Recent content by powelly79

I'm hanging some gates at the trip of my drive between 2 brick pillars which are 1 1/2 brick. And was wondering if anyone new whether or not I need to dig out post holes or whether I can just bolt them straight to the pillars. One of the gates is around 6'x3' the other about 6x6. Any advice...

the pillars are 1 1/2 brick and one of the gates is around 6'x3' the other about 6'x61/2' and solid.

Hi, I,m fitting a pair of wooden gates to the top of my drive between two brick pillars. I'm going to attach wooden posts to each of these but was wondering if it was necessary to dig out the drive to bed them in or weather they'd be ok just bolted to the pillars. Any advice would be greatly...

I've bought exterior flexible undercoat and gloss as i thought this would be more durable.Would you try remove all the existing paint or just sand it down so it is smooth.Thanks.

Hi, I have an old dining table which I am wanting to paint black with a high gloss finish. It is already covered in antique white Craig and Rose eggshell. I was wondering what the best method to do this would be either layering up a gloss paint or varnishing over a paint. I understand i'd have...

Hi, I have an old dining table which I am wanting to paint black with a high gloss finish. It is already covered in antique white Craig and Rose eggshell. I was wondering what the best method to do this would be either layering up a gloss paint or varnishing over a paint. I understand i'd have...

The reason i think it's a whole is because it's round and hole shaped. It is on a combi system so will prob go for the tap and screw route providing i can get through the gap with a tapping bit. Cheers.

Do you mean like an epoxy.

not really comfortable taking the sections out myself wouldn't know where to start and wouldn't want to end up causing more damage. The hole's on the second section about half way up.

Thanks for that will ring round a few places see what they say.

would a local welding firm be able to do the bronze welding do you think?

Thanks for all the advice it's a 4 column rad so the hole isn't easily accessible have been reading up on jb weld does anyone have any thoughts on using an epoxy to seal it.

Hi, Have recently bought a cast iron radiator that was supposed to have been pressure tested. But when it has been installed a small pit mark started blowing water out. It is going to be a bit of a hassle to sort this out from where i bought it from so was wondering if there is any tried and...

Just one more thing to add to this then. Can you have too many bends as there will be about 6 in the right hand stack and 4 in the left one.

so basically as long as the bend underground is deeper than 450 it should be ok.