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    Ye, niceic and their members like to think they make the rules, If I'm doing pat for a rental landlord with maybe 5 items in a house he simply wants some stickers and a short list of what I've tested with pass or fail, if its for a larger business with maybe 200 items I'll do them a spreadsheet type of affair, Horses for courses.
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    Its outside the scope of BS7671 so you simply compile a suitable certificate of your own, It doesn't have to be based on the 'model' forms, Its like doing PAT , you simply design a record of checks that suits the job and client.
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    I had one of those, for firing in some 3" & 4" nails when I was doing our roof, done the job perfectly well, although I do have an inline oiler, and my small compressor needed to catch up on air after only 4 or 5 nails, and I couldnt be bothered going and borrowing my mates bigger one with its massive tank. cost about £120 [iirc] including a few thousand nails, after Id finished the roof I sold it on ebay for £100 sans nails, the nails alone would have cost me over £20, so, theoretically, I made a small profit,
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    That's usually how it happens in a domestic, Can also normally be fixed by adding a snubber.
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    Just use cheap in trouser foam type ones, and replace when they flatten out .
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    Round here there is a 'bathdoctor' and I'd challenge anyone to find the repair he has made. I've worked in a lot of properties where he has made repairs, he is very good, As @Barney12 said, diy kits are only as good as the skill of the person applying them.
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    Browning may actually be better if you are unsure about the suction, it holds its water better than bonding, but, can be a bit harder to work with.
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    No, hardwall is simply hardwall, a finishing plaster, bonding is a lot different, http://www.diy.com/departments/thistle-bonding-coat-undercoat-plaster-25kg/35814_BQ.prd
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    Being an expert witness is absolutely no different to being a "normal" witness, With the exception of you are qualified in whatever field,. You are simply there to state fact, nothing less, nothing more, as long as you don't state opinion as being fact then there is no issue, Only my experience of having been there on more than one occasion, its no big deal, you turn up, you tell the truth, you go home.
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    If it's more than maybe 3/16th" then I'd suggest probably bonding it first, skim doesn't really like anything more than 3-5mm depth to get a nice finish. Brick/mortar, then yes, a 5:1 PVA first, give it a good scrub with a wire brush first if in doubt, then a good brush out to get rid of any loose dust/debris,
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    Like @IanR said, the trade side cash flow, I'm only a really small company, and bigger companies late (and even non) payments to me have almost sunk me a few times in the past, I've had payments of over 10K withheld over stupid things, (eg, 1 failed lamp [just the actual bulb] out of maybe 100 fittings) , so I have to replace that lamp [bulb], resubmit invoice, cue another 60days from month end til payment date,!!!!!
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    A Henley is actually an ISCO - Insulated Service COnnecter (use single pole ones if you can, not double pole) A bit like Hoover is actually a vacuum cleaner SWA glands are CW type as opposed to BW for internal You shouldn't banjo a CW gland. Edit to add: If you are running the tails through a ferrous material all the cables should pass through the same hole.
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    Mate of mine that does it always puts a slight slope on it as he reckons you never get flat wood anyway and there will always be a twist or dip somewhere. I only found that out when I was round his 'helping' him do his own, and I 'helpfully' pointed out to him that it wasn't level , I don't know how you could easily do that now though.
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    Silverline,,, they do "good" 1m long drill bits, they bend quite easily so are ideal for drilling down behind skirting boards, I'm struggling for anything else, Like @Crofter I treat the stuff as disposable/consumable , if it does the one job I bought it for, then its served its purpose, Driver bits, so far I find dewalt hard to beat for the money, but I recently got some Bosch ones, and they seem (so far at least) to be just as good, if not better tbh. It would have me in tears to pay the £20-£30 for the likes of Wera/Wiha bits,
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    The biggest problem you will find with tenders if YOU don't specify exactly what you want is this, No one wants to give you a design of how they would do it and then you go to someone else and say, This is the design I want, how much,?
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    Its all very good talking about houses with low running costs, But people want to see a return in their money, as someone mentioned, why buy a new fridge to save 10£ a year, when it will be with half its cost in that year, So why spend £100k more for an energy efficient house that won't save £100k over the next 20years,? People want ri save money in their energy bills, but telling someone X house is £500 a year cheaper to run than Y house isn't going to make one bit of difference if Y house has a 10k kitchen in it, that's 20years worth of energy savings to the average person.
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    My sister just sent me this, if anyone is looking for a renovation project, http://www.lsh.co.uk/commercial-properties/freehold/land/former-nuclear-bunker,-woodside-road-ballymena-bt42-4qh-3568?currency=1
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    That's exactly the one my mum had, until they got mains gas installed.
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    That's exactly where I'm from,!!! I used to do a load of work subbing for Antrim council, mind, that was over 20 years ago. Cullybackey, that's a whole new language,
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    I don't know about boilers, but when the Isle of Man went from town gas, to natural gas I had to get my hob re-jetted, jets cost iro £15 and I got my gasman mate to fit them for a tenner, 15minute job.
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    Isn't it a funny thing tho, I would go for a south kitchen and north living room, We use the kitchen as a living area, and only by later in the evening do we use the living room.
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    Errrm, didn't I say that each tile should be flush to its neighbour,? Anything less is unacceptable, But I disagree, you shouldn't be using the adhesive to make up for an unlevel floor to that degree, a few mil, but not to the extent of what has been said looks like 20mm. Yes, it should all be ripped up and relaid at absolutely NO expense to the client, unless, the slab needs leveled if it really does run out at the extent of 20mm, which is yet to be confirmed. But then the client should only be allowing for the levelling, if that hasn't already been agreed in the original contract.
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    I'm not arguing the tiling is rough as (expletive deleted), but, if he has been brought in on a price to lay the tiles on a finished surface, its not his problem if the customer hasn't levelled the floor sufficiently to their satisfaction. Does he lose his time that he has allowed to lay the floor,? Who is paying him? The job is a disgrace, I don't think anyone can disagree that, but the OP hasn't yet told us the terms of the contract. Was he contracted to screed/level and tile,? or simply paid per sq m to lay some tiles,? Either way, I wouldn't be paying him for tiles laid like that anyway.!
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    I'd tend to agree with that, I don't think you can put too much blame on the tiler for unlevel, but its totally unacceptable for adjacent tiles to not be flush with one another. And the random gaps,,,,, beggars belief tbh,
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    Suggestion, When you meet up with him, show him the paper where they say you have to remove 'his' space, but explain that you don't think that's very fair, and ask if he would mind ,that, rather than delete 'his' space, could WE move it over so it is parallel to his driveway. Anyone half reasonable would settle for that I would think, plus, you are now on his side, by ignoring the rule you were gave to remove the space, and instead have simply moved it a bit.
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