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Old oak or new to rebuild bay windows - how?

I'm removing rotten wood, pine, plaster, foam, car body filler etc from an old bay window. I'm thinking to replace just...
16 comments posted 6yrs
posted by dicegeorge
16 comments posted 6yrs posted by dicegeorge

Keeping car battery from discharging

I bought a knife switch isolator for the car battery feed, so as to reduce the discharge rate during lockdown. Modified...
37 comments posted 6yrs
posted by me
37 comments posted 6yrs posted by me

Re: Timber retaining walls

> has anybody used a timber retaining wall....supposed to have a 100 year > life ... My neighbour has one constructed ou...
3 comments posted 6yrs
posted by harry130747
3 comments posted 6yrs posted by harry130747

OT: Windows 10 Updates

I don?t use my laptop too often but have just noticed that it comes on as soon as the screen is opened whereas with Win...
21 comments posted 6yrs
posted by tricky.dicky
21 comments posted 6yrs posted by tricky.dicky

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0 comments posted 6yrs
posted by jim.gm4dhj~
0 comments posted 6yrs posted by jim.gm4dhj~

Camera up the Chimney

My Office is at the top of the house and there's an unused small Victorian fireplace. The top of the chimney pot for th...
17 comments posted 6yrs
posted by cliveta
17 comments posted 6yrs posted by cliveta

cement mixer rotates too fast

just bought a second hand belle 130 cement mixer. to find out it rotates so quick it is dangerous and pretty useless. i...
36 comments posted 6yrs
posted by david
36 comments posted 6yrs posted by david

Garden pump

I need a garden water pump to raise water two metres from the adjacent canal to my small lawn. I'd be interested to hear...
22 comments posted 6yrs
posted by James
22 comments posted 6yrs posted by James

OT: Complaints about lack of PPE!?

Why are people grumbling the government won't give teachers PPE masks? You can get them online for a fiver for goodness...
12 comments posted 6yrs
posted by CFKinsey
12 comments posted 6yrs posted by CFKinsey

bloody ot internet

my god is every bugger and their granny on the internet at the moment? 1.5Mbps ....pants
13 comments posted 6yrs
posted by jim.gm4dhj
13 comments posted 6yrs posted by jim.gm4dhj

Touch Switches on Lamps

Metal bodied desk lamp, bedside lamp type things - I have a pair I liked which were on, off, dimmable just by touching...
9 comments posted 6yrs
posted by tim
9 comments posted 6yrs posted by tim

Advice about painting

I have noticed some of the paint on the outside of my window frames is starting to blister. I remember when the windows...
3 comments posted 6yrs
posted by newsgroups
3 comments posted 6yrs posted by newsgroups

DIY Router template inlay jig

Following on from Phil's question about door repair, I thought it might be interesting to try DIYing a jig to do accura...
6 comments posted 6yrs
posted by see.my.signature
6 comments posted 6yrs posted by see.my.signature