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    Fire at home and more smoke alarms

    Good evening, we had a fire in a bedroom in our house last night which was only just put out with 4 extinguishers( 2kg co2, 6l foam which failed, 9l water and a 9kg powder) . The fire started in a bedroom from a Dehumidifier, the door was closed so the maines wired smoke in the landing took a...
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    Pv Solar diy install for off-grid system

    Hey, is this the correct page to ask about DIY solar Pv systems? Mostly using Victron equipment?
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    Timber prices

    Hi all, does anyone know what timber prices are like atm. Are they going up again or down?
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    Zero mobile signal and Antenna

    Hey, we live in a very rural part of Herefordshire down a valley which has zero mobile signal. If i go up above the roof of my tractor shed by 1 meter which is above the house, I get 2-3 bars of Vodafone signal. I have a Poynting A-XPOL-0001 Antennas which could be fixed to a pole on said shed...
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    2009 Countax C800H 4x4 Deck lift problems.

    Hello there, I have recently purchased a Countax C800H 4x4 mower with known issues. The main problem Is that the electric deck lift is broken. I have checked the lifting ram by applying 12v to the correct pins in the plug and can get it to lift and lower by changing polarity. Have just fitted...
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    New outbuilding on existing previous building foundations

    Right, here goes it. Purchased our rural property 18 years ago. It was derelict at the time. It came with a garden of 3/4 acre and 2.5 acres of Agricultural land. In the garden land was a 20 x 30 ft barn made of curved roofing and brick walls . We removed it but left the foundations of said...
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    Texecom Premier Elite sound

    Hey Have a Premier Elite 24, upgraded by a nice chap on here. Just did a full alarm and then cancel. It made the noise like a master blaster shutting down on both internal sounders and bell. Had the actual ones turned off. Was this an option! Sounded great. My Master blasters were off so as to...
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    Permitted Development on rural sloping land

    Hello there, we have a smallholding in the country. The domestic land around the house is 1 acre and the Agricultural land is 2.5 Acres. All of the land is steeply sloping. Over the past 20 years of ownership have built several outbuildings in the garden part. All needing digging the land...
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    Texecom premier Elite PS fault

    Good evening, I have a Texecom premier Elite 24 alarm system. Recently I had the firmware updated so as to fit a smartcom to it. It is now all fitted and communicating to my wifi and can use the app on my mobile to arm and disarm it. The problem I have is that upon disarming the system either...
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    LED Floodlight Woes

    Hi people, I changed all of our outside Halogen Floodlights to LED many years ago thinking it would be cheaper and not require yearly bulb changes. I was wrong! All purchased from Screwfix at a cost of around £30 a time. They all lasted a year or 2 before they gave up. Thankfully Screwfix...
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    Purchase of a new property with part mortgage

    Hello there, this is a bit of a difficult question. Basically I live with my parents on a smallholding of which they are the owners. In the near future we are looking at selling this place and buying a farm in wales. My brother who owns a house in town is selling up and going to come live with...
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    Permitted Development on our cottage

    Hello there, we have a Rural cottage in the country, have doubled its size through rear extensions with full planning permision 12 years ago. What permitted extensions can we do now after said rear extension. Have we lost all permitted rights now?
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    Permitted Development in a rural area

    Hello there, we have a smallholding of near 4 acres. The garden is just shy of an acre. We are looking at building a carport on an existing site which was a pre-fab garage. the area involved would be to the rear of our property near to an unclassified country road. The new building would be 3...
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    Workshop alarm

    Hello there, I've recently had a 30ft X 20ft wooden workshop built on our land. it is lined internally with 3/4 inch osb board on all vertical walls and has an unduline roof lined with 1/2 osb board. The roof has 4 clear plastic corigated roof lights. I would like to install some kind of alarm...
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    building a garage in garden permitted development

    Hello there, we are wanting to build a 30ft X 20ft wooden garage in our 1 acre garden. Our house is in the country with no nabours close by and our house is on an unclassified country lane. Our house sits in the middle of the plot but the front of the house doesn't face the road the side does...
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    Texecom Veritas 8 with premier LCDLP

    Hi. I'm running a Texecom veritas 8 system in an outhouse. Would a Premier LCDLP keypad work on this system or not? Many thanks.
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    building a garage/workshop+planning permission

    Hello there. I hope to build a 30ftx20ftx12ft to eves, workshop come garage in my garden. It will come as a kit from a wooden barn company. I want to place it in our garden 2 meters from our unclassified country lane. We have a nabours on the oposite side of the lane 40 feet further up from...
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    texecom premier elite 24 ricochet advice

    Hello there. I'm currently installing an Elite 24 alarm to my house. I am using some wired detectors already wired into the house but am adding a ricochet wireless part to the system. I have fitted a new premier elite blue keypad and wanted to know if I can add the ricochet expander to said...
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    Texecom Odyssey 3E Question

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    Scaffold tower

    Hello there, I work for someone who has some scaffold towering for sale. It is I=I in shape, each section it 4ftx3ft and there are 20 of them. It is made from 30mm galve tubing and has been well used with cement and dents on each part-about 8 years old. What kind of price should I be paying to...
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