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  1. Tricky-Dicky

    Wiring Advice Please

    Using the diagram below, and your pic above, the rewire has been done incorrectly. On the stat, left hand side, there needs to be a link from the second terminal to the one below - third terminal. All the other cables are to remain in their present positions...
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    How to reduce energy costs

    Read your meter daily, any trends showing? Turn off the electric at your consumer unit, check everything is now off. Look at your lecky meter that supplies your apartment, check that is now showing NIL usage. If it isn't who is using it? If it is nil usage then it is your apartment. Leave your...
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    Removing Towel Rad

    https://www.screwfix.com/p/flomasta-bsp-blank-nut-3-4-x/39553
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    Power to drill but doesn't work

    Have you tried my suggestion, earlier post #44 ?
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    Power to drill but doesn't work

    I concur with Mike13, cut off 12" of cable that enters the drill, and remake the connection - nearly always works. (With vacuum cleaners it often the cable entering the plug that fractures)
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    Power to drill but doesn't work

    Hi, have you tried pushing a dress-makers pin alongside the wire as it enters the switch, then pull/wiggle the wire out of the switch. It might release the springy steel strip holding the wire. Then repeat on the other wire To insert a new wire just push it into the now vacant hole.
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    Fluorescent tube doing this - is tube faulty or is it the starter?

    If the tube glows orange at the ends, the tube has reached the end of its life. Could be that a new starter is required - swap the starter from the working fitting, if the tube now springs into life shows that the removed starter has died. But best to replace the tube with a new one, will...
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    Switching port

    This will probably serve your needs, remember you lose one port as the input. Cheap as chips https://www.tp-link.com/uk/business-networking/easy-smart-switch/tl-sg108e/
  9. Tricky-Dicky

    Twin slot shelving in bare brick garage

    These might do the job, shims: https://www.screwfix.com/c/screws-nails-fixings/shims/cat7290012?cm_sp=managedredirect-_-screwsfixings-_-shimms
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    Seized Mains Water Stop Cock, Live Change Advice.

    Hi, if using a freezer kit, once frozen, cut the pipe and then fit an isolation valve. This will now give you plenty of time to repair the toilet. PS I remember the time working on a 'live' mains water pipe at my fathers home, the fountain from the cut pipe still haunts me, never again...
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    Heater for toilet under stairs

    Tubular heater ? https://www.toolstation.com/search?q=tubular+heaters
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    How many kW does electric shower use in Economy mode?

    Hi, I've usually noted that Mira showers have 3 power settings, Cold - no heat Economy - one element used Full - both elements powered Both elements are equally rated (ie use ½ of the rated power) Mira electric showers range from 7.5kW - 10.8 kW Therefore on Economy would be rated between...
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    Recycling centre DIY waste charges

    At the local tip, last week, the jobsworth bloke said as I was dumping used fluorescent tubes in the fluorescent bin, 'maximum of 2 tubes', so I says 'I have 6 lights in my garage, so what do I do with the other 4'! No reply from the jobsworth !!!
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    Best way to depaint copper pipes

    Hi, I've always found these great to clean pipe https://www.screwfix.com/p/select-products-cleanfit-plumbers-abrasive-250mm-x-38mm-180grit-10-pack/2843k
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    Ring Doorbell Pro 2 Transfer Question

    How about this one; https://www.amazon.co.uk/Greenbrook-DAT01A-Bell-Chime-Transformer/dp/B003R7C0II/ref=sr_1_18?crid=2XTKRYI4XB8LZ&keywords=door+bell+transformer+8v+12v+24v&qid=1689606972&sprefix=door+bell+transformer%2Caps%2C92&sr=8-18
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    Freeview Recorder

    Hi, as foxhole says, should record, just needs a USB memory stick, (or external hard drive). The socket is on the rear of the TV. The record button is bottom left, on your remote. https://www.sony.com/electronics/support/res/manuals/4559/45599301M.pdf
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    Weeping Cherry Blossom

    Your ornamental cherry tree, seems to be 'Cheals Weeping' an attractive tree when in full flower. It will have been grafted onto a wild cherry tree root stock, that bears little in the way of flowers, The upright branch is the wild part and needs to be removed. Carefully cut it out now or when...
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    Moved house, not familiar with this heating system. How does it work, best set up?

    Hi, If you Google 'Drayton LP241' you should find instructions relating to your programmer.
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    Tree roots showing on lawn

    Just accept that some trees have roots close to the surface. I find that Prunus (Flowering Cherries) can also exhibit the same phenomena, But I prefer to see the attractive tree, in Spring, rather than root pruning, which might mean the loss of the tree.
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    Leaf vacume for garden

    Would something like this do the job? Being metal one end could be reshaped to a square profile ...
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