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    A huge head ache

    harsh but true and might save your life one day.
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    Need a quote of alteration works charged by builder

    Sounds like he was trying to pull a fast one himself tbh.
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    Carrying 8'x4' sheets ... solo ...

    great idea. possible improvement would be a baton at the top to give your fingers room.
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    Which Cordless Drill?

    The Makita DHP453 will not drill brick easily (if at all). I have one at home I use for general diy, and even for 1 red plug I'd rather go down to the van for the SDS instead of using this. It's performance is comparable to the bosch 10v combi drills. The Makita bhp458 on the other hand will...
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    Data Cable Engineer Training

    Certainly wouldn't pay for training to do it. If you have similar experience you can pick it up really easily, and if you have no experience, no one will take you on cos you'll be far too slow. Day rate is about £80-100, short contracts, and not loads of work out there either.
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    Extending drop wire to new master socket location - hlp pls

    foam insulation that gets rendered over.
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    Telephone extensions woes

    +1 for wrong cable used. sounds like alarm cable? and if so you're lucky the first extension works. Either rerun using the proper cable, or jelly crimp or use a screw terminal at the first extension socket to give you a tail of 4 inches of the correct cable and push that into the IDC to give...
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    Matching Front and Internal Doors

    I don't think i've ever seen a house that had matching internal / exterior doors, would look weird I think.
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    Extending drop wire to new master socket location - hlp pls

    Sounds like a professional job, and i have noticed that encasing dropwire in EWI seems to extend the life of the wire significantly. If the junction box you're renewing from has brass screw terminals, should also spray them with WD40 before and after terminating, help prevent corrosion and...
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    Extending drop wire to new master socket location - hlp pls

    it's 1 pair but you can use 2 or 1 pair dropwire to extend it. Bt use dexbond jelly crimps. are you running a new cable internally or externally?
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    Mouting TV bracket to plasterboard wall

    Mass, you didn't have the first clue how to put the tv on the wall to begin with, so how can you improve the answer given by just adding more stuff (even when they tell you not to)? surely you can see how that's daft.
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    Old fashioned telephone connection

    if it's holding a cable that's spanning across a road, tell then the fixing is loose and there's a chance of a vehicle strike if/when it fails, and you'll likely have someone there in an hour or 2. lorries hitting low bt cables have killed people in recent years and bt been fined, so its...
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    Old fashioned telephone connection

    those things were fitted by raking out the mortar, inserting a piece of wood, and driving the spike into the wood. so the fixing isn't great. they are quite heavy and could kill someone if it falls on them so definitely report it. anyone can call openreach (don't need to be a customer) and...
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    Glue safety

    well I think you're being a bit OCD
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    Glue safety

    How much of it did you ingest?
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    Paris

    By and large, people don't do that. I didn't see the whole country out marching against the iraq war but that doesn't mean everyone in the uk agreed with it. I think change will eventually come as muslims distance themselves from this sort of thing, but it will take time, and I don't think...
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    Any Painters and Decorators out there?

    not just the caulking, look at the brush strokes on the wall
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    Toothache

    hot water bottle on your face
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    Where do you go if you want to find a Job ?

    Richard branson's dyslexic. Slagging of people's spelling etc is pretty low brow.
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    balls

    Welcome to every internet forum ever created lol.
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