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I recently got a second hand laptop which has what looks like an aged gloss white paint blob (maybe Tippex?) on the body of the charger. I've been trying to shift it with white spirit but it is doing next to nothing. Does anyone have any ideas for something else to get it off?

Was wondering if anyone could offer any advice on how to get a strange brown deposit out of the grille of a second hand laptop I've bought. I'm hoping it's chocolate but don't know for sure: https://imgur.com/a/TRLFP (Sorry bit hard to see since camera doesn't pick it up that well) It's a...

Can anyone advise the best odourless way to seal freshly sawn pine, to stop the 'pine smell' coming out of it? Thanks in advance.

Can anyone tell me what type of tap this is (other than dirty)? https://imgur.com/a/ExRFX Plumber suggested cartridge before he hurried out of the door (was here for boiler inspection), but I'm not sure.

Somebody in our harmonious family (not myself) chucked the TV remote on the floor last night, popping the casing open slightly, and having reassembled it, it still doesn't seem to be working. I've replaced the batteries and checked that the buttons are pressing the contacts properly, but that...

Hi all, In an effort to draw clean air into the main bedroom from the side of the house less blighted by traffic pollution, we are considering running a vent from the spare room on the other side of the house to the main bedroom via the loft, and installing an extractor fan on the spare room...

Hi all, Not sure if this should really be a window/door category Q but anyway: I'm wondering what my options might be to get clean air into my bedroom, given that the area below it is used for smoking. Unfortunately the smokers refuse to move away, and I can't really open my windows without...

Hi all, Bit of a sticky problem here: I have a laptop that has quite poorly designed hinges, and like many other owners of this model, one of the steel hinge plates on mine has detached from its plastic mountings in the lid. I've heard that gluing it with epoxy sometimes works, so I got some...

Hi all, I've just moved out of a rented house where I supplied the washing machine. It drained into a spur on the sink drain, but now the pipe's been removed the drain is left open and water comes out when the sink is used. It's about 2cm diameter and has the ribbed effect for flexible pipes...

Hi all. I've just moved into a new house (renting), which has two chimney breasts, one for the front rooms and one for the back rooms. They have both been blocked up, one with some kind of designer fire thing (is it a fire? I have no idea) and one just totally blocked up. The blocked up one...

I'm sealing some furniture that includes a lot of MDF using paint, a major purpose being to stop any potential fumes from getting out of the MDF itself. Ideally I'd like to be able to use low odour paint so I can sleep in the room later that day, but I'm wondering if the seal provided will not...

Hi all, I began building a large set of shelving units to increase storage space in my bedroom, and some MDF became available on the cheap. I know that you have to be careful when working with MDF but I thought I could manage that for the ~£100 saving over something like plywood. After I'd...

Bit of a theoretical one here: has anybody heard of concrete sintering, and know what it is? Cheers

Hi all, We're about to have a few jobs done on the house, and I know this isn't strictly DIY, but I know that when I do DIY jobs (e.g. the repointing last summer) I like to know just how much money I'm saving, so maybe you guys know the answer to this question: How much would be a reasonable...