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Hi I had damage to a soffit board this week, can experts advise please if it be repaired or is this a replacement? Photo attached. Kind regards

Thanks for input John D. Weirdly, I do spend time looking at the ceiling in other rooms in the house but not in the office as I usually spend time looking at the VDU! I can see hairline cracks through the beautiful Artex in the stained area, so this holds up to your theory perhaps? Re...

Just noticed today a small brown stain in upstairs bedroom (office). No other stains in the house. Went in to loft to investigate and take photos. No pipes or plumbing in the vicinity. The roof lining looks OK. I have circled a shiny part, is this a sign of condensation? It's a very hot...

Prince Charming

I bought some French apples today despite the certainty those cunning Gallic apple trees absorbed some CO2 gas breathed out by the Brits over the channel.

Germany successfully producing Pinot noir reds, proof of climate change?

I concur with SIPP pension. Invest up to your net salary per annum and get your income tax rebates back in to the pension, of course it will be locked away until you reach your earliest pension age (55 or 57 depending of dob) and then drawdown could be taxed as income. invest in ESG funds...

Just back from 10 mile jog which will be recarbing byway of a homemade pizza and a bottle of Rioja reserva. Nobody expects the Spanish Vinquisition.

Yes it is a thermostatic mixer shower (Aqualisa 1996 model). The hot water cylinder was drained at the time as I had fitted a ball valve to that feed too (no problems).

It was a dribble but I was wary non-the-less so didn't cut in to the feed, that's when I loosened the gate valve and found water coming out. In the end I tightened all back up and left it for another day! I'm hedging on undoing the gate valve with a bucket handy.

Thanks Terry. There is no fixed shower head, I recall lowering the shower hose in to the bath so couldn't work out why I was getting a flow when the water tank was drained. The gate valve is 30 cms higher than the shower mixer. Defies the laws of physics. I'm taking it again in a couple of...

Some time ago I fitted ball valves in line to poor performing gate valves, feeding the bathroom from a cold water tank in the loft and hot water storage cylinder. I emptied the cold water tank in the loft. The ball valve to the cold water feed bathroom taps went in fine. However for the cold...

Is the VW e-Up! built in Yorkshire?

Heat pumps are sometimes an (expensive) optional extra on some EVs to save on battery charge and range.

Harry Enfield made some funny Nelson Mandela sketches but was it wrong? In my opinion they were funny not because he had blacked up but because of the way he acted and the juxtaposition of context of those sketches. If a black actor can portray a person of different origin effectively (in...