Recent content by Ratim

When I did my patio I used a broken brick/concrete base and put a dry sharp sand, soft sand and cement mix base and compacted it, then placed the slabs on top of that. It can get quite tedious getting it all level but well worth afterwards. It's been down for 3 years now and as good as they...

I've just bought a house which has a very mature nice looking garden. It has about 4 trees in the garden which need cutting back. The tallest tree is about 25 - 30 foot so not massive. I'm thinking of attempting to climb them and cut a few branches by saw. Is this the best method or can...

I laid a lawn a few times and the best bit of advice I can give you is take your time over getting the ground flat before laying the turf. It's avery tedious task but the more time you spend on getting that bit right the more you will benefit from a flatter lawn later. I made sure the ground...

Thanks for all your help guys.

I disconnected it from the consumer unit and tried pulling it from both ends but it ain't going nowhere. I've just got a Crabtree 50amp pull switch so hopefully that should do it. The shower is 8.5kw and I've got a 40amp breaker with 6.0mm cable, is that a good combination, or would I need to...

I've had the shower pull switch burn out twice, the fuse hasn't tripped. I take it the cable (6.0mm) should be repalced to 10.0mm. My main problem with this, is the cable in there at the moment runs through the loft into a conduit down to the fuse box. I've tried to pull the cable out but it...