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Mounting a mirror

The mirror is approx 400 x 700mm and is 6mm thick with edge bevels that reduced this to 3mm. It has no mounting holes a...
11 comments posted 5yrs
posted by fredxx
11 comments posted 5yrs posted by fredxx

Removing paint from bathroom wall

I wish to tile a bathroom wall. The tiles are 30 by 60 cm and 10mm thick, so quite heavy. I am told that I must remove...
8 comments posted 5yrs
posted by mUNDERSCOREnews
8 comments posted 5yrs posted by mUNDERSCOREnews

Car battery 12.1v

Our car is stop-start, it hasn't performed this 'feature' for many months. I believe this to be a symptom of the batter...
90 comments posted 5yrs
posted by rsandr
90 comments posted 5yrs posted by rsandr

How about this for a motherboard burn.

This is a so-called refurbished Dell Latitude E6430 Laptop from Amazon with a badly burnt Motherboard. It looks as if s...
12 comments posted 5yrs
posted by jon
12 comments posted 5yrs posted by jon

Short Dated food suppliers

Along with 'approved food', this bunch has popped on me radar... https://www.starbargains.co.uk BTW, those approvedfood...
4 comments posted 5yrs
posted by email
4 comments posted 5yrs posted by email

cool

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-JzxX75oYc
14 comments posted 5yrs
posted by kinvig.netta
14 comments posted 5yrs posted by kinvig.netta

Orientation of lever ball valve

Is there any reason why a lever operated full bore ball valve, on a horizontal pipe, shouldn't be mounted with the leve...
5 comments posted 5yrs
posted by davidm_uk-notme
5 comments posted 5yrs posted by davidm_uk-notme

OT Old electricity bill

Promised for a poster here but I though some others might like to see it. It was given to me by Terry Casey's widow and...
46 comments posted 5yrs
posted by adamwadsworth
46 comments posted 5yrs posted by adamwadsworth

Lost in the baffling Makita range

I'd decided to treat myself to a Mak 18V brushless drill (no hammer) and ID, but the range of model numbers is impenetr...
37 comments posted 5yrs
posted by nothanks
37 comments posted 5yrs posted by nothanks

In-line fuse holders - do they meet the regs?

One for our resident certified electrical installers ... I want to add a spur to feed a wall-mounted smart heating cont...
12 comments posted 5yrs
posted by nothanks
12 comments posted 5yrs posted by nothanks

wonderful diagram of an ASP on EDF website

https://www.edfenergy.com/heating/advice/air-source-heat-pump-guide Does the diagram showing the 'warm' and 'cold' sides...
59 comments posted 5yrs
posted by Andrew97d-junk
59 comments posted 5yrs posted by Andrew97d-junk

OT: Ping ex / current Peugeot 407 owners?

Daughters little 2001 1.2 16V Corsa has managed to put another 8,000 miles on top of the 200,000 since we got it though...
25 comments posted 5yrs
posted by news
25 comments posted 5yrs posted by news