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    Ariston Microgenus 31 - Short Cycling - Diverter Valve Repair - Stuck Cartridge

    18 year old Ariston! New boiler time!
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    Unvented Cylinder Vs Tradiotnal Vented - Did I Do This All Wrong?

    I saw one the other day knob builder had fitted boiler fix valves into the t+p valve and combination valve ( so that's both the cylinder safeties taken out if some diyer turns them of thinking he's isolating the water or the nuisance dripping out the discharge. 2 port valves fail all the time...
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    Unvented Cylinder Vs Tradiotnal Vented - Did I Do This All Wrong?

    Worth watching what happens when you cap of the safety devices
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    Ground level for rebuilt garage

    It's shocking work are they doing it DIY? Lightweight blocks are normally only used internally.
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    Recessed Gas Meter Box inside Wooden Porch - is it safe?

    The issue really is building over P. E service pipe entries. If the service is plastic and not iron then in the event of a housefire well you see the problem.
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    Installing an immersion heater with a combi

    Save the money for when the highflow goes wrong and it will trust me
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    Paint splatters bath

    Get some cramer email star cleaner ( toolstation/home base) it will get it all off without damaging the bath. It's a matched hardness abrasive cleaner bit like t-cut but fof baths., will cut through years of limescale in seconds it's also great for slight scratches on radiators.
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    Options for shed roof ties?

    If you do use wall straps they have to be heavy duty 3mm thick building regs compliant not this thin crap. When we did our trussed roof replacement we strapped every 1.2mtr internally. I also used 50x 460mm facade concrete screws through my wallplates into the existing concrete blockwork. May...
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    Drain certification

    Many many ways to cheat a soiltest!!! But are the soilpipes external? If so no need to test. Internal on new drains will need testing.
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    Planning Permission Refused for Bungalow in Garden

    Site near us got 85 houses through on appeal to sec of state. Say the appeal cost one house they still in the money especially as it was agricultural land at 25k acre.
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    Aqua panelling

    Looks like aquapanel brand. Normally it's 2.4 mtr long to allow trim down to 2.3. You can get a good cut with a decent circular saw and masking tape. Would normally scribe into the bath edge and silicon and scribe ceiling and silicon that as well. Use the corner profiles for corner and end...
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    Miss calculating… is there some easy way?

    Yes but a lot of the time the sawmills rip down 8x4 to make 4x2. If you halving something you cannot make it larger. Also explains where they lose the size the rip blade width on already par timber..
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    Changing my heating to something more efficient?

    We used 0 units gas last month and had limitless hot water. But we do have solar thermal panels feeding our hot water tank.
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    Opinions on this render crack? Next steps

    No concern. It's been caused by the lead expanding and moving the render bead.
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    Worcester Bosch Guarantee

    Any gassafe guy can get 10 years on the WB with the filter. It's the approved guys get the 12 year deal.
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    Safety shoes? U-Power?

    Wore dewalt safety trainers for years always had sore heel. Changed to snickers safety boots.. Pain gone!!
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    Render

    Alpol just a own brand of the place in Leeds. Had ours done in Ecorend. But funnily was delivered from Leeds warehouse.
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    Painter spilt paint on new carpet :(

    Washing up liquid in warm water.. Do not rub the pile. then use a wet vac gets most things out..
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    36 pages of instructions, (English) warning on page 12 to read them all?

    Real Men don't read instructions for power tools
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    Boiler Cage Painted

    A lot of the early ones weren't plastic coated. The moist condense flue gases eat the metal ones and they fall apart after a few years.
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