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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 l...
8 comments posted 5yrs
posted by meassageboards
8 comments posted 5yrs posted by meassageboards

Desk ideas

Hi All, With a future now of working from home, we have decided to renovate our study. The current iteration of the des...
12 comments posted 5yrs
posted by leen...
12 comments posted 5yrs posted by leen...

Cement mixer

Anyone got one? Are you glad you have it or do you wish you'd hired as and when? And what have you got, is there any po...
16 comments posted 5yrs
posted by rsandr
16 comments posted 5yrs posted by rsandr

Driving Licence

Do people still have the paper bit of their UK driving licence, I have not seen mine for decades.
44 comments posted 5yrs
posted by jon
44 comments posted 5yrs posted by jon

Reusing white tiles

I have a pile of old white tiles, is it worth re using them or would the cost of the extra thickness of glue end up mor...
9 comments posted 5yrs
posted by dicegeorge
9 comments posted 5yrs posted by dicegeorge

Grass shears

I'm hoping to find an alternative to a crappy strimmer I currently have available. Many years ago, I tried a grossly un...
28 comments posted 5yrs
posted by magpieinkcap
28 comments posted 5yrs posted by magpieinkcap

Painting freshly mortared brickwork

I'm having some spalled bricks removed from the chimney stack and they will be replaced with engineering bricks. The st...
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posted by nospam
1 comments posted 5yrs posted by nospam

OT: Image reversal during TV interviews

Occasionally I notice that live interviews of people on TV are reversed LR. It's very obvious when there is text of som...
12 comments posted 5yrs
posted by me
12 comments posted 5yrs posted by me

OT. Plates that get hot in the microwave

I have a mixed selection of plates, with some of them the plate gets really hot when put in the microwave. For instance...
36 comments posted 5yrs
posted by stainburn
36 comments posted 5yrs posted by stainburn

To days EICRs

A house conversion turned into 6 studio apartments 5 years ago See if you can spot what is wrong. Sorry Brian it's a ph...
31 comments posted 5yrs
posted by adamwadsworth
31 comments posted 5yrs posted by adamwadsworth

OT Working from home

Who agrees with me that if you can work from home you are not doing a worthwhile job ? ...
17 comments posted 5yrs
posted by kinvig.netta
17 comments posted 5yrs posted by kinvig.netta

multi fuel stove with back boiler

Hi, i have had my Hunter stove for 13 years now it has a back boiler that has worked a treat but recently I had a combi...
3 comments posted 5yrs
posted by Jenette
3 comments posted 5yrs posted by Jenette

Garden compost

Anyone with experience of these hot composters? e.g. https://www.graf-water.co.uk/composters/thermo-star-composter.html...
37 comments posted 5yrs
posted by tpmccann
37 comments posted 5yrs posted by tpmccann