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Marginally d-i-y

Anyone used the set down at Stansted lately? 1st go round the exit gate took an age to authenticate my Trustcard:-( 2nd...
10 comments posted 4yrs
posted by tim
10 comments posted 4yrs posted by tim

Dash Cams - Sensible purchase?

I have been wondering about fitting a Dash Camera to my car. I was surprised to find that the Nextbase cameras that I w...
49 comments posted 4yrs
posted by mUNDERSCOREnews
49 comments posted 4yrs posted by mUNDERSCOREnews

How negligent can you get?

A thousand years of history up in smoke because a workman set fire to the thatch. They were torching some lead, next to...
25 comments posted 4yrs
posted by NOTsomeone
25 comments posted 4yrs posted by NOTsomeone

Having an Up and Downer with a Chinese supplier

I bought an expensive precision instrument through Amazon and it was damaged when it arrived, with a busted box and a b...
15 comments posted 4yrs
posted by jon
15 comments posted 4yrs posted by jon

doomed..enjoy your last years

'The UK needs to create a new motoring tax to plug the revenue gap as drivers switch to electric cars, MPs have said. T...
40 comments posted 4yrs
posted by kinvig.netta
40 comments posted 4yrs posted by kinvig.netta

3 way valve

I have some instructions for a (Japanese) heating controller which has an output for a hot water/central heating 3 way...
9 comments posted 4yrs
posted by theom+news
9 comments posted 4yrs posted by theom+news

Legionnaires Disease Precautions

In my new (to me) house I have a shower that is a "dead leg" in that it is plumbed after the bath with nothing beyond i...
18 comments posted 4yrs
posted by jgaines_newsid
18 comments posted 4yrs posted by jgaines_newsid

I ought to use lime plaster... but...

We've got an old house. A _really_ old house. I've just found that the side of the fireplace was missed when we had a c...
0 comments posted 4yrs
posted by vir.campestris
0 comments posted 4yrs posted by vir.campestris

fuel for 2 stroke engines

I have twice been told, by different Stihl service centres, that no fuel shoul be held over winter due to degradation....
7 comments posted 4yrs
posted by tpmccann
7 comments posted 4yrs posted by tpmccann

Keeping bees out of the loft.

I like bees so I wouldn't want to harm them but I'd prefer they didn't nest in my loft each year: apart from anything e...
18 comments posted 4yrs
posted by nick
18 comments posted 4yrs posted by nick

Stuck-together paper.

There's lots of contradictory advice on t'internet about how to separate sheets of paper stuck together by damp. The ad...
5 comments posted 4yrs
posted by nick
5 comments posted 4yrs posted by nick

Dormobiles

If you spend a night in a dormobile can you get pissed legaly?....I think you are in charge of the keys and could get do...
36 comments posted 4yrs
posted by kinvig.netta
36 comments posted 4yrs posted by kinvig.netta

Cooker hood lighting

Our cooker hood has two rather feeble lights behind two lenses that are about 15cm X 5cm. There?s no reflector above th...
15 comments posted 4yrs
posted by tim.downie
15 comments posted 4yrs posted by tim.downie