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    Flappy roller blinds - a clever solution, anyone?

    Am finally fixing blinds to the back of my house having realised that the neighbours have been using our kitchen/diner as free entertainment for the past few months. :oops: I'm looking for a clever idea to secure the lath of the roller blinds to the window sill when the blinds are down. Has...
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    Power to garage 25 meters away - to dig or not to dig!?!?

    Thanks for the responses guys. Again, there seems to be a range of opinions here - plenty of ways to skin a cat, and all that. I own the fence. It's a mixture of concrete post and wooden posts. It's pretty solid and definately all mine! What I'm trying to do really is avoid having to dig a 25...
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    Power to garage 25 meters away - to dig or not to dig!?!?

    I have had a few estimates for getting power to my new garage. 3 sparkies said that they would tack the armoured cable to the fence running up the side of the garage, but the last one said it absolutely had to be buried in a trench in conduit with warning tape - which would mean digging a 25...
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    getting cold water to my outhouse

    A good point well made! Thanks.
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    getting cold water to my outhouse

    Thanks for the encouragement! :D Your advice has made me think of a couple more questions... When you say "Make sure whilst you have your trench dug out to work out all your waste electrical and mains water sorted . Dont want to have to dig it again,think it through plan and then...
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    getting cold water to my outhouse

    I’m getting a garage-come-workshop built at the moment and would like to run a cold water pipe from the house to the building. I have plans in the future to convert part of the garage to have a toilet and washing machine, but for now I’m just going to plumb in a sink. I’ve plumbed in sinks...
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