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Solid oak flooring.

Mate is re-vamping a living room. Size is approx 30 x 15ft - fairly typical through lounge in a modern house. Concrete...
6 comments posted 7yrs
posted by dave
6 comments posted 7yrs posted by dave

TOT: cookies

Because I searched the other day for 'thick card' I am now getting ads for firms making business cards. They can bugger...
6 comments posted 7yrs
posted by wrightsaerials
6 comments posted 7yrs posted by wrightsaerials

BS docs again...

I notice that Manchester library no longer seem to have public access to the British Standards docs (unless you want to...
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posted by see.my.signature
9 comments posted 7yrs posted by see.my.signature

Making curtains.

Quotes for making a given set range between £1400 and £3000... How hard can it be? Sewing machines are cheap. Curtain m...
31 comments posted 7yrs
posted by tnp
31 comments posted 7yrs posted by tnp

Electric toothbrush recommendations?

My dentist suggested that I would be better off using an electric toothbrush, on the grounds that they clean better esp...
69 comments posted 7yrs
posted by usenet
69 comments posted 7yrs posted by usenet

How many cubic metres of concrete?

We had four 60x60x6cm holes to fill in to support the new charging posts at a HART ambulance station. Now I expected to...
31 comments posted 7yrs
posted by adamwadsworth
31 comments posted 7yrs posted by adamwadsworth

Quality recommendation please

Could anyone comment on which of these is likely to be the better quality? The first is more expensive but seems to hav...
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posted by newsgroups
10 comments posted 7yrs posted by newsgroups

OT: millennial retailing

I visited a well known department store yesterday (never knowingly undersold) to look at kettles. I found the one we wa...
5 comments posted 7yrs
posted by newsgroups
5 comments posted 7yrs posted by newsgroups

Re: Tour de Yorkshire 2019

Like f*ck I could.
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posted by arwadsworth2020
19 comments posted 7yrs posted by arwadsworth2020

Cordless power tools

I want to get a reciprocating saw. I'd really like it to be cordless, but I can only justify this (to myself!) if a set...
22 comments posted 7yrs
posted by roger
22 comments posted 7yrs posted by roger

CTEK Chargers (ping Dave Plowman?)

ISTR Dave mentioning problems with the mode switch on CTEK chargers. Mine seems to be going intermittent. Is it a diffic...
12 comments posted 7yrs
posted by news
12 comments posted 7yrs posted by news

Can you slow down the internet?

Is there a way of simulating slower speeds? I know that many would like to speed it up but this is a serious question!...
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posted by k.type
42 comments posted 7yrs posted by k.type

Bl***y floodlight.

There is a block of flats to the back of my house, and to the right of it. The area leading to the garages has floodlig...
44 comments posted 7yrs
posted by dave
44 comments posted 7yrs posted by dave

Fire extinguishers: smoke, fire, and kitchens

All this talk of smoke detectors in kitchens reminded me of something I saw in the US: an automatic retrofit fire extin...
30 comments posted 7yrs
posted by prufer.public
30 comments posted 7yrs posted by prufer.public

Quad bikes: a semantic question

'Bi' means two, so bicycles and motor bikes are called what they are because they have two wheels. So why are quad bike...
9 comments posted 7yrs
posted by wrightsaerials
9 comments posted 7yrs posted by wrightsaerials