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Anyone got any knowledge of electical certification?!

A house I'm buying had an EICR result of 'unsatisfactory'. The seller has kindly addressed the failing issues on the EICR and provided an NICEIC installation certificate. My understanding is that that certificate means the electrical work was done in a compliant way (which is great).

However, I had still wanted to see a passing EICR test, which there appears to be some push back against.
Does anyone know if this (EICR) is needed, or if the NICEIC certificate would supercede that test.

edit: possibly important, the failing EICR test that was provided was originally done c. ten years ago.

How many more bedrooms are there in the house that you're sharing the main bathroom with?

With that layout I'm not convinced I'd value using that little bathroom compared to the bigger one next door - I think I'd value a wardrobe more too.

I don't know about the attraction to buyers of en suites. I've recently been looking at houses, and didn't add much value to small ensuites or downstairs bathrooms have been stuffed into little spaces for the sake of it.

re-shaping the old one

Quite a bit of work I imagine, as you'd have to get the old finish off the entire neck then refinish it. No harm in trying of course but, but a new neck definitely makes sense to me.

I always have a fear of shaping / sanding through the back of the neck to the truss rod channel whenever I make one (I've seen someone else do it and it's irrecoverable).
I think the fear of doing it would be irrationally higher reshaping a neck where I didn't know know exactly how deep the channel was.

diamond white

I'd forgotten this existed. Around our way Snakebite (and black) were renamed 'Diamond Snakebite (and black)' when this stuff was involved.

Just wishful thinking on their part?

Seems to be a common response by flippers, at least the ones that I looked at recently whilst house searching. They tended to be initially listed at a higher premium than they deserve then dropped their price over time.

The best one I saw that had been 'improved' was what would have been a nicely spaced 4 bed, converted into a six bed (plus another studio at the bottom of the garden), all en-suite. I think there were nine bathrooms in the house all together. Guess they wanted to airbnb it first but tried to sell it for the price of a six bedroom West London house instead.

Why is nobody talking ... swathes of Gen Xers

Gen X - curse of the forgotten generation strikes again

I think it might be too late for him to back down isn't it?

Doesn't him and Vance having been nominated by the convention mean he can't back out now?

Yes! I remember the tubes - they were definitely a thing.

And the screen - those prime legroom seats (I never sat in them) at the bulkhead just meant you presumably got a big projector screen inches from your face :)

Thanks. It looks like it's probably unreasonable to blame truss for continuing high interest rates, as they'd have likely happened anyway, but it's probably reasonable to say that she precipitated something here sixth months earlier than it would have happened in Europe.

People at work said this to me - that it was going to happen anyway and her individual effect was short lived. I don't know if this is true (I'd have to seek out UK IR plotted next to other European ones I guess to assess). If anyone happens to have those plots I'd be interested...

If you say that the Tories did it, that gives her an out by being able to pin the blame on the establishment who she was trying to overturn.

Assuming they're refering to her mini-budget I think it works better in this instance to put the blame entirely on her.

It's spot on - you'd have thought that she'd have made sure that practically any shade of green would have been purged from her warderobe already.

I vaguely recall watching a film on the way to America, with it beaming through the smoke - it can't have been that bad can it?! I can't remember.

I do remember that there was no choice of film, so you'd run the risk of them showing something wildly age inapproriate - kids at school used to boast of having seen Predator or The Running Man or something on the way to Disneyworld.

Can you amazon prime an obdb reader to yourself? They're dead easy to use and till let you know if you can just delete it.

For example, I had a catalytic converter efficiently warning that was scheduled to come up every three months but which lit the CEL when it arrived - it was fine to delete it until you wanted to fix it.

I'm getting excited!

I was going to try to ignore it, but I'm getting drawn in as well.

I don't have a view on how close it is anymore, whether it's still Trumps to lose given their electoral system. I suspect that it's still closer than my internet bubble is suggesting.

Appreciated, thanks - the Brentford one is the one that's 500m away from me. I guess disinformation or not I'll have to take it into account.

Pretty depressing all the targets on that list.

what does KS do about it?

You'd have thought that stopping using the platform would be a very easy. fairly measured response, there's no obligtion for there to be loads of government accounts on twitter.

Is there anywhere that's listing the locations of these riots?

I'm getting whatsapps from local parents about them popping up in various locations near us. Hard to know if they're legit

Sounds like you've done everything you can. It's such an asymetrical encounter, buying from a dealer - they sell cars every day but you buy one once every five+ years or so.

I've always done an independent inspection on anything I've bought (I found a good guy on whocanfixmycar.com last time), I've always thought that was worth the extra hassle of organising and any dealers have accepted it and agreed not to sell out from under me.

It definitely feels like there should be a tension cutoff before robo-tuners ruin the finish on your guitar (or worse?)

robo tuners gone rogue

Bit late to this, but that looks lovely, cracking colour.

I quite like that look where the plate colour doesn't quite match the other plastics, it looks like it's got a bit of age to it (though the green body might be throwing me if ant of them are a bright white).

Z3M / Alpina go together beautifully

I'd avoid - some of the photos of cars he's selling look photoshopped (e.g. the red seat Leon looks like it's been pasted onto the background to me).

I'm possibly overcautious and obviously don't know about that one, but I found dealers on auto trader to be a minefield - you expect a showroom and whatnot but instead they so often seem to be clowns selling cars from the street and just a waste of time going to see them. I ended up just filtering for private sellers and getting an AA check.

Go straight for the LP - you'll just end up getting one anyway if you buy an intermediary.

This was released a long while back, when I was climbing more; on-sighting British trad climbs (where you have to put protection in as you go)

On sight

They're definitely measuring different things, but I suspect the 5.15 grade earlier is wildly harder than the E7 they're climbing here (not that I could dream of ever doing an E7)