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    Best way to install clothes rails in alcove?

    If you actually want the rail mounted on the wall rather than on legs, I would say the most important consideration so as to avoid the fixings being pulled out is to ensure that the rail be totally rigid. If it bows in the middle and it is attached or held firmly at the end then it will tend to...
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    Which?

    Please stop repeating your false allegation that I ever advocated that anyone earth an accessory via the screws. I only ever said that an accessory conventionally earthed via the earth wire will confer that earth connection onto the back box via the mounting screws. I am willing to concede...
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    Best way to install clothes rails in alcove?

    I'm not sure whether you mean the rails to be directly in front of us, or around the bend in the unseen bit. I'm not necessarily saying this is the exemplar solution but what I would do, or at least consider, is cutting the rail an inch or two too long for the available width, then drilling a...
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    I thought replacing the thermostatic shower mixer valve was easy - I was wrong.

    Funnily enough.. I have been thinking about this precise problem but from the opposite side. I deliberately left the copper pipe as long as possible in my installation to allow for somebody potentially fitting thicker tiles in the future. As for a new mixer valve: the one I bought should be...
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    Which?

    Please show me where I advocated earthing the socket via the mounting screws. All I have ever advocated at any stage is earthing the socket correctly with the earth wire in the earth terminal.
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    Which?

    Ok I take your point about the grease but whoever did that is a right wazzock.
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    Help Identifying Window Bead

    Didn't you already ask this? I think it is incredibly unlikely you will be able to source this new and something of a miracle if you can find a scrap window to scavenge from.
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    Gauze washers

    It doesn't make any difference anyway, I cannot be made clean again :cry:
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    Condensation in between double glazed windows

    I would have thought a major stumbling block to resealing a unit is if anything goes wrong you have a big hole in the side of your house until you can get your hands on a replacement.
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    Gauze washers

    Pretty ossum shower? (y)
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    Gauze washers

    Thanks for reply, I decided just to get rid of the mesh because sadly (or not so sadly) there is another, integral straining mesh immediately behind where each one sits so they can only go that way round. The valve only cost £25 so I figured I'd chance it. Maybe I'm just blessed but I've never...
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    Headroom under stairs.

    https://www.diynot.com/diy/threads/toughened-glass.590982
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    Headroom under stairs.

    My sources tell me he has a landing :ROFLMAO:
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    Oil boiler randomly switching on

    I am really totally ignorant here and you've already covered most of my thoughts. I'd definitely be trying to find that frost thermostat because it sounds to me like the most plausible explanation for it firing up when it's set to off. Can you identify any wires from the programmer that...
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    Fixing jammed window (faulty mechanism)?

    £96 sounds thoroughly reasonable to me. Can't advise on how you might fix it without knowing the particular fault.
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