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    Should high vis be banned? At least those made of nylon type material?

    That's not the normal glass bead stuff.
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    How to calculate centre of room for ceiling pendant

    In terms of the ceiling pendant, for many people the correct answer is "ask the wife". In terms of drilling holes, the real oldies got excited when a Rawl Drill came along instead of the old 'hammer and rotate' method...
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    Outside black telephone cable

    The correct jointing kit is eg https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/233823894403 The same seller has 2m of drop wire if you do need extra length (in which case you'd probably need 2 of the joint kits too) https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/235831824586 If you're desperate buy an ethernet patch cable and cut that...
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    Should high vis be banned? At least those made of nylon type material?

    The retroreflective strips (they aren't fluorescent) are really only useful in the dark, with vehicle headlights.
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    How to calculate centre of room for ceiling pendant

    More to the point is probably is the chimney breast symmetrical? If not you'd probably want to centre the light on the chimney breast.
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    Shaver socket, beard trimmer and future-proofing the bathroom

    Would need a 3A fused spur upstream if not on a lighting circuit?
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    TV coax cable

    You might be getting 5G interference, try a 5G filter on the TV aerial input.
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    Boiler fused spur and power cut

    It must be an unswitched socket. Boilers require double-pole isolation and some switched sockets are only single-pole. Someone could switch off the switch and the boiler would not be completely isolated if still plugged in. Gas rules / boiler instructions usually.
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    Analogue or digital ?

    You don't need to go full fibre to have your voice 'line' switched to Digital Voice (Voice over IP). If you change supplier, or possibly even a new fixed term contract with existing supplier, this can trigger a migration to Digital Voice over VDSL (fibre to the cabinet). BT are wanting everyone...
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    Double Socket with FCU For Boiler? Recommendations Please

    Boilers require Double Pole isolation so must be used with a plug and an UNSWITCHED socket, or with a FCU. Plugging into a switched socket is not permitted, as not all switched sockets are DP switched. This might be in Gas Safety regs rather than Electrical regs, but is required.
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    Spurred fuse terminal capacity

    wagos.
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    Insulated Piercing Connector

    The simplest thing is to contact your supplier and get them to change you to a single-rate tariff with the off-peak meter output set to 24 hour on.
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    Kitchen wall unit fixings for thermalite wall

    Kitchen unit fixing rails eg https://www.tcfixings.co.uk/product/cabinet-hanger-wall-rail-27mm-x-2032mm/13864 together with suitable wallplugs as mentioned.
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    Bookcase Pegs

    I can't find anything that looks similar. Might be easier to replace the strips with new ones for which pegs are available?
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    Ceiling rose and wide light fitting

    No, you drill a small hole in the decorative rose and feed the cables through from above. Then affix the light fitting onto (below) that. If it won't sit solidly over the flower effect you will need a decorative rose with a larger flat centre, or a different fitting.
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