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When we bought the house one room had a light switch with a 'on at dusk off after X hours feature'. Something was wrong with this (working intermittently), so I replaced it with a normal light switch. There are four MCBs marked lights and it was not clear which was the relevant one. So I...

We have an indoor aerial which works fine, Crystal Palace is close - I regularly see the mast when I am out. A couple of time recently I have tried to record programmes in the middle of the night (1-3 am) and when I looked at them all that was shown was a message like 'Bad or no signal'. I was...

I am trying to repair one of a pair of chairs, where one of the screws has come out and been lost. The underside of the chair that is okay looks like this and the screw looks like this I thought it looked a bit like a roofing screw, close enough that I could use them. However the...

I have found that my chainsaw, a Stihl MS171, once I have started it with the choke on it will always die when I start to run the throttle, which automatically takes the choke off. I think this is because it is not warm internally, it lives in a cold garage, because once it has warmed up it...

A recent exchange https://www.diynot.com/diy/threads/repairing-lawnmover-cable.434565/page-2#post-4226049 reminded me of a question. I mentioned to a friend that I had mended an outdoor lead with an inline connection like this, and he said he had been told these were no longer available as they...

I have two large wooden compost bins and the contents used to dry out reasonably rapidly and also cool down quite quickly. So I made 'duvets' for them, out of rock-wool, bubble wrap and plastic sheet. I knew that moisture would get inside but I wanted to seal them reasonably well so that they...

https://www.pcmag.com/news/359939/makitas-coffee-maker-runs-on-power-tool-batteries And is "up to 5.3 cups" enough?

There are loads of trees in the area and so the gutters get loads of leaves in them. In the past leaves (mostly broken down bits) have got into the downpipes and blocked them in the bends at the top, leading to the gutters overflowing. In the two most affected places I fitted gutter balloons...

In another thread I saw and I was curious about this. I have a Stihl MS171 bought on the recommendation of a friend who has some experience of using chainsaws. I have had it for just over three years and I have used Stihl two-stroke oil but just bought unleaded petrol from an ordinary petrol...

We have a large garden with plenty of mature trees, hence lots of leaves in the autumn. So I have built three leaf mould bins, roughly 2, 1.6 and 1 cubic metres in size. The idea being that the leaves spend a year in each bin, gradually breaking down and taking up less room. Before I...

With the house we inherited three water butts, all c. 200L but one with a circular c/s one and two with a roughly rectangular c/s, picture here showing the circular one in use and one of the others next to it for comparison. Neither of the rectangular ones was really doing anything so I just...