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Washing line ground socket size

My next project is laying a patio, and I want to include a ground socket for a rotary washing line. It'll be concreted...
6 comments posted 6yrs
posted by nospam
6 comments posted 6yrs posted by nospam

OT - Bowel Cancer Test

I have recently been sent a kit for a bowel cancer test. The previous one was a bit unpleasant and required several day...
83 comments posted 6yrs
posted by Not.responding.
83 comments posted 6yrs posted by Not.responding.

Gluing stone

I have a nice shaped limestone stone about a foot across. Trouble is a clumsy clot broke it in two. It's a rounded ston...
22 comments posted 6yrs
posted by wrightsaerials
22 comments posted 6yrs posted by wrightsaerials

Anyone got a laser engraver?

I could do with something that would mark text onto plastic. It would be light use. So wondering about a laser engraver....
7 comments posted 6yrs
posted by rsandr
7 comments posted 6yrs posted by rsandr

Water stains

Burst pipe caused water damage to ceiling, been drying out for last 4 days and the ceiling appears to be intact apart f...
10 comments posted 6yrs
posted by noname
10 comments posted 6yrs posted by noname

Re: windscreens...

> anybody had any luck using those chinky windscreen repair kits? I'm guessing you mean resin stone chip repairs. If so...
26 comments posted 6yrs
posted by tabbypurr
26 comments posted 6yrs posted by tabbypurr

Removing Hammerite

Have a cast brass number plate for outside a house. Type where edge and numbers are raised, and the background is reces...
14 comments posted 6yrs
posted by rick_hughes
14 comments posted 6yrs posted by rick_hughes

Joys of rural living.

This is proper rural living, not what Mumsnet calls rural living (anywhere Ocado won't deliver in Surrey). "Ken, who is...
13 comments posted 6yrs
posted by spuorgelgoog
13 comments posted 6yrs posted by spuorgelgoog

Apprentice fired

Not a particularly surprising event or outcome. A spokesman for the garage said: "The lads went on a test drive with th...
24 comments posted 6yrs
posted by spuorgelgoog
24 comments posted 6yrs posted by spuorgelgoog

Metal Halide

Brother seems to have got lumbered with doing some of the maintenance work at his church. Although a retired maths teac...
34 comments posted 6yrs
posted by dave
34 comments posted 6yrs posted by dave

Pine to Oak

Any recommendations for staining (and varnishing) to natural oak some new clear pine internal doors? Cheers, Rob
17 comments posted 6yrs
posted by patchmoney
17 comments posted 6yrs posted by patchmoney

MCB Failure modes / ageing?

HI Folks Our domestic central heating is run by a ground-source water heatpump - most of the time this is very successf...
12 comments posted 6yrs
posted by adrian
12 comments posted 6yrs posted by adrian

Pressure washing PVC

I have a lean-to PVC conservatory on the side of my bungalow, facing west. On the north side, where it doesn't get any...
13 comments posted 6yrs
posted by me
13 comments posted 6yrs posted by me