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OT Rain.
We have had 26 hours of continuous rain here. W.Midlands. Must be even worse in Wales.
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Wow ! 3D Acoustics ...
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OT - Groundwater reports
<> I was wondering how the continued rainfall was affecting the groundwater levels; specifically if we were at near normal levels or better. The linked site seems to have loads of useful information....
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Restore a 60 year old Egg Tempera Painting
It is mine. I painted it in around 1955. It is a portrait of The Queen. It was never hung but eventually stored in our attic. At the time I was painting quite a bit but could not afford a decent...
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Health! Warning of a secretary of the order of dentists
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Unstable Salus
My recently upgraded central heating is controlled by a Salus programmable wireless thermostat. It seems to work well despite being tiresome to programme as it has too many on/off periods pre set. Its...
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‘Walter Ralegh: Architect of Empire’ Review: The Enlightened Adventurer
?Walter Ralegh: Architect of Empire? Review: The Enlightened Adventurer Sir Walter Ralegh was a swashbuckling pirate, poet, colonizer and courtier who founded a doomed settlement on the North Carolina...
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Fixing the wiring of a phone socket
A friend's new puppy bit through a telephone cable, and she doesn't have a dialling tone any more, and the house phone doesn't work. She asked me to have a look, so am planning to drop by tomorrow to...
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Loft insulation and gas boiler flues.
This summer I had a new gas boiler installation in an airing cupboard near the centre of the first floor. Flue goes into the loft space and across to a gable end. Having just been up into the loft I...
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OT: how to find out about traffic incidents on a certain stretch of road
Apologies for an OT request (at least it's not politics or religion!), but I need to find out what incidents have occurred on a stretch of road in the past 5 or 6 years and don't know how to start. A...
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Re: Repositioning heating programmer 8 metres...
Jimk wrote in news: Can't you go wireless and be more "future proof"
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Capping a brick garden wall
Son-in-law has heeded my suggestion to have their garden wall capped as some of the bricks are spalling due to rain and frost. The wall is the width of a brick length. There is no tile type of thing...
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Well the labour leader:
Has at last said something with which I wholeheartedly agree. that is the flooding up North had been down South there would thrown money and loads of publicity at it before now!
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Condensation problem in bathroom vent fan tube
Condensation is forming inside the 100mm pipe above the bathroom vent fan which passes through the cold loft (about 10 feet) to a grill at the apex; the water then drips down through the fan when its...
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Installing an SSD to suppliment an HDD
One of my computers only has 150GB HDD, and I am trying to increase that capacity by installing an SSD that I have which is spare ATM. The computer is a Dell Optiplex 780. This has a PCI Express 16...
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