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    Neighbour drain, help needed!

    Well if he goes through the water company and then they accept the responsibility of it as a shared drain then they will be responsible for the maintenance and repair of the section of drain currently in your garden which at the moment is your responsibility, what is there to lose
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    Solid wall insulation

    Have a look a Kingston K118 brochure for some guidance
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    How to vent a bricked up fireplace?

    I guess it all depends whether you have a soot covered flue when you decide to cap it off as to any ensuing problems, mine must have been OK???
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    How to vent a bricked up fireplace?

    That has been my philosophy on the couple of chimney's I have capped, blocked off at the top, blocked off at the bottom, no moisture to get in from above or below and I'll treat it as if it is cavity wall space like what the rest of the house has
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    Stopcock handle broken

    It is heart warming that we both agree that your condescending response to the OP was unnecessary but it probably made you feel like Donald Trump at the time
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    Stopcock handle broken

    Because it was not obvious to the OP, a bit like it wasn't obvious to you why the OP needed this forum and why you needed this forum to tell you that. And a bit like it not being obvious to me whether Nikita is in the male or female format so I stuck to identifying the poster as OP.
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    Stopcock handle broken

    Or perhaps isolate the supply at the water companies stop valve
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    concrete threshold (Ed.)

    Thats over 21 months of thinking about it, no rush then?
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    Planning Objection to Pool Room and Gym

    Hi, builder at bottom of garden is proposing to construct poolroom/gym. So what was once on open vista at the bottom of my garden will now become a Captain Tom brickwork carbuncle . I plan to object based on something I saw once about impairing the enjoyable use of ones garden or some sort of...
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    BTU CALCULATIONS - IS THIS A CAVITY

    If you are happy with your calcs go for it, I used 3 different sources for my calcs and they all differed ( its not that exact a science) so based everything on the larger fig.
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    Large Gap Between Extensions

    Looks like a quite good creative idea to seal/hide the gap and does the job, why change?
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    BTU CALCULATIONS - IS THIS A CAVITY

    Taking the standard Delta T50 fig and working with Kudox radiators in theory you have around 10000BTU output, perhaps they were sized on a T30 Delta which would give you 5000BTU?
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    Driveway / Patio drainage

    No different from millions of other houses that do not have any paving stones cracks for the water to drain down through and so drains wherever the rain lands
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    Boiler Replacement

    Frictionless pipework then?
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    BTU CALCULATIONS - IS THIS A CAVITY

    Tolerant in what way? If it was oversized for the required output it would still heat the rads up until your room thermostat indicated the necessary temp had been reached and then switch off, possibly do the job faster and work less efficiently (but was only 75% in the first place)
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    New radiator cold. What to do first?

    Not sure what the bucket test consists of but if I was trying to clear an high level air lock I would be trying to push water through the system as fast/forceful as possible. To this end I would disconnect the radiator and if possible run a discharge hosepipe from each of the valves to some...
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    New radiator cold. What to do first?

    Suggest airlock in ceiling run of pipework.
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    BTU CALCULATIONS - IS THIS A CAVITY

    Yes, go bigger and let the TRV do the controlling, main thing is confirm your boiler out put capable of providing necessary btus and everything else falls into place ( after you have balanced the radiators)
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    Padstone been cut

    That's not even the length of a brick so it's not going to distribute any load more than resting it directly on the brickwork ( of course it could be there just make up a level to rest the beam on but at 5.2 that's a fairish size
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