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Did you let the pasted paper soak/stretch for a few minutes before hanging?

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You should never rely on a TRV to shut the water off. There should have been some kind of cap supplied with the valve to replace the TRV head to isolate the rad. The other "er" valve is a lockshield valve used to balance the flow to all the rads, when shutting this valve you should count t...

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Not 100% sure but I think the labels are referring to a coating on the glass units and they are meant to be fitted the correct way round. Unless the glass units came already fitted then it will be the responsibility of the fitter to fit them correctly.

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Does the fan have a timer (to run a few mins after fan is switched off)? The usual setup in a 3 core + earth cable is the brown is the switched live, the grey permanent live (to allow the fan to run on) and the blue neutral. But if the grey is not connected it is an odd setup.

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It is much stronger, and easier, to fix the rails to the face of the posts. If you have 3 rails cut the top and bottom rails to span three posts and the centre rail to span two posts which means that there is not a rail joint on all rails on any one post. It is even stronger if you use the same stag...

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I would use silicone spray not WD40.

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If you fit the handles upside down (on wrong side of door) they will work upwards, unless of course they are locking handles which are not symmetrical top to bottom. Question is why you would want to?

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Is the door a light hollow core door? It looks as though the handles have been fitted where there is no lock block in the door or the door has been hung the wrong way round with the lock block at the hinge side. Not an easy fix but one way would be to cut a section of the door edge out leaving the p...

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As the stain does not start at the bottom, at a guess I would say it could be some contamination in or on the plaster surface staining the emulsion paint. Any staining will come through water based paints however many coats you apply. A simple fix could be a coat or two of OIL based undercoat to sea...

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Assuming that your washing machine is cold fill only and the fill is hot means that the rinse cycle will be hot and will, as you say, use all your hot water. The existing tap to the washing machine needs removing and capping with a compression cap using the olive and nut already on the pipe (no need...

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With a 3 core & earth 2 way switch wiring the yellow should go to the C (common) on both switches with red and blue/black (from the same 3 core cable as yellow) to L1 & L2 and the other 2 wires (from the twin cable) into L1 & L2. This twin cable goes to the light fitting and will not sho...

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! 1/2 ins is a bit thick for self leveling compound and a bit thin for a screed. One option would be to add a 1/2 ins strip of wood on top of the shuttering and then you might get away with a concrete screed (2 ins) of 3 sharp sand to 1 cement.

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40 mm seems a bit large 20mm or even 12mm pea gravel would have been more suitable and easier to bed in. There is a system of resin gravel paths and drives but i think they use i2 or 20mm gravel. When you say 8 bags do you mean 8 x 1ton bags? i would have a word with a local builder and see if you c...

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Just to clarify, are the two switches (on both switch plates) both working two separate two way circuits or is one a two way and the other a one way?

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As Mr White says DONT separate the two cables. You can add a double socket called a spur with a single 2.5mm twin and earth to the new position you just have to add the new wires into the terminals so that in total each terminal in the old socket will now have three wires.

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