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Ramping up: repairs, renovations and recycling

WEBWIRE – Tuesday, May 31, 2022 One person over-tightened a toilet seat and ended up cracking the ceramic bowl. More than a third of UK adults plan to increase household repairs, rather than buying newA similar number (33%) intend to buy more pre-owned items in the futureBut two fifths of people say they have damaged…
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Repairs to 1920s home ‘not urgent’, court hears

A building expert poured scorn over suggestions that a century-old house was in need of ‘urgent’ or ‘essential’ repairs. Charles Leigh-Dugmore was asked to examine the 1920s detached home in Wytham Street, Oxford, by the council’s trading standards team after its elderly homeowner allegedly came under pressure to sign an equity release scheme in order…
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