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    Beam and Block with timber frame Detail

    Sometimes mobile phone networks will deliberately degrade the quality of images to make them smaller, so you don't burn as much of your data allowance. The images posted on the forum are clear for me on WiFi on an iPhone; the line drawing of the wall detail above is 1164x768 in dimension and...
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    Is there any/much advantage to using 10mm2 cable for an EV charger instead of 6mm2?

    Then use it, if you'll never use it for anything else. You use more of the world's copper buying additional cable Why? Chargers can work on 2G sim data speeds; they don't need gigabit and even if you can't get a couple of inches separation for the entire data run, and it introduces a tiny bit...
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    Vaillant Boiler making loud humming noise when hot water turned on

    @CountryFan Catbox.moe is a file upload site that allows a direct link to the file for ease of forum posting.. Here is the OP's video, reposted on catbox: https://files.catbox.moe/eg6dlc.MP4 You should just be able to click/tap it and have it play on your device but let me know how it goes
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    So about those tariffs...

    VAT and tariffs aren't comparable VAT is a consumption tax that applies equally to domestic and imported goods, and it’s usually rebated on exports (and the destination country applies its own rate). It doesn’t disadvantage foreign producers. A tariff applies only to imports, never domestic...
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    Water butt overflow

    Certainly not; it's high treason and the water company's monitoring system will detect the extra volume, police will attend immediately and haul you away.. Shame that power socket is there otherwise I'd have proposed moving the butt into the corner and diverting the downpipe through it, but...
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    Cavity Wall Insulation Question

    First consider draughts from gaps and holes in the fabric of the building; this vintage should have insulation built in. A blower door test could be good to identify where your paid-for warm air escapes. Infrared cameras at night, cold outside, heating on and be another good diagnostic but be...
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    Selecting a roofer

    Should be in the manufacturers spec sheet, but suffice to say if you do have a problem with loft condensation already, expect to see it collecting on the underside of the membrane
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    Celotex cavity insulation getting wet!

    Doesn't matter in the slightest
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    Chagos Islands, a solution?

    If you’re aiming for witty retort, make sure the air of wisdom you’re trying to project isn’t undermined by terrible grammar.
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    Inline fan insulation Question

    Thread is 3+ years old
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    Advice -Levelling upstairs floor after settled subsidence?

    I get the floor but for the ceiling- why? I dare say you're the only person who will ever notice or care that the ceiling is a bit out Were the firrings glued and screwed in?
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    Checking Oil level

    But, have you met a cross section of the regular pillocks you have to share a road with? The more mental load we can take off those guys, the better. We might eventually free up enough capacity for them to be able to cope with the "turny turny broom broom" job at hand
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    Controlling multiple electric heaters centrally

    Birmingham Midshires give you quarter a percent off your BTL mortgage if the property is EPC B or better
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    Does this speed fit need any work?

    Hmm. I've seen some crazy ropey installs with no clips hold for years before now. The ones that fail are the ones where no inserts have been used or pipe ends have been left sharp and have cut the seals in the fittings when assembled. You'd need to disassemble your pipework to verify either of...
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    Shimming metal stud walls

    If it's only 5mm out over the entire wall I wouldn't worry; you'll be able to take that out with adhesive. Use a levelling system too Make sure it's the wall and not your level
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    Fixing heavy showerscreen to hollow wall

    Yes, you'll get more support out of this than you will out of wall plugs/screws to be fair
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    Kitchen wall units + panels either side of hob.

    I think you're worrying about it too much. Install the units and run with them, if someone does bash a hole in an end getting a pancake flip wrong or whatever, attend to it promptly with the touch up paint they send out/a matching colour MDF is great.. ..at absorbing moisture Had I foreseen...
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    Kitchen wall units + panels either side of hob.

    I think no, unless the paint gets damaged
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    Cleaning rug

    Amen. If you wet wash this rug, do it on the hottest windiest day of the year and have it hung up so it drip dries. Really hard to get thick rugs dry fast enough that they don't end up stinking
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    Laminate Flooring at Bottom Of Stairs

    He's worrying unnecessarily Oscillating multitool cut just enough depth that you aren't chopping all the way through (but even if you did no biggie, just cut a packer to support it)) then chisel out enough to give you a slight recess enough to slide the edge of the laminate under so the cut in...
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