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I hear that steel wool is useful for stuffing potential mouse holes and crevices - they find it unpleasant to chew through as it punctures or cuts their oral tissues, and rusts over longer time periods - the ferric oxide/hydroxide dust is extremely unpleasant to inhale, and toxic in the range of...

Light a few candles - then the overpowering smell changes from paint to paraffin!

In this generally confused and poorly written article, ( https://www.duluxtradepaintexpert.co.uk/editorial/dulux-trade-high-gloss-pure-brilliant-white including the statements: "In this review I've been looking at the Dulux trade high-gloss. I've been using this product for around 15 years and...

LOL! If you are skilled enough to follow @Monkeh's suggestion for downloading YouTube video streams, and get it to work seamlessly with your browser of choice, you should be at least clever enough to always use end-to-end encryption, run your Internet activities via anonymous proxies on TOR...

Baidu Spark Browser has a built-in downloader for YouTube and other streaming video sources.

Yes, uPVC hinges are often adjusted using hex keys or grub screws, but it depends on the design. Some adjustments use cams for lateral movement, others use straight screw movement for vertical adjustment. Use small adjustments and try out the door after each adjustment to see if it is going in...

The fan won't cool the air so much as the enhanced evaporation will cool the surface as water takes in heat to vapourise. With a constant play of air, the surfaces will dry faster - like the droplets on the windows of a moving car after a shower disappear quite fast, but hang around if the car...

Use a gap-filling polyurethane adhesive/sealant such as Mega Strength Adhesive from TileGiant (NoMorePly board recommended) or equivalent product.

There has been a change of tenant and now there are condensation problems, during a mild, wet winter. If there has been blown fibre/particle cavity wall insulation installed over 15 years ago, it is unlikely to have been degraded in such a way to cause problems now, if it never has before. This...

Try Baidu Spark - Video download from YouTube built-in - and includes download manager and bittorrent client.

Winter has already dumped a lot of water over the UK, and the first week of January will apparently continue the theme. Any outside work to remedy wetness will probably have no effect whatsoever until warmer temperatures prevail towards the middle of spring. If DPCs keep the brickwork above...

Walls are rarely perfectly flat, and wall fixings often do not perfectly flush fit to the wall surface. If there was a slight gap between the wall and the fitting, if there was no flexible silicone filler there, over time, dirt and grease would get into the gap, which would become black or brown...

This is the instruction sheet showing the supplied levelling fixings for this cabinet. I saw that it was 17.5 Kg - unloaded, could be in excess of 20KG with shampoo bottles etc., on shelves. I would not trust this cabinet supported only with 2 plasterboard fixings, which may be your only choice...

Upon further inspection, the Baumatic oven was plugged into the downstairs ring circuit, which has a 32A MCB and also a 6A MCB(upstairs lighting) on the first RCD. From the look of the blue flex from the oven it was designed to be a plug-in appliance (13A fuse) with a max stated rating on the...

We have this issue with a built-in Baumatic Oven. First it was just the grill/Upper oven element, which was replaced, and worked fine for about 11 months, then just switching on the oven using the temperature control trips the RCD. The appliance has 2 fans - one for the fan oven that blows hot...

Paradoxically, if the wood had never been painted, it probably would not have rotted. Splits and cracks in paint films occur over time as the paint becomes brittle due to ageing, with the changes in temperature and humidity causing the timber to expand and contract. Cracks may let in water, but...

Another way to go is to create a fake wall on which you fit your screen, soundbar etc., with all wiring and sockets hidden in the gap between the false wall panel and the real wall surface. The panel can be mounted on vertical 50x50mm battens firmly fixed to the real wall which will allow...

Could the pallet of bricks showing the salts have been subjected to flooding or excessive water soaking before the building was built? The lower courses and some isolated rows of bricks above are affected, but there are some bricks between that are apparently unaffected. These bricks are...

It has been mentioned in previous threads on similar problems that the now generally obsolete VCRs (Video Cassette Recorders) generally had reasonably high quality RF to Scart analog TV receivers. Being obsolete analog devices, fairly high end Home Theatre units with DVD and VCR playing and...

I'd use a couple of angle stretcher plates - the slots on the side for wall fixing, and the holes on the side to fix into the top of the unit. Anyone who has ever built a flat-pack kitchen base unit will have several surplus items of this type. Mark the hole and make a pilot hole with a...