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Thank you for recommending a better adhesive. However, this doesn’t solve why the wall plaster cracks. Last time when I removed the old plaster, 15 years ago, I found the plaster on the wall beneath the coving severely cracked the whole length of the wall, with cracks extending a few inches...

About 15 years ago I put up coving in several rooms using easifill as cement. Most is fine, but in the two bedrooms above windows the coving has started to separate from the wall, and in places the plaster on the wall below has cracked. Some photos below. This is a bungalow, the walls with the...

I’m thinking about installing an outside tap, with the water supplied from beneath a bathroom sink. The inner walls are tiled with porcelain tiles. So I could buy a drill specifically for the tiles, and use a non hammer drill. However, once through the tile, can I then switch to a smaller SDS...

And don’t forget that while Trump was associating with some rather undesirable people, he was running casinos, Now in the USA there are strict rules governing the running and ownership of casinos. Associating with such people should have barred him from running casinos. In addition, he often...

When he built Trump Tower, he first knocked down an existing building with a culturally important Art Deco facade. He promised to preserve the facade. In practice he had it destroyed with sledgehammers. He hired Kaszycki & Sons Contractors, a window washing business to do the work. The non union...

The clue is in the name. They’re peace keepers, a mix of military, police and civilian workers. The leaders can choose staff according to need.

It’s the same situation, sending in soldiers to keep order among civilians. They’re trained to shoot the enemy dead, they’re not trained to keep the peace. Sending them in makes the situation worse. Of course one advantage is that once rioters are dead, you can remove the illegals and bury only...

I’ve just finished a book about Trump. He’s far worse than I ever imagined. He has a habit of licencing his name out to property developers. He helps them advertise new luxury flats, then when it all goes belly up, he claims to have had nothing to do with it. All while pocketing huge sums of...

We did the same in Northern Ireland, when we sent in troops to protect the Catholics. That didn’t quite work out as well as expected did it! Troops are trained to fight armed opponants, not keep order in civilian areas.

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Do you get on with your neighbours? If no, then I’d be careful and stick to the regs. But as said earlier, just get five foot panels, sorted.

The adult sticks are about 60”, I use intermediate which are a bit shorter. They are much longer than field hockey sticks, because a player flexes the stick when shooting to get power, over 100 mph from a top player. Yes that’s a four foot fence, 3” by 3” posts. I’ll have six 6 by 6 foot...

Ice hockey sticks.

:LOL: Sorted. I’ll send you my address. :) A female friend grew up on a dairy farm in west Wales, and I’m sure she could carry a cow under each arm.

You don’t have to mess around with a post in wet concrete, just do it properly. The clamps and supports ensure that the post is perfectly aligned and at the perfect height: Notice the gutter round the workshop, and the missing downpipe! I reckon that water flowed down onto the base of the...

Indeed. The top of the concrete was pretty much flat and covered with a few inches of soil. Also I noticed my neighour has a gutter with a downpipe hole, but no downpipe. That hole is approximately above the first postpost, and the garden slopes downward. So it it is possible that there is an...

You’ve lost me. The new posts are set in fresh concrete which ends above ground level and slopes downwards away from the posts. So basically the post emerges from the top of a small mountain. I discovered Durapost recently, basically metal equivalents of concrete posts. But they are easier...

Are you saying the concrete absorbs water, or the water lies on top of the concrete? I assume the latter. The fence is nearly done now, six panels in, four to go, woodennposts in concrete, with the top of concrete exposed to the air, and domed to shed water.

They are manageable, but expensive and ugly.

How do you lift and adjust 45 kg?