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Shedder gorged

Last winter, I cleaned out my shed and found some old half-used bottles of windscreen washer fluid. I tipped them all into my washer bottle. The resultant cocktail blocked all my pipes and it cost me £125 stupid tax to have them all flushed out.

Asked on 29 December 2012 by PP, via email

Answered by Honest John
Let that be a lesson to everyone. But please don't pour any of this stuff down a storm drain.
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