Recent content by Wendelspanswick

It sounds like your tree guy has pollarded your limes. Pollarding is best done while the tree is dormant and before the sap rises in spring, so depending how early spring comes, any time between November to early March would be fine.

A severe shortage of fresh Crushed Fly Ash, a by product of coal power stations. As we reduce our reliance on coal the CFA is becoming scarce. Apparently there are huge stockpiles of old CFA but this requires a different process to turn into blocks and the manufacturers are in the process of...

Shouldn't be too bad, it's about 30 sheets of OSB so if I stack them in piles of 5 I can run the handheld circular saw down a batten to trim them.

I was faced with a similar problem, I was buying Celcon blocks (grey) from Travis Perkins but they have run out and will have no stock till October (it's a national shortage). I could buy Thermalite blocks (white) from a different supplier but I managed to track down enough Celcons to finish the...

All the OSB3 I have priced up is in 8'x4' sheets. Even Wickes sell OSB3 in imperial sheets marked up in metric sizes.

Those angle grinder stands are c**p, your better off using the grinder freehand. The stands have so much slop in them that the blade flexes sideways and drags in the cut.

New to the forum, I'm part of the way through my build which is being done on a shoe string budget. I am doing everything myself and after some advice. I am building a 2 storey steel framed barn/workers rest area, 10m by 5m. The ground floor is a traditional block/cavity/block wall (nearl...

What is your target U value, I am looking at doing something similar and the cheapest way seems to be 140mm of Knauf Earthwool which gives me a U value of 23.