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I'm hoping to move to The Netherlands before the end of the year but my friend over there was living in an appartment with non-earthed sockets and she says it's common in old houses. Should I be worried about running my British stuff over there? Should I buy myself a nice pair of rubber clogs?

Occasionally, the lighting in my room goes slightly dimmer for a couple of seconds and then back to normal. What could be causing this and why doesn't it effect my presumably sensitive computer equipment? Is this a "brown out"?

So anyway, I've got this new (cheap) workbench and it came with these black plastic things that I think the manufacturer refers to as "chucks". They fit in the holes that have been drilled into the workbench surface. I figure they're for clamping onto wood or something whilst you work on it, and...

Sorry if my terminology isn't up to scratch but I'm a total DIY noob (20 yrs old and the height of my dad's DIY was sellotaping my bike brakes on as a kid!). Anyway, mum wants to store stuff in the loft but the "loft hole" is barely big enough for me (slender) to climb inside. It's also just...

The main lights in the living and dinning room are controlled by a swtich panel with two separate dimmer switches. The one controlling the living room light works fine, but the one for the dinning room used to flicker and go quite dim until it was practically off. Now it's stopped working...

Mum want to change the colour of the sideboard to match the mahogany TV stand my friend's parents gave us. I'm confused about what we need to do. I think we can get woodstain, and then put varnish over it, or we can just get coloured varnish and that will change the colour? If I use woodstain...

Was asbestos ever used in roof insulation and if so, how do we check if the insulation in our roof contains asbestos? I've read that you send off a sample to a lab and they check it for you. I've got the impression that it was only used in making stuff fire-retardent, so maybe it isn't found in...