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Electricity bill
"We?ve worked out you?ve used less electricity this period than in the same period last year. This is based on an estimated reading for this bill." There might be a flaw in the logic here somewhere......
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Timber cladding
I have only ever approved timber cladding up to four storeys...has anybody seen it in higher blocks ? ..... you can see here it is starting to fall off ....
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6 years ago
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MCB temp rise
Simple question. How warm (or not!) should a 40 A MCB to get when carrying around 35 A for 10 mins? RCD one side, 32 A MCB the other carrying about 3 A.
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6 years ago
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Repairing a Nozatec GPS
My Chinese GPS died, seems normal for GPSs IME, except Garmin 1200. Anyway, I suspected that it's battery had died, so fished out the special screwdriver set that I bought for mobile phone surgery and...
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6 years ago
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gardeners in SW London
We need gardening work, viz garden clearance, levelling, applying topsoil, laying turf rolls, instlation of lawn edge, plant three shrubs, all inclusive. This has been quoted by a professional...
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OT Civil war?
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Metofiice web site not loading?
I'm unable to download any pages from the metoffice website. I am on Plusnet, anyone else got a similar problem please? Contact the Met Office for information about our forecasts, products, services,...
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6 years ago
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600
same stuff as Grenfell found in 600 blocks in England and Wales ....shocking
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cctv funny
Recently my internet remote viewing CCTV quad view picture is not showing 4 different pictures. Even over local wifi which of course uses the same remote redirect. Picture 1 will be OK, but picture 2...
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6 years ago
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Retention for gates purchase
I am having a set of wooden gates made for my driveway entrance. The supplier, a well-known local builders and farm supply merchant, will make them to fit, based on a standard design, with mods. to...
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6 years ago
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Another electrical question: sub main wiring
The large'ish 1930s house I moved to a few weeks ago has some "interesting" wiring that I need to sort out over the months ahead. The incomer is in the (attached) garage. There's a Henley block that...
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6 years ago
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Memories - old technology
Remember trying to improve an old TV by adjusting the Convergenece Controls. I recall, my old Murphy had about 20 potentiometers and other ajustements.
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Underground cables
I need to replace a couple of overhead cable runs to sheds, one is about 110mm and the others are in a daisy chain of 3 sheds with a maximum distance (between the ends of the chain) of about 50m. Each...
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6 years ago
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potting electronics
The genuine potting compounds are expensive, I need some ideas for cheap alternatives. Poundland epoxy adhesive? Car body filler? Bathroom silicone? Something else? I envisage the encapsulated circuit...
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6 years ago
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bridge load of troubled crap
just heard it and seen the video...only people I recognised was Daltry and that black guitarist...what a load of sentimental piss we can all do without ......
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