.downie

Insulation gap and condensation

Every time I do something on this place, I find something new. Got an insulated garage "professionally converted" befor...
9 comments posted 4yrs
posted by ben
9 comments posted 4yrs posted by ben

OT: New driving laws and cyclists etc

There is a case of a motorist getting fined and penalised quite heavily for causing a cyclist to fall. See...
230 comments posted 4yrs
posted by nospam
230 comments posted 4yrs posted by nospam

How does that work then?

Crackly telephone line eventually degraded from 13Mb to around 0.9Mb. Load times extended as expected. Usenet no visible...
10 comments posted 4yrs
posted by tim
10 comments posted 4yrs posted by tim

Vatican flouts sanctions

Vatican bank tranferred 10 million Euros to buy Rubles from the Central bank of Russia to pay for Gas - media.
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posted by jon
3 comments posted 4yrs posted by jon

OT: Old bank book conundrum

I found some old bank books for TESSAs held by my parents. Nearly all of them were clearly closed accounts and showed f...
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posted by tim.downie
12 comments posted 4yrs posted by tim.downie

Metric screw sizes

I was just about to use some metric taps for the first time (3 and 4mm) when I realised that the set had two sizes of t...
13 comments posted 4yrs
posted by jmlayman
13 comments posted 4yrs posted by jmlayman

Heating Boiler Cycling up and down.

Some months ago our Worcester green star boiler was replaced with a new Ideal logic heat 18 in a traditional set up wit...
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posted by mail.invalid456
6 comments posted 4yrs posted by mail.invalid456

Sahara sand

You remember all that sand the other day? Well I got my nice slate grey new patio swept to get rid of it, now after a s...
16 comments posted 4yrs
posted by briang1
16 comments posted 4yrs posted by briang1

Dehydration

Is there any tests available that can tell you if you are dehydrating yourself ? ....
60 comments posted 4yrs
posted by kinvig.netta
60 comments posted 4yrs posted by kinvig.netta