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Top floor bedroom ceiling water drip drip. No pipes in loft.
Woke up to a drip drip of water from upstairs bedroom ceiling inside cupboard. The cupboard though is irrelevant. The first pic is what i have read is a wooden joist. It's damp. The joist continues into the cupboard where drip is. It was raining. But despite it raining heavy showers through today it stopped leaking. Am…
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Not dropping Santa down the chimney!: 2025 Santa, Shoebox & Life Chit,Chat,Chunter! ALL welcome....
Welcome to the shiny new thread which has a slightly different title and I have just updated the date! Now 2025 Santa's Challenge was set up by Mum2one some years ago but sadly she hasn't posted on this forum for a couple of years, so now we are on our own. We remember her, her Mum and daughter with fondness and hope that…
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UKCPS Leeds City Station
Received the following fine after stopping on double yellow lines outside the multi story car park at Leeds city station. Stopped for less than 30 seconds while I let a passenger out. I have no responded to the letter in anyways and would appreciate some guidance. I’m a new driver and it was my first time going to the…
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I have recieved parking tickets from 2020 come to me a couple months ago and this is what I’ve got
What should I put in my defence ?
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DCB Legal/MET Parking claim received
Hi guys/girls, My friend has received claim form Issue date 05/08/2025 (attached here) We have filed AoS using MCOL on 14/08/2025. She is registered keeper (driver wasn't reported yet) I was the driver. We need help with this case if possible.... Thank you very much
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Broken window lock - how to get access to mechanism?
Hi.Two openers on this bedroom window - one worked smoothly, and the other went all limp. The handle turns, but loosely and clearly doesn't 'act' on anything inside. It was fortunately left on 'vent' setting, which means I have partial access to the sliding bolt involved - see pics. I bent a bike spindle into a hook, and…
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Default notice help
Hi all, have been reading a lot of great advice on here last couple months. I've just started facing my debt repayment journey and after reading advice on here have stopped paying and have been ignoring my 3 creditors (2 unsecured loans (Abound & Lloyds Bank & 1 Zopa credit card) with debt totalling around £10k. One of my…
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Radiator brainache
A new radiator was hanging around in our house while some building work was being done. At some point, it got dented. Probably from me bashing my bonce on it in frustration at it not getting hung. Plumber cones in, a trusted chap who has been straight as a die thus far. I ask about the dent and he says he can hang it back…
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How can I find cheap carpet and installer and quick?
Got a social housing property, they said I should quality for a community care grant (but I do have large savings so doubt I will) But the waiting times are basically around 4 weeks for a decision and however long it takes to book an appointment to select carpet and fitters to put it down. I move in 3 weeks so can't do…
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DB pension transferred, now they want some money back
I've seen similar posts but nothing exact, so apologies up front if I've missed anything. I transferred my DB pension to DC 3 years ago, no problems with that. A few weeks ago my employer wrote to me and said there had been a mistake and they were after 20% of the money back. I know there is a statute of limitations of 6…
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ULEZ misunderstanding on payment timeframe - grounds for appeal?
Hi All, This week I drove into ULEZ in my dirty diesel on Wednesday and left on Thursday. My understanding is that I had up to 3 days to pay the charges due. As it's Sunday today I've come to pay but was only able to pay for Thursday. Upon further reading I now understand that it was up to 3 days to pay for each day i.e.…
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Newcastle BS login issue
Is it just me, but every time I login to Newcastle BS, the first time I put in all the correct information, it immediately dumps me out with an error message suggesting that I've been logged out because I've been logged out for my own safety due to inactivity (can't remember the exact words). The next time I login it lets…
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Iboost Diversion to Grid
Hi , I want to divert all solar to the grid as it is more profitable using the old meter I have . There is an offset limit of 500w on my iboost+ . Is that the max I can export to the grid.
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New build with 'major defect' - next steps?
Please can someone advise me if the steps to take. Background: Insurers of the structural warranty have just confirmed that they want to do more investigations to confirm the extent of ‘major defect’ They’re talking about then doing a plan for repairs after these investigations. . I’ve done some googling and see that major…
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my 12 v tv
my 12v has stopped working for some reason , i bought it last june and only used it about 35 days over a year , i bought it from amazon , not sure what my rights are as it should last longer than what is has can only help with my rights kind regards joe
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MOT Advisory help
Hi all. These advisories came up on a 10 year old car today. It passed its MOT but should I fix or get rid ? And do they just sound bad, please help. Fix or flip ? Front sub frame corroded but not seriously weakened (5.3.3 (b) (i)) Rear rear axle corroded. Both front and rear shock absorbers corroded. Nearside and Offside…
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doc martens and my consumer rights
i bought a pair of £170 docs. i have been really precious with them only wearing them indoors. I was planning to walk 3 miles home each day in the coming winter months but i have no faith in the quality of the boots to be able to confidently do so now Over the course of a day the polish wore through down to the bare…
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New porch door and windows FAIL
Yesterday I had a new composite door and double glazed windows fitted in my porch. It appears the fitters have used black/dark brown silicone for the interior around the windows and clear silicone ontop. I’ve NEVER seen this before, it looks like a total bodge. I was hoping to paint the porch a light white colour but…
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Project Mortgage Neutral Begins
Hi. We have just remortgaged on our larger product and while mortgage freedom is still the ultimate goal I am working on the smaller challenge of mortgage neutral first. We have a smaller mortgage that we transferred when we moved 5 years ago and a larger mortgage that topped it up. Mortgage 1 Total £32097.21 Interest…
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Good webcam for use with MS Teams
I need to get a decent but budget webcam to use with MS Teams as my 10 year old laptop's camera doesn't cut it. Can anyone suggest what's good for around the £50 or less mark. I did look at the Anker Powerconf C200 but there's quite a lot of mixed reviews with it's use with teams. I've also seen the Logitech Brio 500 being…
