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  1. Danm54

    Loose toilet seat.. Can't find a way to remove.

    This is most likely the right answer, some seats just clip onto the mounts. Remove one side at a time, get a good grip of the seat with a couple of fingers either side of the hinge and give it a short sharp pull up. Hold the pan down with your other hand to prevent it moving.
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    Sold on Ebay, buyer is round the corner.. can I hand deliver?

    You're still better off with £18 cash. Ebay take 12% including postage cost. You've sold for £21 including postage so Ebay take ~£2.50 and you'd have to pay ~£3 postage. End of the day you'd get £15.50 selling though Ebay.
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    Hiking, backpacking, trekking, mountaineering...

    I'm working up to it! Been on a couple of local walks, both about 20 miles but only ~2800ft and ~3500ft elevation gain. Both took 9 - 9.5 hours and I still felt pretty good at the end of both. The Welsh 3000s is nearly 10000ft ascent and 12000 descent so considerably more! I think I'd make it...
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    Project; Turbo GSXR Slingshot

    Bit of a thread revival! They got cut up and used for headers version 3 or something like that, I'm sure some of it is back on the bike anyway. As a 3 year update to the thread, the bike has been sitting for about 3 years now and there's no sign of it going back on the road anytime soon. I...
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    Hot water settings

    You can on a pressurised cylinder. The expansion vessel/air gap and all the pressure and temperature relief valves are fitted to the cylinder and the incoming cold supply. On tank fed cylinders you have to leave the expansion pipe open, so while you could fit one after the tee for the expansion...
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    What did you do to your bike today?

    I only ended up there following the ex's directions so all it did was take much longer to get where we were going. Fyi, if you want to see the dams don't type in Elan Valley, it'll take you to the middle of the res! I love water crossings, the faster flowing rivers are sketchy and the bomb...
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    What did you do to your bike today?

    The byway around that res goes on forever! Never taken the bike that way but ended up down there in the Landy, I didn't find it that that interesting to be honest but I guess it's different on a bike.
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    Biking Meet Up OcUK

    There was one Nuneaton/Hinckley way, not quite 10 years ago but must be getting on that now.
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    The down sides of buying online

    This, I've got a medium size parcel box and it's brilliant. I rarely order anything too big to fit in it but that usually gets left by the box anyway, even though the box is up the lane from my house. I do live in a fairly remote area though so I don't worry about parcels going missing.
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    I think our house is shockingly badly insulated.

    If you're just checking the rads are big enough then it isn't that complicated. Find a heat loss calculator online, City Plumbing have a good one, put in your room sizes, construction, window area etc and it'll give you a btu and Kw figure that your rad should meet. Little trickier finding the...
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    Boiler condensate pump

    Any plumbers merchant will be open tomorrow, City Plumbing, Plumb Centre etc. Even Screwfix probably do a condensate pump. Google really is your friend here....
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    What did you do to your bike today?

    Bit far north for my knowledge, closest I could offer is Happy Valley and the Horseshoe/******* Lane near Mach. The lanes thin out once you get further north in Snowdonia.
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    The nervous wait to exchange....

    Following on from this, nearly 3 months later, I've finally had confirmation of completion and transfer of deeds. The ex is paid, even if she did make a last minute £10k increase in what she wanted, the remortgage is done and the house is mine, I can now relax and enjoy Christmas knowing all my...
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    What did you do to your bike today?

    Well I didn't address those but they're sorted. Went for a shakedown ride in the wet and it ran and stopped fine so I booked it in for an mot. The 40 mile round trip for that was also in the rain but the bike runs great, plenty of poke from low rpm and holds the road well, seems to smooth out...
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    The nervous wait to exchange....

    We bought with an incorrect boundary, everyone agreed where it was supposed to be so we ended up moving in and the solicitor held a £5k retainer until it was sorted. Took a good 7 months after moving before Land Registry completed it.
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    Mod request - tell us your favourite things

    Well that's going to be an awkward conversation with whoever looks at my search history....
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    Fire Thread! - Stoves, Wood, Axes, Chainsaws

    I've got through about 1m³ in the last month along with about 50kg of coal and anthracite, it is my primary heat source though. 200c isn't that hot for a stove, your flue should be over 250c regularly anyway.
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    Cash is only used by the poor or elderly

    Only old people wear smart watches, it makes them feel young and on trend :p
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    Can you refit a broken tile?

    PVA has been used by a lot of people for many years (including me) and I'm sure loads will swear by it. I only use Primer G before tiling and PVA before bonding, plastering etc. Would I go out and buy Primer G in the OP's case? No, for a job that small and temporary I'd save the £20.
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    Can you refit a broken tile?

    You're really over complicating things here. It's worked on odd bits of board for years so there's no reason you can't patch it up for another few years. Sure cement board is better but if you're redoing the bathroom in future then it's not really needed. Don't worry too much about tiles that...
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