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    Replacing clips in shutters

    Try contacting a few local blind specialists? Or if you have an intact one you might be able to get some more made on a 3D printer.
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    Advice - Shed Screws

    If the studs are 27mm wide then won't 65mm screw be too long?
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    Washed Your Car?

    It was the first time I'd had the car washed in about two years and it was filthy with moss in the window corners etc so went to one of these roadside car cleaners to get it well blasted, heyho! But I guess the guy didnt give a hoot and I didn't warn him about the notrious Golf front sensors. It...
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    Washed Your Car?

    Yep :rolleyes:
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    Golf 2013 2.0 diesel Intermittent Fault

    Turns out it was the crank sensor, the external one behind the oil filter. Despite the internet and several garages telling me they either work or they don't that's clearly not the case. I was on the verge of either changing this part or it's off to We Buy Any Car. Glad I persisted with it, like...
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    Washed Your Car?

    I got the car washed a few months back, a few days later the rear number plate lights failed and the the front radar packed up.
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    Dart board backer board infront of a large tv

    Yea I was thinking that, it's very far from sleek though, which I think the OP is trying to achieve.
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    Cant upload 5.75mb mp4 file

    You can't upload videos to the forum unfortunately.
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    Dart board backer board infront of a large tv

    What about some kind of TV lift, but used to lift the dartboard up/down rather than a TV? Me thinks this would have been easier to solve beforehand. Hindsight eh!
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    Channelled too much

    Is the wall load bearing? Personally I'd not be too worried.
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    Tradesmen not interested

    @davecooper Do this.
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    Tradesmen not interested

    Why would you do that? Just price it, they accept or they don't. Granted they may well leave negative reviews anyway but I don't see why you would say any of that.
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    Saw cut for continuous cavity

    No need for a lintel:
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    Insulating walls of timber built garage

    Please say you fitted a breather membrane + vertical counter battens + horizontal battens before you fitted the cladding?
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    Set TV to watch Freeview (& Other Free Channels) Only

    Your post literally says you must have no TV aerial. Have you been taking PR lessons from Karoline?
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    Best way to seal/waterproof wood tiles for use behind wash basin

    If it were me, I would ring some decent trade product manufactures like Sika or Permagaurd. They all have technical helplines with people in their technical departments happy to speak to customers.
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    Drains

    Not legally without water company approval. But plenty of people do.
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    Day rate for a Carpenter in Dorset

    Winners? :unsure:
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    Day rate for a Carpenter in Dorset

    Glad I could educate you.
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    Fixing stairs

    Traditionally this would have been done with mesh and then plastered but it could be done with bendy plasterboard but it probably still need to be skimmed, otherwise it would look like Kryten's head. Have a look on YouTube.
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