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skenk wrote: How about Saudia Arabia and Dubai? Were they colonial (before my time mate)? Economically and politically there was a very significant UK presence in the whole region for over 300 years - the British residency of the Persian Gulf was an official colonial subdivision (i.e...

£140 a day is how i work that out, gross obviously.

£36.5k a year to flush rads? And you think thats such bad money you would laugh at it? That assumes you have no other work and each flush takes a full working day.

Afternoon All, At the back of my garden is a playhouse on stilts, its set on bare earth with a geo fabric and then 5" of bark for safety. In front of it is a slab before you get to the lawn, which is the problem. I would like to cover the slab in either rubber tiles or mats like you get in...

Fox - hang on mate, friends let you move into their flat and you burn a ring on their worktop and burn a 50p sized hole in the middle of their carpet and you think they are out of order for wanting it repaired??!!

BAS - you stated that my choice of lighting is not aesthetically pleasing, if you had said not appealing to you, that would be a fair point. But you didn't. Ohh and if you feel the need to be a smart arse and misquote me, knock yourself out sunshine. This will merely be a blip on the boards...

'They are not aesthetically pleasing' Without doubt the most stupid thing i have read on a message board in a long time. Aesthetics like art and music and very personal, what you have said is as crass as me saying your music choice is terrible. There is no defined right and wrong with...

I am putting on my tin hat and hunkering down..... In my house i have various lights, mainly CFL's and some tubes in the garage and LED GU10's in the utility area, in normal fittings not downlighters. HOWEVER, in my bathroom, i have 4 downlighters with halogen bulbs, the light is just...

Dingbat, i think £60k is a little excessive for a maintenance job like that, dont you? Its not self employed work where you have to provide your own van, insurance, tools etc etc. Likewise £13k they are offering is a joke, the right amount is somewhere between those two.

Update - first of all a big thank you to everyone who offered help and advice. Work was completed on Thursday (8 days in total from start to testing and certs). Went for an RCBO board and the last spec i put up, price came in at just under £5k all told. Firm was registered with NICEIC (might...

BAS - you have seriously gone to the effort of opening the page in Chrome, doing a screen grab, importing that image into Paint where you have added a red circle around the find function so you could then paste that image into a reply where you state you were not being rude? 'you've probably...

BAS, i actually had no idea you could do that in an online PDF, well the Ctrl F, i cant do the edit find because i use google chrome and its not an option. Whilst your information is helpful, if you could deliver it without the sneering condescension it would make more people listen. Given...

Right, page 38, which says no, not required to notify. And thats still the case in a special location?

And they wonder why the public struggle, did you link to the correct docuemnt because i cant even find the section you are talking about!

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Not wishing to hijack this thread, but if you already have external light fittings, and replace them with new fittings in exactly the same location for aesthetic reasons, is that notifiable then?

Chapeau - not told off, just a request not to turn this thread into another huge argument! As mentioned before all advice is greatly received.

Chaps, this labour v materials argument was done to death on another thread, so please dont start it again on this one. She cares about the bottom line figure and quality of work, thats it.

Chri5 - i totally agree with you, but its not my house or my money. The situation is young couple with baby, wanting to get a house rather than their flat, have bough a renovation project to get the space they need at a cost they can afford. So its having a full new plumbing job, new joists...

Well spotted Col Jack, flo tube be sufficient?