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    Digging out 200mm for laying patio next to shallow footings for extension

    This is floor inside the house I dug out below the foundation
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    Need a plan for electric UFH

    Tape a piece of polythene to the floor for a day or two and check if moisture condenses on the underside.
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    Need a plan for electric UFH

    For wood floors the subfloor needs to be bone dry any layed with good expansion gaps at the perimeter
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    Digging out 200mm for laying patio next to shallow footings for extension

    If your concerned dig out a trial pit to establish the bottom of the foundation and if shallower than you need to dig out come out to depth at 45⁰ from the wall base
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    Type 1 MOT with cement as a driveway surface?

    If one rings any of the one man band hauliers around here there's a good chance they can get a load
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    Type 1 MOT with cement as a driveway surface?

    Tarmac road plantings whack down pretty hard
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    Adding a garden tap to a garden some way from the house...

    How long would a 1000l last in the garden. If some time you could have an IBC tank, or two which you could keep filling , roll the hose up in between and take in for the winter.
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    Hedgecutting and bird's nests

    Quite a lot of garden birds species nest near the outer and top edges of a hedge and not deep within so even a light trim exposed them to eagle eyed magpies and the like
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    110mm Drainage through slab - how to get closer to wall?

    I would consider solvent weld joints if compressing foamed glass around the pipe in the subfloor as it compresses 30%
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    Exterior paint for exposed coastal areas

    https://bedec.co.uk/product/extra-flex/ It's amazing stuff, I don't know if they still sell it in Toolstation
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    Open Fire - Register Plate

    Flue liner for open fire, if so what size??flue area should be a percentage of fire opening
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    Laptop battery issue

    If you buy a new battery I can thoroughly recommend 2-power batteries, not cheap but excellent quality
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    Kitchen plinths

    I would replace but you could see If the clips on the back of the sill will slide down the legs,pull the sills down onto the floor and see how noticeable the gap at the top is . Depending in the sill colour you may get away with glueing a uPVC strip over it.....
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    Oil boiler - heating working but no hot water

    Sounds like it could be the switch in the motorised valve which isn't activating the boiler orange wire iirc
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    Eucalyptus Tree

    Depends on type of panels op has , if not optimized any shade falling on one panel prevents the others from generating
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    Asbestos ?

    If thats a ribbed board around 1/4" thick it could be amosite asbestos, Only way to be sure is to get it tested, Ive used these lately. https://asbestoskits.co.uk/shop/?
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    Flood - tractor driver

    He thought he wouldn't be recognised in a tractor :)
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    Air Source Heat Pump Planning

    Hybrids sounds like a face saving admission of the failings of heat pumps
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    Flood - tractor driver

    After effects of quality controlling his magic mushroom crop
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