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Window Shutters

I'd like internal window shutters in our 'new' house. It's stone with thick walls and the existing replacement uPVC win...
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posted by SS
2 comments posted 1yr posted by SS

Vaillant eco Tec plus

I had a Vaillant eco Tec plus 4/8 fitted in Spring this year before the £250 penalty was imposed. Since the heating has...
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posted by jgnewsid
6 comments posted 1yr posted by jgnewsid

How easy to replace washing machine bearings?

The bearing on this machine (Zanussi ZWF16581W 914522629/05) is in pieces. Photo: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/r2t5j9...
24 comments posted 1yr
posted by daniele-at-vurt-dot-org
24 comments posted 1yr posted by daniele-at-vurt-dot-org

Coffee pot complications

My french press coffee pot needs a new mesh for the plunger. I measured the inside diameter of the pot, and it is 9cm....
8 comments posted 1yr
posted by mikehalmarack
8 comments posted 1yr posted by mikehalmarack

Mystery Object - ancient electronics?

Hello all - a bit speculative: we have the following object in our Collection of Computing Artefacts, and nobody knows...
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posted by lalaw44
48 comments posted 1yr posted by lalaw44

Google mail

How does one delete a Google mail address? I stopped using mine a year or so back. Google keep reminding me I will lose...
13 comments posted 1yr
posted by tim
13 comments posted 1yr posted by tim

OT: Energy Company Direct Debits

I have a Fixed contract with OVO Energy, which I set up with them in about April, for £118 per month. They have just em...
53 comments posted 1yr
posted by lalaw44
53 comments posted 1yr posted by lalaw44

Powered garden cutting tools: lubrication

I've acquired a number of Bosch cordless garden cutting tools (think loppers and hedge trimmers) and the blades need to...
15 comments posted 1yr
posted by news
15 comments posted 1yr posted by news

Re: Will BT Youview box work with ee Broadband?

> SH wrote: > >> Chris Holmes wrote: >> >>> First question as subject, second question (if the answer is no), what HD >...
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posted by chrispvholmes
1 comments posted 1yr posted by chrispvholmes

How do hybrids perform so well? MPG AND MPH

Please, save the hybrid vs electric vs fossil, etc for elsewhere… My wife has a hybrid (not the plug in kind) which giv...
55 comments posted 1yr
posted by chrispvholmes
55 comments posted 1yr posted by chrispvholmes

Dishwasher flood

Last night my six-year-old Hoover dishwasher failed catastrophically, flooding the kitchen. Everyone had gone to bed, b...
4 comments posted 1yr
posted by jack
4 comments posted 1yr posted by jack

fridge mystery

Is there battery backup fridges? A local bod must be the driver of a lorry that collects trade-in fridges, presumably m...
8 comments posted 1yr
posted by diverse
8 comments posted 1yr posted by diverse

Wrong sort of rubbish

I went down to the tip the other day - sorry, that should be 'Waste Transfer Station' unless they've renamed it yet aga...
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posted by not
32 comments posted 1yr posted by not