Recent content by SR71

Much obliged "Godwasaplasterer"!

Hi, I am attempting to install some exterior PIR lights to illuminate a pathway around the side of my house. The old part of the house has a "stucco type" exterior finish which I presume has been achieved with some kind of plaster? The house build dates from the 1950's I think? I have chased...

Agile, PS: What about the Statute of Repose? I've nothing to lose by asking them to "do the right thing"...more chance of a **** in the Queens handbag I suppose.... :D

DeltaT, Thats interesting... Last winter, whilst away on holiday, a central heating pipe blew and dumped its contents over the house. The heating had been left on in accordance with the insurance requirement. By the time we got back and endeavoured to investigate, neither the plumbers...

Probably excellent advice. I always thought proving a negative was tricky.... ;) In this case, though, easy, as this part of the garden was inaccessible. Hence the decision to install the gate to make it accessible whereupon I made the discovery. Like you say I understand that any...

Run out of joints? Not sure, but they certainly ran out of intelligence. :mrgreen: Even trickier bearing in mind the house was a Westbury house and they were bought out by Persimmon 3 years ago weren't they? But then, how was I to know???!!! I'm appealing to their good nature...

I recently unearthed this spectacular piece of plumbing when installing a garden gate. Can anyone advise what the regulations are with respect to how deep below the surface of the ground this house drain should be? It was about an inch below the surface... Or point me to a site where I can...

Thanks guys. I'll try some adhesive.

Cold? Not particularly I don't recall.... The mortar is hard, well bonded to the wall, but fairly easily chipped off the slate (which is a good job bearing in mind I have to re-do it.). I wondered whether the bed of mortar was just not thick enough although I'm not sure why the depth of...

FWIW, here is the patio now... It took me 5hrs to drill 9 holes for the uplighters. A question, however... I capped my wall with 10mm slate tiles which I'd cut down to size... However, 6 months on and some of the tiles are loose. What did I do wrong? I used a...

Ionkontrol, Nice work. Here is my wall with integral bench: I gave up with the teak idea bearing in mind I need 15ft lengths. I felt like a drug addict trying to get hold of it in such quantities...lots of "oooo-ing" and "ahhhh-ing" and "I'll phone my supplier and get back to...

Hi Jason, I do not doubt you for one moment, but I notice it is not hard to buy ready made teak garden furniture so one wonders where all the teak is coming from in the first place unless it is shipped into the country ready made? I'd heard of Iroko but thought I'd try sourcing some teak...

I have built a retaining wall in my backyard with an integral bench seat in it. I orignally planned to use slate as the bench material (to match the patio) but the boss now wants a hardwood bench. Having expressed a preference for teak, I'm having trouble finding anyone that will sell me...

I'm trying to avoid access panels in the slate (which is 25-35mm thick)....by locating the transformers to the side of the patio... Each light (3 lights per transformer) come with 5m of cable and I need 6m for one of the lights... The LED's are 0.12W each, so each light is 1.2W... I'm...

As the WWW site suggests, the lights were originally manufactured in Italy, but are now sourced from the Far East. The vendor has been no use whatsoever in helping me ascertain who exactly to contact to do what you suggest. Typical modern-day supplier...not interested in the product just the...