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3 port motorised valve question

Is the a power off ?bias? with 3 port valves? I?ve been idly looking around for ?normally open? two port valves for byp...
14 comments posted 5yrs
posted by tim.downie
14 comments posted 5yrs posted by tim.downie

Glue on Ceramic Tiles

Does anyone know a product to help remove No Nails style adhesive from ceramic tiles, please?
1 comments posted 5yrs
posted by voyager1space
1 comments posted 5yrs posted by voyager1space

Chair repair

My wheel back dining chair seat has disintegrated (no corpulence aspersions please). The puzzle is what was the origina...
11 comments posted 5yrs
posted by tim
11 comments posted 5yrs posted by tim

Odd screensaver behaviour

I've just set up a new W10 desktop machine with two monitors - the main one landscape for general use and the second on...
10 comments posted 5yrs
posted by watt.tyler
10 comments posted 5yrs posted by watt.tyler

robust labelling system?

Right... I grow strawberries in a greenhouse. I use 14 litre builders buckets with drainage holes drilled into the bott...
38 comments posted 5yrs
posted by i.love.spam
38 comments posted 5yrs posted by i.love.spam

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 e...
22 comments posted 5yrs
posted by cl
22 comments posted 5yrs posted by cl

Build chimney

Hi All, I am thinking of building a BBQ against the outside of the house. The house wall is currently rendered and pain...
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posted by leen...
1 comments posted 5yrs posted by leen...

Kitchen Splashbacks

SWAMBO has decided she does not like the idea of tiled walls and instead has opted for using splashbacks. Since I have...
9 comments posted 5yrs
posted by tricky.dicky
9 comments posted 5yrs posted by tricky.dicky

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...
20 comments posted 5yrs
posted by briang1
20 comments posted 5yrs posted by briang1

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 (Am...
21 comments posted 5yrs
posted by wrightsaerials
21 comments posted 5yrs posted by wrightsaerials

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 br...
17 comments posted 5yrs
posted by vir.campestris
17 comments posted 5yrs posted by vir.campestris

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 fu...
11 comments posted 5yrs
posted by kalicoorguk
11 comments posted 5yrs posted by kalicoorguk

Side road resurfacing

Originally concrete slab, later tarmaced. They are resurfacing and have scrapped up the tarmac down to concrete - how l...
43 comments posted 5yrs
posted by a
43 comments posted 5yrs posted by a