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No. Even to hire such a thing for a week would be far more than £100.

Leasing is ideal for people that want to drive around in a shiny new van, and change that van for another shiny new one every few years. Basically paying an expensive subscription to always be driving the latest piece. If you intend to keep a vehicle for a long time, leasing is a total bust.

50% is marginal at best. Amplifiers amplify everything, including noise and interference. Some introduce noise of their own. The quality rating from TVs is often misleading, as it's probably after error correction, which inevitably will be good if the error correction is working.

Exceptionally unlikely. If these 'switches' are those in the consumer unit, then the busbar is loose, or some buffoon has fixed the circuit breakers in and missed the bar connection. This is a serious problem and requires immediate repair.

No. If that cable plugged into the socket is what connects to the other sockets, then plug that into the router, If not, then they will be wired to the back of the lower half of that socket. Remove the two screws, pull the lower half away, and there should be wiring connected to that. That...

Such a thing should never exist, as there are zero uses for it. Hopefully no one will ever consider making one.

Get someone else. Loose connections are not found by ripping wires out. They are more usually found by poking things with a stick. Loose wires do not fix themselves, the problem will get worse until something fails open, melts, goes on fire, or there is a big bang as the main fuse is taken out...

That probably flushed a load of ancient crud from the tank into the pipework.

Your daughter needs to contact her insurance company and they will arrange whatever repairs are required to this other persons property.

Normally arranged like this, connect one wire to A and the other to B.

The arrangement suggested could be used, if the primary aim was to waste as much cable as possible and maximise inconvenience by having a circuit that supplies multiple rooms.

When dishwashers leak they need to be replaced. When any component in a dishwasher needs to be replaced, any attempt at replacement will cause a leak, and then it's replacement time.

Correct. The connector blocks all need to go. Those MIMS cables at the end will need some form of connection, but taped up mess certainly isn't it.

The DNO fuses are in the green metal casement as seen towards the bottom of the second photo. The other fuses are partially visible in the first photo, the black ones behind the hanging cables and the grey connector block.

There isn't, and even if there were it won't solve anything. The problem is the high pressure cold will be dramatically higher than the feeble hot water. Reducing the flow by partly closing a valve won't change that. Yes, it's terrible and will cause problems 100% guaranteed. This is why UK...

It's an 8 year old clapped out diesel banger which someone mistakenly believes is worth 28 grand. It has an automatic transmission-o-failure, and most of the miles on it were done in it's first few years of existence. In the last 3 years it's done 3600 miles total. It's either been...

That 'important bit' refers to DNO metering as used at distribution points and the like. Entirely unrelated to metering at end user premises, which is not owned by or operated by any DNO. They certainly have, but mewling about such things long after the event will achieve nothing. Records of...

It probably was, before privatisation. In the days when electricity supplies, metering and infrastructure were all done by the Electricity Board and that was that. However all of that has changed, so wiring in shared areas of flats and the like is now NOT anything to do with the DNO even if...

There are two connections, one of them line the other neutral. Which is what doesn't matter. Yes.

Not stated but mine is about once a month or so. Not likely to make much difference as long as it's done sometimes. It does waste electricity so not something that you would want to do often. No. Left over partial truths from ancient NiCad batteries where frequent partial recharging did...