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I have had this Titan mitre saw for a couple of years It looks like it started to have some play, so if I set it to 0 deg it can move anywhere between -2 and 2 This is due to this retaining rod, which is a couple of mm smaller that the hole I’m not sure if it is supposed to have something in...

I never noticed them being wet to be honest

All the tees really

I am starting to see some white dust around some compression fittings I fitted a couple of years ago Do you think it is just because they’ve been leaking and those are limescale deposits or something else?

I’ll turn on the 3d printer

I have bought these downlights and I’ve been testing the installation and removal on a piece of scrap plasterboard...

I have a combi boiler on the opposite side of the house wrt the bathroom, so the water takes about 30-40 seconds to get to the shower. If I never turn off the water during the shower, then there isn’t any problem. But if I turn the shower off for a few seconds and then reopen it, then I get warm...

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I didn't! To be honest, I've stuffed everything in 32A rated wago connectors and run single wires to the socket. Strictly speaking I have 3 spurs from a single point on the ring (altough one is only 10cm long) rather than 2 spurs from a socket on the ring.

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This was indeed the case; I had forgotten that I had added a socket to the ring in the section I've disconnected. Here is the original layout The modified one And the solution I've found to revive the forgotten socket, which has now become a spur The problem is that the double socket on...

What you have done (and I also have done) by building a new stud wall is basically decoupling; the sound transmission is not reduced so much because of the insulation but by the fact that the structure is (mostly) separated from the party wall. But having a party wall is basically a very good...

I think what you want to say is that sound can propagate through matter but not in a vacuum Bricks are solid, water is normally found in liquid state and air is usually found in gas state. Yes, sound can propagate through all this stuff. Now, between the houses there is mostly air (the...

I have lived in my 1960s terraced house for three years now and based on what I can hear from nextdoor (steps on stairs, doors slamming, people’s voice when shouting) I have always assumed we had single brick party walls. In the loft you can clearly see a single brick wall pattern with no bricks...

No, I was referring to vented vs unvented I can see why some people would like to have a hot water tank rather than a combi boiler; I just couldn’t grasp the meaning of the vented part of it; some of the comments above have clarified and it looks like it’s heritage from old times If somebody if...

A gravity fed system cannot give you more pressure than the pressure required to take water there in the first place (apart from the times when mains pressure drops) So you probably mean flow rather than pressure, and higher flow can be achieved by bigger pipes, am I right?

I have been reading about vented water system (I don’t have one) and I cannot see why so many homes have them. Pressure is probably going to be about 0.1 bar, which sounds a bit low Why doing this when you can have hot water pushed by mains water pressure?

I have cleaned all the dust with a damp sponge and then applied a second mist coat at a lower ratio (1 part water and 3 part paint, so 25% instead of 40%) The dust after this second mist coat was minimal so I have applied the first top coat

How do dilution ratio work for paint? What does 40% mean in this case? 10 liters of paint + 4 liters of water? 6 liters of paint + 4 liters of water? I’ve assumed to be the second (40% of the total) but I just want to check