Recent content by Dave1UK

Could there be harm adding chalk i.e. trapping moisture/water? As it does feel a bit cold but probably from the frame itself.

Hi, Every winter we start to get condensation on our windows overnight, not horribly excessive thankfully and it's fairly manageable. I want to give the window sill a fresh coat of paint as the paint is starting to wear off year by year and it will end up exposing the bare wood, the paint does...

Yeah I ordered some SBR bond for the tiles to stick to the cement. If anything may be of a little more help.

Yeah although as I have the tiles up may as well kill whatever I can before placing them back. Can also see there are actually a lot of dead roots, assuming the survivors were due to no pointing having been done or that it just broke down and was left unfixed who knows. Appreciated, few...

Yeah the sand/soil seems to be well compacted. If you see that huge root in the photo that spanned along about 8 slabs assuming that's why nearly all were basically cracked in that section. The slabs had/have no pointing at all just basically soil in there...will be doing the pointing either...

Hi, We have garden paving slabs (430mm x 430mm) in about 6m sq section. There are always weeds growing out of the gaps, have plucked them out several times and also several slabs are slightly uneven with a few cracked. Slabs can be lifted off quite easily as they are just laid on sand. I am...