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    Mild corrosion on a circuit board

    Just living down to my moniker: I'm absolutely certain Bernard meant "drying" ( d & f next to each other on keyboard).
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    can I replace mcb myself ?

    Living down to my moniker. I assume Scousespark meant "The calculation is simply Ib <= In <= Iz".
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    Transplanting the innards of a Yale (brand) nightlatch

    In case this is helpful to anyone else. Swapping over the bits to prevent deadlocking from the outside (using the key) was easy. But I couldn't do anything about the snib; there was no obvious way of removing the snib button from the snib slider (inside the "shell"). Also, in this case, there'd...
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    Combi or system boiler for new build with UFH?

    Another thread has started up about when TMVs are needed: https://www.diynot.com/diy/threads/requirement-for-thermostatic-mixing-valves-tmvs.551603/
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    Light Switch inside bathroom -Electrical Safety Certificate

    Living down to my moniker, I believe Simon meant "should not be getting water..."
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    Shower pull cord blowing fuse in consumer unit - pics

    I've got a Wylex rewireable fusebox and installed such MCBs. When the flat above sprang a leak which got into my lighting circuit, it was a darn site easier to flick the MCB back on than to rewire a fuse. (You do need to use the complete unit, i.e. you need to use a screwdriver to remove the...
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    Not another "new boiler recommendation" thread...

    In Entry 12, Captain Nemesis said "London".
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    Transplanting the innards of a Yale (brand) nightlatch

    Yes, it's a 60mm. sparkymacka said "It should be a straight swap over". Many thanks. Edited to remove ambiguity.
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    Transplanting the innards of a Yale (brand) nightlatch

    Short question: does anyone know how easy it is to transplant the innards of a Yale 91 nightlatch (link): https://www.yale.co.uk/en/yale/couk/products/mechanical/nightlatches/91---basic-security-nightlatch/ into the Yale 89 nightlatch shown in the picture below: Long explanation: The Yale 89...
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    Plastic central heating pipe work

    A previous thread reckons you need to be careful about access to a boiler in the loft: https://www.diynot.com/diy/threads/gas-boiler-and-isolation-regs.548345/
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    Wetherspoons tea/coffee

    I think that explanation is wrong. It's a 50% discount/rebate for meals costing up to £20. So you should pay £8 for your buffet and the restaurant can claim the other £8 from the government. Of course it's more complicated than that, e.g., only valid on Mon to Wed during August and the...
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    Spotlight bulb - replacing

    Stivino said "I've got bulbs similar to that. I'm sure that the lamps came with a sucker to remove the bulbs but you have to push them in and twist them, iirc." Read more: https://www.diynot.com/diy/threads/spotlight-bulb-replacing.545711/#ixzz6QTzX9r5l Such a sucker might be (link)...
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    Help needed to fix light switch

    In the interests of being condescending, I'd suggest you make sure the relevant (if you've got more than 1) lighting circuit has been powered off in your CU before pulling out the switch so as to get the photo as asked for by EFLI. Hopefully on the rear of the switch will be some sort of (raised...
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    Bodging a short insert (~2cm) into 28mm pipe

    I've tried to "start a conversation" with you but as I've never done it before I may well have got it wrong.
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    Bodging a short insert (~2cm) into 28mm pipe

    I've got some relations who live in Potters Bar, I did wonder if they knew Dilalio and if he might have an offcut. However my current favourite idea is Nozzle's suggestion of removing the innards and putting in a blanking cap, that's as long as I don't have to remove the valve and put it in a...
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    Bodging a short insert (~2cm) into 28mm pipe

    Thanks for both of these I'll try to switch brain on (not always easy). Thanks again.
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    Bodging a short insert (~2cm) into 28mm pipe

    As feared the light was a problem, I don't know whether this photo is good enough. The tank is really 2 tanks connected together, the right hand one is the inlet and the left hand the outlet. The jammed valve is on the right, as you can see there's plenty of room to add a valve, there's...
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    Bodging a short insert (~2cm) into 28mm pipe

    Originally I thought of just adding the new valve but, probably for spurious reasons, decided against it. I'll get a photo tomorrow as long as I can get sufficient light in a dark loft.
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    Bodging a short insert (~2cm) into 28mm pipe

    The outlet from my cold water tank is a 28mm pipe, the valve (which hasn't been used for ~ 30 years) is jammed. I'd like to replace it with a ball valve (aka lever valve ?) but Peglers website says their valve is 96mm long and the current one is 113mm. I reckon my chances of, ahem, finding (in...
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    Can they can't they

    Living down to my moniker: BBC news website says: The latest instructions to officers from the College of Policing for England and Wales says: "Officers should only enforce the Health Protection Regulations - government guidance is not enforceable, for example two-metre distancing, avoiding...
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