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Have they taken away the old lead, by any chance?

3 months later.... Much of the slowness has been due to waiting for tradesmen. Last summer I decided that I'd get the cracked windowsill on the east window replaced. I got three quotes ranging from about £1500 to about £3000. I offered the work to the cheapest guy - and he disappeared. I didn't...

Right. This seems to be the standard procedure with EICRs where they are only being done as a legal requirement. The electrician walks around the property looking for easy jobs that he can do for a tidy profit, and writes a report to suit. The numbers - which 99% of the people who commission...

I’m guessing it’s not your own home, right? There is no requirement for regular inspections in your own home.

Why?

Well, do we know how they are currently? They must be connected together, somehow.

I reported a spammer. Then I spotted another spammer, and tried to report that too. But I got this “you must wait” message. So I … may have waited and tried again, or I may have not bothered. I don’t remember now, it was a few weeks ago. It’s not the end of the world, but it seems like an odd...

When you’re using it, or when it’s stored? Do you de-pressurise it when it’s not in use? Well…. First question, are they soft green weeds or brown woody weeds? For the soft green stems - annual weeds - if possible just pull them up. I’m nit convinced that there is anything in that photo...

And paid for?

Right! That’s the intention. The idea is, you pay an electrician to “do an EICR and whatever remedial works they decide are necessary and provide paperwork required for renting” (or whatever). If you want an EICR that actually makes sense to you, or to some other electrician, you need to ask...

Which part of the UK?

Thoroughly clean a bucket of them and take a good photo in the sunshine with a pretty background. Write in the text “this is what they look like when cleaned up”. I’ve given stuff away on Freecycle in the past. It is very hit-or-miss, but mostly miss. Often eBay with a price of £1 has been more...

Interesting, I was going to suggest the opposite. Cool it down and the dissolved grease will condense out into filterable lumps.

Huh? The writing is in Cyrillic. Oh, maybe you’ve seen “.ua” somewhere and think .ua is UAE. No, it’s Ukraine.

They cold-called you, and then visited. Fibreglass is not banned. As I understand it, all of these similar materials are described as “mineral wool”. Whether the raw material is glass or rock or some trade-secret mixture doesn’t much matter. I note that Knauf sell a product that they still...

OK. This forum is mostly about garden building - paving, sheds, fixing your mower, etc. The “gardening” questions are mostly about how to cut things down. (OK, maybe I’m being unfair. But there are certainly more builders on here than gardeners.) Wild flowers can be surprisingly difficult to...

Consider a couple of temporary acro props on the corners of the canopy, maybe? (Personally I don’t know how serious the risk is.)

Do you mean they called you before they visited?

Where did you find him? Wasn't a cold caller was he? Yes.

Do you like greenery / plants / wildlife, or do you prefer stone / wood / concrete? I.e. when you say "nicer" and "relax", what do you really mean?