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OT More cultural enrichment
Must have grieved the BBC to report this one. details can be found elsewhere. A definite candidate for a hanging. Restrictions over identifying Viktorija Sokolova's killer are lifted after a press...
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I LOVE THERMAL MASS
Outside: 36°C Inside: 28°C :-)
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Leeds area CH installers - name check please
Anyone know of Clifford Heating, and Horsforth Heating? Asking for a friend. :-) Cheers Dave R
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Google/Nest thermostats - thoughts?
Just wondering if anyone has a positive experience of this. Cheers Dave R
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Boxt central heating install - anyone used them?
<>My first instinct is to run away. Looks like national double glazing firms which use contract installers then use a professional team to fix the bodges if you complain loudly enough. However they...
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Shower heads?
I have a shower head with a small (designed) hole in the "handle". It has become clogged and I would love to replace it but cannot locate it on the web. I bought one of the heads with stones in the...
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Half of old house suddenly without power. Causes?
Or if you're unlucky you find it's several of them together, or it's intermittent.
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Re: OT Macdonalds
I pass a few such cafes on the way to work and they aren't even down backstreets.
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Call me scrooge
Sure there are masses of con artists out there and plenty of somewhat legit but shady operators. That does not mean that all sub contracted fund raising is necessarily a scam or whatever. If you are...
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Leaving backboxes proud?
I am currently installing a number of additional sockets, switches etc in advance of a room being re-skimmed. The walls are dot-and-dab plasterboard on blocks and I am finding that in places the 25mm...
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public toilets
They're nearly all gone now but how did a man with no, or very short arms (thalidomide ?) do a wee ? I had a friend who claimed he was once asked to do the necessary by such a person
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Switches in bathrooms, outside zone 2
AFAICS there is nothing preventing a regular wallplate switch being used to control an electrically-heated towel rail in a bathroom provided that the switch is outside zone 2 and the installation is...
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Re: Cromalin
For all those people who find it more convenient to bother you with their question rather than to Google it for themselves.
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Sink/washing machine drain questions
I'm about to move a utility room sink and washing machine. The existing drain for both goes into a downpipe from an upstairs toilet. I can either extand the drains to run into the same place or use an...
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sink outlet and gully trap
I cannot see anything in the wiki so maybe someone can tell me what I need to make a new connection from a 40mm plastic sink waste into what gully trap and thence discharging into an existing foul...
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