Recent content by Kristen

Thanks chaps - knowing the right terminology doesn't half make a difference!

I have a short piece of hose on my tap, with a "hoselock" connector. If I want to just use the tap I remove the hose at the hoselock connector, not at the tap. This reduces the number of times that the tap itself is tampered with, so once I manage to get a watertight connection I can leave it...

Suggest considering what the variety of hedge it is. Leylandii (for example) will not regrow from being cut back [into old wood] - so you'd just have dead twigs on your side after cutting hard back. If the hedge turns out to be your neighbour's (notwitstanding the deeds) then if you kill...

If you have clipped the hedge neatly each year (i.e. not "mauled" it back into shape) - which looks to be the case from the pictures - then I think the most likely cause is Cupressus aphid. If that is the case then sadly it is likely to seriously/fatally damage that plant and most probably all...

I am looking for half a dozen downpipe clips (68mm O/D) that do not have an offset. The only ones I can find hold the pipe about 30mm away from the "wall". I'm not using the downpipe in that way, this is for a different DIY project, and I need the pipe to be flush with, or close to, the...

"a) Are we right in going for the Western Cedar?" Yes, good choice. Quick, but not as fast as Leylandii. Trims to a nice tight / smart hedge. Can be cut back to old wood (not as well as others, such as Yew, but Leylandii will not resprout from old wood at all) - but better never to miss an...

I want to put water butts under my cast iron downpipes. Downpipes are 100x75mm, and the nearest joint above water butt is about 8' from ground. Water butts are 1400mm High x 555mm Deep x 650mm wide (465 Litres). I'd like to stand them on some blocks to raise them up a bit. I was...

Perfect! Many thanks. That's definitely the size I have - I have no idea, from those schematics, how it got to be called 100x75! but there we are :)

I want to fit a water butt to my cast iron downpipes. I've measured the external dimensions of the downpipe as 107mm wide x 83mm deep but I'm not sure what size that relates to (whether the measurements provided are internal's for the pipe so might be 100x75, or perhaps internals for the...