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    New TV needs Google or Samsung account?

    Return the TV and get a different one.
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    Sap and knots

    It’s a filler where you mix two components together. One is a “hardener” that is a catalyst that starts the reaction that makes it solidify. Example: “Everbuild 2-Part Wood Filler”.
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    Plant Identification

    Plantnet is free, and amazingly good IMO.
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    Insulating my ancient living room

    My first job after the new sill was installed was to fit an outside tap and socket: These outside sockets are amazingly badly designed. As reported by about a thousand screwfix reviews, the socket is off-centre because of the switch, but the waterproof flex outlet is central. No plug with any...
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    How to tee into 14mm copper pipe which won't budge (without soldering)

    Soldering is not particularly difficult; watch a few videos and practice on some scrap. Honestly I find it harder to judge if I've tightened a compression fitting correctly.
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    carpet too short how much will it stretch

    That’s only 1%; I’d be surprised if you can’t stretch it that much. Not that I’ve ever tried.
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    Tapered plasterboard?

    How non-level is it currently? Typically, I think battens are unusual in this situation. Where you have two tapered edges, you normally use skrim tape. Use paper tape where you have a non-tapered joint.
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    Radiator replacement - should we go for higher BTU than needed?

    Does the existing radiator keep the room warm enough? What is its output? (Measure it, and find a similar new one.)
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    which blocks outbuilding thermal

    Where do you believe the condensation would come from?
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    Felt used instead of lead flashing?

    Have they taken away the old lead, by any chance?
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    Insulating my ancient living room

    3 months later.... Much of the slowness has been due to waiting for tradesmen. Last summer I decided that I'd get the cracked windowsill on the east window replaced. I got three quotes ranging from about £1500 to about £3000. I offered the work to the cheapest guy - and he disappeared. I didn't...
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    EICR, CU Fire Board - What Rules are Retrospective?

    Right. This seems to be the standard procedure with EICRs where they are only being done as a legal requirement. The electrician walks around the property looking for easy jobs that he can do for a tidy profit, and writes a report to suit. The numbers - which 99% of the people who commission...
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    EICR, CU Fire Board - What Rules are Retrospective?

    I’m guessing it’s not your own home, right? There is no requirement for regular inspections in your own home.
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    Miswired light switch

    Well, do we know how they are currently? They must be connected together, somehow.
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    "You must wait 11 seconds"

    I reported a spammer. Then I spotted another spammer, and tried to report that too. But I got this “you must wait” message. So I … may have waited and tried again, or I may have not bothered. I don’t remember now, it was a few weeks ago. It’s not the end of the world, but it seems like an odd...
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    Storing glyphosphate in van and spraying it

    When you’re using it, or when it’s stored? Do you de-pressurise it when it’s not in use? Well…. First question, are they soft green weeds or brown woody weeds? For the soft green stems - annual weeds - if possible just pull them up. I’m nit convinced that there is anything in that photo...
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    Spot light in kitchen need replacing for fire rated

    Right! That’s the intention. The idea is, you pay an electrician to “do an EICR and whatever remedial works they decide are necessary and provide paperwork required for renting” (or whatever). If you want an EICR that actually makes sense to you, or to some other electrician, you need to ask...
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