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replacing a plain flat roof section with some fancy glassfibre stuff
Hi all, Our house has a flat roof section (so called 'cold roof') running between two conventional diagonal gradient tiled roofs. It's 1.2m wide by 6.0m long and is currently covered in roofing felt...
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fire wall in loft missing
Hi all, Buying a house. Mortgage offer has come through and has one condition listed: "Our Solicitor must obtain, and place with the Title Deeds, an undertaking that the following works will be...
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‘This Is All We Can Afford’: Shrinking Lives in the English Countryside
?This Is All We Can Afford?: Shrinking Lives in the English Countryside In Cumbria, a bucolic landscape masks growing poverty and isolation. As bus lines are cut and services dry up under austerity,...
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Superglue removal
As well as apprentices with tape measures and a computer that did not do what I want it to do I have one final question/post. I have a bunch of keys covered in dried superglue. Google says acetone...
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Do floating shelves actually work?
I've put up my own shelves with proper brackets. But I see these "floating shelves" advertised. I thought, "What's holding them up?" Apparently there's no right angle involved, just a screw going...
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Help with Windows (computer not glass ones)
For some reason my usual desktop has disappeared? It used to sit there nicely with the icons on it I wanted. Also Thunderbird will only fun on full screen. There is probably more that I have yet to...
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Apprentice with a tape measure problem
A simple job. I left him in a pub car park to measure the length of two fences for an outside socket. 30 minutes later he came into the pub (where I was fixing the CCTV and not drinking) to tell me...
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Gutters and downpipes
Simple job? Don't be silly. Long story short, blocked downpipe [1], but now need new downpipe. The bottom half is original cast iron, and a short test length of modern plastic 68mm pipe is a bit...
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Orientation of bib taps?
Just to be clear, I'm talking about combining these two parts: Compression Wallplate Elbow 15mm x 1/2" <>Hose Union Bib Tap with Double Check Valve 1/2" DZR <>I was under the impression that if you...
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Health and softy gone mad!
I saw this on a bag of salt by someone's door (the stuff for stopping it being slippery in winter): "In case of ingestion, drink plenty of water and seek immediate medical assistance." For SALT?! I'd...
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Baxi Neta-Tec fails Calibration
Long shot here, perhaps? This boiler has no error codes but flames out with what looks like insufficient gas on a modulated lowish output and purges before restarting. Placed the boiler in calibration...
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Rotten Apple?
Son has sent me a message to subscribe to his photo album while he is on holiday. I click on the subscribe link, and it wants my Apple ID. To get an Apple ID, it appears I have to have an iSomething....
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OT: splitting PDF files
Why are there all these online sites to upload, split and download PDF files? It seems to me all that is needed is to send the relevant pages to the virtual printer as a PDF file.
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Consumer Units with RCBOs
Yes, discrimination. AFAICS no time-delay / 100mA RCDs are available as RCBOs, so you'd need to allow for a 2-module time-delay RCD and an MCB for the garage - if they're available in BG. Also someone...
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Crocodile roller shutter style garage door
I have the same unit they keep advertising on TV by that builder type bloke, but it is not a Crocodile supplied unit, though the identical electrical/mechanicals. Today it opened further than it is...
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