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Squeaky hinges

Hi all I have these hinges on all my internal doors https://www.toolstation.com/search?q=53535 Over the years they have...
9 comments posted 5yrs
posted by leenowell
9 comments posted 5yrs posted by leenowell

Floor temp for radiator sizing

I'm struggling to find a reference to the floor temperature and how to calculate heatloss though the floor. I have, thr...
2 comments posted 5yrs
posted by fredxx
2 comments posted 5yrs posted by fredxx

Charging electric cars

Should all electric cars use a standard European wide charging plug? Just how safe is charging an electric car when it i...
6 comments posted 5yrs
posted by mUNDERSCOREnews
6 comments posted 5yrs posted by mUNDERSCOREnews

Kitchen Units kick board

I have just positioned a tall oven housing and some base units in our galley type kitchen. I started at the oven housin...
5 comments posted 5yrs
posted by tricky.dicky
5 comments posted 5yrs posted by tricky.dicky

Basic mono tap.

Bought a mono basin tap from Screwfix today. Came with a fitting kit. The flexible connectors had tap connectors at the...
17 comments posted 5yrs
posted by dave
17 comments posted 5yrs posted by dave

Heavy Radiator

Neet to fix a heavey vertical radiator to breeze block + Dab and dot Plasterboard. Worried that tightening the fixing m...
47 comments posted 5yrs
posted by JohnP
47 comments posted 5yrs posted by JohnP

Drayton Digistat RF3 failed

The programmale 'stat is no longer talking to the receiver, even from close range. The batteries were OK but I put in n...
13 comments posted 5yrs
posted by giraffenos.pam
13 comments posted 5yrs posted by giraffenos.pam

Re: OT was Alcock Brown plane zero emissions?

That is a terrible joke, you bin reading fortune cookies or what? It used, as far as I'm aware petrol. All I know is, i...
7 comments posted 5yrs
posted by briang1
7 comments posted 5yrs posted by briang1

Overboarded wall, drywall backboxes?

I've overboarded some walls and got them lovely and straight/flat with thin timbers and expanding foam, Such that in ad...
22 comments posted 5yrs
posted by rsandr
22 comments posted 5yrs posted by rsandr

on-line shopping and deliveries

Do people check off the items one by one - or merely take the stuff and later realise something is missing?
38 comments posted 5yrs
posted by JohnP
38 comments posted 5yrs posted by JohnP

Cutting plastic magnet

Are there any downsided to cutting (scalloping) a small piece out of a soft magnet? My wife bought a magnetic seam guid...
7 comments posted 5yrs
posted by nospam
7 comments posted 5yrs posted by nospam

worcester bosch boiler pressure

I have a worcester bosch boiler, whose pressure dial is all over the place. Sometimes it's at close to zero in the red...
16 comments posted 5yrs
posted by nospam
16 comments posted 5yrs posted by nospam

Re-celling a NiCd drill battery

Hi all To those that recognise me - long time no see, it's been a while!! I'm wanting to re-cell my old cordless Makita...
17 comments posted 5yrs
posted by davidlobsterpot601
17 comments posted 5yrs posted by davidlobsterpot601

shocking

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkXyCoUCeK0
5 comments posted 5yrs
posted by kinvig.netta
5 comments posted 5yrs posted by kinvig.netta