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    Immersion heater element RCD tripping

    its not difficult to test... multimeter will do the job, it could be the thermostat that has gone duff and you can replace that without draining down. see https://www.mmlplumbing.co.uk/testing-an-immersion-heater/
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    Cable connections/junction box- slight emergency

    No it never sets hard you just peel it off... and why would the connections need working on ?
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    Cable connections/junction box- slight emergency

    https://www.toolstation.com/raytech-magic-gel-ip68/p47003 pour it into the box and fill the box.
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    Cable connections/junction box- slight emergency

    or you could just gel pack it.
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    Replacement Smoke Alarms

    broadly but the aico unit has a base and the fireangle has a plug in module and tbh have not seen if the battery back up for the aico wifi is user swappable as is the fireangle
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    Replacement Smoke Alarms

    Fireangle do a system where the RF module just plugs into the base of the detector, they also do a combined panic, test and silence switch. They were brilliant for a 4 storey stairwell in a grade 2 building,.as the battery backup for the Rf is user swappleable. see...
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    How do I replace door seal on the bottom frame of a composite door

    they stretch in, get the end nearest the hinges in then apply tension and push up and in as you go along the door.
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    The London Mayor...

    The use of cannabis, all the party drugs, coke, mdma, etc, prescription drugs used by others than the prescription owner is so entrenched in British society that policing it is a joke... but apparently its still an issue for some. Realism in politics now there would be a thing of beauty.
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    Liverpool Ramming

    Essex ?
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    Liverpool Ramming

    As we know nothing why speculate... All that happens is that when a truth is established it sets up another conflict, the media said this, my mate said that, what are they hiding etc etc etc. This trial by media is not healthy, focus on the victims and leave it at that until a trial.
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    New Extension Straight Wall Query

    Get a snagger out to do a report, at least then you are armed for any fight, items like failure to dress the lead flashing to the tiles, use of untreated softwood for the fascias etc etc Building control really is not geared up to do quality control , they will get involved with items that are...
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    Cables in non-insulated stud walls

    why not ask them the basis for the tables, as its a scientific approach the source material will be freely available. Is there not a reference to the source in the book ?
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    Cables in non-insulated stud walls

    Or is it a reverse definition, if none of the following conditions apply then it is in free air.... there is some arcane rule of law around presumption on innocence which sets this premise and is followed in general scientific theory, the null and alternate hypothesis, whereby the alternate can...
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    Bye Bye Gary

    Why dance around ethnic cleansing, we define ethnic cleansing as The mass extermination or expulsion of people belonging to one ethnic or religious group by those of another. Tell me that's not happening... because from where I sit it clearly is, and before people start banging on about there...
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    Single skin bay window?

    As a bay window is not structural, the lintel is at the top or in the case of the 1930's bays absent - these just went ground to roof with the double stacked bays, you can achive a u value with any type of construction. Eg :
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    Double socket spurred off consumer unit?

    From a landlords perspective actually getting a job done to regulations is now a task in itself, I have lost count of the bad inspections, lack of building control notifications and the absolutely total lack of any policing by the so called trade bodies... complaints about our members... you...
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    Double socket spurred off consumer unit?

    I would ask the OP what that circuit is for....whats hanging off the back of it, just because its a ring that can carry 32amps is that actually needed ? Its pretty rare to get 32amps draw on any circuit these days.
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    Dented laminate worktop

    As you pointed out the depression is small and will not take a fill, sanding the top layer will muck up the finish so you are left with two options. 1. Make the hole deeper to take a fill. 2. If you have an off cut with similar grain, use a plug / hole cutter and glue in a new plug.
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    Collapsing porch

    seen that a few times , always on the bottom two or three courses on door fixed to a small return. Check where the door fixing goes in, normally they are not in the brick centre and are either on or close to the mortar line or are in a half brick. As the door closes the fixing does its job...
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    Pipework out of water meter

    where does the 22mm stop ?
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