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Insulating a cold bedroom above a garage

I intend to take down the ceiling in my garage and put in insulation then replace with new plasterboard. I sometimes watch a programme on Discovery called Holmes on homes which is set in Canada where...

anotheoldgit

Number of convicted benefit cheats soars

http://www.dailymail....rds-Sky-TV-bills.html Whilst I agree and welcome the fact that the Government are at last cracking down on these benefit cheats, are they not being slightly hypothetical...

Thatcherite

Population growth..

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19923200 how can we stop the world population growing? Will we reach a point where we cannot feed them?...

dobermanpete

sole trader public liability insurance

Hello, I am soon to set up business as a sole trader. I will be supplying my labour at an hourly rate to a company contracted to a multinational company on short term contracts at various sites. I...

dotty.

haha, just heard a reporter summarising the new benefit cuts

no housing benefit for the under 25s, that will make lots of babies and small children homeless, excellent stuff, they can set up shanty towns on the edge of cities near to the local tip so that the...

numnum

Should mum buy or stay in council house

My mum has a dilema. She has the money to buy a small house with a spare room that would do visitors, grandkids etc or she can stay in the 1 bedroomed council house she's in, doesn't own, and the rent...

laurasand

Protecting my home

How far should you be able to go to protect ur home from intruders?

jd_1984

Help re a personalised number plate!!

Please can somebody explain this to me in simple terms..... I want to sell my personalised plate. I own the registration but it is not on my current car it is on my old car, now owned by my brother....

satyr555

what does this mean OTE?

going for a job its 24k a year and says 28K OTE??

brionon

F 1

Just turned it on and they are on about Tyres again- is this racing ??

SurreyGuy

Mitsubishi Shogun or Range Rover?

I'm thinking of buying a secondhand diesel 4x4 for the winter so as I can counter any snowfall or heavy rains we may have beeter than in a "normal" car (I currently drive an old Series 7...

breathe21

fast growing hedge

we have recently done some work in the garden and now have a 6 ft gap in the privet hedge at the end which we need to fill in with a fast growing bush. the privet is between us and next door but is...

lightbulb247

what is the best lesson you've ever learnt in life?

and why?

adampember

how do i start out as a carpenter?

I did 3 years in college. 2 years during college i did a carpentry apprenticeship. so i have the qualifications, the company i did my apprenticeship with went bust about 13 months ago so i obviously...

gazzawazza

Prices in Florida

Hi, anyone know up to date prices for eating out in Florida? We go in October and would like to know the cost of drinks, snacks, Ponderosa all you can eat brekkies, evening meals etc. Thanks in...

chokkie

driving in california ...

Hi folks, we're visiting California in a co uple of weeks time, flying into San Francisco airport and hiring a car for just under two weeks. Is there anything we should know about driving on Ca roads,...

Jamjar74

Garden Strimmers

Would be interested in hearing opinions about which is the best strimmer to buy. Have read many reviews and Black & Decker, Flymo, Bosch all have bad reviews. Thank you....

AndiFlatland

What causes itches?

What exactly is an itch? I don't mean the kind that's caused by rashes or infections - but just the humdrum, common-or-garden itches we all get and despatch with a quick scratch countless times every...

Kerosene

Badger Cull: Justified Or Not?

http://www.theanswerb.../Question1169663.html (Transferred from Animals and Nature) Yet another badger cull is about to get under way only 5 years after an independent report which took 10 years to...

LoftyLottie

DEATH TO MOLES

Not really. I would never harm them under any circumstances. I just wanted a question title that would catch attention. Anyway, they are driving me mad at the moment. We have always had them to some...

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