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septic tank regs 2020

Can anyone explain to me in very simple terms what the new septic tank regs are? I have been looking on you tube and fo...
24 comments posted 6yrs
posted by aprilsweetheartrose
24 comments posted 6yrs posted by aprilsweetheartrose

UFH query (bathroom zone on CH return)

The abandoned bathroom project is looming on the horizon after about 15 years of remaining a stripped out cave so I'm a...
0 comments posted 6yrs
posted by 0845.86.86.888
0 comments posted 6yrs posted by 0845.86.86.888

Paint matching questions

There is minor damage to the wall of our close (common stairway for readers in England). I'm just wondering how to carr...
37 comments posted 6yrs
posted by newsgroups
37 comments posted 6yrs posted by newsgroups

Gram Input

Hi All, Back in the day when I were too poor to born (I were knitted by the WRVS an d dropped throuh?t letterbox when m...
26 comments posted 6yrs
posted by cpvh
26 comments posted 6yrs posted by cpvh

New London taxis glued together.

There was an interesting program about making London taxis on Channel 4 on Saturday night. The main taxi body is made u...
27 comments posted 6yrs
posted by mUNDERSCOREnews
27 comments posted 6yrs posted by mUNDERSCOREnews

Tin of bitumen

I have inherited a very old 5l tin of Evode rubberised bituminous waterproofer that's the consistency of very thick tre...
11 comments posted 6yrs
posted by me
11 comments posted 6yrs posted by me

SDS died?

My SDS (Lucky Screwfix Hedgehog) has started making a loud chattering noise, there seems to be a lot of play on the bit...
3 comments posted 6yrs
posted by spuorgelgoog
3 comments posted 6yrs posted by spuorgelgoog

non slip rubber - what is the non-slippiest?

I do a bit of windsurfing and the masts have got narrower over the years. I have an adapter that goes on the mast and t...
13 comments posted 6yrs
posted by rgdavidson
13 comments posted 6yrs posted by rgdavidson

Flat roof question.

Recent rain has shown my flat roof is leaking. It's part of a conversion built about 30 years ago. Very nicely built -...
41 comments posted 6yrs
posted by dave
41 comments posted 6yrs posted by dave

OT: Skeletons of the Mary Rose: the New "Evidence"

Did anyone else see this hilarious Channel 4 "documentary" "proving" that the Mary Rose had an African crew? How they m...
18 comments posted 6yrs
posted by marty889
18 comments posted 6yrs posted by marty889

Non level dado trunking

Told the apprentices not you use a spirit level as the Portakabins were not on level ground. So what did they use to mak...
4 comments posted 6yrs
posted by adamwadsworth
4 comments posted 6yrs posted by adamwadsworth

Covering a boss hole in a soil stack

Removed a pipe from a boss on a soil stack (it's almost becoming a hobby). I was going to cap it but it was all in gene...
4 comments posted 6yrs
posted by rsandr
4 comments posted 6yrs posted by rsandr

Engine Oil top ups (thing of the past maybe?)

Just chatting with a neighbour about engine oils (as you do) and remembering how, after an oil change, a sticker would...
42 comments posted 6yrs
posted by JohnP
42 comments posted 6yrs posted by JohnP

Re: Electric and Hybrid Cars

> Just as many car makers "share" a common engine nowadays, is it the same > with Electric and Hybrid? > The set-up and...
73 comments posted 6yrs
posted by dave
73 comments posted 6yrs posted by dave

KVM switch.

My old setup at this workstation was this RISCOS machine and a Win7 one sharing monitor keyboard and mouse. Video is DV...
22 comments posted 6yrs
posted by dave
22 comments posted 6yrs posted by dave