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We've had one for a few months after a lifetime of gas and are quite impressed. I believe running costs are quite competitive. The only issues I've found are: when frying eggs - you need to be aware that if you tilt the pan too much it cuts off the power - but I seem to have adjusted to this -...

Same, wife's 15 year old car without a mark, I did the school run u-turn that I do every day in my own car which obviously has a smaller turning circle. Still rehearsing my "what the bloody hell have you done to your car" speech for her.

I'm pretty sure @tony1851 specced something very similar for my extension last week!

I saw this the other day, I expected someone in authority in our country to step in Ha Ha. It seems there's a voluntary goodwill scheme:

Don't know, but they should - I think they have some video guides.

There's a company called showerdoctor who will id from pictures, supply parts and advice etc.

Don't those pumps "suck" (I know they actually don't) - and wouldn't it "suck" water from the other house rather than the main a quarter of a mile away?

Treads and risers are being clad so it's just the strings and remains of the newels I need to deal with. The flaps were to access the risers to put wiring in for LEDs before I underboarded the stairs.

I'm looking for the best way to match what's left of the existing wood to my new oak cappings. The strings will need a bit of "wood coloured" filler in places, the cappings currently just have one coat of clear varnish.

Cheap eBay ones have been fine for me, but check out the inflation! Same ones now £42!

Use 12 or 9mm OSB and assume that 1mm of rubber and a bit of glue weights less than 18mm OSB plus 3 layers of felt plus a few sacks of gravel. Cutting joists to a taper instead of firrings will help a bit as well.

I think they just want a way to watch some TV, maybe a new TV with an internet connection/Freeview/Freesat tuners after establishing what's available to the property.

As above, or Faceache local group. When this question is asked on ours the same 2 or 3 garages get recommended loads of times.

Looks like a cavity wall. Drill a diagonal hole in the joint and poke around with a coat hanger. Or buy one of those £20 boroscope cameras from Amazon.

I do change the filter, I just begrudge doing it. I think I skipped the filter once, during lockdown when it barely moved but it still got the annual oil change (on my car the filter housing is sort of fitted upside down so when the oil is drained there ain't much left in the filter or it'd...

No. My mechanical sympathy (what's left of it because I have a wife) prevents me, and even worse it stops me buying cheap filters for 3k miles they're in. Also my particular engine (VW BXE) has a bit of an issue with conrod bearings so I don't skimp, as much as I'd like too. My brother had a...

Seems ok to me, my car does 3,000 miles a year. I do change oil annually but begrudge doing the filter.

That looks horrible compared with what was there before (but if you hadn't seen before then not that bad). If he'd set the edgings back a foot it would have left a nice planter trough which would have resolved most of it. Maybe he'd agree to you placing some planters on the wall.

If that's some kind of tile hung external wall it needs properly addressing with a modern insulation system. Insulation doesn't make a room warm, it makes a room (much) cheaper to keep warm.

Poured 18 bags over 30m of concrete, managed to cover it all but ran out of stuff so need a second coat (a skim up to about 3mm at the lowest point). I'll be using Mapei 1210 (apparently stands for 1-10mm, clever!). The previous stuff and primer used is pictured below. How long before...