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    Slab loft insulation question

    Rolls aren't as bad as you think once they're unrolled, my eaves were very tight and cramped so I lifted up strips of loft roll sliding them sideways using long thin bits of timber. You typically have to work lying down doing this kind of job. Polystyrene isn't great, if there's any electrical...
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    Spray foam insanity

    It's not exothermic, it's actually slightly endothermic, which portion of this hatch do you think had some foam put in the void between the two sides?
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    Insulation advice

    Probably not as It looks identical to the passageway alongside my 50s newtown place, the party wall is normally one side of the passage rather than on the centre, my neighbour has all of the space above the passage and a flying freehold over half of it for a bit of their house. Edit: Apologies...
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    Does anywhere sell 3-port Ethernet boxes that you screw to the wall, not chase into it?

    They're all standard size, this is just a quad plate in a double gang patress box isn't it?
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    Weather forecast and using an oil filled radiator to save money?

    Is it enough missed energy to be worth bothering with? There are Home Assistant automations if you're someone enjoys programming and looking at graphs and spreadsheets a lot: https://springfall2008.github.io/batpred/
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    Tyvek housewrap

    Genuine Tyvek looks like and is the thickness of paper more or less, it's made of of woven plastic so if you crumple or or tear it it will be more plasticky than paper, genuine stuff for building use on a roll is normally plastered with branding as well so it's normally obvious.
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    CAT6 cable, shielded or unshielded

    It's not as bad as people think generally, in a commercial/office setting you'll find various installs all over the place with UTP adjacent to mains with only a small amount of separation
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    Power to detached garage

    If it's an electric garage door it's power supply would always be on wouldn't it? Tried disconnecting it?
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    WI-FI TRVs- are these a thing?

    A simple Home Assistant automation as it's already linked in with Hive
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    Outside PIR floodlight question

    If you just want to make it less ugly an easy option is to replace with a smaller more discreet fitting like a small eyelid downlighter or the like.
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    EV charger but Extra Low Voltage

    Some of the fires have cause in all the manufacturers using the same connectors for chargers and batteries but having varying voltage requirements. Someone uses the wrong charger shoving too high a voltage into their pack and it's bad news, I wouldn't have a bargepole long enough.
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    BT Dropwire

    Dropwires have steel wires for load bearing, joining the copper connections is all very well but you can't join the load bearing steel wires that way, Openreach always replace dropwires, they don't have random joints in the air.
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    Lamppost cable. What are they for?

    Sounds like an Eruv to me (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eruv), there were a couple round my old way in Barnet, any Synagogues nearby?
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    There goes a lot of your winter fuel payments

    If she's eligible, she should claim, perhaps more people will/should if framed as a way of getting their winter fuel payment.
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    Wheelchair & disability access to a new build

    Compliant or not is slinging the path off to the side from the obvious desire line straight up to the front door a good idea?
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    2.5mm cable into 1.5mm ?!

    Small network switches connecting a small number of ports aren't necessarily very high consumption, unless you're powering a server or other devices over the ethernet cabling it might be OK.
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    White T&E - Advice on a rewire

    If it was tested 3 years ago and was "fair" it's fine isn't it? Any more detail on the report at all?
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    Question re Yale keys

    Mine catches in the first 1/2-1mm of the tip of the key catching on the very front of the profile if it's not bang on straight. It doesn't even touch or get past the shutter so I doubt lubricating behind that will help a great deal.
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    Question re Yale keys

    I had the same barrels supplied with my new front door and have a similar problem, looking at my key it doesn't look and of the valleys for the pins are really tight to the end so it's probably alright.
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    Pond Electrics!

    If it's an old pump it's worth reviewing the power consumption very carefully anyway for cost reasons, I replaced my Mum's old Blagdon with a newer energy efficient one that paid for itself in only about 8-9 months when the energy prices were a bit mad
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