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General Discussion Area / Re: Changing a shower mixer valve.

« on: 16 June 2023, 08:41:01 »

If you are only changing the valve, you shouldn't need to be worried, just remove electricity from the pump, isolate the water and change it.
20 minute job if the entry points are the same on the new valve.

even if the valves don't quite close properly, removing the power from the pump will stop it turning on, and you will get a dribble of water at worst, but as it is in a shower, who cares!

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General Discussion Area / Re: Mobile WIFI USA

« on: 12 September 2022, 11:19:43 »

3 was working just fine in the USA back in June.

But from memory, I am pretty sure that 3 don't allow you to use a mobile hotspot outside of your home country.  Put the sim in a phone and it should work.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Sky Q & Netflix

« on: 29 November 2021, 09:03:38 »

It's not worth the hassle of risking £1000 fine and a criminal record unless you are 100% sure 

who knows ?

lots of fake news about if you need one or not 

It is really not difficult. https://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/check-if-you-need-one

Why would you pay for something if you genuinely don't need it.

If you have the means to receive and therefore watch BBC output, then the onus is on you to prove that you don't.

Good luck with that.

No it is not! Where did you get that from?

You simply have to inform them that you don't require a licence via an online submission. Edit - you don't actually have to, but it should stem the flow of letters.

If they doubt you, it is up to them to prove otherwise, which they can only do either with your permission, or via a very seldom used search warrant.  All that needs doing is not having an aerial or satellite dish connected and no account for iplayer. so very easy to prove anyway.

All the information is available from official sources without the need to listed to shit on youtube or that bloke down the pub!

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General Discussion Area / Re: Sky Q & Netflix

« on: 28 November 2021, 12:55:54 »

Don't you have to pay the lefty tax if you have the means to watch Aunty terrestrially or via the interwebs

The interwebb bit is a grey area, but if you have the means to receive any UK channel at home, via aerials, sats or cable, you have to pay for knobenders and strictly cum masterbating.

This is not correct.  Having the means to watch TV is irrelevant, the TV licence is required only if you watch any live broadcast programme, via TV or Internet device, or you watch anything on iPlayer (live or not).  So long as what you are watching is essentially on demand and you don't watch live broadcast, you don't need a TV licence.

So watching F1 on Now TV would fall under the category of requiring a TVL.

So you are NEVER found to be watching the live news broadcasts when a major event is taking place, or there is an important announcement?

Come on, pull the other one!  Just to save £13  month!!

Thanks for your unhelpful and unwelcome assertion! I never said I didn't watch live TV - I also never said I didn't have a TV Licence - I do!

What I was pointing out was the inaccuracy of the statement made - whether someone needs a TV licence or not is a simple set of questions, if you can honestly answer them so that it indicates you don't need a licence, then you don't need one!

All the posts where you moan on at people jumping on your posts - perhaps now you can see why!

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General Discussion Area / Re: Sky Q & Netflix

« on: 28 November 2021, 12:16:50 »

It's not worth the hassle of risking £1000 fine and a criminal record unless you are 100% sure 

who knows ?

lots of fake news about if you need one or not 

It is really not difficult. https://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/check-if-you-need-one

Why would you pay for something if you genuinely don't need it. 

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General Discussion Area / Re: Sky Q & Netflix

« on: 28 November 2021, 10:09:05 »

Don't you have to pay the lefty tax if you have the means to watch Aunty terrestrially or via the interwebs

The interwebb bit is a grey area, but if you have the means to receive any UK channel at home, via aerials, sats or cable, you have to pay for knobenders and strictly cum masterbating.

This is not correct.  Having the means to watch TV is irrelevant, the TV licence is required only if you watch any live broadcast programme, via TV or Internet device, or you watch anything on iPlayer (live or not).  So long as what you are watching is essentially on demand and you don't watch live broadcast, you don't need a TV licence.

So watching F1 on Now TV would fall under the category of requiring a TVL.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Coin Exchange

« on: 17 August 2021, 09:30:13 »

Go to Metro bank, they do for it free!

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General Discussion Area / Re: SD cards

« on: 13 July 2021, 09:11:59 »

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Beikell-High-speed-Adapter-Supports-MMC-Compatible-Windows/dp/B07L9VT8YY/ref=sr_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=sd+card+to+usb&qid=1626163866&sr=8-3

that should do what you need.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Fridge Freezer

« on: 11 October 2020, 10:17:27 »

Just had the same issue.  Bought a new Samsung fridge/freezer for £450 from AO.com, they took the old one for an extra £20.  Register for their marketing crap and they send you a voucher code, which in my case was worth £24, so disposal effectively free.

Mine was around 18 years old when it gave up the ghost, so happy with the return and the new one has a 10year warranty.

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General Discussion Area / Re: HP 1510 not accepted as Default in Windows 10

« on: 07 July 2020, 09:20:05 »

just type the ip address of the printer into your web browser and a page will come up with details of your printer and the option to scan - works regardless of the software you loaded.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Bloody houses .. and builders!

« on: 12 September 2019, 11:18:24 »

Given that you have receipts for the work, and it has clearly been done incorrectly, then I would be making a claim against the trade-persons insurance.  That work is not of serviceable quality

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General Discussion Area / Re: Electric scooters

« on: 03 July 2019, 16:36:46 »

The 2 wheel electric scooters Tunnie is referring to (lime) are not legal to use on the roads or pavements in the UK.

So don't expect them to be usable in the towns and cities over here until the outdated law is changed.

Lime do have electric assisted bicycles in some areas (MK for one), they are very handy.

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General Discussion Area / Re: No Hot Water!

« on: 09 January 2019, 15:40:03 »

If you've got a multi-meter, rule out the thermostat.

There should be 5 wires going into the 3-way valve; they are normally coloured, blue, green/yellow, white, grey and orange.
The 2 that deal with the hot water side are the orange and white wires.

If you open up the wiring box and are ok with a multimeter, you can very quickly check.

With the programmer set to turn the hot water on, check the voltage between neutral and the orange wire - if the thermostat is calling for heat, you should get 240v.  If the Thermostat is not calling for heat, then you should see 240v between the neutral and grey wires.

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General Discussion Area / Re: No Hot Water!

« on: 09 January 2019, 11:10:28 »

Hot Water is the standard position on a 3-way valve, so if it is ok when the programmer is only calling for central heating, then it is working, but it sounds like you have some crud blocking it from springing back to the default position.
If you are getting 240v through the orange wire to the 3-port valve when the hot water is calling for heat, then the electrics are ok.

I would drain down again (assuming you don't have isolators either side of the 3-way valve), take it apart and clean it through, if that doesn't work, just replace it, as Stemo says, they are not expensive.

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General Discussion Area / Re: The latest outrage

« on: 07 November 2018, 10:05:22 »

I struggle with the logic of this.  It absolutely caused offence to probably hundreds of thousands of people.  BUT the offence was caused by the TV stations showing the damn stupid stunt on TV!  The back garden bullshit was just for their simpleton laughs, its the TV channels that have deliberately caused offence by broadcasting it.  IMO it is them who should be held to account.