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I;ve been inundated today with scam callers on my mobile number (6 so far), plus as many more blocked on my landline. I don't usually get many at all, what's changed? If you ring the numbers back, you find they have spoofed a valid number - chemists, butchers, health centres etc..

House is built on a slab, on clay, had damp injection 40 plus years ago, and cavity cleaned out. All fine, no problems except one small, out of the way area, which is an internal brick wall. The wall forms a T with the short upper arms of the T, being the inner cavity wall. The wall is around 2...

Smart motorways - If the equipment fails, then it should just default to fail-safe, and shut the lane down, until the equipment is back in working order.

Surface rain water drainage is a constant wet weather problem here, we have a few inches of soil, then heavy clay everywhere. I'm wondering if there is an easy way, without digging, to get an idea just how thick the clay layer might be? If not too thick, I was thinking an auger to make a...

Local mayor elections, people discussing public transport and 'ghost buses'. Like many places, we have displays, which show the next four or so buses, and when they are likely to arrive at the stop, based on buses sending track information, back to the server. Great system, except it includes...

It has become a regular, annual invasion.... We never used to have this, a decade ago. A couple of weeks ago, we began seeing them, at the front of the house, and the back - inside. We did a daily count of the number of ants seen, to see how bad it was, and whether we were making progress with...

I've spent a bit of time in our understair cupboard over recent weeks. I'm out of closet now :eek: The entire house had a total, back to brick, refurb in the mid 80's, including all pipework. At the back of the cupboard, is an outside wall, a cavity, then the outer wall, which includes gas and...

I requested online access to my medical records, long ago and regularly check in, because I feel I have to... Today, I checked in and happened to spot a note against one med, of which I was about to run out. It suggested it needed to be reviewed by a medical pro. Had I not logged in, had I not...

Away with the caravan for a week, we arrived Saturday, the storm Kathleen arrived soon after, so we delayed putting the porch awning up until Monday morning. Because of the slope of the pitch, we almost always use the awning door/zip at the rear of the caravan to get in and out, nearest the...

Caught my arm, on a sharp door catch, on an internal door, and tore a big lump of skin off. The sharp, pointy brass sneck, sticking out of the edge of the door. I've done it several times now, on different doors. I'm surprised they are so pointy, is it usual to do what I have in mind - go round...

I wonder if anyone else is pestered by this company, every few months? Every few months, delivered by RM's normal post, I get a leaflet addressed to 'The Occupier', with my address, rather than the usual leaflet delivered to all addresses by RM - so I am obviously being targetted. The leaflet...

With these, I struggle - I just cannot make any sense from the range of blades Gillette sell. Does anyone know of a website which compares the different blades, and explains the differences please? I'm used to, seem to get on fine with a blade which is 5 blade, black and blue, which claims to...

They have been very busy out the back of my house, upgrading and improving the rail line to electrify it - no pylons added yet. At the back of my garden, is a fairly new railway metal fence, 50 or so yards of railway wasteland, covered with bramble, the odd tree and bush, then the two lines, in...

https://www.pressreader.com/ Why does it scroll sideways, rather than the more conventional vertical? Never seen this before..

The images, looking down, are all pixelated, if you try to zoom in close? The street views seem OK.

This was fitted around 40 years ago, but today the overflow decided to let go.... From what I could see, and interrupted in the middle of another urgent job. Overflow exits sink, then reverted to an oval connection[1}, which seemed a loose push fit. An oval fitting on the end of a convoluted...

Are these fully populated CU normally supplied with the internal link cables please, or do I need to source them please?

I am at present, giving consideration to my next job, replacing my CU, with a physically larger one, with more ways (10 with a 18), to enable more house circuits to have separate supplies. Our present CU, fits with a few inches to spare, horizontally, with the cables entering via the rear. The...

This app will not work for your phone - why not please?

I've been moaning for years, since I installed it, that my Vaillant 470F control system, seemed to store a temporary change in the programmed temperature, as the programmed temperature. It's seems I was wrong, that I was deceived by the display's sometimes excessively long time to update...