Recent content by Matt42

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Thanks. Immediate effect then as soon as it dries and then renail? No scarring?

That is really interesting thank you. So I could remove baton by baton, treat the black stains with acid and then immediately renail with some stainless steel nails? Big job or little job? Either way cheaper than 1500 quid for new batons. So something like this and rub it in with the steel wool...

Do you think the original firm then were less than good? So I just need a decent loft ladder firm to do it this time?

The staining is so bad that I don't think it will get any worse now. New panels would set me back 1500 quid I think so not an untidy sum. So I remove the panels, apply oxalic acid to the wood and then renail with stainless steel nails? Will the acid work or leave a different type of 'scar' in...

Hi, My other project I am mulling over. The guys who did our garden project 2 years put in these cedar batons but then used nails that have leaked/rusted or the nail gun used some form of lubricant. It just looks terrible with these rust patches. I looked at the other side of the batons and...

Hi, I need some loft hatch advice. When we moved in 20 years ago some company called Artisan lofts or similar put the loft hatch on the underside of the wooden surround so you could then pull it down with a metal skewer and the ladder comes down with it. The problem was that the loft hatch or...

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I'll check it out. It only 5 miles from me. Never knew it existed. Thanks

Hi, Excuse my complete 'denseness' on this matter! I need a new garden gate. Do I buy the gate and get a man to fit it or is it best to go to a specialist gate place if one exists? I asked my home improvement 'expert' mum about this (She's like Mrs Bucket!) and she said B&Q gates are thin and...

Peanuts then?

He came back today. The slate coping is ours and we agreed he hadn't listened fully! He is going to take them up. I have a few spare coping stones fortunately. He said I wouldn't get them properly aligned as the seat brickwork isn't straight for which I accept there'll need to be some...

He's coming back to finish the pointing (does it take two lots of work?) and he said he left them slightly longer as he didn't know what I wanted. I have been on holiday so this is slightly forgivable. So he will trim those back but my feeling is that he should take them up again and re lay them...

As an update. So bricks being finished today (photos to follow). Question, guy has put in the slate coping but left gaps between them. It looks rubbish. He says they are expansion gaps. Surely it's hot for them to expand any more in this weather and they can expand sideways. It looks really naff...

No. He's more of all rounder I think rather than a brickie. I only need max 10 bricks and didn't want to be paying him to traipse round the county only to get a 'near' match which would look rubbish!