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replacement doors for house

We need two doors in our house replaced, one in the kitchen going out to the yard, and the front door to the house. Who...
1 comments posted 7yrs
posted by nospam
1 comments posted 7yrs posted by nospam

Speedfit to cap gas?

Someone has written 'gas pipe under floorboard' on the upstairs wall. You pull the board up and there it is, with a spee...
9 comments posted 7yrs
posted by rsandr
9 comments posted 7yrs posted by rsandr

OT: offer of help

Hil's remote pacemaker monitor stopped working, so I rang the NHS contractor. They arranged to exchange the unit. The n...
2 comments posted 7yrs
posted by wrightsaerials
2 comments posted 7yrs posted by wrightsaerials

OT: Snow chaos in Basingstoke

Isn't that where that (in)famous roundabout is ?. Must be hilarious when you cannot see any white lines too. Hardly any...
20 comments posted 7yrs
posted by Andrew97d-junk
20 comments posted 7yrs posted by Andrew97d-junk

Kitchen wall prep before refit

I'm undecided, Whether to make good the kitchen walls, then fit a kitchen. Because it would be nice to start with, and...
9 comments posted 7yrs
posted by rsandr
9 comments posted 7yrs posted by rsandr

Cable grip in back box

I got a 2 gang surface mount back box the other day that had cable grips in it, which I thought was a good idea. But it...
8 comments posted 7yrs
posted by rsandr
8 comments posted 7yrs posted by rsandr

Genealogy - again

I asked this here before, so apologies for a re-run of the question. I am trying to get family tree data into a sensibl...
0 comments posted 7yrs
posted by Billaboard
0 comments posted 7yrs posted by Billaboard

How do estate agents get addresses?

A mix of council and privately owned in the street, postie this morning had an easy delivery round, just to some of the...
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posted by harry.m1byt
10 comments posted 7yrs posted by harry.m1byt

Condensing boilers in extreme cold weather

Watching the news last night the reports on the current cold affecting much of the USA showed several people demonstrat...
12 comments posted 7yrs
posted by tricky.dicky
12 comments posted 7yrs posted by tricky.dicky

yodel

First time a yodel driver came to my door to apologise for delivering to the wrong address ...
1 comments posted 7yrs
posted by jim.gm4dhj
1 comments posted 7yrs posted by jim.gm4dhj

cycles to hertz - when?

Watching the Eddie Izzard film on the development of radar, I was surprised that they used 'megahertz' rather than 'mega...
109 comments posted 7yrs
posted by firstname
109 comments posted 7yrs posted by firstname

AFDD

Arc fault detection device seems quite reluctant to detect arcing
6 comments posted 7yrs
posted by usenet
6 comments posted 7yrs posted by usenet

Removing a tap top

I rarely get beaten by DIY jobs, but it's looking like this one may get the better of me. I'm trying to get the crosshe...
18 comments posted 7yrs
posted by nothanks
18 comments posted 7yrs posted by nothanks