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I have found a treasure trove of my grandfathers WW2 belongings. He was in North Africa as a REME and this is the front cover of a Christmas Day menu.

I’m wondering if anyone has any info on this cockerel?

It’s in the front cover of a menu and wonder if it’s a mascot of the newly formed REME?

Bought these two £3 locks today from different budget stores, I assume that are identical just with different brands on them. I can get the blue one open in seconds from the off, I’ve had it open 10 times so far.

However I can’t get the yellow one open at all, a little bit of movement but that’s it. I’ve tried top of the key way, bottom of key way, rakes, picks, nothing.

Any ideas where I’m going wrong?

Hi all, I’ve been picking for a few months, due to costs I’ve only got about 7 padlocks, I’ve opened some but this is the one I can get absolutely nowhere with.

Where would this padlock be on a scale of difficulty. To me it’s a pro padlock but it could just be a 3/10 and I’m rubbish 🤣

Hi all,

My dad has recently had an air source heat pump installed under the ECO4 scheme. The plumbing work is apparently complete, the floorboards have been put back down, but the job has not yet been signed off.

An electrician has lifted some boards today for separate electrical work, and we’ve noticed that the new copper heating pipework under the floorboards appears to have been left mostly/uninsulated. My dad also has a large box of unused pipe insulation left in the house, which makes me wonder whether this was meant to be fitted before the floors went back down.

I’m trying to understand what the proper requirement is here before I raise it formally with the installer.

The main questions are:

1. Should heating flow/return pipework for a heat pump be insulated under suspended timber floors/voids?

2. Do Building Regulations Approved Document L, BS 5422, MCS standards, or manufacturer instructions require this pipework to be insulated?

3. Is it acceptable to leave heating pipework bare in an underfloor void if it is technically inside the building envelope, or would that still be considered avoidable heat loss?

4. For low-temperature heat pump systems, is pipe insulation considered even more important because the system relies on efficiency and lower flow temperatures?

5. Should I insist this is corrected before sign-off/handover?

I’m not trying to nit-pick, but if these pipes are left bare under the floor, surely some of the heat will be warming the void rather than the radiators/fan convectors, which seems counterproductive on a heat pump system.

Any advice from heating engineers, retrofit assessors/coordinators, MCS installers, or anyone familiar with ECO4/heat pump compliance would be much appreciated.

I need help with ideas how to clean what I believe is a an engineered wood floor.

It’s had years of pet hair, accidents and general grime and done believe a through mop will suffice.

Any thought would be appreciated.