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I'm not sure if you've mentioned the materials the house is made from, of if there's evidence of recent(ish) work - particularly drilling or cutting the fabric of the building. In my own experience, black dust can be from the block/bricks in the wall, my old place was terrible for it as the...

I'm looking for a new/different set of spring compressors - mine are fine, most the time, but the 'hook' is quite close to the threaded stud(about 25mm from centre of stud to centre of spring hook), which mean that the thread frequently binds on the spring cups. Any recommendations for a...

All but the most short sighted would have realized that when you make it difficult for certain people to work here, there's going to be a gap in the labour pool. I guess nobody did their homework to identify the areas where staff will be short and put in place mechanisms to fill that gap ahead...

We've just told our builder to defer until next spring. We were looking to demolish/extend the rear of our house this summer, he had delays on other jobs that knocked us back a bit, which we took on the chin, but this last delay was pushing things too close to a winter with no roof. I only...

FYI This is the state it's in as of yesterday..

How big a planter would I need? What would a hard pruning consist of? - my gardening abilities so far consist of trimming a hedge and mowing a lawn -this is kinda new to me.

It's had multiple prunings in the past, and seems none the worse for it.

Hi all, We have some impending building work and there's a well established rose in exactly the wrong place. Photo here is from last year, ros is now near top of trellis: As far as I can tell (google streetview is brill) the rose has been in this location for at least 15 years, and has...

Hi all, Bit of a speculative ramble, keen for opinions and experiences. Moved into house a couple of years ago with intention to extend and renovate. house is old and bodged. The plumbing is very noisy when running- what i'd call 'white noise' This isn't the thunk of pipe-hammer, this is a...

Update: tried to remove old screw remains, failed miserably as brass was too soft and my screw extractor tools just extracted bits of it. Ended up drilling it out, tapping to m6 and epoxying a regular machine screw into the hole, and then fitted an easibleed as |Chris_w recommended. Now have...

New rad isn't really an option, as we have plans to move it in a year or two, and I'm not sure it's size would be suitable for it's new location.

I did look at that briefly, however I'm not sure the radiator is deep enough to accommodate it, it's probably 30mm deep. amazon reviews are 80/20 good/poor - has anyone got any real life experience?

Had a less than stellar day yesterday, bleeding an old rad in which I'd recently fitted new TRV and lockshield and managed to shear then bleed screw end off. snapped bleed screw by Ouch77 posted 18 Oct 2020 at 10:39 AM bleed screw head by Ouch77 posted 18 Oct 2020 at 10:39 AM I've since...

Renovation and stuff about the house