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Sealing an old wooden front door

Just looking for some advice on how best to draft-proof my original wooden front door. It's the original 1930s door wit...
7 comments posted 7yrs
posted by cirianon
7 comments posted 7yrs posted by cirianon

Removal of sockets (on a ring final cct)

Need to remove some double sockets in a kitchen due to rearrangement of where appliances are - some have to go. So look...
9 comments posted 7yrs
posted by rick_hughes
9 comments posted 7yrs posted by rick_hughes

LPG gas bottles and heating.

We have electric heating (E7) which I supliment with convector heaters during the day/night when the heating is not on...
60 comments posted 7yrs
posted by aprilsweetheartrose
60 comments posted 7yrs posted by aprilsweetheartrose

Potatoes storage - OT but maybe not

I have been buying potatoes from Morrisons and Tesco's over the last three or four years or so. Various ones, usually t...
27 comments posted 7yrs
posted by aprilsweetheartrose
27 comments posted 7yrs posted by aprilsweetheartrose

Hoping to de-modernise flat heating system.

The previous occupants of my newly acquired electric only flat had the night storage heaters removed. They were replace...
88 comments posted 7yrs
posted by mikehalmarack
88 comments posted 7yrs posted by mikehalmarack

OT Think be fore you give (RNLI)

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7464961/How-3-3million-donations-RNLI-spent-abroad.html
1 comments posted 7yrs
posted by harry130747
1 comments posted 7yrs posted by harry130747

OT: from Twitter today

1) Verhofstadt comes clean: at the LibDem Conference today he admitted that the EU is building an empire. No surprise t...
49 comments posted 7yrs
posted by timstreater
49 comments posted 7yrs posted by timstreater

Tradesmen - arrogance or ignorance

Recently had a kitchen extension and fit, More recently a bathroom. Both lots of tradesmen did a decent job but did not...
3 comments posted 7yrs
posted by train.JPlant
3 comments posted 7yrs posted by train.JPlant

Stop/ start - fail

I drove my first 'stop/start' vehicle today. Press the brake pedal down and the engine stops, apply the handbrake and r...
55 comments posted 7yrs
posted by harry.m1byt
55 comments posted 7yrs posted by harry.m1byt

OT One of the reasons we need renewable energy/

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7463851/Saudis-oil-supply-cut-HALF-production-FIVE-MILLION-barrels-disrupted.ht...
24 comments posted 7yrs
posted by harry130747
24 comments posted 7yrs posted by harry130747

Car seat adjustments

There are a lot of drivers around who don't know that the seat is adjustable for height!
18 comments posted 7yrs
posted by train.JPlant
18 comments posted 7yrs posted by train.JPlant

What size DVDs will my CDROM cope with?

It is HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GH245NSDO. I have 700MB ones, but these are not large enough to make a Boot-able recovery disc wi...
8 comments posted 7yrs
posted by messageboards
8 comments posted 7yrs posted by messageboards

Looking for info on this timeswitch

https://postimg.cc/WqRBBYN6 There's no model number as far as I can see in its cramped location. I don't have a clue wha...
25 comments posted 7yrs
posted by mikehalmarack
25 comments posted 7yrs posted by mikehalmarack