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    Shared Water Supply

    its worth you remembering you will then be on a water meter rather than assessed or rateable value levels iff you have more rooms than people then a water meter may be good iff more people than rooms may not be financially good value
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    What is the name of the wooden wedge blocks that hold up guttering on older houses?

    funny enough without even thinking corbel came to mind then i though oo thats bricks but iff you think about it it just means stepped or under support
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    What is the name of the wooden wedge blocks that hold up guttering on older houses?

    ahh ok not what i thought extension off floor/roof timbers perhaps ??
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    What is the name of the wooden wedge blocks that hold up guttering on older houses?

    no expert here but wedges can only ever follow the cement lines between bricks and as guttering needs a fall so not following the brick course at all so a bodge also guttering needs lateral support as well as vertical so again not good
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    Wood cutting…

    general comments when you come to assembly i glue them in pairs i will apply d4 glue for 25mm then a 25mm gap at each end then d4 in the middle bit possibly a further one or two 25mm spots iff long i then superglue spots and activator on other side just in the 25mm gap then hold firmly together...
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    Replacing shed attached to side of house with a slightly taller one (under 2.5m) - permission needed?

    within 2m is 2.5 not 3m but iff tastefully done may be off no interest so not reported ??
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    Taking possession of something you own.

    in 1982 my 3bed terrace in surrey cost £26500 now around half a million quite criminal really as housing has been promoted as an investment rather than restricted as housing government policy should restrict the buying to favour people needing to live rather than an a investment inflating...
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    To cut or not to cut? - that is the question...

    just keep in mind iff you need to manoeuvre long or sheet material, any ladder facing towards or away from a wall will have reduced access as the input end or top end will restrict movement so restrict length and width that can fit in
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    Getting hold of hardwood

    anybody having a kitchen fitted near by sink and cooker cut outs are free [or low value] or b&Q and look in the offcut bin
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    If this year is the end of the Tory government, how will you remember them?

    not sure why you are tarring everyone one with the same brush ?? i suspect perhaps 5-10% off politicians are fully self-serving with the highest percentage being from the non-compassionate side off politics --- i will let you choose who that may be ??
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    Portable/small tongue and groove machine, engineered wood flooring

    what does the manufacturer recommend for overlap you start at one end and the offcut starts row 2 iff the next row will be more than say 10% less than recommended you cut another board to start and alternate the end offcuts if you do use short lengths, reformed never use them in high traffic...
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    Just curious - railway, road to nowhere.

    unfortunately, you will have to live with it until finished as normal rules do not apply to the railway
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    Taking possession of something you own.

    a rental is a contract so both know where they stand and know what to expect the court only comes into it iff something goes wrong no fault evictions are cruel inhuman expensive and wasteful------but not for the landlords people should be fair and stick to the contract
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    Portable/small tongue and groove machine, engineered wood flooring

    general comments assuming this is to use offcuts in the floor by cutting the a txg on the ends you will have to get an identical groove sized cutter to match you need to avoid any joint within 300mm off the adjacent plank so rules out any offcut shorter than 600mm except end off run
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    To cut or not to cut? - that is the question...

    i have a scissor loft ladder not cheap but fits through my 600mm hatch
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    To cut or not to cut? - that is the question...

    you need to look at the mechanics floor to ceiling perhaps 2.4 at a shallow angle perhaps 2.5 with perhaps 250- 350mm overlap per section so a a tripple 1m ladder will work as 2.4+600 [2 overlaps is 3m so 3 sections ] you then go for say 800 you will be perhaps 5 sections that will...
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    Temporary propping of loft to allow pigeon decontamination contractors to work safely

    as they will be systematically working around the loft and to the hatch an easilly adaptable and moved safe surface would be best perhaps 10 or 13ft scaffold board perhaps 6 so they can be arranged and easily moved to form walkways or perhaps 3 side by side for a 27" /700mm work area or any...
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    Jeremy Hunt shifting the tax burden towards pensioners

    when i retired almost exactly 5 years ago i paid no tax nothing has changed other than annual increases i have gone from around £12'200 no tax to around £14'500 so tax on £2300 or £460 now not a kings ransom but just over 3% off my pension or 1/5th off any annual increase
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    Planning to build a 10 X 12 shed. Wood straight onto concrete, or raise slightly?

    mines is on bare clay soil lump hammer lots off bashing to firm up the ground slab/part slab/brick/slate handfulls off sand what ever to give height needed on a gentle slope topped with felt or dpm then 3x2 treated joists in a 600mm grid pattern and 19 years on all fine
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    Pedestrian safety aid

    Sometimes compromises are the best option where sharing is the best compromise where all respect the others using the space with more thought and respect given to who have the natural first use off the space bollards are great at defining whats expected but a bit unfriendly in a shared world
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