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That's the very machine that hit me :LOL: Agree with everything you say :notworthy: Consolation is that I can't remember the last time I hurt myself, in decades of DIY, so I mustn't be completely thick. Sadly getting on a bit now though, so maybe my judgement is no longer up to scratch...

Well, I DID read the manual before using, honest. But I must have missed this bit :mad: Anyway, looks like it does have a clutch - I just wasn't expecting the enormous force...

I need to drill a hole through the outside wall of the garage, about 1" diameter. Some years ago, I bought a cheap (but quite big and brutal) SDS drill from SF. I didn't need the drill, but it also had a chisel action, which I used to dig out the concrete base of a rotary clothes line I wanted...

You've persuaded me :eek: :eek: :eek:

Advice about the chainsaw understood. But my friend did actually bring his bow saw up a few weeks ago, and I had a quick go. (a) with the angle I had to approach it from, I couldn't apply much force; (b) as I mentioned above, the trunk wobbles back and forward. The combination of these two...

Well, I intended to start at the top, and cut off maybe 1' lengths till I got to the bottom? No? I don't really know any more than that - which is why I've asked here!

Hhmmm... no experience of them, but I think you have a point.... will investigate (y) Oh, if I pulled the staples out, it would come crashing down. Trouble is, the operative word is "crashing" - it's a lot bigger than it looks. When I said 8" thick earlier, it is actually TWO 8" trunks, which...

Yeah... I don't think that would work... as the trunk is no longer attached at the bottom, it flops around if you try and manipulate it, so would just wave back and forward with the saw sticking in it, if I tried that, I think...

When I moved into this house about 7 years ago, there was a row of very mature Leylandii above a retaining wall at the back of the garden. The branches stretched out well over the garden, blocking all the light – also over the neighbour’s garden behind. I decided to try and use them as a...

OK… well, as people were kind enough to try and help me, I thought I’d publish an update. As usual, Laurel & Hardy ignored all attempts at contact (it’d been going on for a year or so now), so I sent a signed-for letter threatening legal action (this wasn’t even to get them to fix the windows –...

Well... the bathroom one is definitely leaking from inside the valve, but I'm now pretty sure the hall one is leaking form the joint between the TRV and the rad :unsure: bit of a coincidence for them to fail in different ways at the same time, but there we are... doesn't make a lot of difference...

Yeah, I know. It's hard to explain what I mean, but I've fiddled with (eg) the two in the conservatory quite a bit to try and get the temp right for the plants, but even on the "frost" setting, the rads seem to be red hot most of the time, though the electronic temperature/humidity gauge in the...

I haven't looked at the one in the hall yet, but a guy from a local firm who services boilers was round a month or so ago, and he pulled the top off the one in the bathroom - pretty sure he said it was leaking from the actual valve (internally). He only does boilers, so wasn't willing to look at...

We have an "Affordable Warmth" scheme here in NI whereby councils will pay to improve the heating/insulation in your house if you're on a low income. So when I bought the house 6 years ago, they paid a contractor to put 12" insulation in the attic, replace some blown double glazing panels etc...

Thanks for all the helpful comments and suggestions :mrgreen: Having examined the different sections a bit more closely now, the timbers attaching at least a couple of them to the brickwork have rotted, so I think those entire sections would have to be replaced anyway... probably end up...

So... that doesn't mean there's a problem with the external seal...?

...and there's why it's hard for an ordinary punter like me to know what to do :rolleyes:

Anybody know how high this kind of tree will grow in the end? Seems to be some kind of spruce, and various websites say up to 40M :eek: :eek: :eek: And whether, if I have it regularly trimmed now, it could be kept at its current height? Thanks all

So... what about the roots?