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Glue on Ceramic Tiles
Does anyone know a product to help remove No Nails style adhesive from ceramic tiles, please?
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Any experience of 3018Pro (or similar) CNC machines?
I'm very tempted by one of the small CNC engravers - any experiences, or recommendations for where to buy?
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Chair repair
My wheel back dining chair seat has disintegrated (no corpulence aspersions please). The puzzle is what was the original material. The appearance is a thin version of hardboard! Plenty of chair...
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Odd screensaver behaviour
Surely this is because the screens are shared and the screensaver happens to be over one side more than the other? Brian
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robust labelling system?
Right... I grow strawberries in a greenhouse. I use 14 litre builders buckets with drainage holes drilled into the bottom. I have 45 said buckets in a greenhouse with an automatic fertigation system....
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Cement setting times in current weather
I've searched on the internet but I'm having trouble finding 'real world' practical cement setting times. It's fairly easy to find how long it will be workable and thus when you have to finish a mix....
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Build chimney
Hi All, I am thinking of building a BBQ against the outside of the house. The house wall is currently rendered and painted. Since it is close to the house and neighbour I was thinking it would be best...
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Kitchen Splashbacks
SWAMBO has decided she does not like the idea of tiled walls and instead has opted for using splashbacks. Since I have never had any experience of using splashbacks, I would be interested in feedback...
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Gas in water?
About three weeks ago we had a major water main burst which supplied a lot of the south of the borough of Kingston Upon Thames, Thames water bypassed the problem area somehow and although the pressure...
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Mystery item arrives
A hire van came this morning and the young man gave me a small package. The package had the curved arrow logo on it (Amazon presumably). There was absolutely no cover note, invoice, or anything else...
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Pressure washers
(no, really, I do want some advice on one!) It's spring, so I was cleaning the patio. It stopped. It had tripped the breaker for its circuit, the main breaker in the garage box, and the breaker for...
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What hinge to allow a door to fold fully back?
Hi, I'm looking to see if there is some special kind of hinge that will allow a regular (pine) internal door to open fully so that it is flush(-ish) against the wall that it is hinged to. With regular...
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Side road resurfacing
Originally concrete slab, later tarmaced. They are resurfacing and have scrapped up the tarmac down to concrete - how long do they normally leave it, before returning to retarmac? It's been two weeks...
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find details from a bank account?
I had workers in last year to work on my garden They did a good ob so I would like them again this year. Sadly I have lost the contact details, all i have is the bank details From where I paid them....
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Desk ideas
Hi All, With a future now of working from home, we have decided to renovate our study. The current iteration of the design has some painted units along the back wall and a large desk on the opposite...
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