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    Was this bloke on the Clothes show..? I recognise him.

    Yes, he’s a fashion designer and was a tv presenter. I saw a clip of him recently and he sounded like a right nutter
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    How to taper a decking board

    You might find hiring a circular saw a better bet. Or even buying a Lidl/aldi one. However, if you have no option but to use a hand saw, use a new one. They are so cheap If you have a spare decking board long enough, use it as a guide. If not, buy a sacrificial board from the shop. Not a...
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    Should all central heating pipes be lagged ideally?

    Lagging makes the pipe larger, so the boxing ends up bigger. You could lag pipes in an area that you want to keep heat from? Maybe a hall floor or landings. Obviously anything in an attic or waste area. As you say, pipes are going everywhere, and plastic tends to go into inaccessible ares so...
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    Short length of fence?

    Easiest way would be https://www.diy.com/departments/forest-garden-traditional-overlap-dip-treated-4ft-wooden-fence-panel-w-1-83m-h-1-21m/5013053204511_BQ.prd 797 could go higher/lower. you don’t really need an extra post midway. Worst case, you could add a horizontal rail if the dog head...
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    Day light in loft space

    That looks more like ventilated soffits?
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    Top soil, b(u)y how much?

    There are online calculators. I bought sand for paving based on one and it was accurate to within a barrowload.
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    Locking a gate from both sides

    I have a gatemate and it’s been good for knocking on ten years. I do have a flap of waterproof material covering the mechanism (as seen on the backs of trucks) Don’t know if it helped but doesn’t do any harm
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    Creating a Sunburst Ceiling decoration on a budget?

    no- not my business. VacForm is used in Theatre/ film and TV to create sets. (Instant cobbled streets) But an ex was a scenic artist and I have worked with a few. Making good looking stuff with junk is what they do. Thinking about it, look at foam board , it’s cardboard sandwiching a...
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    Creating a Sunburst Ceiling decoration on a budget?

    What are your skills like? I’d suggest metal is a poor choice due to weight. You could carve something out of clay or air dry clay, in negative, and cast it in Jesmonite with an internal reinforcement? Or cast sections of jesmonite to assemble your design. If you have the means, you could cut...
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    Conveting kitchen base unit to two seperate units

    So is the pipe coming FROM the floor to a stop valve and onwards? Or coming from ABOVE down towards the valve? you could fit an inline stop valve/ check valve in there, compression fitting. No soldering
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    Identify these concrete things

    Maybe bases for something?
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    Ok to spray paint on cables?

    I’d mask, move them away, plus take care.
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    What car did you learn to drive in?

    If we’re talking motorbikes, 1956 Triumph Tiger Cub. Still got it. (Plus another one, several other bikes…)
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    Conveting kitchen base unit to two seperate units

    Can you buy doors (new) the size that you need? Yes, you can cut the existing one, but it’s way easier to build a carcass for existing doors. I had the hell of an issue when I changed my Bosch slimline’s position due to existing pipe work. There are dishwashers that use drawers, not doors.
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    Attaching wooden batten to concrete floor.

    I’d be worried about screwing into an unknown concrete floor. You could hit a pipe, possibly breach the DPM. You could use building adhesive to secure the batten down? Is there room to fit a wider batten to the floor? If you can hide a batten inside the base of the wardrobe you’ll have a...
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    Place to wash clothes, washroom, utility room, kitchen etc, and why?

    Terrace houses often had an outhouse next to a coal store where a “copper” could have a fire to heat water for washing. If they were lucky, there was an outside toilet with a tap. My house as a child was a post war semi, possibly just prewar? The washing machine was a twin tub that lived in the...
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    Self build using shipping containers

    “Out of the box” containers are freezing in winter, boiling in summer. So loads of insulation needed. We used them as storage and they are great, but to live in? As said, by the time you fix two together to have something wider than 7’8” you have to weld/bolt them together. Finding an engineer...
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    Old aluminium sliding patio door: replace sealed unit or replace whole door?

    Get another couple of opinions from people that can see it? Personally, I would replace unless money is tight or you have a real love for the thing. A new frame will be thermally better, it will lock more securely, and probably be easier to open and close due to new tracks and wheels. The...
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    Trump insults, abuses and disregards his allies, threatens to invade them, starts trade war against them, starts a bombing war without consultation...

    Trump complains that Obama “gave Iran $1.7 billion” (he released frozen money which was paid by Iran for weapons that the US did not deliver) One billion is one thousand million. Now, rather than free transit through the Straights of Hormuz, every ship has to pay between $1~2 million to...
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