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Very, no gas, no main drainage, overhead lines, no streetlights, no pavements, single track roads with passing places etc. The phone lines are copper to the exchange a couple of miles away. Openreach have "no plans" to put full fibre down here as yet.

We have the original BT line, still copper which wasn't great for my lad's gaming etc. As soon as he got a job he paid for Starlink, the £75 a month option I think it is. Speed wise, though x10 better than BT it doesn't seem that great to me as in for the money. The dish is set up correctly. It may be because we are at the bottom of a steep valley so have line of sight to fewer satellites? BT: Starlink:

There was a chap on here, down in Deal from memory, went on a course then did his own EWI. He offered for me to go down and take a look but I never did. Can't recall his username...

I bought a part roll of Cat-6 on FB marketplace when I ran it for the EV charger recently. Bargains to be had etc!

I just simply lack empathy but fake it to make it. Failing horribly btw

We've turned the oil off for CH. Down to 150 gallons. Only using for HW now.

@Pocster?

Absolutely. Galling is a thing to be very wary of. Use copper slip or aluminium anti seize. A bitch if they gall. Another trick is to use A4 nuts on A2 studs as well as an anti seize medium.

"A far better mix is to use 100gm citric, 40gm of washing soda (tesco green bags) and a squirt of fairy liquid per 1L of water. It is reusable many times. Doesn't turn the metal black. And doesn't etch the metal so much. It is a similar solution to Evaporust".

Aluminium foil and water.

No tow bar. A mate was going to get the same as mine but decided not to as he wants to tow. It feels funny only going into garages now for Ginsters and wine gums mind.

EV. Skoda Enyaq x 85 SportLine. AWD, 175kW DC charging, 82kW battery, 0-60 in 6.6 seconds etc.

All run in separate cables culminating in this on the drive:

Again, J bolts hooked under reinforcing mesh or some similar design of holding down unit with plates and long studs. Windage against a gate and offset loads will just worry chemical anchors out over time. With something locked into the concrete you're trying to "worry" the whole, large concrete footing.

I'd cast in J bolts for that as a "holding down unit". Hooked round mesh going down into the concrete. Don't get me wrong I love chemical anchors.

Try this before cerium oxide: https://www.ungerglobal.com/uk/products/rub-out

Jewellers rouge aka cerium oxide works a treat to bring up scaled glass. We used to use it to get cement stains off glass. It comes in different grit sizes. We once used coarse to fine getting burn marks out of glass that some lad had caused with angle grinder sparks.

Plus you can look back to that point where you had perfectly flat, boarded walls and think "If I'd have "turned right" and accepted a mate's proffered help on the tiling..." Guess who turned left and had a go himself? 😡

Can I just clean out and fill these mortar gaps?

Well it could do with being a tad tighter but it won't come off in a strong blow:

Getting there. Hopefully fitting it in a bit:

& you've been caught!

Print in tpu.

More gone east than West then?

Big in Japan apparently.