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Cutting from the Times Phoned 111 this morning (sorry yesterday) 8am. My wife was ill, ulcers in her mouth, painful swelling in her neck. Given a walk in appointment at 8pm in what used to be our local casualty. Seen promptly told she needs to be in casualty blood pressure at a dangerous level...

How do you trim cable for LED lamps? I was always taught to keep the outer insulation in the cable clamp or inside the junction box, so like the first picture, I'm being told this is wrong as the clamp does not fully close, it holds just as securely and looks better than the second photo to me...

I need to turn off the water at a flat I own for a simple plumbing job. There is no internal stop cock. There is a cock just before the water meter. It needs a 3 pronged key. The meter is at the bottom of a very small deep chamber mostly full of muddy water (it gets read electronically so...

Good afternoon All, I hope someone can identify the make of this toilet flush. It's starting to overflow into the bowl so needs fixing / replacing. I sent a plumber to do just that but he has never seen one like it, can't replace it suggests new toilet which with a built in cistern means...

Advice requested. I need to make a bath panel. First a good moan because it's what I do best. The reason I need to make a panel is that I have installed the bath higher than normal, because a builder installed the waste pipe in the slightly unusual way to run up hill, he cut the hole through the...

Can anybody help with this. I need to replace a very old film radiator currently on 6mm pipe (1/4") it has two identical valves, I want to fit a thermostatic valve. How to I identify the flow side, tracing the pipe not an option it runs through the skirting then under the plaster, much of the...

Does anyone here know how to go about generating power from a stream? We have a stream that runs most of the year, occasional dry times in the summer when it flows underground so animals still get to drink from the remaining pools but no useful flow. This time of year when I'm really low on...

I'm going to stick my head over the parapet one more time. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/video/is-the-world-ready-for-tiny-evs/vi-AASvYE9 Step by step these get more practical, 80 mph and 100 mile range single seat transport on a motorbike license with some of the creature comforts of a...

Hi All, Someone will be able to tell me how to do this I'm sure. I have a small submersible pump in a well that I want to feed a horse trough from. The pump is 12V powered from a solar panel and deep draw battery. The problem is that I want to have the pump switch off when the trough is full...

Hi all, I was lucky enough to be given some free wood that was about to be skipped. It's a Japanese hard wood that was used to make some packing crates. 50mm square section lengths from 150mm up to about 1500 mm. About 5m worth in total with quite a few screw holes scattered about. No idea why...

Good morning all, I'm trying to find a post someone made in the last few days. It contained a link to a video of someone making a wooden ring light in the style of Lord of the rings. It was really excellent and I want to pass it on to a friend but cannot retrace my steps Please help

Can anyone identify this, sorting through some tins of old screws and other oddments that came from my Dads workshop I found this spring loaded punch like thing. Its adjustable to take different thickness materials, looks like different platterns can be fitted and the punch does not quite close.

Can anybody spot what is probably a newby mistake. I have just built my first bench and flush fitted a 9" Record vice with quick release. Making my life difficult as usual and in order to cut the smallest hole in the apron I dismantled the vice to enable me to cut the opening really accurately...