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Aged Birmingham Resident sought

In the early 1960's there was a Ministry of Labour Employment exchange on Soho Rd., Handsworth, Birmingham. I've been at...
18 comments posted 5yrs
posted by tpmccann
18 comments posted 5yrs posted by tpmccann

Repair to DG windows

I've got a couple if uPVC double glazed windows which have become very drafty around the opening casements. It seems at...
4 comments posted 5yrs
posted by davidm_uk-notme
4 comments posted 5yrs posted by davidm_uk-notme

Cuprinol Wood Preserver

I've just used the very last of my 5L tin of VOC Cuprinol Wood Preserver, and am looking for a successor. Modern stuff...
4 comments posted 5yrs
posted by Aero.Spike
4 comments posted 5yrs posted by Aero.Spike

Younger folk & DIY mentality

Another example. We're fashioning a kitchen at work. Gave my eldest son (recently turned 30) the tools and basic instru...
19 comments posted 5yrs
posted by rsandr
19 comments posted 5yrs posted by rsandr

OT mobile phone battery

Last week while making a phone call on my mobile it cut off with no battery power after around 40 minutes although prev...
14 comments posted 5yrs
posted by junk
14 comments posted 5yrs posted by junk

Greenhouse wifi !

Trying to get a wifi signal up into the greenhouse, house walls are blocking the signal from the router, have tried usi...
4 comments posted 5yrs
posted by charlie
4 comments posted 5yrs posted by charlie

Unexplained pipe clunk

The missus had mentioned that something we do upstairs at work makes the pipework downstairs clunk, it clunks semi-regu...
14 comments posted 5yrs
posted by rsandr
14 comments posted 5yrs posted by rsandr

Outside water pipes and freezing...

We've a 15mm plastic mains water pipe on an outside wall. I haven't got around to lagging it yet so as a precaution i'v...
9 comments posted 5yrs
posted by rsandr
9 comments posted 5yrs posted by rsandr

Under sink manifold

The kitchen sink has a manifold to connect the two sinks plus overflow, waste disposal and dish washer into a single ou...
5 comments posted 5yrs
posted by tpmccann
5 comments posted 5yrs posted by tpmccann

A party wall question...Or probably not.

This is hypothetical but had me wondering. We shared a yard wall with a neighbour, double thickness with one brick on o...
12 comments posted 5yrs
posted by rsandr
12 comments posted 5yrs posted by rsandr

Nilfisk Aero 26 - anyone used one?

I use an Earlex WD1200 as a LVHP cdust collector in the workshop but it's very noisy so I'm thinking of replacing it wi...
8 comments posted 5yrs
posted by nothanks
8 comments posted 5yrs posted by nothanks

Snake oil, or not?

I keep getting unsolicited adverts thrust at me in my Twitter feed - two of which I wonder about. One is for adjustable...
7 comments posted 5yrs
posted by watt.tyler
7 comments posted 5yrs posted by watt.tyler

MIG welding

Gentlemen, I need to replace the liner in my MIG welder. The one that's coming out is the 'bicycle brake cable' type wh...
6 comments posted 5yrs
posted by cd
6 comments posted 5yrs posted by cd

NHS email addresses?

I tried to email someone at an NHS hospital address, but it was bounced. The address I used was of the form - ?????.???...
43 comments posted 5yrs
posted by a
43 comments posted 5yrs posted by a

Battery for electric car.

At the moment I would not buy an electric car because of their price, poor range, short battery life (8 years) and unli...
99 comments posted 5yrs
posted by mUNDERSCOREnews
99 comments posted 5yrs posted by mUNDERSCOREnews