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A cosmetic repair is going to be a harder repair than structural. I'd find the best colour matched resin stone crack repair filler and use that. Otherwise you going to have to smash it out and put in a new step of some sort.

Do you want a cosmetic repair or a structural repair?

So why did 5 men of middle eastern appearance drive 100 miles to steal petrol from a sparsely populated area immediately adjacent to an airbase that has been used to fly B1 bombers from to attack Iran? Yes, there will be farms around there, but there are farms much closer to London and farmers...

More likely the stealing fuel is a cover for them doing a recce for some kind of attack at a later date.

The more CCTV cameras supplied by china, the closer they or other bad actors get to total surveillance of the UK. Might not affect you personally, but i'm being more careful with what data i allow china access to.

I'd be nervous about buying a video doorbell where the feed is sent via china. We have a ring doorbell and a few ring cams. They are excellent and the ring customer service is also very good. One one of the external cameras got stuck on a firmware update when it was well out of warranty and...

closing the doors doesn't stop all heat loss, but it reduces it.

I use my phone to control the thermostats and set schedules, but other than that only really use the app to turn the heating off when we go away. The main benefit of our nest thermostats is the learning feature where if you schedule the house to be warm at 7.00am, the thermostat works out when...

As above, oiling them is the traditional way of preventing rust. An alternative way that is a bit harder wearing is a coat of wax polish.

We had an attempted break in last year. The thieves tried to lever the door frame out of the brick work. Thankfully (or not) we were in so the ran off when i turned the lights on and they saw me in the kitchen in my PJ's brandishing my son's hockey stick. Enough to scare even the most hardened...

Looking at the water marks on the pipe running from the cistern to the toilet, the leak is on the cistern connection and water is then running down to where the pipe enters the toilet. So you need to work out if its the compression fitting that connects the plastic pipe to the cistern or the...

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Yes, completely! :)

That's the cause of the spalled bricks then.