Number twos
(56 messages)
Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2005 23:12:19 +0100
My partner has a fairly recently fitted loo, with the latest diddy flush.
(I forget, it's 7l or something.) I dread taking a dump in it, as 9 times
out of 10 the first flush is unsuccessful.
Does anyone know who specified ...
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Length of Coach bolts?
(6 messages)
Date: 6 Sep 2005 14:57:22 -0700
Quick question concerning the required length of coach bolts... I'm
going to build a deck using 100mm support posts with 47mm joist
connected with coach bolts. Question is should I use 150mm coach bolts
or longer? Is the 3mm ...
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Shires CC Cistern
(2 messages)
Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2005 22:35:46 +0100
Can anybody offer suggestions on how to "Tweak" the flush settings on a
Shires Close Coupled WC.
It is a split button type (Short/Long Flush) with a bottom fill.
I had the misfortune to remove the Flush Button in order to facilitate ...
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Close coupled cistern installation
(9 messages)
Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2005 21:32:16 GMT
I have a close-coupled toilet. The cistern naturally enough sits on the
toilet but has no screw holes for attachment to the wall. Should it be left
sitting or should something like silicon be applied to the rear surface to
form ...
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Re: Neater End Feed Soldered Joints - How ?
(10 messages)
Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2005 21:10:34 GMT
Owain <owain47125@stirlingcity.coo.uk> wrote in message news:...
>
> Mark wrote:
> > No if you are going to be fussy go to a plumbers merchant and buy a
> > moleskin.
>
> And for vegetarian plumbers? ;-)
>
I don't ...
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Removing unwanted wall lights
(16 messages)
Date: 6 Sep 2005 13:18:43 -0700
I have a wall light on a wall in my house but want to remove it and
dont want to put another one up in its place.
Does anyone know what I need to do to make the wires that are left
hanging from the wall safe?
Cheers
Ian
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Wetroom heat recovery
(4 messages)
Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2005 20:21:47 +0100
I am converting a small bedroom into a wetroom with a high flow shower. i
plan to have two hotwater tanks to provide for the extra water required and
a solar water heater to help keep running cost down. i was also thinking ...
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House too hot?
(37 messages)
Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2005 18:52:01 GMT
While trawling through endless pages and web-sites WRT ventilation etc,
I stumbled across the following site which I found highly interesting.
http://www.greenhouse.gov.au/yourhome/technical/fs15.htm
Thought I'd pass it ...
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Heating System Recs plz
(1 messages)
Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2005 18:08:51 +0000 (UTC)
Hi all,
this really follows on from my post acouple of weeks ago about the gravity
HW and pumped CH where I was having problems with the gravity flow, and a HW
cylinder that remained cool.
Upon a multiplicity of investigations ...
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Non-Slip Flooring for "Magic Loo"
(5 messages)
Date: 6 Sep 2005 09:24:18 -0700
I have a very strange shower room/toilet on my attic floor (refered to
by my children as the "Magic Loo". The reason it's so strange is that
the house is two houses joined together (in 1862) and the magic loo is
made up of ...
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Proceedure in Winter to prevent water leaking
(7 messages)
Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2005 17:10:27 +0100
I live in a block of new flats and a number of flats are vacant in the
winter.
I would like to suggest that the water should always be turned off even
although some people will be leaving their central heating on if the flat ...
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Externally mounted bathroom fan
(2 messages)
Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2005 16:59:14 +0100
I have a Manrose centrifugal fan mounted in the ceiling of my bathroom and
connected to a sweep bend and a3M x 100mm pipe and which terminates
externally (through a brick wall) in a white grill.
It's a bit noisy as the ceiling ...
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Paint FAQ
(3 messages)
Date: 06 Sep 2005 15:04:03 GMT
Is there such an animal?
My first draft.
A carrier fluid, with pigment in, that dries on application.
Needs expansion.
Seriously though, does one exist? ...
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Laying porcelain tiles in bathroom
(10 messages)
Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2005 15:51:37 +0100
Any reason why these can't be laid straight onto the existing
chipboard floor? I'd like to avoid an extra layer of plywood if
possible.
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Water charges
(13 messages)
Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2005 14:33:47 GMT
No really gend up on this.
Can a person who is paying more water rates (than the same house across the
road with two bedrooms) be able to get a rateable value assesment on their
property?
friend is paying 21.00 a month, ...
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OT: can anyone recommend an Inn with character near Plymouth?
(17 messages)
Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2005 13:39:56 +0000 (UTC)
I'm trying to find (and failing) a pub near Plymouth with accommodation
and character for a couple of nights next week. Tourist info have not
been any use and I've spent hours on the web. I stayed in the Mildmay
Colours ...
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Is a porch a good idea?
(10 messages)
Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2005 14:16:47 +0100
I have an internal porch which takes some of the space away from the
hall. There is a door from the porch to the outside and a door into
the hall. Both doors are single glazed and I am now planning to have
either one or both ...
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Guardian-BBC presents "Everyman his own vivisectionist"
(6 messages)
Date: 6 Sep 2005 06:03:21 -0700
My fellow racists (Whites only),
Risked G-BBC ("Ewan Ewers") today.
Two minutes later I realised why Im
an ex-listener.
Experimental drama? a wind-up??
Consumer affairs it wasn't.
So, let's do their job for ...
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Retiling bathroom...sealing floor > wall transition
(2 messages)
Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2005 13:39:00 +0100
Hi,
Am shortly going to retile and refit our upstairs bathroom. Historical
frustration with my childrens' inability to keep the floor relatively dry
means I want to pay special attention to floor/wall transition......whilst ...
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Capping Wood Grain Boards
(1 messages)
Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2005 13:29:32 +0100
Anybody any ideas how to cap blown woodgrain boards in the kitchen. The
edge strips are going where water is getting to them when we clean the
floor. Have thought about using edging used for wood flooring - is
this a good ...
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