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We recently had a new toilet installed and the water pipe is supposed to be held on the wall by two brackets. However the toilet had to be installed further from the wall [1] so one of the brackets will not reach the wall. Bracket screwed to wall by our plumber Where the other bracket should...

Two dead foxes, not at the same time.

He did say "a small external cupboard".

According to this https://foxygardens.com/sbk-the-brushwood-killer-and-its-various-uses/ it is Selective.

I am not looking for anything. I said that the fabric for one of these bags has to be a closely woven fabric to let air out but keep as much of the leaves as is reasonable in, and that a mesh won't do that as it will let out loads and loads of dust. You are saying that a mesh that is fine but...

Yes that is why I said "The bags for these machines are made of a woven material which is sort of a mesh but the holes are very, very small, and so trap most dust", most, not all. The bigger the whole the more dust that comes out. What exactly are you calling a mesh? How big are the holes?

As I said, it depends on what you mean by a mesh. In the everyday sense, a mesh has holes clearly bigger than bits in between them. If you have holes that are a few mm across then loads of dust will come out when you use it on dry leaves. You might be happy with that, I wouldn't

Anything in the everyday meaning of a fine mesh would not be appropriate. Garden vacs have an impeller and the leaves that are sucked in pass over that and are broken up (to a greater or lesser extent) which is deliberate so as to minimise the volume of the leaves in the bag. Some even have...

@Ivor Windybottom If you had actually read what I wrote, and what it was in reply to, you would have seen that I made no comment whatsoever about the height of the work. What I clearly was pointing out was that you said that it will be only five minutes work and that it may well be quite a...

At the moment I on the ground floor, in a moment I will go up to the first floor of my house. Later on I will go into the attic. The boiler is on the wall of the first floor. Why do you ask?

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We had our boiler replaced c. 18 months ago and the chap spent a lot longer than 5 minutes on the scaffold. The new boiler had a different layout and the flue for the new one was some distance away. So as well as drilling the hole and fitting the new flue he removed the old one and sealed the...

Do you actually mean a manhole? They are large (18" by 2'6") whereas the covers for water meters are much smaller, no more than 6" on a side. Water meter covers are quite easy to lift.

My understanding is that no mark means it is not recorded on the deeds. There may be some other record, e.g. an exchange of correspondence between the parties. VG.

Never has been for me and a mate (a retired building surveyor) said that it was rare before roughly the 1980s and is far from universal even now.