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Oh, there is huge difference! There was a lot of tree planting around here in the 1870s [1] so there is a TPO on hundreds of gardens. I applied for permission to give the copper beech a small trim and cut back some of the laurel that is opposite it. Permission was given for the copper beech...

I'm a DIYer not trade so my experience is obviously limited. We have a lot of mature trees in the garden & area, including field maple which has large leaves. I put mesh over a number of gutters and if anything it made matters worse. They did not stop the gutters from accumulating gunk but they...

If you did you would put the letter in the right order - CDO! ;)

I have never used it on tarpaulin but this https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B008AISDX0/ is very sticky and strong.

My educated guess is that there is a three-way split: - Sufficiently modern browsers just see the relevant page. - Old browsers (non-compliant ones) see the relevant page with the warning banner. - Even older browsers cannot load the page. The browser that I used that sees the relevant page...

As I said, my very old browser could not access their website. Hence it did not display that banner.

I am pretty sure they have changed their website to use something that older browsers do not support. A very old browser stopped being able to access their website last week. So I tried a different one and can access it. When using that second browser I see the following warning banner

I have a number of Parkside tools and that is (in essence) what I did. I am a moderate DIYer and I needed a new drill/driver so the Parkside one I bought is fine for me. I bought that (and another tool) together with a charger and two batteries. I used them, saw they were good enough for what I...

To somewhat echo what has been said; I have an angle grinder, a recip saw and a chain saw (two in fact). If I wanted to cut "branches too big for my shredder" the first tool I would reach for is a bow saw. On the bow say is a raker tooth blade like this, whereas they normally come with a peg...

This is what is technically known as 'cobblers'. Companies spent billions and may years to produce herbicides that don't work? Really? People used herbicides for decades before glyphosate, none of which that worked? Really? So no chemical works, but the chemical sodium chloride works. Sorry...

For domestic use, basically the only general weedkiller you can get is glyphosate. It used to be under patent and so expensive. The patent has now expired but if you buy a brand name (Resolva is one I have seen in a recent post) you are paying a premium just for the name. You can buy unbranded...

Indeed and his 'logic' is pretty questionable. Measure from RH end to arbitrary point then add measurement from LH end to arbitrary point - good. Measure from LH end to RH end then add size from value on the back of the tape measure - bad.

Hence sometimes called a sex bolt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_bolt

I would expect a metal gate and a metal post to be connected with bolts rather than screws. Some photos would help, including the overall gate assembly, the existing holes and the screws you are using.

That is sort of true and sort of not. By 'house manure' I take it that you mean horse manure. My understanding is that when fresh this is quite odorous and you only want it if you have a big garden, and can put it far away from the house to rot down. Garden centres won't sell that, your best...

And they would be wrong, at least about it being carcinogenic. Of course it is hazardous/toxic if you do something stupid like drink it, in normal use not so much. Glyphosate, under various names, has been in use in for decades and has been used by many millions of people. All the studies that...

Indeed there are. I wrote a bit about this here. Well I don't think that was good advice. Doing that (or using old sump oil as wood preservative) has been an offence for decades. You are in effect dumping a hazardous / toxic substance on the ground where it can affect wildlife, other peoples'...

I had never heard of Wet & Forget until John mentioned it. What I have used it is Patio Magic, it (and Wet & Forget, probably others) are c. 7-8% benzalkonium chloride that you dilute down to 1-2% and apply by spray / watering can. Once the moss is dead, it will turn brown & shrink but will...

When I had a crown fitted I asked my dentist how it was held in place and he said, "Glue". He went on say that his colleagues would call it 'dental cement' but it is glue.

A slabbed (tiled) area can also bridge the DPC. Can you see the DPC? It should be c. 2 bricks above the ground level.