Recent content by Fred Blogs

Probably just stuck with age but I think you should clean it up a bit and expose all of it so that people can see what you are dealing with.

All these frightening examples are the very reason why appliances are now fitted with molded plugs.

They are called strain relief sleeves although that one is part of a moulded plug and is not replaceable.

Self amalgamating tape wont do it. It's meant to keep water out of a joint, something like rain and it doesn't do that particularly well, neither will any of the other gunky things at mains pressure unless they go off almost immediately. You need to use something like Tricky Dicky's suggestion.

I have TRVs on all my rads. They are all set at max during the winter as is my wall stat. In summer the wall stat stays at max but the rads are turned off. heating and water comes on for an hour in the morning and an hour in the evening and that is sufficient for our needs. We do have a...

It does depend on how much rot there is but I would use a wood hardener where it is soft. I used Ronseal Wood Hardener when I had a similar problem but there are others. Be very careful with it though. Wear lots of PPE and make sure it doesn't get on your skin or in your eyes. When I used it I...

People are not buying EVs and manufacturers are turning away from them as well. EVs do not have the range of an ICE, nor do they charge up in a viable time. An ICE pulls into a garage and fills up in five minutes. Plug an EV in, especially in a domestic set up and it can take 24 hours to fully...

I joined the army at 15 in 1966. The only things open to me where I lived in Wales was the coal mines or the steelworks. I did 4 years in Harrogate as an apprentice and then got posted to Cyprus and Germany. Thoroughly enjoyed my time in the army. I would have gone on but I came out after 12...

I have a Greenstar R21 0r 24 ( no number on the case) Condenser boiler and mine doesn't cycle on and off every couple of minutes. In fact mine appears to be on all the time, it is in my garage so I don't watch it that much, although I suppose it will turn off when it reaches temperature. I have...

Also you do not need a reason to send stuff back according to "Distance selling regulations." I think you have 14 days to reject anything (it might be longer) for no reason.

They should because like it or not ALL roofers, good and bad, will get tarred by the same bad brush if they don't do something.

How long is a piece of string basically. If you are going to change the boiler in the summer anyway and you are happy to top it up every so often then leave it. You say your boiler man can change it quite quickly so leave it. If it breaks down completely then get your man to change it if it goes...

Contact a local carpenter and ask him for a quote. Your £250 a day is way way out of line.

Whatsapp is not secure neither is facebook messaging. I do use facebook occasionally but I do not use whatsapp.

The way I see house security is that if they want to get into your house they will no matter how secure you think it is. Don't get me wrong I have a house alarm and new "high security" doors and windows because my house insurance says I should have these, but I could get into my house from...