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Pile em high and ......
Eight people including staff and customers were injured in the accident that happened late Friday night at the Mateus Atacarejo Mix Supermarket in São Luís, north Brazil.
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Can Central Heating circulation pumps be generally mounted pumping downwards?
Ye I am aware that there needs a way for air to escape. In the good old days I thought pumps had to be placed pumping up, or horizontally.
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3 years ago
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Little victories
Had a couple of Auraglow PIR/nightlights. One had the LED blow (or so I surmised from the flash and then non functioning) and the other one had a battery leak destroy one of the terminals. 5 minutes...
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3 years ago
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Partially-used paint tins > milk bottle
The usual way of storing partially-used paint tins is to turn them upside-down, so that the skin that invariably forms is at the bottom of the paint when next you use it. Although not original, I've...
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3 years ago
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Sprinklers
A school has just gone up in flames in my area. Usual photos of it burning inside whilst water is put on the outside. Usual cries for sprinklers - but these can be vandalised and could cause problems....
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3 years ago
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Motorised valve not closing
The 2-port motorised valve on the central heating isn't turning off once the room thermostat is satisfied and so the boiler continues to fire until I turn the boiler off at the mains. The actuator is...
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3 years ago
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Patching a concrete wall.
Hello all, I have a small leak in the concrete wall in the cellar. The rain is making it a bit of nuisance. I have tried to fix the issue by finding the hole, drilling it out and filling with some...
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3 years ago
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Which paint to seal wall against rainwater
A short wall dividing two flat roofs absorbs rainwater, which leaks from the brickwork into the roofspace below. The top and sides of the wall were treated with bitumen paint which worked for a few...
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3 years ago
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Weatherproofing OSB or ply with fibreglass resin...
As title - will it work? The boards (4ft X 2ft) will get wet (but not immersed) I want to make them last s few months at least... If so I have never had need to use fibreglass resin etc - any gotchas?
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3 years ago
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"Touching (one or both terminals of) button batteries causes them to discharge" - any truth?
My wife has always believed that if you touch both (and maybe just one) terminal of a flat disc "button" battery (eg CR2032, CR1620 as used in a watch, key fob, PC BIOS), you will cause the battery to...
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3 years ago
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Tradesman - Price markup on parts
I have just received an estimate from a tradesman (based on photographs to save him the time of a visit) which includes £199 Plus VAT for listed parts. The very same parts are available from...
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3 years ago
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Not using the NHS app
Well just turn Bluetooth off after you go into the pub.
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3 years ago
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Know anything about fridges?
My fridge freezer a Fridgemaster MTFR225FF Has started to puddle water in the bottom of the fridge, yet temperatures of both parts seem good and its auto frost fre in general works fine. There appears...
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3 years ago
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OT: rewritable discs
I have found some old rewritable discs and tried reformatting them. However, most of them do not work. Are they a thing of the past now?
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3 years ago
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Covid test and trace ios App
Do I have to have this thing running all the time for it to work, or is it enough to just have it on my Iphone?
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3 years ago
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