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Thoroughly clean a bucket of them and take a good photo in the sunshine with a pretty background. Write in the text “this is what they look like when cleaned up”. I’ve given stuff away on Freecycle in the past. It is very hit-or-miss, but mostly miss. Often eBay with a price of £1 has been more...

Interesting, I was going to suggest the opposite. Cool it down and the dissolved grease will condense out into filterable lumps.

Huh? The writing is in Cyrillic. Oh, maybe you’ve seen “.ua” somewhere and think .ua is UAE. No, it’s Ukraine.

They cold-called you, and then visited. Fibreglass is not banned. As I understand it, all of these similar materials are described as “mineral wool”. Whether the raw material is glass or rock or some trade-secret mixture doesn’t much matter. I note that Knauf sell a product that they still...

OK. This forum is mostly about garden building - paving, sheds, fixing your mower, etc. The “gardening” questions are mostly about how to cut things down. (OK, maybe I’m being unfair. But there are certainly more builders on here than gardeners.) Wild flowers can be surprisingly difficult to...

Consider a couple of temporary acro props on the corners of the canopy, maybe? (Personally I don’t know how serious the risk is.)

Do you mean they called you before they visited?

Where did you find him? Wasn't a cold caller was he? Yes.

Do you like greenery / plants / wildlife, or do you prefer stone / wood / concrete? I.e. when you say "nicer" and "relax", what do you really mean?

Is that bit of electrical trunking related to the new bathroom? The bath/basin wastes are going into a hopper; is that new, and is it definitely not for rainwater? Go for it.

What we’re talking about is the method shown in the video in the second (?) post.

The width of the board needs to be the distance from one edge to the opposite edge, right?

Sorry Freddy, if he wants hexagons with sides of 100mm, using the method in the video, he wants to start with a length of wood 173mm wide.

If no-one here knows, try pavingexpert.com.

Well no, the worst cases are that someone gets an electric shock or it catches fire and burns the house down. We don’t know enough to judge how serious the problem is. I think that’s unlikely unless there is some visible damage. Or find the fault and repair it. Trouble is, small appliances...

I think you need to google that. I’m sure a few PhDs have been earned by materials scientists studying the subject. While I cannot explain the exact mechanism, it is certainly what happens.

Yes. No. Better sacrificial mortar than eroding the stones. If the evaporation is through the stones, rather than the mortar, then the stones will spall. That is irreversible, unlike eroding sacrificial lime mortar which can be replaced. This is all well established. The rest of your post...

Then you don’t need an additional one. If the outdoor socket is mounted directly over the hole, no. If the cable needs to run along the wall from the hole to the socket, then it needs to be suitable cable (i.e. UV-resistant), or protected in conduit. The issue you will have is that the cable...

Just in case anyone’s too young to have learnt this at primary school, search for “how to draw a hexagon using a pair of compasses”.

1.5mm² flex.