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Yes, but moved from the outside of the engine where they were fairly easy to change to inside the engine where they cost more than £1000 and take an experienced garage all day to change. If they snap it's goodbye engine.

I believe there is a specific problem on the Transit. In 2024 Ford reduced the wet timing belt service interval for Ford Transit and Transit Custom models with 2.0-litre EcoBlue diesel engines from 10 years or 150,000 miles down to 6 years or 100,000 miles (whichever comes first).

Put the smallest side of the score line in the jaws of a workmate so that the scored line is level with the top of the jaws and the biggest side of the score line is sticking up in the air. Wear gloves and long sleeves for safety. Push on the part of the tile sticking up and it should snap...

I've used the Dansand one (from Wickes) it might be better than normal kiln dried sand but it definitely doesn't stop all weed growth. You need to keep it away from brickwork (garden and house walls) as it can cause effervescence.

My insurers wouldn't commit to that either way when I was intending to install a key safe, I never got a definite answer. They just said they were happy for me to install a key safe of any standard but reminded me that they would not pay if there was no forced entry.

Yes, if someone enters with a key there is no "forced entry" which is usually a requirement for insurers to pay out.

If "Gas rate" is what my heating engineer is doing at the gas meter, with the boiler running flat out, when he services the boiler then BG never did that. They didn't even look at the meter. They were very good at offering to sell me Co2 alarms and a powerflush though.

I've seen steradent tablets recommended but haven't tried them myself.

When people started talking about plug-in solar I wondered if I could wall mount a few of them above my flat roof garage on a south facing wall. I imagined that I might install a few outdoor sockets to plug them into and have a row of them perhaps 20 feet long. The advantage over roof mounted...

Possibly, but I don't have one. Thank you for the suggestion.

Exactly that. My insurer didn't care that I was having a key safe but did make it clear that they would only pay out for a break in if there was evidence of forced entry. I now have a key safe with keys in it which is so secure that I cant even get into it myself, I think the keys are pushing...

It more popular in northern areas of the country.

Now they can just use a blowlamp to melt the lock off the uPVC door silently.

Too many instructions are presented in pictures rather than words these days, I often think WTF is that picture trying to tell me? Give me a few pages of clear text any day.

My 4 way extension lead says max 3000 watts. It must be ok for 3 x 800 watt panels, maybe it would cope with 4 when it not too sunny? :cool: