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Thanks for your reply. I decided to flush the radiator today and followed the Haynes manual instructions: drain the system via the bottom radiator hose and remove the thermostat. ( By the way, the capacity of the car is 6 litres but only 4.5 -5 litres drained out as I didn't know where the...

Thanks for all of the replies. Update: The water level has not dropped overnight so it's not losing any water. Drove the car to the same spot where it overheated yesterday - about 15 miles travelling at 50-60mph approx- and the water temp. barely rose above 90 degrees and the cabin heater air...

Hello all, I've got a 1995 Corsa 1.5 diesel (Isuzu engine) which has done 163,000 miles.The water pump and thermostat have been changed but it's still overheating. I drove about 18 miles in it today and the water temperature gauge almost reached 100 degrees so I pulled over and waited for it...

Does anyone know where to purchase quality drill bits online at a reasonable price? I've looked at various brand names on Amazon but they either contain too many pieces which would be seldom used (such as screwdriver bits) or the quality is poor based upon the reviews. Thanks in advance.

Can anyone suggest a way of doing this? The pool conatians approx. 100 litres and is at the top of an incline so perhaps siphoning would suffice. The siphon would then need to be connected to a hose pipe which would be placed in a drain. Would the siphon get clogged with the inevitable debris...

Has anyone bought one of these http://www.lidl.ie/ie/home.nsf/pages....Angle_Grinder and the discs http://www.lidl.ie/ie/home.nsf/pages....Cutting_Discs ? Are they good quality and value?

Richard C, thanks for your comments. Could you tell me where you bought your stove and chimney lining materials from? If you don't want to post then please send me a PM.

Thanks for those points. I had intended lining the recess with Skamolex or Super-Isol so heatloss would be minimised. Should the same be done with an inset.

I want to replace two open fires with woodburning stoves. It will cost between €800 and €2000 to get the fireplaces adapted ( enlarge the recesses) to accomodate the stoves. I also want to line the recesses with skamolex fireboard and will have to get some infill hearth pieces which would...

Below are links to photos of one of the logs: http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff250/Kilnadrain/P1070367.jpg http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff250/Kilnadrain/P1070366.jpg http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff250/Kilnadrain/P1070365.jpg Is this hardwood or softwood? What type of...

Got a load of hardwood delivered today but it's very wet and heavy. It had been lying in field before being cut to lenth and split recently. It will be stacked in a covered and ventilated wood shed and won't be used for possibly nine months - will it have dried out by then? The supplier...

Are MacAllister any good? Model no. MJS500L with a three year guarantee for £35. Bosch are about £20 more for a similar spec. model but only a one year guarantee - is it worth the extra?

Can anyone recommend a good jigsaw at a reasonable price. I had a Lidl one but it never cut accurately and now part of the casing has broken so it's going back.

Here's the links - hopefully will work this time. http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff250/Kilnadrain/P1070362.jpg http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff250/Kilnadrain/P1070360.jpg

I noticed that the mineral felt on a two-year old garden apex-roofed shed has split close to where it is folded over the fascias. Does anyone know why this might have happened so soon? If it needs re-felting should the existing felt be left on and covered over for extra...

Is there any cheap way of stopping or reducing condensation on a corrugated metal roof? It's a ventilated wood shed - open at the front and fenced at the sides and back. The roof panels are being taken off at the moment to raise the roof height - someone suggested putting a membrane of...

Does anyone know how to connect an existing range cooker to a flexible steel chimney liner? The cooker too big and heavy to pull out and then push in again. Apparently the liner is in the chimney but just dangling down it and not physically connected to the cooker. The householder is having...

Does anyone know how to configure Sandboxie so that links within Outlook Express open a new Firefox browser tab rather than a Firefox browser tab within Sanboxie, which is also open. I've just downloaded version 3.40 and the old version didn't do this. By the way, does anyone know how to...

Can anyone recommend a neat and secure way to wall mount a pine shelving 'cube'. It's 340mm deep...

Thanks for the replies. I asked for the top of the posts to be sealed with the bitumen-based paint also as they are 'dished' and therefore a water trap. I noticed the other day that the top of one of them had only been coated in spray paint rather than the bitumen paint. Will this have the...