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    How do you make tea?

    Tea leaves -- tea pot - tea cosy - tea strainer - add milk & sugar to required taste. Don't drink the dregs instead swirl them round three times empty contents onto the saucer and translate the tea leaf pattern into a symbol that means something. My Nan used to do this when we visited. I prefer...
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    Biscuit Debate

    We seem to be going off
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    Biscuit Debate

    WRONG Go and get a pack of Viennese Whirls love and give it a go, you can't use your other hand to protect yourself from the inevitable collapse. Lucky guess!
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    Biscuit Debate

    They dissolve rapidly under immersion, best case it fails in the cup, worst case it lands on your blouse.
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    Biscuit Debate

    You can't dunk them!
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    Biscuit Debate

    Milk Chocolate are morish because they are sickly, plain are just plain! McVities biscuits give me heartburn, marks and sparks don't have any ill after effects. Every biscuit is able to be dunked if your of that ilk, I am. Chocolate Hob Nobs and a cup of coffee is dunking heaven.
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    Biscuit Debate

    I nipped up to Mark's & Sparks this evening and spent £24 on biscuit selection boxes. I'm off setting the gluttony on "i do alot of exercise"!!!!
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    Biscuit Debate

    Milk Chocolate coated Malted Milk are delicious. I like shortcake and Milk chocolate rounds made by Marks & Sparks or Leibniz Biscuits. Ive half emptied a cup of tea dunking custard creams, yummy yummy.
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    are these worktops possible to restore?

    Buy an orbital sander, buy sandpaper starting at 60 grit all the way to 180 grit maybe even 240 grit, buy an FFP3 Dust Mask actually buy a pack of 10. Start at 60 grit to remove most of the finish, but don't spend to long on 60 grit then work through the grits. You'll have to use elbow grease...
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    Coffee. How do you take yours?

    Are you referring to the KLIX Vending machine where the tea was super strong and you could look forward to a mouthful of gloopy powdery soup at the end of the cup of delicious soup. Or the rancid coffee that left you feeling wired and tired all at the same time if you drank to much of it?
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    Coffee. How do you take yours?

    I like to ask for a "White Coffee" and wait for the bamboozled look from the operative when I visit coffee outlets. Pre mid 90's coffee boom it was acceptable to say white coffee, now it's Americano with Milk. I like a nice Cuppa T Yorkshire Tea, but again it's unusual "unless you go to a...
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    New drill set ? For a sparky

    If he is SE & a Sole Trader the total cost of any tool he buys for his job can be offset against his tax liability. Or put another way any cost relating to his business can be offset, however things like using the home as an office, laundry, work clothes, phone bills and a few others I can't...
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    New drill set ? For a sparky

    Most Sparkies "on-site" well the youngsters atleast, have Milwaukee. Your are better off sticking to one brand and you don't want anything corded, unless a battery option isn't available. The main brands for professionals is Dewalt. Makita Milwaukee Bosch Blue Festool Mafell I wouldn't touch...
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    Kitchen worktop lifting

    I sub to a family run business. Howdens are supply only and that is how they will get out of the fitting costs.
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    Help repairing/replacing stair case steps

    No idea tbh. The alternative route is to measure your treads, thickness, depth, length and depth of nosing and asked a local timber yard to run out new ones for you. The risers are normally 12mm ply.
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    Help repairing/replacing stair case steps

    At the very minimum you need to access the underneath of the staircase, you cannot repair a staircase from above. Understanding how a staircase is made helps you repair it. There are treads these are the steps you stand on then there are risers, the risers lock into a rebate on the underside of...
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    Options for running kitchen extractor outside

    100 x 50 is undersized for any extractor it amounts to 4 inch ducting. The minimum is 5 inch short distance, 6 inch longer distance. A 4 inch duct means the motor has to work harder to force the air through which makes the extractor noisy.
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    Options for running kitchen extractor outside

    Yes 204 x 60 not 220 x60 that would be 220x90 which is better suited for long runs in lofts.
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    Options for running kitchen extractor outside

    You can buy 220mm x 60mm flat channel duct and run it across the top of the units through the wall and into a plastic airbrick externally, this is the better option for the motor in the extractor. It depends on whether the brick course externally line up with the plane of the top of the units...
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    Kitchen worktop lifting

    This is a product failure. The liability is with the supplier, therefore the labour cost is also their responsibility. I sub to a high end kitchen supplier, same issue as you are having. But this company ordered a new worktop and paid me to change it, they value their customers and their own...
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