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Dry lining boxes
In the ongoing Schuko saga, the kitchen fitters have installed two dry lining boxes by screwing the yellow bits sideways into the chipboard, leaving them wholly rigid and not quite parallel. Is this a...
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Parliament Traffic
Well they have been seen around here. Is it not just the same as advertising on a truck? I'm not sure about how dangerous it might be. Flashing up a picture of a naked woman might be very off-putting...
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Side flush lever trouble
I?m trying to mend a toilet flush mechanism ? it?s a bog standard syphonic flush mechanism but rather than a lever at the front of the cistern there?s a ?paddle? sticking out of the side fairly like...
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Going rate for garden fencing
We need about 24 metres of 6ft high horizontal "ranch style" fencing (with "hit'n'miss" planking either side of 4" posts) replaced. Can anyone give me a ball park figure for replacement? Access is...
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Openreach engineers 4th visit...
Tim Streater submitted this idea : I now have 39950Mbs via FTTC and no, I really don't absolutely need that. I managed perfectly well with the 16Mbs over entirely copper.
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min max thermometer
Mercury has split and vigourous shaking is not effective. Any other solutions ?
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Air lock ?
After several months away I find that there is no cold water in my shower. The hot water is fine. The shower has a thermostatic mixer. When I open the water, only hot water comes out. The shower is...
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OT "Fridgemaster" Brand
Hisense have been around for a while as a brand of cheap Android tablets.
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Another bloody mouse
This follows on from a post I made back in November, whereby I found evidence of a mouse in my loft, which was duly trapped and disposed of. After about a week I hadn't caught anything else, so...
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Cleaning alcohol
Can white spirit be used to clean tiles where alcohol is specified. It is to fit Command hanging hooks which specify clean with alcohol .
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FAO - John Rumm - Heating temperature split, Vaillant
I have managed to put in a successful bid on a new VR65 at a good price. I am also bidding on a new VRC 470/4 - no idea what the /4 might mean. I messaged Vaillant to ask if the VR65 alone might...
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Central Heating not working (update)
Further to my earlier post see below... You may recall that my old (external) condensate pump appeared to have developed an electrical problem where it would cut out whenever there was a demand for...
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OT Another failing vanity project.
Last night one campaigner warned that it is ‘quite conceivable’ that some journeys to Birmingham, West Midlands on the high-speed line may be slower than at the moment. Last night one campaigner...
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What's this lightbulb?
I bought a lightbulb (and a ceramic holder and rotary lightswitch) in a second-hand shop yesterday. They had many beautiful items taken from an old electronics teaching laboratory - all brass, steel,...
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