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Hi all, I’ve been tasked with replacing a couple of damaged casements, on both of them the bottom rail has failed and is rotten and unfortunately it has also affected the styles. I’m going to remove them both and temporarily board the openings while I work out the profile, although one of the...

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Just decorating some railings and the brick top to a pillar is crumbling and is in dire need of pointing, can anyone identify the mortar mix from these images… The owner seems to think it’s a lime mix with silver sand?

All sorted, found a engineering/toolmaker company locally, they chucked it on a grinder, took about 20mins, they married it with the internal angle and it's bob on, charged me £20, well, charged my mate £20

Hi all, I lent one of my squares to a mate and it came back butchered, I could have decked the **** Basically he used the square as a guide to cut some quarry tiles with an angle grinder so the outer edge is, well, nigh on ruined. The positives are the top and bottom of the outer edge aren’t...

Thanks for the info muggles much appreciated.

That’s what worries me, they have said it’s just the casing but I’m not so sure. They are coming back to sort it and I’ll be there this time, not paying until it’s done right, the boiler is a Worcester Bosch Greenstar 8000, I’ve sent an email to Worcester Bosch regarding the fitting as I don’t...

Hi had a boiler fitted and it looks tilted, I thought it was possibly the window making it look out of true but the window casing is as near as damn it level (.1deg vertical) so I put my level on on the boiler casing and it’s 1.4 deg off vertical, so it might just be the casing that’s been...

Used LTP grout stain remover and LTP grimex

Just cleaning a church and the quarry tiles have a white stain on them, can this be cleaned off and if so what would I use? https://ibb.co/PjVdt7d https://ibb.co/LSqP2xm

Thanks for the info people, much appreciated.

Hi all, Want to make a garden incinerator, getting sick of buying the thin tin dustbins that only last a year and either rust to nothing. I thought about concrete blocks, I know them as breeze blocks or dense blocks. will they take the heat

Cheers for the name, It was an edge crack and a corner hole. Did a bit more inspecting and the whole lot needs replacing so I'm going to reboard it and fibreglass it.

Just noticed I have a leak from my flat roof right in the corner of the room. Need a temp method of repair to stem the ingress of water. Weather is foggy and damp, it's a north facing garden and I hear a asteroid is about to hit my location. Putting aside the asteroid disaster for a minute...

Hi all, as the title asks, I’m looking for a good varnish for exterior hardwood, the property is located on the Norfolk coastline and is in need of some epic sanding, possibly using oxalic acid in places. It’s going to be a 3 to 4 coat job. to get it back to a reasonable coat again. I’m going...

Thanks for the reply, Ill bear that in mind for next time.

Its not an opinion, it is fact, the failure of the product is exacerbated in part because of poor maintenance as mentioned above but if a product just turns into sticky chewing gum when located in a full sun south face, a few layers of paint microns thick isn’t going to stop it melting nor...

Butyl putty shouldn’t be fitted to a south/south east facing elevation, it just isn’t up to the job, on the north face of the house its fine. Internally the butyl putty looks like porridge its really is dire. Having said that the woodwork was poorly maintained and this was a major factor in the...

No alternative found so I went lateral and colour tinted the walnut superdec with a smidging of black superdec then later applied an exterior grade acrylic matt varnish to mute the satin sheen of the superdec, the matt varnish isn’t 100% matt more like 75% but I can live with that and it looks...

Hi all, is there a Matt or eggshell alternative to sadolin super dec opaque finish for door sills? im painting the windows and doors with little greene toms oil eggshell (Celestial Blue) and I’ve painted a sill in superdec (satin) as a tester but it looks naff and way too shiny against the...