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    Swimming pool removal

    So, coming to the end of the season, and the garden pool has never been so underused. Mrs PXW and I tend to use a local health club for gym/pool (they have a 17m pool so much more effective for Mrs PXW than our 8m home one). Thinking about getting rid of it - would involve stripping out the...
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    Electrical Minor works certificate

    Wonder if any of our tradespeople can help? PXW Junior and his wife have a small house in east London (so, expensive for any work to be done) and need an electrical circuit extending. They’ve got some quotes but have come back to me with a coupon of questions: 1. The electrician wants an extra...
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    Alternatives for TV?

    Quick question for the wise MB crew! I'm looking to change our internet provider away from Virgin - feel they are getting very expensive now and we have just had a competitor FTTP network installed in the area, which looks a lot better. I'm happy to lose the land line, but wondered what to do...
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    Patio Pointing

    Another one for the builders here! I’ve got a fairly large patio in sandstone but the pointing has pretty much disappeared, so there are large gaps between the slabs. The pointing gaps are up to about an inch wide. Most of the slabs are stable but there are a couple I need to reset - no problem...
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    Cavity wall insulation

    One for the builders on here. I'm revisiting energy efficiency at PXW Towers. The house was built mid-late 70's and I started to wonder about any cavity wall insulation. So - I raked out a joint in the brickwork and found this stuff inside. It's white, fluffy-foamy, very delicate and very light...
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    Insurance and “non-essential travel”

    Seeing Nick Freeman being widely quoted today as raising the possibility that driving somewhere that might be viewed as non essential could void your insurance. It seems pretty unlikely to me given how the Covid laws have been written, but do any of the forum insurance industry experts or...
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    There’s always a bright side...!

    Little things please me...like many, we’ve had to cancel holiday arrangements. For us, that included a planned 1 month road trip around Europe, all self booked. So...now the refunds are coming back in. So far, so ordinary - but I realised checking the accounts this morning that sterling has...
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    Merc has gone, EV has come

    As above - I also posted about this on a thread about EVs on one of the other pages. After 4 years and 69000 faultless miles, my S212 350 has now gone and we've bought a Tesla Model 3 Performance. All part of the rationalisation of the fleet now we are both retired - probably don't need more...
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    Mini Clubman estate 2 Litre Cooper S All4 auto Chili pack

    For sale: 2017 (66 plate) Mini Cooper S 6 door in Burgundy metallic with contrasting silver roof. 2 Litre petrol 8 speed automatic, four wheel drive. VGC. Mileage 24k, FSH (main dealer), next service due in 9000 miles, manufacturers warranty to January 2020. Chili pack, navigation system, 18"...
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    2015 65 plate E350CDI Estate AMG Night Edition Prem+

    For sale: FSH (Main dealer and PCS). 69k miles. Tenorite Grey metallic with ivory interior. Very good condition, with all the Premium Plus kit - upgraded ICE, COMAND, Keyless Go, pano roof, electric memory heated seats etc. Apple CarPlay module also fitted. First registered November 2015. New...
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    Another phone question

    Hopefully someone has some insight on this. Following the thread elsewhere about use of hands free, my understanding is that you can only use a handheld phone when the car is parked and the engine is turned off. Presumably if/when the law on hands free changes then the same will apply to hands...
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    Making USB files uncopiable

    Wonder if any of you techie folk can help with this? I’m working with a charity that has produced material in broadcast quality video. The charity wants to be able to distribute the material at cost, but ideally doesn’t want to allow users to copy and redistribute. Mostly this is controlled (as...
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    Near miss

    on the M25 ACW on Saturday early evening (still daylight), about to leave onto the M3. Plenty of traffic but flowing nicely at about 70mph. For those who know this junction, there are four lanes of continuing M25 and two lanes coming off to the M3. We were approaching the point of separation (in...
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    Good service

    Mrs PXW left for work this morning mentioning that the drain in one of the baths was running slow. Before I popped out to get some drain clog buster stuff, I thought I’d have a quick look in the inspection chamber - and, predictably, it was full and clearly blocked somewhere downstream. I don’t...
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    Calls from "Microsoft"

    Anyone else getting plagued by these? Had three today, two showing in caller ID as "International" and one showing a number in outer London. All appear to be scams - asking for details of my "Microsoft computer" because they have been alerted to lots of error codes, or have evidence of a...
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    Comand (Europe) Ltd Apple CarPlay

    Big shoutout to Richard, Mark, Becky and the rest of the team at Comand for the swift and efficient install of CarPlay into my 2015 S212 this morning. Great advice, great service. The electronics of modern cars are now miles beyond my understanding and it’s great to have experts like these around!
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    Park assist

    Made a discovery today! I've occasionally used the self park on the E class estate to reverse parallel park the car, but generally I just do it myself (the "old fashioned" way using eyes, mirrors, sensors and a reversing camera :D). But today's spot was very tight, so I decided to let the thing...
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    Anyone know about Land Rovers?

    Asking for a friend who has had the engine go bang on his Discovery 4 - been quoted 10k for a new one. I wondered whether anyone here has experience of good indys in Surrey/Hants area who might be able to do a recon for substantially less than that?
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    Feeling slightly ripped off

    Car is now very nearly three years old. Time for Mercedes to reward my customer loyalty by deactivating toys! Of the various features of MercedesMe, the only one I really value is the real time traffic information. There have been other posts around how other manufacturers don't make this...
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    repair costs

    Mrs PXW had someone run into the back of her mini clubman a few weeks ago. All very amicable, company car hitting her when she was stationary, full liability admitted, photos taken, no-one hurt, let's get the insurers to organise a repair and all move on with our lives. The total damage, after...
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