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    Right angle power cable for LG TV

    This style might be slimmer than others https://www.ebay.co.uk/p/kenable-Heavy-Duty-Rewireable-Right-Angle-IEC-C13-Female-Socket-Plug-10a-250v/1550844661
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    Ring Doorbell Pro - Do I need a diode

    Depends on the type of bell you have. Instructions are here https://support.ring.com/hc/en-us/articles/206555096-Using-the-Diode-Included-with-Your-Ring-Video-Doorbell
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    Doorbell light

    http://www.electricalswholesale.co.uk/friedland-bell-push-spare-lamp-d70.html whether this is the correct one depends on what transformer and bell/chime you have Or you could replace with LEDs.
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    Fake Appleby back boxes?

    This forum, or Screwfix customer services. Which do you think has greater expertise???
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    Sensor operated lights in HMO

    One of these https://www.tlc-direct.co.uk/Products/EK320A.html together with slave activator switches in parallel (which are simple momentary switches, so cheap and easy to replace if damaged)
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    Advice required for filling in a large hole around electrical wiring

    Screwheads not lined up horizontally :( Whoever did that is not an electrician. My mother could have done a better job.
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    Old British Standard back boxes incompatible with new electrical screws

    May be easier to retap the existing box threads to M3.5 and use new screws https://www.toolstation.com/draper-expert-rethreading-tool/p58127
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    How to insulate hot & cold feeds if its in conduit under screed?

    Cover the conduit with pipe lagging before pouring screed. Will help reduce losses.
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    State School with only 2% white British students gets 41 Oxbridge offers

    It's due to local council not having any money. I don't really know why they haven't got enough money.
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    State School with only 2% white British students gets 41 Oxbridge offers

    That's nice for the pupils going to Oxbridge. The rest of the pupils in the borough might do better if they had five more teachers actually teaching. Local schools here are cutting hours and reducing subjects.
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    Is this a cutout or a distribution box?

    Ain't she a purdy li'l thing.
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    Satellite Distribution Options

    They should be, if you get a multiswitch that works with a Quad LNB? However there are also multiswitches that handle both SkyQ and Legacy style and can switch between the two if the set top box changes in the future...
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    First floor extension atop existing garage.

    Instead of doing a first floor + roof extension, can you do the first floor extension within a mansard style roof? That would be based on the ground floor walls, so not need additional support, but slant back a bit giving visual separation and distance from next door, and you wouldn't have the...
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    Very high economy 7 bill from tenants - how possible?

    Overnight electric car charging? I could be wrong but I make that about £4 a day; at £0.071 per offpeak kWh is 56kWh or 7 kWh for 8 hours. Unlikely to be a heating load only at off-peak time. Check the cooker point for scratches indicating a temporary connection :D
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    Mains powered interconeted smoke alarams

    Wired in parallel, and it's 3 core + earth.
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    Looking for smoke alarm with 120mm+ diameter base

    You can buy MDF or ply circles from craft shops/ebay etc in almost any size example If you are putting in new smoke detectors I think they now have to be mains and interlinked to comply with Building Regs?
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    Huge commercial bins on residential street

    Perhaps a letter to the Minister -- or some laminated notices attached to the bins: Romans 14:13 Therefore let us not judge one another anymore, but rather determine this--not to put an obstacle or a stumbling block in a brother's way. Isaiah 57:14 "Remove every obstacle out of the way of My...
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    Keeping hands and feet warm while working at a the computer

    I don't know if they work, but you can get USB-powered heated gloves, eg https://www.gearbest.com/usb-accessories/pp_327869.html
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    How many pipes will go to the gas system boiler?

    Gas in a ventilated duct ** Cold feed. Radiator flow and return (first floor) ** -- exactly where you split these two depends on Underfloor flow and return (ground floor) ** -- where you put your zone valves Hot to taps. Boiler condensate to drain Boiler pressure relief discharge to open air...
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    Click? Under skirting or up to skirting with edge trim/scotia?

    Under. Edge trim always looks like 1990s right-to-buy council houses, and how do you do round architraves properly?
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