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    Using 22mm in the middle of a 15mm installation

    Note - I'm not an expert in fluid dynamics, but I don't think it's that simple. Judging from the little I learned when researching flow rates, only the center mass of the water moves in any significant way. In this instant, I imagine there would be a ~15mm column of water moving through the...
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    Concrete..

    Next day is easier, since the concrete is still a little soft and doesn't hold onto the shuttering so much. But - if there is ANY chance of people walking on it, leave it up as they'll knock the corners off. They're vulnerable for at least a week. That's usually just a cosmetic issue, but it...
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    What material to preserve fence

    Do not use the Cuprinol water-based sprayable stuff. Sure, it's easy to put on, but it was flaking after less than a year on new wood. Not cheap either - about £14 for four litres.
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    Ringing 999, and what for?

    Sorry to hear that, hope she's ok. I've used it for three RTA's (One which happened alongside me and was quite upsetting - the guy eventually made it, but was in ICU for months), two car fires, five horse rider falls (including my wife who broke her pelvis) and four other medical (two this...
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    Best place to get raw wood from

    Any timber yard will have stuff in stock, or be able to source it. Further down the line, if you want real 'raw wood' - ie, unseasoned, ring a few log merchants. They'll usually have access to timber.
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    Gap between concrete steps

    Back to serious: Don't just pour cement through until it stops - could breach the dpc and bring damp into the house. How about a rubber strip - glued both sides and pushed just far enough? Or wood. Or if cement is really wanted, some variation on the plasterboard hole trick? Some thin...
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    Black screws

    Also rope. I have a length of 5mm polyprop I keep in the garage just for this. Snip a bit off - instant paintbrush.
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    Remote Controlled Sockets

    Might also be something in the X10 range. (An open standard for home automation)
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    Unable to launch.

    Bum. The contents of the .reg are below, normally these would be imported into regedit, either manually or by double-clicking on a .reg file. If you can't get regedit up and running, then I don't know how you're going to sort this other than reinstalling windows. If you can get regedit...
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    Unable to launch.

    It can happen. I had a nice virus the other day the hooked into the exe loader and started itself. Fun, fun. Anyway, you want something to re-associate file extensions. Grab the exe one from here, unpack and run the .reg, and when you're up an running, get thee virus tested and tighten up...
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    CCTV ideas

    That does sound like quite a snooty reply there, both of you, born from ignorance of free software I'm sure. Paying for software does not guarantee quality, accountability or that it's useful or usable. All it proves is that you have spent money, not that it will give better results, be more...
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    Making a garden tap HELP please for noob

    I understand your dilemma and can sympathise with the lack of confidence, but... Why not try it? If you get stuck connecting it to the existing tap (the only non-trivial bit) then call a guy out to sort it. By then you'll have done all the hard work by burying it in the ground and you never...
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    Soil pipe fire collar

    Yes, but as I said, only if there is something solid around the collar for it to push against. Otherwise it'll just expand away from the pipe and not seal the void.
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    CCTV ideas

    Quoting getting complicated. Modect should be recording a ring buffer with "pre event" frames already in memory. So when something triggers it you get what happened before too. If a dvr isn't doing this then I can understand why you think its usefulness is less so. I do know a little about...
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    Why PAT test?

    It's not required to test a new item. Although I have known badly fitted plugs - loose screws and unclamped outer sheath, so it's not a complete waste of time. However - if you have an item unlabelled in an office and H&S do a tour, they'll pick it out, and you also have no record on the item...
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    Paint isn't covering the caulk - what's the problem?

    Sorry, I jumped to an assumption - but that really does look like silicon that's been overpainted and not a paintable caulk. I'm thinking faulty caulk - 3 days should be plenty, especially in the warm weather we have now, and it shouldn't need an oil undercoat - although certainly worth a try...
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    Paint isn't covering the caulk - what's the problem?

    It'll be silicone that's been used instead of acrylic or normal caulk. Paint won't stick to it, needs to come out and be replaced with a paintable caulk.
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    Why PAT test?

    A visual inspection is not a pat test. Nobody seems to have mentioned the NEED to document your tests as well as label. If somebody does get hurt and it's your arse on the line, you will want to be able to reach into a filing cabinet and provide proof it was checked, by whom, on what date...
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    CCTV ideas

    Why can't you do both record and modect from the same camera, or is that a limitation of the all-in-one boxes? I do that using zoneminder, but OP has said he doesn't want a computer running 24/7 and that's a fair point. These all-in-one boxes, aren't many of them just computers anyway? How...
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    Soil pipe fire collar

    I would guess the plastic pipe melting, and the fire chimneying up through inside it - is going to raise the temperature around the pipe pretty quickly and activate a collar fairly rapidly wherever it is along the pipe.
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