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    Best tool to undo flexi under a sink?

    exactly, its the tap end that has to come off one of those, I already undid the leaking one and replaced the rubber as it was looking quite collapsed, but still leaking and then noticed the water coming out at the top of the left hand crimp in the top picture. It would be a pain to take the...
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    Best tool to undo flexi under a sink?

    Well here are two pics, I have the horizontal cabinet support in the way too, but would really really like to leave the sink in place.
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    Best tool to undo flexi under a sink?

    Yes, the two tails go directly into the tap body, at the end where it joins the rest of the plumbing it has a fitting with a rubber seal, and not a compression fitting so most of the ones I have seen on screwfix and toolstation are not suitable, that was the bit I was trying to help with until I...
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    Best tool to undo flexi under a sink?

    the closest to the look of the flexi is this one: https://www.toolstation.com/flexi-hose-300mm/p24989 but I am sure it is a smaller connector up on the tap. bathroom currently occupied will try and take a photo later. the fitting I can get to is about 22mm af for the flexi and the pipe fitting...
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    Best tool to undo flexi under a sink?

    As title, one of the flexis under the bathroom sink has sprung a leak along its length above the lower nut. there is almost no room to get in to undo it. the flexi has been there about 25 years, so expecting it to be difficult to undo. Any particular spanner I should buy to get at the nut up...
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    Need advice - children climbing frame diy timber question

    when mine were younger we always bought second hand stuff, usually sold on a few years later for a similar price. the rope for the swing was a consumable as they eventually rot/weaken in the sun and rain, but easy enough to replace.
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    Removing oil spills from tarmac driveway

    oil and tarmac need the same solvents to remove, I also suggest soap powder or clay cat litter (kept dry if possible, so dont try on a rainy day)
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    Garden Office Insulation & Damp Proofing

    when you have intermittent celotex as a wall construction you need to consider vapour control barriers on both sides of the wall to prevent frost-line condensation at the structural timbers that go from inside to outside of the wall structure.
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    Rechargeable Electric Mower

    Do you have an existing battery power tool, if so buy the same make to share batteries. I am seriously considering changing to the ferrex 40V as I already have several 40V batteries for the 20/40V range tools. the only thing holding me back is that the existing mower is still functional. when it...
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    Help with re-fitting kitchen cupboard after leak

    easier with a strip of ply across the top than trying to use resin filler on a pair of holes, quite easy to smooth down with one of the powder fillers top and bottom of the strip, then the screws can be put where the cupboard needs them, not where the wall studs are.
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    Parking

    Not seen that particular one before, we have many in our garden, much spikier than that, better at keeping people back.
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    Parking

    How about mahonia, the spikyness keeps people off it, and the winter/january fragrance is welcome.
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    Levelling garden - what to do by the fence

    There are lots of free options for 3D software: sketchup CarMetal FreeCAD OpenSCAD SweetHome3D BRL-CAD and some use Blender, but that does not have a setting for dimensions of anything. Some easier to drive than others.
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    Where can I find this paving? (or similar)

    Well in order to get the right colour you will need to give them a very good clean with benzalkonium hydrochloride in order to see the true native colour of the stone, you have moss and lichen fooling you about the colour you need to buy.
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    How To Keep Metal Gate Open Against A Brick Wall

    https://www.magnosphere.co.uk/strong-neodymium-magnets/ and a feeble 116Kg magnet... https://www.magnetexpert.com/square-magnets-c36/50-x-50-x-25mm-high-performance-n52-strongest-grade-neodymium-magnet-116kg-pull-p3785#ps_0_3961|ps_1_7665 There was one site that used to sell a seriously...
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