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TPMS system on non TPMS equipped van – £25

June 13, 2019 Ryan and Mel Leave a comment

TPMS is Tyre Pressure Management System – and it is a system that monitors your tyres. Last week, the wife was driving the car that is equipped with TPMS, and for the first time ever the alarm went off.  She called me (hands free!) and I said it could be…

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DIY electric (and manual) driveway gates

May 12, 2018 Ryan and Mel Leave a comment

Last big DIY project of the year is now complete, and that is fitting new driveway gates and having them electrically opening.  We’re lazy, we never closed our old gates in 5 years!! The gates are 11′ and 4′ and made of oak and on first glance look good, but…

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Under stairs storage cupboard project

April 29, 2018 Ryan and Mel Leave a comment

Yep, another DIY project!  Our under stairs cupboard was large, but naff, and just unusable.  I did make a storage cupboard inside, but that was pretty useless. On visiting a friends, they had a pro installed under stairs cupboard with sliding pullouts which really made the most of the space. …

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Q1 2017…. (kitchen DIY!)

April 10, 2017 Ryan and Mel 2 Comments

Well, thought it was time for a quick post as if you look here it looks like we’ve vanished.  Far from it!  Q1 was a fun and hard few months, many days away in the van including down on the Isle of Wight, and another big DIY project….. After the…

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Installing a Drimaster Heat PIV system

January 5, 2013 Ryan and Mel 76 Comments

*** NOTE:  As this site is actually our travel blog, and this page is really popular, I’ve relocated this content and more to a new site dedicated to this topic HERE ( http://www.drimaster-piv-condensation-system.co.uk/  )  ***  Please look there for more updates, more information and feel free to add your comments…

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