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I have only seen press pieces, not any thing with real numbers so I have no idea how serious a concern it is. AFAIUI, the argument is as follows, BTW all the numbers are illustrative. Many MS car parks were designed / built decades ago when the average saloon/hatchback family car was 1,400kg...

What I think is being referred to is this https://www.postsaver.com/ or something similar. The idea is that no drying is needed as the vulnerable area (just above ground & 6" under) is wrapped to prevent it getting wet. This is done with an outer layer of plastic and an inner layer of bitumen...

That is one of the methods this is done. On our grandfather clock moving the minute hand backwards to about the nine moves the chime mechanism on one hour; there is a little click more felt than heard when that position is reached. Doing that advances the chime mechanism and then moving the...

And what happens to weeds sprayed with non-Roundup glyphosate?

That should be, 'On the plan, if there is a 'T' then the land that it is on indicates who is responsible for the boundary". AFUIUI it was not common to mark this on land plans until the 1970s and is far from universal even now.

Depends on how much material there is, when it falls in the gutter it has to go somewhere. I had plastic ones of those in the top of a couple of downpipes but there are lots of trees here, and ones with large leaves. Quite soon the gutter outlet had accumulated enough mass to push the gutter...

Most of the things mentioned there have glyphosate as the active ingredient, which is no surprise as it one of a very few that are available for DIY use. If you are going to use a glyphosate based weedkiller then all that matters is that the %age of glyphosate present is at the correct level...

I don't know about those products. For in formation on what I have successfully used, see https://www.diynot.com/diy/threads/moss-on-tarmac-footpath-outside-the-home.606328/#post-5417150

@JohnW2 I notice that you swerved my comments about the building trade becoming significantly less dangerous, specifically less fatal. Hence mass use products (and practises) have to designed for a population that includes stupid people. So tools that require two hands away from the cutting...

That is not how I (a DIY-er) would cut something with a chainsaw. First I would cut out a wedge (a third to 40% of the way through the diameter) on the side towards which you want the trunk to fall. Then I'd make a horizontal cut opposite the wedge cut, stopping as soon as the trunk starts...

In the 1980s I shared a flat with a chap who ran building sites. He had started on civils (six years on the Thames Barrier) and moved on to construction. In his career there had already been a significant improvement in the attitude to safety and a resulting decrease in injuries & deaths. It...

But that amounts to the same thing. I had to dispose of some asbestos cement sheets from our previous house (and a different London council) some years ago. They put me on to the Corporation of the City of London and the chap I spoke to was willing to talk and explained the position...

OP, you quoted @Alec_t saying "Another typo" but did not respond. You changed 'end of July', which means last year, to 'end of June' which still means last year. I'm not an expert but there seems to be new growth in both those areas. Define 'properly'. It seems to have recent growth all over...

Hmm. More than a block of wood, I don't know about "a lot". Is it enough to make a practical difference? If so then maybe go up a size or two in steel rod. I linked to 6mm ones as that is what I used but they easily come in sizes up to 24mm.

You shouldn't think what any chemicals you are using are you should know. You friend has a duty of care to the customers to only use safe, legal chemicals and to use them appropriately. He also has a duty of care to you not to put you at unnecessary risk. If his, or your, actions cause a...

Well any batten will flex to some amount and I don't see why a few bits of wood will be significantly more rigid than the same number of steel rods. I have given the OP an option, it is up to him what he does.

I don't understand what point you are trying to make. I can't see how you will ever get a solid fixing with anything attached to the face of the insulation, only with something attached to the masonry. Hence @opps suggested using Corefix. If you have to attach to the masonry (and I can't see...

Drill (cut?) hole through insulation, drill hole in brickwork, clean out hole in brickwork, insert nozzle and pump resin into hole. Doesn't sound hard to me. You would guess wrong. ;) Look at the picture, it is almost as long as the cartridge, unlike, say, a mastic nozzle. They say they are...

Why do you think that?

Resin and threaded rods. I recently used https://www.screwfix.com/p/rawlplug-r-kem-ii-styrene-free-polyester-resin-300ml/32863 to fix https://www.screwfix.com/p/easyfix-bzp-steel-threaded-rods-m6-x-300mm-5-pack/29072 to my walls. You can get threaded in thicker diameter if you need a stronger...