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Painting Interior Hi all, I've just been with a colour consultant and she has advised us to paint our interior (new build) ceiling all white, then the walls, window frames, doors, skirting boards all the same colour (thorndon cream)? Would this be right? Goes against the g... |
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Plum tree from stone Is it hard to grow a plum tree from a plum stone or a cutting from a tree. I have tried twice, these are from a very old but healthy tree. I have been taking cuttings from my nanas tree in Nelson and bringing them back to taranaki, they just don’t ... |
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Garden Sheds. I need a shed that needs to be max size BUT fit in a particular area. 1950. In lenght to fit between fence posts. And a max of 1400 deep. Anyone know of a manufacture that has these. Ive looked. Cannt find. Some too small, some way |
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Shipping Plants What is the safest way to ship plants. At the mo they are in A small black bag and Plant is approx 8-10in tall from top of Soil. |
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Spa pool volume Can anyone tell me my spa pool water capacity so i can put in the right amount of chemicals. It is 1.9 m x 1.9m x 800mm deep. Is there a calculation? Thanks in advance. |
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Westinghouse oven yet again Previous post about our oven is now fixed with a new controller. For the mean time, lets see how long this one lasts. It is now the turn of the left rear element. Pulled it out and it is burnt out. Replaced it with a new one. Turned it on but will only go... |
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Rotten flu Copper flu on an Oregon potbelly is rotten 30 cm from the base.Can I cut the rotten segment and somehow it just drops down and I'm all go? Also a few birds were up it I spose ,I've thought of high pressure hose from top,burning them out? I'm a |
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Logfire top baffle plate broken. Material is ? My Magnum P100 logfire baffle plate is irrepairably broken and the similar material ( but thinner ) side pieces are also broken. Google tells me it's likely ceramic or cement fibreboard. I plan on making some replacements but unsure what the best plan is ... |
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Freeview boxes and signals Has anyone got any bright ideas why my signals go on and off like a yoyo? One day I'll have lots of stations - half an hour later - I can't get them! I seem to spend my life (when I do want to watch the telly) scanning for channels. There's nothing wrong ... |
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Orange tree with no flowers. Four years old well fed and about 4 ft high. Never had a flower on it. What can I do if anything. We planted another one nearby and that is doing well. Tia. |
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Plum tree for firewood? once its dried out it wood burn |
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Thrive my Citrus Tree Food is killing my potted Lemon. I thought because the leave on my lemon tree were yellowing it needed feeding as water is not the prob I flood the pots every day. Then I found out Thrive food can cause Lead & Mercury poisoning! The leaves have started to drop I have r |
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What plants I have quite a big area which has been cleared and would like to plant some thing, there a few trees not that big in it and I guess they take a lot out of the soil and quite hard digging because of roots, I do like colour so any suggestions, we live in So... |
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Could i have some help regading what to plant :) We have a very shady little garden area in the corner along one side of our house. It pretty much never gets sun but we need to do something with garden. Is there any plants that would work down there that are very low maintanance and pretty much do their... |
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Heat pump installer Hamilton recommendations? Hi looking at installing heat pump in home of elderly parents. Main advice I have seen on trademe is to get recommendations of good installers through word of mouth - so yes please. I live out of the area, know nothing about heat pumps so advice on models... |
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Lamp wattages? Hi , We need better lighting in our lounge for reading. The centre light from the ceiling is only rated to 60w. I put a 60w flood light beam/wide angle in there tonight and is still pretty dim. My idea is for floor lights in a couple of corners but they a... |
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Natural Gas in a bottle? Any help please - I have an external Rinnai unit to heat the water in my tiny, but it takes natural gas, not LPG - I can only seem to find LPG bottle though. Does anyone know if you can buy natural gas in a bottle, or can you only connect to the mains for... |
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Rusting tray under header tank we have this massive header tank in the ceiling space at a guess id say 400l capacity. When we bought the house 8 months ago it was mentioned in the building inspection that the galvanised tray under the header tank is rusting. So how does one |
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HRV FILTERS Anyone near Inglewood who fits these? |
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We have a pohutukawa that drops leaves constantly into our spouting and clogs up the gutters, we are on tank water. If I ring council will we have to get resource consent to have tree removed, or when I ring should I not tell them my address and over time just saw branches off? Thank you. |
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Whiteflt! Does anyone know how to eliminate this pest without destroying ladybus and other desirable insects? Have managed to keep them down with sud's from the washing machine but the effect has dropped to be almost ineffectual. A real nuciance in the glasshouse a... |
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Alstomeria question I have inherited some nice alstomeria plants that are currently in pots. Is now the right time to plant them in the garden and how big may they grow? I am in Nelson. |
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Oven and some power switches have stopped working Making scones today, the oven was going but at some point it stopped working (no scones sadly) and then I noticed we had no internet connection and the power to the tv was not working. Husband checked all the fuses in the fuse box and no circuit breakers ... |
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Generator set up emergency back up for the house. I've got a 6500W (peak) petrol generator for emergency use. I'm seeking advice how best to set it up. I see it has a 240v/15 amp outlet. Is it safe to run 10 amp cables and 10 amp rated power boards from it? I'd like to run two 10m |
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FLUSH CUT CIRCLULARSAW has anybody came across one of these in NZ? |
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