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Who should he contact?

Situation. Old friends of mine. Husband is now being cared for at home by wife. and carers. Basically dying of dementia...

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posted by tnp

5 comments posted 1yr posted by tnp

Shed / Fence Paints

These water based outdoor garden paints - are they good for keeping the damp out of the wood and prolonging the life of...

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posted by timw

1 comments posted 1yr posted by timw

TRV valve stem movement

My heating system has reported that one of the TRVs is not fully shutting off and I have found the radiator getting war...

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posted by tricky.dicky

4 comments posted 1yr posted by tricky.dicky

Planning for when can't do DIY

As I get older I find I'm making mistakes fixing bits and pieces around the house. SWMBO is not practically minded at a...

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posted by nospam

26 comments posted 1yr posted by nospam

OT: Water meter loose

My neighbour's water meter has come loose. The warning sign was a stream of water bubbling up through the meter access...

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posted by davey

11 comments posted 1yr posted by davey

Well that's reassuring.

I was browsing "Garden Carts" - as an alternative to lugging firewood from the bottom of the garden to the house with a...

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posted by not

6 comments posted 1yr posted by not

Android phone won't allow file transfer via USB

I used to be able to do this. I just plugged in the USB C cable into the phone and the USB A end of the cable into my P...

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posted by Andrew97d

15 comments posted 1yr posted by Andrew97d

Wood buring stove, chimney conversion

Why the near horizontal cap a few inches above the chimney pot top level, or over the replacement metal tube liner? Pre...

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posted by diverse

38 comments posted 1yr posted by diverse

Removing basin trap

Any ideas on how to remove this basic trap: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1iTe88hn-Y-neJ1O3Vi3NkxIRtXhtMx4Y/view?usp=s...

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posted by peter

11 comments posted 1yr posted by peter

Hard Drive Speed

I ran SmartSync Pro to copy a 4 TB Iron Wolf (spinner) HD to a second identical drive in the same PC. I aborted this mo...

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posted by jgnewsid

34 comments posted 1yr posted by jgnewsid

Strong rootkiller recommendations needed

I'm clearing an area at the front of the house (including getting rid of the tree) but the roots of whatever was there...

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posted by none

32 comments posted 1yr posted by none

DIY neck physiotherapy?

After a 2 year waiting list, I finally got admitted to NHS physiotherapy. The physio doc today pulled and stretched my...

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posted by ottavio2006-usenet2012

11 comments posted 1yr posted by ottavio2006-usenet2012

Turning products upside down in supermarket

You may or may not be aware of a recent trend to boycott products coming from the USA in supermarkets. What possible la...

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posted by ottavio2006-usenet2012

19 comments posted 1yr posted by ottavio2006-usenet2012

Velux Replacement Roof Lights

A post from Velux popped up in my Facebook feed so I took up their offer of a quote for replacement windows. I have a c...

1 comments posted 1yr

posted by jgnewsid

1 comments posted 1yr posted by jgnewsid

TBSTV DVB-TV2 Cards and Linux drivers

Every time a new kernel is downloade d and installed. fresh drivers have to be compiled against the new kernel using th...

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posted by pinnerite

7 comments posted 1yr posted by pinnerite