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Barber Mode: Off anywhere nice this summer Sir? Just looking for somewhere nice at the minute for the family. We were considering the US (Florida / NYC) for a couple weeks but my eldest daughter is insistent she doesn't want to go to America for some reason. Height of spoiled if you ask me...

OpenAI released to the public their language AI tech for playing with. https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt/ ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence technology that enables computers to understand and respond to natural language. It is a powerful tool that can be used to create virtual assistants...

Looking for thoughts on the sanity of this? I have a stud wall in the kids bedroom where I'm fitting a little 32" TV to her wall that I got for Christmas, the studs in this wall are at 600mm centres, the bracket fixing plate (rectangular with slotted holes for fixing) is only 250mm width, so...

I'm going to be in the market for a power washer after Christmas at some point. Never owned one before but the Karchers seem to be the industry dominating name with their K Series. Can anyone give any advice or recommendations to a power washing newbie, I want something that's going to be man...

There’s a stinkin old pipe popping up through my floorboards next to where my combi boiler lives under the stairs… When I have a look under the floorboards I can’t really see where it’s heading to… it’s a solid bit of pipe, some kinda metal and the valve doesn’t budge. I’m guessing it’s...

I'm looking to fill some trowel marks and imperfections and the like and then sand prior to painting. What's your go to product for filling on a plastered wall?

I'm looking to renew my stair bannisters (base/hand rail, spindles, spacers) while retaining the existing newel posts. The layout is a straight run on the first floor... free standing newel post on one end and half newel post on the other against a wall. The run up the stairs has a newel post...

It’s only recently that I’ve realised you’re supposed to sand between courses with a light sand paper to give the wall a proper smooth finish. Particularly on newly plastered walls. I don’t see many people talking about this and I don’t believe any painter whose worked in my house in the past...

Fitting the skirting in a room following a plaster skim and things were going well until this wall. It’s flat at the other side and remains flat until about the last 500mm or so and then dips drastically by at least 20mm. It’s big enough to fit another skirting down the back of it. What’s...

Are there any that’s worth the money for a one off job? It’s the type of tool you wouldn’t pay hundreds of pounds for if you aren’t going to use a lot but it’s £75 to hire a Paslode or equal for the week. Are any of those budget guns from Toolstation and the like up to the job of fitting...

Bit of a catch all thread for the stock market, investing, cryptos and the economy/inflation. First off for disclosure, I hold no cryptos or stocks at present but having had a spell in investing post 2008 crash, I've kept an interest in it. A couple of years back I began to notice that a lot of...

Time has come to fit another mile of skirtings/door trims and felt I should buy a decent silicone gun for the adhesive and caulking. I don't need any fancy expensive battery powered one but something a little step up from the cheapies you pick up for under a tenner that don't have any action to...

When you have switches and sockets that sit flush with the existing wall and assuming the skim coat is between 3-5mm thick when finished, if this is leaving the socket too far back then what is your your typical practise for rectifying this? Also, do you handle any of this work yourself or...

Supply and install from a typical landscaping outfit? including prepping the ground, any sub base and finished with a contrasting outside border. It doesn’t need to be exact, just a budget m2 rate? I noticed that the paving I would opt for costs approx £28-£32 per m2 online.

Need to sort out some home insurance... who do you use for yours and have you had any experience making claims in the past? What were they like in dealing with that. Just conscious of some of these firms tendency to try and do anything to wriggle out of coughing up for things when it actually...

We have a Straight Stairs set with closed carpeted risers, underneath this there was a storage cupboard built and on the exposed face of the stairs it was sheeted with some thin board material, with 50mm strips of the same material at the panel joints and picture framing all the perimeters to...

So a week or so back he posed the question a question asking "Do we need a new platform?", questioning their commitment to free speech. Speculation began that he might buy Twitter but it seemed one of these social media rumours without any substance. Seems we need to take Elon Musk a bit more...

At the moment I have a garden that looks like a bit of waste land... came with the house. It has a bit of grass here, bit of ancient horrible paved patio there, broken slabs snaking about forming wonky paths, old stone kerbing and an area of extremely shallow stones with the membrane showing in...

With the response from the "International community" on the Invasion of Ukraine coming in from all sides, there's two countries have stuck out to me in their attitude and rhetoric towards the situation... India and Pakistan. Firstly, both abstained in the recent UN vote. Pakistan I was not...

Were you pro or against Brexit originally and has the war made you, like me, think closer integration with Europe is all the more important in the world we're entering into. It's Russia at the moment but we all know that at some point it will be China too some day. Or do you feel that the UK...