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Lot of people use plastic pipework now due to ease of installation. Especially new build where copper pipe theft can occur when site unmanned. Unless you specify copper pipework at the build stage. Prefer copper myself due to longevity . Mice and rodents have been known to chew on plastic...

Picking and choosing the statistics to make the vested interests seem very successful. Always happens. Long term the Tories are normalising greed and poverty. Very underhand tactics to privatise everything. Their answer always seems to be to lower the wages , reduce the service and pay...

when working in older properties, you take up the carpets and find old newspapers. you have a quick read out of interest as to what was happening all those years ago. sadly these types of incidences were happening then. and have always happened. these days with the immediate technology and mass...

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I've done the 80 hour weeks working away from home in construction. staying in poor accomodation due to your low allowance, and eating takeaways because of lack of facilities. after a few years your health suffers. we really do now have a massive divided society.

Were enough houses built to replace the ones that were sold off during their time in office ? You will always have people in low paid jobs and incomes, even more so now. They still need a place to live and raise a family.

Ideally the pipes would be rerouted under the flooring. The water pipe insulated. But you have laminate flooring. More time consuming unless you are getting rid of the laminate.

Never been a supporter of flat roofs in this country. Temperature varies massively according to where you live. Where I live In summer can get to 32c. In winter can get to -12c with wind chill. Thats 44c swing and damp climate , causing expansion and contraction. Frost and ice cause expansion...

To sum it up, the housing system is broken. Profiteers have kicked the arse out of it.

Old Labour is unelectable. Michael Foot and Jeremy Corbyn proved that with their election defeats. Majority of people want more than just old Labour policies. Conservatives have had 13 years in power and have let infrastructure and living standards slide for most except the rich. Time for change.

Put ch on full, if it holds, will be OK. It seems you have not pierced the copper pipe.

The central heating boiler has a frost stat which kicks in when below temperature it is set at, to protect itself from freezing. We have just had a cold spell. Better a small gas bill than burst pipes and the damage that causes. As previous poster said, you have a daily standing charge aswell.

The best ones were snapped up very quickly. And yes it's good that sitting tenants were given the option to own their home. But you needed to build others to replace them.

When Thatcher gave the right to buy, all the money went back to central government. The local councils were not allowed to re invest it and build more houses. They were asset stripped for political ideology. You will always have low paid workers who need a place to live.

Hardibacker board and then tile. Or good quality shower boards and silicone properly. Have you got a good extractor fan aswell.