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This is the heated towel rail which lives in my barn. I noticed the other day that it was leaking from the threaded connection which in the photo is just above the plastic container (the barn is not used during the winter so the towel rail was turned off) The liquid that had leaked had no smell...

I'm looking for a bit of advice on repairing some IKEA Krokstorp doors. The kitchen is over 7 years old now, so the doors are no longer made (and as far as I can tell, no longer available anywhere). Our dog likes to sleep in the corner with her back against 2 doors, and the coating has begun to...

I'm hoping that somebody on the forum will be able to give some informed advice about power banks. My house, in rural France, is heated from a woodburner back boiler and uses 3 normal central heating pumps (Grundfos). One pump takes water from the back boiler to the 800l tank in the cellar...

I'm lucky enough to live in a 400 year old stone house in France. When we moved in 5 years ago we installed a woodburner into an existing fireplace/inglenook which was covered with many, many years of burned on soot. This summer's main project is to clean up the stone. I've tried woodburner...

I'm trying to set up a system to monitor the temperatures around my central heating system, which is powered by a woodburner. I want to be able to monitor (the temperature of) about 5 points around the system, and as a bonus to be able to see when any of the three water pumps are on or off. An...

I've mentioned this channel in the answer to a post elsewhere on the site, but to make it a bitt more public, I'll post it here too. "The Post Apocalyptic Inventor" is a German guy who searches scrapyards to find stuff to repair. He does a lot of old workshop equipment (including cordless...

This is a forlorn cry for help from me to the workshop community for a spare part for a Spit 385 sds drill. One of the things I do to help pass the time in retirement is to try to fix “stuff”, mainly tools from my mate Dave the builder, whose artisans have a knack of breaking tools in...

About 6 years ago, I bought an end of season powered awning for around 600€. Over the years, the cloth material has of course degraded because of uv and weather, so I've been looking around for a replacement piece of material 3800mm x 3000mm, hemmed to finish. The prices for said material have...