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    What are you watching on TV right now?

    I'm on it!
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    What are you watching on TV right now?

    Absolutely ridiculous amount to pay for poor quality food.. .
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    Roof tile

    You might need a gadget, to lift the tile up enough to unhook it. I made a bit of flat steel bar, with a bit of flat bar welded to the side of it, at 90 deg. You poke it under the tile, then rotate lifting the rear edge of the tile, to clear the hooks, moulded into the tile.
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    Roof tile

    Woof, woof, grrrrr!
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    New High tech cameras to enforce 20mph roads

    They enforce the limits, where it's easy, and worthwhile, where people naturally speed. Those areas where few do speed, are the ones where it is less productive, are the areas is more of an issue- the residential roads.
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    Flat heating/hotwater improvements....choices....

    Not directly, but threads always drift..
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    Flat heating/hotwater improvements....choices....

    Both the diesel 'boiler' in my car, and in my workshop, use a metering solenoid pump, that's how they set the heat output level. The faster they click, the more fuel the pump, the more heat they output. What safety features do you need, they are room sealed, from the air duct.
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    Can anyone tell me if this is usual finishing to Fascia/soffit/guttering replacement

    Enough in fact, to do another house by the look of it... He is using your deposit, to fund the next job.
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    Can anyone tell me if this is usual finishing to Fascia/soffit/guttering replacement

    So he charged you claiming £1,400 for materials? Even now, I doubt the materials would come to £400. That is several times what it would cost, just for the materials, the £2880 was double what the job ought to have cost, given that it was laid on a plate, for him, with the scaffolding set up...
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    Can anyone tell me if this is usual finishing to Fascia/soffit/guttering replacement

    It is an unmitigated mess, unworthy of anyone, never mind someone professing, and offering a professional service. Most of what has been done on the soffit, appear to not be salvageable, is scrap, and new will need to be bought and fitted. The gutter might be able to be realigned, to allow a...
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    Bl**dy council

    As we are in dispute with the council, over their failure to collect the mattress, I have checked my security cameras recording. They did actually turn up at the gate, at 7:38, one got out, looked up the drive, got back in, and they drove off, one minute later. The item was where it was agreed...
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    What have you had for dinner

    Last night - cottage pie, chips, green beans, and some homemade rich onion gravy. We've really got the hang of this gravy - I gently fried off a whole onion, mixed half a veg stock cube, and gravy granules, with boiling water, then finally added the onions. The gravy, makes the meal. Going to...
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    Can anyone tell me if this is usual finishing to Fascia/soffit/guttering replacement

    Oh dear, that is terrible - the whole job needs to be started again. The sheer weight of water will eventually rip that gutter down. Don't settle - he is no tradesman. By the looks of that work, he has never, ever installed gutters, fascias, and soffits in his life before, he is a chancer...
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    Flat heating/hotwater improvements....choices....

    There are several CDH facebook groups, where people describe what they have used a CDH for. Most seem to be off-grid uses, vans, caravans, motorhomes, but some have used them in the home, as an alternative to gas, oil, particularly electric heating, or as an emergency heat source, for when the...
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    Can anyone tell me if this is usual finishing to Fascia/soffit/guttering replacement

    The wall side of the soffit should be slotted into a U shaped plastic channel, fixed the wall. It looks as if they have done that, but it still looks a bit strange at the wall. Then the sections of soffit should be cut to the correct length to snuggly fit between the wall, and the lip of the...
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