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How to screw toilet to floor
Hi All I have a new toilet to fit and it came with no fittings or instructions. Judging by it, it should be screwed directly into the floor. The holes are vertical so doesn't look like it needs those...
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OT: PPI's and the cancer risk ITRW?
;-) I did, but not sure it has been updated to include / consider the recent studies? Quite, as would be desired re most drug use presumably? Correct, that was my question. So, what odds are you...
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Any DALI experts out there?
I have a dimmer problem but will not bore you with the details unless someone knows something about DALI.
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Replacing battery operated smoke alarm
My battery operated smoke alarm is quite old. Replacing it with a mains powered device would not be very difficult. Any suggestions as to what to buy. No gas supply to house.
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OT speed limit signs
On the A55 in North Wales near LLandudno and Colwyn Bay there are stretches where it has a 50mph speed limit and that's shown by a conventional circular sign with 50 written on it in a red circle with...
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Lead acid battery mystery.
I have a number of used but still functional car batteries which I use for electric fencers and lighting at a stables with no power. Some are sealed, but for the ones with removable caps I always...
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OT Immortality? April 1st????
Or is it socialists will believe anything Sergio Canavero claims he will soon be ready to swap over a living person's head
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Sime 100b format PRV valve query
Are there any significant gotchas when replacing one of these? My daughter's boiler is losing pressure intermittently. Might well be the expansion vessel that's fecked but I've seen the valve bleeding...
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6 years ago
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P'boarding a ceiling - noggins?
I need to P'board a ceiling (5.5m x 2.9m, with joists at 400 centres) but there aren't any noggins down the long sides because it used to be lath+plaster. I've found conflicting advice about whether...
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CH programmer
My electro-mechanical central heating programmers have failed, and they are only 35 years old. The zone valves are MOMO [motor on, motor off] so I need a three channel programmer with 'off' terminals...
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6 years ago
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British Workers Wanted - Channel 4
from last night, still on catch up (I guess) Didn't tell me anything that I didn't already know TBH 1) Benefits on offer to the "wont work" are far too generous if an unemployed person can say "I...
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Mystery fins on bathtub drain grill
I just bought a perforated drain grill for my bathtub. It doesn't have a ho le for a screw to go through, but it's got a small (4 cm diameter) three pe talled metal flower shape on the bottom. What's...
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OT More on housing.
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Patchy ceiling - overboard, lining paper, or ???
Just started stripping the anaglypta paper from walls and ceiling in the first room we're tackling. The stuff on the walls is coming off reasonably OK but underneath is some painted 1930/1940s paper...
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Worcester or Worcester Bosch
Some (combi) boilders seem to be marketed as Worcester and others as Worcester Bosch. Is there any difference or is it just presentation? (I know Worcester are a Bosch company but that alone doesn't...
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