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    Site Labour

    I use a site called gumtree.com to find casual staff and there are always ads for those seeking work too. There are gumtres for many areas so you can look close to home. place a free ad or search for work. If you were in manchester I could help.
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    All white Now

    neighbour of mine was painting the upper 1/2 of his house white. He only took a full gallon of finest exterior wall coat up the ladder and of course dropped the lot. As it hit the ground flat bottom first, the resulting backlog spewed up the wall, across the whole garden, windows, his car, his...
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    louvre vertical blinds

    simple answer YES. once a fitter we had to cut the 'width' of the rail every time the boss miss measured. The slack will sort out too. In the end of the rail is a plastic end, there is a spring washer or chrome cap, remove this with a screwdriver. The end cap then slips off. Try and work on a...
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    rendering and coatings

    56k to be vat reg' tells a story to me. If they havn't reached 56k PA then how long have they been around. We do 56k a month, but still not Ltd: Most wall coatings are sprayed these days and yes 50+ CFM compressors and a good quality airless spayer are bread and butter equipments these days. We...
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    Need advice in plastering inside bare red brick walls

    spray on lime based decopierre and it is 100% breathable, can go on to bare brick up to 2" thick and be finished as smooth-ish, stone or block look. more info on resquest.
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    Plastering Over an Intact Brick Fireplace.

    there is a new Decopierre team in Ireland probably decopierre.ir I guess. they can make it look like anything.... even bricks.
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    roof cleaning

    Hi nosey, thought you were missing from this one. Spoke to a guy in Holland today, 36 years manufacturing coating products, 26 making roof coating for concrete roofs and tiles, And all manufactured to include specifications including ISO, 4624, Din53-504, Din-EN ISO 7738-2, Din/EN/ISO 1062-3...
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    roof cleaning

    Bakers make bread, roofers replace roof's, Marley are correct that why some daft Dutchman spent 1,450,000G's on developing roof coating systems that are used worldwide... he's happy spose. I would never clean a roof without sealing is with summat'. Lets face it ,there's nowt better than a new...
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    Moss preventer for concrete roof tiles

    for every Roy Rogers theres a sheriff of Nottingham, for every superman theres an coco the clown. For every invention theres a doubting Thomas that will never learn owt, whilst the old ways abound. :lol: If a jobs worth doing, .......................
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    Sunday's Snow

    Oh cool man..... me and the wifey sat in a 42degree hot tub outside our hired log cabin just outside York (Griffon Forest), Champers in one hand, bowl of strawberries at the side, snow on my hat....... great It was my birthday so I was making the most. pass the bolly...
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    Neighbours poor dog

    I have tried the RSPCA who were useless, but what can I do. next door we have Hungarian neighbours who got a puppy for their kids last November. They keep it is a BOX only just big enough to turn round in and let is out 2-3 time a day for a pee etc: Poor litle thing was out on Bonfire night...
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    rendering advice please :)

    go on you tube and look at wall render there are many options and ideas. its great for finding new stuff
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    rendering or knocking down a poorly build outhouse

    you could clad it with pvc panels (soffit boards for example), render it with lime. use sheet material like roof panels or T&G shed (wood) timber. But if its that bad you could just knock it down and start again.If the roof is bad too, then plasterboard will never be a sucess. there are some...
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    Can Tadpoles attack goldfish

    yep i have chosen to offer completely free some snippets of my 50 year collection of head candy. A compendium of often useless information collected from many a career move covering many facets of DIY and DIFSE (do it for someone else). Some may seek to scorn (noseall) and some may wish to use...
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    Moss preventer for concrete roof tiles

    hmmmmn good question............ how many years have you been a know it all or does it just come natural like ? ??? :roll:
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    Can Tadpoles attack goldfish

    Yes taddies are carnivors. ever wondered why a frog can lay 12000 spawn, get 800 taddies and yet only 12-15 frogs make it to climb out of the puddle. Once the froglettes are losing there tails and becoming frogs, the poor little b*ggers get eaten by the taddies, (see frog skins appear) so they...
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    Large lonely goldfish in pond

    yes great idea... get lots of little ones fatten it up a bit and get the chips on, I hear carp are tasty.... :lol:
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    Where would I get a large Walnut tree?

    buy a walnut whip, plant is and wait 120 years..... choco-later than never :lol:
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    Where can I get a tree trunk from?

    Try a tree... they grow on them round here???? ;-)
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    Driveway -made from pattern imprinted concrete

    the cement used for this is available as premixed, RMC and the likes .It's quite normal cement with fibreglass stands BUT the rubber pads used to create the shapes are not. And a set cost more than it's worth to get involved. Companies basically sell it for what they can get. Stories of adding...
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