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My wife has ordered a new PC from Amazon. It was supposed to be delivered 2 days ago. But she says the tracking stopped at Leeds Amazon distribution centre, and nothing happened for 2 days. They just show on the App menu, "Maybe the package is lost." and there is no option for Refund, or...

I monitored with a digital weather station the small room (about 3x 3 m) in downstairs, and it seems strangely keep having high humidity up to 75% and 13C constantly last few days. The electric heating has been switched off with the spring coming, and outside temperature here has been about 8...

We have a row of hedge about 6ft high running along between the garden and outside pedestrain path. We get this rubbish getting thrown onto or pushed into the hedges by the passers-by or walkers on the path. I keep checking it, and used to take them out putting the rubbish into the bin. But...

This house has never had this problem before. We have stayed in the house for almost 15 years. But recently we have been noticing the house shaking quite a lot. Sometimes I can feel it when I am sitting on the chair doing some computing. But in other times when it is bad, I can see the pile...

Both are DIY grade chainsaws in cheap price, and maybe much of muchness. But which one would be better in terms of durability, parts availablity and performance? I cut down a few trees in the garden this summer using the hand saws, and they are still lying down in the garden on the ground. They...

There are some holes in our privet hedge (quite large in places size of a bucket to football in other parts), where there used to be the other plants near it blocking the sun. I have pulled out the plants last year, so sun light will not be blocked to the hedge anymore. This year, the holes are...

I have been using Bosch for my hand tools such as drills, impact drivers etc, hence have a few Bosch batteries in blue colour (18V). Now I was trying to get some Bosch garden tools such as Hedge trimmers, cordless chainsaws, grass strimmers etc, but they run under different type of Bosch...

I have an old Bosch hedge trimmer electric powered. It has been about 7-8 years since new, and used a lot. It is quite heavy, but the long blades are useful reaching out to the thick hedge tops. Being electric powered, the chord is problematic. The chord had been cut twice while operating by...

I have loads of green woods - the twigs, stems and branches cut from the leylandii hedges, old leggy fuscia trees and some holly trees lying in the garden in the piles of mounds here and there. They are lying in the corner of the garden, and I need to dispose of them somehow. I am going to...

We have 2x antigue benches about 50 year old. The back and sides are made of cast iron. The panels that make up the seat and back are wooden panels. These wooden panels are rotten deep, and look weakened. Obvious options could be iether replace the rotten wooden panels with the new cut to...

I went out to lock the shed this evening for the day, and on the way to the shed, I saw what looked like rat droppings on the lid of the green wheelie bin. But I was wondering, how could rat climbe onto the tall wheelie bin? Because I saw on Youtube videos, that rats falling into the buckets...

These Japanese maple trees were about a foot high when planted about 10 year ago when we moved into this old house. About 3-4 trees were planted, and they have grown up so much now, they are about 12 ft tall, and spread wide around the house. I did some pruning on them because they look quite...

I have a few of these used old car batteries to put out. I am just wondering if there are alternative places which accept the old used car batteries for recycling apart from the skip. I saw the local supermarkets such as Lidle and Aldi has big jars accepting used AA AAA C and D and PP9...

The oldest drill set I have is a cheap set called SilverLine drills 1x drill driver and 1x impact driver with 2x 10.8v Li-Ion batteries 1.3Ah. I bought the set from Amazon Warehouse for £50 free delivery 2014, so it is 9 years old. The set came in a nice moulded hardcase, 2x 10.8v 1.3 Ah...

I see a lot of youtube videos on Chinese Diesel Heaters. Anyone using one? How do they rate in heating performance, safety and fuel cost savings? https://uk.vevor.com/diesel-heater-c_10321?v_tag=e6799d20-8aef-11ed-be65-c9c275c62b60.2

I saw this breaker with non-replaceable carbon brushes. Does it mean that it is for disposable use only? Use once / a few times, and when it dies just discard? https://www.screwfix.com/p/titan-ttb811drh-16-4kg-hex-shank-electric-breaker-230v/326vv Would it not make sense to be able to replace...

That is the old cold water tank in the loft I have been working on few days. The mains rise pipe is visible with the newly installed ball valve, and the old gate valve on the pipe. But there is a grey plastic pipe also connected to the pipe with a plastic TEE. I thought that grey plastic pipe...

I have got a new float valve type 2 from Srewfix to replace this old one leaking. But it looks different from any float valves I have seen. I couldn't see any bolts to undo the valve from inside of the tank. Would it be just matter of turning the whole valve round to take off from the tank? If...

In the photo, you see the water fillin-in valve on the vertical pipe. When it is fully closed, the water still fills into the tank. In fact the round rotable valve seem have no effect on the water fill at both closed or open position. And there is another plastic pipe connected to the top of...