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Which plaster?

PB boards on insulation on a solid wall, as a plastering newb which plaster should I use for filling all the gaps, screw...
14 comments posted 4yrs
posted by tabbypurr
14 comments posted 4yrs posted by tabbypurr

Coloured crystals emerging from concrete

Last year I made a wall by pouring/shuttering concrete, later painted it, over winter the paint flaked off and what app...
43 comments posted 4yrs
posted by rsandr
43 comments posted 4yrs posted by rsandr

OT: British Gas refusing card payments

Had my gas bill this morning from British Gas. I normally pay immediately, using my credit card (Barclaycard), but BG i...
11 comments posted 4yrs
posted by me
11 comments posted 4yrs posted by me

OT: Investigation into Amazon's shady practices

For those who have shown interest in Amazon's practice of signing you up to Prime: https://gizmodo.com/ftc-probing-dece...
2 comments posted 4yrs
posted by fredxx
2 comments posted 4yrs posted by fredxx

freeview to be made available online ?

Needing to get a television roof aerial and cables installed for our freeview television. Have got to wondering if its...
16 comments posted 4yrs
posted by mail.invalid456
16 comments posted 4yrs posted by mail.invalid456

bloody firefox

why does firefox want to keep upgrade every five minutes...firefox used to be nice and simple with none of this stupid...
11 comments posted 4yrs
posted by kinvig.netta
11 comments posted 4yrs posted by kinvig.netta

Hedge trimmer shot?

My Bosch hedge trimmer seems to in its death throes. It'll run for a while then cut out. Given some time it'll run for...
10 comments posted 4yrs
posted by giraffenos.pam
10 comments posted 4yrs posted by giraffenos.pam

I built a thing

I got fed up with the pile stuff that always seems to cover any flat workspace in my office, so decided to see if I cou...
11 comments posted 4yrs
posted by see.my.signature
11 comments posted 4yrs posted by see.my.signature

bloody insurance

anybody noticed recently that car, caravan and house insrers are now all emailing you saying your renewal pack will shor...
39 comments posted 4yrs
posted by kinvig.netta
39 comments posted 4yrs posted by kinvig.netta

washing machine microplastic filters

Anyone got one? It?s seems that some folk feel that we?re killing the planet with all the microplastics from our washin...
20 comments posted 4yrs
posted by tim.downie
20 comments posted 4yrs posted by tim.downie

Heating system expansion vessel

Covered before I know but this is from a different angle.. The internal vessel in my boiler is just about large enough...
1 comments posted 4yrs
posted by tim
1 comments posted 4yrs posted by tim

Excel or Google sheets question

I'm struggling with a bit of logic in google sheets - do we have any experts here? I want a cell to contain a ticked ye...
25 comments posted 4yrs
posted by nothanks
25 comments posted 4yrs posted by nothanks

Internal double doors.

I have inherited a 50 year old pair of double doors. Closed their combined width is just over 46 inches. This seems to...
3 comments posted 4yrs
posted by pinnerite
3 comments posted 4yrs posted by pinnerite

OT question re eurofighter typhoon

I noticed there is a sooty hole in the junction of the fuselage and port wing of the aircraft in a recent video. Anyone...
3 comments posted 4yrs
posted by johnjessop46
3 comments posted 4yrs posted by johnjessop46