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Little victories

Had a couple of Auraglow PIR/nightlights. One had the LED blow (or so I surmised from the flash and then non functionin...
33 comments posted 6yrs
posted by jethro_uk
33 comments posted 6yrs posted by jethro_uk

Partially-used paint tins > milk bottle

The usual way of storing partially-used paint tins is to turn them upside-down, so that the skin that invariably forms...
13 comments posted 6yrs
posted by ianREMOVETHISjackson
13 comments posted 6yrs posted by ianREMOVETHISjackson

Sprinklers

A school has just gone up in flames in my area. Usual photos of it burning inside whilst water is put on the outside. U...
38 comments posted 6yrs
posted by JohnP
38 comments posted 6yrs posted by JohnP

Motorised valve not closing

The 2-port motorised valve on the central heating isn't turning off once the room thermostat is satisfied and so the bo...
8 comments posted 6yrs
posted by news
8 comments posted 6yrs posted by news

Patching a concrete wall.

Hello all, I have a small leak in the concrete wall in the cellar. The rain is making it a bit of nuisance. I have trie...
8 comments posted 6yrs
posted by pastedavid
8 comments posted 6yrs posted by pastedavid

Which paint to seal wall against rainwater

A short wall dividing two flat roofs absorbs rainwater, which leaks from the brickwork into the roofspace below. The to...
13 comments posted 6yrs
posted by pamela.poster
13 comments posted 6yrs posted by pamela.poster

Tradesman - Price markup on parts

I have just received an estimate from a tradesman (based on photographs to save him the time of a visit) which includes...
145 comments posted 6yrs
posted by news
145 comments posted 6yrs posted by news

Not using the NHS app

Well just turn Bluetooth off after you go into the pub.
103 comments posted 6yrs
posted by adamwadsworth
103 comments posted 6yrs posted by adamwadsworth

Know anything about fridges?

My fridge freezer a Fridgemaster MTFR225FF Has started to puddle water in the bottom of the fridge, yet temperatures of...
18 comments posted 6yrs
posted by briang1
18 comments posted 6yrs posted by briang1

OT: rewritable discs

I have found some old rewritable discs and tried reformatting them. However, most of them do not work. Are they a thing...
21 comments posted 6yrs
posted by newsgroups
21 comments posted 6yrs posted by newsgroups

Covid test and trace ios App

Do I have to have this thing running all the time for it to work, or is it enough to just have it on my Iphone?
1 comments posted 6yrs
posted by a
1 comments posted 6yrs posted by a

[OT] Steak restaurants

Wracking my brain here. There were two chains of steak restaurants, very well known, 40-50 years ago. One was Beefeater...
75 comments posted 6yrs
posted by News
75 comments posted 6yrs posted by News

EXCEL to Numbers

Is there a simple way of saving/converting an EXCEL spreadsheet into the Apple-Mac spreadsheet Numbers? I see that ther...
11 comments posted 6yrs
posted by me
11 comments posted 6yrs posted by me