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Perhaps need another EICR from another electrician

I expect their phones have very sophisticated connections to the web

Are you also certain that there wasn’t a temporary water supply problem to the entire area that coincided with your actions/concerns ?

Yes; use something else! You’ll spend more on chemicals to weatherproof it than you will on the uplift to something designed to be weatherproof from the get go And it’s ugly as sin, especially when it expands and goes mouldy

Understand. I generally use the drill at full speed, partly squeezing the trigger only for a start, an end or if I have to be careful due to damage - can’t see the point in having a 2 speed gearbox if screws are driven at the same rotational speed (when the faster get inspected the trigger is...

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Not entirely sure what you mean by LABC, but I suspect referring to the commercial entity LABC Ltd, that is a trading name of District Surveyors Ltd and acts as a membership organisation for local authority building control teams. They are nothing to do with regulations and are free to make any...

Er. Not much point insulating it then!?

Shame the forum’s photo compression ruins the quality..

I’m not renown for the contra :) I find the opposite; driving screws at high speed, with the added pressure from your hand, exacerbates tiny oscillations in the setup with the effect that the screw/bit/chuck assembly wags around more and is more likely to slip apart If you routinely...

They’re going to spend their life being covered in water, salt, baking at several hundred degrees and being banged around a brake caliper bringing a couple of tons of metal to rest; they don’t need mollycoddling in the box, don’t worry Every set of boards I’ve bought recently has been shrink...

minor point of note, current standard is 270mm (why they sell 100mm base layer rolls for between joists and 170mm rolls for over them) though I certainly wouldn’t tell anyone not to install 300mm if they wanted to..

Not much point insulating it then. Might as well buy a sheet of kingspan and lean it up on a random external wall somewhere for the same effect

important point this, especially if you’re going for (pure brilliant?) white. Doesn’t take much to make it look dirty, and areas protected from rainfall such as under windowsills can stay cleaner for longer, exacerbating/highlighting streaks

You might be able to get the tap to reassemble with round ones if you put a slight chamfer on the edge of the hole into which the O-ringed part is fitted. Silicone lubricant and a twisting option may also help but take care not to distort the ring as you twist

Just keep a perspective on the worth of your time Say you’re worth £50 an hour as an engineer, don’t paint a fence that you can pay your neighbour’s kid £10 an hour to do; doing it yourself means you’re costing yourself (by not working) £50 an hour, which is notionally the same as paying...

If you haven’t already, buy a trade-grade drill; my Bosch pro can wind screws in on high speed that my cheaper brand one can’t even drive on low speed The only time I’ll drop to speed 1 on my Bosch is when I’m driving eg a 6x150mm or longer On every decent cordless I’ve ever used they’re a...

Is it bowed?

Not surely, no. The beam only weighs ~150kg, and quarter of the roof maybe another 450kg Are you saying if you and five mates climbed up there to start fitting a roof, but sat next to each other for a coffee, then the wall would just plain collapse under your combined weights? If it would, it...

It’s a joke Cordless drills typically have a two speed gearbox. When the tradesman works on price, he uses the high speed gear to get done sooner and hence make more profit. When he works on a day rate he uses the low speed gear to elongate the job and make more profit