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Damp survey
I have an internal damp issue on the driveway side of my 1930s semi. There's efflorescence on the enclosed under-stairs area, which also has exposed brickwork on that triangular under-stairs wall...
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of these in London
Wake up, Khan, stop the agenda-loaded hounding drivers and concentrate on things providing facilities like this: <>[Safe] Warsaw Metro - Wikipedia
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Cheapest Business Utillity Gas/Electricity supply.
Another Ronnie Corbet-esque story from the nontrepreneur. Not sure if anyone else here has a business property but there isn't any "comparison" sites as such for trying to find cheaper gas and...
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RAC - chocolate teapot
I have the highest rank of cover with RAC breakdown assistance. Used their website (which their phoneline insists is the best way) mid-morning Monday to ask them to attend. Got an email saying "by...
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DIY’d DHW failure…
System is a WB boiler suppling heat to the thermal store (Boilermate 2000). DHW is supplied on demand by a pump pushing heat-store water through a plate heat exchanger (and back to the store) with...
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Combi hot water temperature.
I have a 39kW Worcester Bosch Greenstar II oil boiler. When the heating circuit is set to maximum temperature, about 70 degrees and is running, and the hot water is set to minimum (50 degrees) the hot...
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Minimum to make wiring safe.
I have a small (only one 16A circuit) consumer unit piggy-backed onto the main CU. There is only a 3/8" gap between them so this could easily be sealed. The secondary CU is really only there because...
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Why do I have no sympathy for these people?
I swear there are 100,000s of "propa Bri'ish" who are not really British and will discover it the hard way. This is going to be Windrush x 1000! I love it when people shoot themselves in the foot....
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Alternative to Google Groups
This is only relevant for those people who read or post in that newsgroup using Google Groups. Google will discontinue Groups in Feb 2024. For those who do not know Usenet: Usenet is a distributed...
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Reglazing spectacles
Any recommendations for firms since Richard's passing. Also wondering what's happened to our prurient electrician
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Determining boiler size from serial number
We’re looking into getting an ASHP but I’m unsure of the capacity of our current Vaillant ecoMAX pro boiler as all our installation and other manuals are for 18 and 28kW boilers which I believe...
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Smart Meter - How to Check if its on Night or Day Rate
I have a Itron EM425-UK2 smart electric meter but cannot see any indication of whether its on Day or Night rate or 'Rate 1' or '2', (I'm on Economy7) at any particular time. My Home Display is erratic...
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How long before new gas smartmeter
How many days before a smartmeter, fitted by British Gas for gas supply, starts showing customer data on the Intelligent Home Display? The installer says wait a day or two. However British gas...
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HDD DIY
I had backed up a lot of stuff to an external usb Hard Disk Drive. It conked out one day. I saw there was some common fault with the arm not returning or something so I opened it up to have a look. It...
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Landing light tripped.
Can I ask advice, please. The bulb on my landing light, which is a two-way switch one with an with a switch down stairs and on the landing, ew recently and tripped the upstairs lighting circuit. As...
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