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    Electric strip heater?

    Thank you for your suggestions. The purpose was to create a little bit of heat along the bottom of 10-foot-wide glass panel doors between kitchen and garden. This was in response to a suggestion that the doors, despite their thick double glazing, were cold. I solved the problem by fitting a...
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    Electric strip heater?

    I'm looking for something that will fit along the bottom of a three-metre wall, looks very unobtrusive, never gets too hot to touch, yet provides a gentle heat rising up the wall. It would need to be no more than about 25mm square or diameter. Does such a thing exist? I've tried...
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    Rain water in my aerial socket.

    A bit of additional information. This cable/socket was installed more than 20 years ago (before I arrived here) and has only started this kind of behaviour in the past few weeks. It must be either global warming or the credit crunch :)
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    Rain water in my aerial socket.

    This is more a report than a question. I noticed some weeks ago that there was a rusty mark just below my aerial socket. This is on the wall some 30 feet below a chimney-mounted aerial. The cable from the aerial loops well below the socket and comes up the cavity wall to the socket. It's...
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    Two RF Thermostats

    Thank you.
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    Two RF Thermostats

    Is it possible to operate two RF thermostats with one receiver? I would only want one at a time to work - the other would be turned down low.
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    Painting tiles

    I'll say it again. For a very convenient cover to really appalling tiles you have just moved in on, emulsion - including testers - covered by your choice of water-based clear finish, will keep you sane for a couple of years until you have the funds to do the job right. Don't knock a...
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    painting bannister

    :D My unhelpful latenight comment was meant for diamond geezer - who didn't know where to start. On the other hand I can answer your question: - clearly the answer is "Friday".
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    Painting tiles

    One person's bodge might be another's short-term brighten-up of an awful tile job. Depends what you are after. We had a "bodge" that lasted perfectly well for years before we could afford a proper tiles-off-plaster-retile job. Eggshelled the lot, testers on odd tiles for dramatic effect. No...
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    painting bannister

    Start at the top.
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    Live bath taps

    OK thanks - it was a genuine question, not an interrogation :D Actual explanation sounds a bit scary to me. I kind of assume that stuff is OK and has been tested. I'd have expected much more dramatic effects from the features Gary has described - ought to have been live-earth drama :shock...
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    Painting tiles

    Works wonders really. You can be very flexible with painting tiles as long as they aren't going to get knocked much. I've had all kinds of original patterns painted with emulsion, or odd testpots, on tiles - then water-based matt on top. You can be as creative as you like. It's cheap, and if...
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    Live bath taps

    I don't understand how it might make things worse - could you explain?
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    Live bath taps

    This is an intriguing puzzle, so I reviewed all the info you've posted. Still perplexed that you get anything from taps to water in a plastic bath with plastic waste that doesn't touch anything metal or any water elsewhere - but ignoring my perplexity. Last mapj1 post makes sense (though not...
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    pub question

    ChrisR's extremely small example had water trickling out the end. Take the other extreme - a pipe the size of the base of the tank suddenly opening. I reckon the water would crash down the pipe and rush madly over the edge at the end of the upward bit - more of an ungainly splash than...
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