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    Changed socket and now no power

    It was similar to this. Cheers
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    Changed socket and now no power

    So I needed to switch out a single socket for a double socket in my garage. I must have touched the earth and neutral in the process of switching it as I have no lost all power in the garage, lights sockets, doors etc. Oddly none of the RCDs have been tripped in the process and are still in...
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    Advice getting aerial / Coax to TV

    Thanks for all the replies. The issue with the puck is not wifi, as it's running off a powerline adapter plugged into one of the sockets behind the TV (though perhaos that is too weak - I'm sure it would be betetr with direct Cat6 cable). I've also been reading up on the issue on various sky...
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    Advice getting aerial / Coax to TV

    Hi so I have a bit of an issue following a renovation. I have a kitchen extension with a TV mounted on an internal wall, which was the old external wall of the house. The internal wall has studs (about 80mm deep) mounted on the old external brickwork, with 12mm plasterboard over the top, with...
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    Am I getting ripped off?

    Yes that is what I would thought, £ note overhead staying the same, hence falling as %. Clearly I'm ignorant, though notice the other poster didn't answer my question ;-)
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    Am I getting ripped off?

    How re his overhead impacted by, say, the price of steel insulation rising by 30%? That's my point it seems a peak % uplift on close to peak material cost inflation
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    Am I getting ripped off?

    Ha. My point isn’t that he shouldn’t make money or everything should be cost. Merely that its bit galling to have an overhead / profit figure based off a cost price that is being inflated above the cost of running his business (ie materials). For arguments’ sake (and ignoring VAT) If cost of...
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    Am I getting ripped off?

    thanks for the replies. In answer to a few Qs. Yes it was sent via his wife in answer to a question abt what happens if and when materials increase, so I suspect they sent the wrong document. His price is there or thereabouts with others and I take the point on semantics of adding a higher or...
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    Am I getting ripped off?

    So I'm just abt to sign a contract with a builder for a quite large double height rear extension and internal refurb of a property. He has sent me the final quote with the cost separated into three buckets; - Cost - Overhead markup - Profit markup Both the overhead markup and and profit...
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    Insualte loft and re-wire

    Thanks. something I forgot to add is the rooms below could well see their configuration change a bit as part of the renovation which I’m guessing will be an issue with your solution above?
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    Insualte loft and re-wire

    Hi, My partner and I live in an old Victorian house, whoch we will renovating in the next 12 (hopefully) - 24 months. The project will include and extension, upgrd to heating system and full re-wire. However, the loft (which is failry sizeable at 50 sq m) has no insualtin at all and I'd like to...
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