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    Best way to seal around garden drain

    You can use a drain cover like this https://www.screwfix.com/p/floplast-drain-guard-black-305mm/78832 to reduce the splashing. That is just an example. As your RWP is in the corner you may need to use a couple of bends https://www.screwfix.com/p/floplast-92-5-round-offset-bend-black-68mm/53298...
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    Draining this water away?

    I suspect that the block is built on a hill (or at least a significant slope) and where the building is, is now a sudden drop rather than a slope. If my suspicion above is correct, I wonder if this area was intended to slope just a bit downwards to the ground that is level with it. It may...
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    Garage Gutters!

    I have something similar, not really possible to scrape out gutter, and mine is basically under a mature beech that sheds loads of mast. What I do (once or twice a year) is to 'blast' all the debris out with a hose. Starting near (12" away?) from the outlet and wash that part clear, then...
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    Road tax on a mobility scooter?

    Far from an expert but what I have read is that there is a switch and the user is supposed to set it to the right position depending on where the vehicle is being used. Since I read about people 'forgetting' to change it to 4 mph when they are on a pavement I have paid a bit of attention and...
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    Fence Middle Post Name Term?

    There are different sorts of fencing. Solid panels like this https://www.wickes.co.uk/Wickes-Dip-Treated-Overlap-Fence-Panel---6-x-6ft/p/540053 which is what @Scally-Ho was referring to. They are attached to fence posts, often posts that have a slot on each side. What you have is feather edge...
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    Cordless drill

    Yes & no. I have a number of Lidl cordless tools and when they had a cordless chainsaw I got one. On the day they came on sale I was in the car and on my way home I went to a branch two, maybe three, miles from home, and there was no sign of most of the tools nor the batteries. I asked and...
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    Pencil sharpener for broomsticks!

    Yes but they are not cheap, partly because the only ones I have seen come from the US. Here are 30º & 45º versions https://store.woodsmith.com/collections/tools/products/30-staking-tool https://store.woodsmith.com/products/45-post-pointer-xl If you have thousands (tens of thousands?) of...
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    Key stuck in door (On inside) (Eurocylinder) (Ed)

    Me neither. In my neighbour's case, I think you have to do something more than just leave the key in the lock and close the door but not much more. It was a new-ish door (and lock) and their SiL (not familiar with it) managed to lock them out very easily. This type of lock is so 'secure' that...
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    Key stuck in door (On inside) (Eurocylinder) (Ed)

    This happened to a near neighbour of mine. Fortunately they had an upstairs window a tiny bit ajar, so they borrowed a ladder from me, unhooked the window and climbed in.
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    Robins - why so very tame

    Because they think we are pigs! I have heard that robins have learned to follow pigs / boars around, when the latter root around in the ground it disturbs the soil which exposes the worms etc that the robins eat. So when we do anything that is the equivalent of disturbing the soil (digging...
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    Battery chain saw

    I have a Stihl petrol chainsaw but it was a bit of a faff getting it out when I only wanted to make one or two cuts. So when Lidl had a battery powered one I bought it, I already had a number of compatible batteries. Now it is the one that I mainly use. It is definitely less powerful and...
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    Moss and lichen removal

    I was going to use the same example but refer to it as oxidane to make it a bit more obscure, but I went with NaCl instead. Yes, but no. It depends on how well attached to the surface the moss is. We have a very tatty, tarmac front yard which I treated early this year, see...
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    Moss and lichen removal

    No bewilderment at all here. But you seem unable to accept that someone has a different view from you. And you also seem to rely mainly if not totally on dogmatic statements with nothing to back them up. And has rightly been regarded as, at very best, fiction by anyone with an interest in...
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    Moss and lichen removal

    You are parading your ignorance here. All "safe medications" as you call them are chemicals, which you seem to be worried by. And all "safe medications" have side effects, some of which are very bad indeed. And I am not comparing two different things here. Benzalkonium chloride is used in moss...
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    Moss and lichen removal

    Patio Magic (which I have used) and Wet & Forget (which I have not) are basically dilute forms of benzalkonium chloride. Something like 7 or 8% and you dilute it down to 1 or 2%. I bought a lot of BAC 50, which is a 50% solution of benzalkonium chloride and use that on my rather ratty front...
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    Replacing asbestos roof

    You ask a question, I answer it and when the answer is not what you like you get upset. If you don't want answers or are going to refuse to even think about doing what is suggested then don't ask questions.
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    Replacing asbestos roof

    Have you read and understood my posts? Have you made any attempt to do what I suggested?
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    Replacing asbestos roof

    But he clearly has not bothered to even try what I suggested. It looks like he has seen a page on the council website and just given up. That seems to be based on local councils always doing everything they are supposed to do and always communicating it correctly.
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    Replacing asbestos roof

    That would require a change in legislation which is unlikely. I told you what I think is your best option. You can do that or just throw your hands in the air. That is up to you.
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    Replacing asbestos roof

    As I said "That was a decade ago". So I can't remember and even if I could a 10+ year old price from London would not be very relevant in Norfolk today. You said that your council will not take this and that was the only point that I was replying to.
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