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Looking at point 3, you need a valve pair in the intake to change draw from garden or draw from sump, and you need another valve pair at the outlet to deliver to sump, or deliver to sprinklers.

Ash will dissolve the zinc, leaving the steel ungalvanised so it rusts quicker. Zinc boils at about 900C, so a hot bin will lose its zinc that way too.

It is hard to kill a holly, go for it. You may need to trim some of the branches on the remaining trunk to keep the centre of gravity above the base, but it will soon bounce back.

The ash is alkaline, turns hydrangeas blue if sprinkled on the soil, and does a lot of damage to rasberry bushes when sprinkled around them. Also used to be used to turn the grease in pans into soap in times gone by. It will also dissolve the zinc too.

A dilute brick acid mix and a scrubbing brush, then hose down once brick facing is clean to prevent unused acid from damaging mortar.

Trees do gush water from the roots in spring, especially the maples. Just have to let it quieten down eventually.

But if you solder be very careful not to overheat the battery cells while you do it, hence the spot welding recommendation.

remount the hinges with some fresh holes slightly higher up the post.

An electric saw will get blunt quite quickly with the coating of soil on roots, best dug out by hand really.

Lidl and or Aldi occasionally carry wood colour restorer, it seems to work quite well and an ok price too.

you need to have a stiff enough bearer beams in the base to support the whole length of the sides, extra piers reduce the strength required in the base. Also, I used composite beams as the lowest level so that the bearer beams get a frequent chance to dry out.

Looks like it got too wet in the second pic and too much hot things on the first pic...

Dependant on your soil there are alternatives. I put my log cabin on about 15 piers, using a hand auger to make 6" diameter holes to about a metre down. If I had used a raft it would have been 6 tonnes of concrete, but piers added to at about 1 tonne. I went a metre deep to get below the frost...

Euler, the Swiss mathematician showed that stiffness increased as the cube of the depth, so in your second picture you rotate the underneath pieces so they are deeper and not wider, the bench will be much stiffer.

exactly, its the tap end that has to come off one of those, I already undid the leaking one and replaced the rubber as it was looking quite collapsed, but still leaking and then noticed the water coming out at the top of the left hand crimp in the top picture. It would be a pain to take the...

Well here are two pics, I have the horizontal cabinet support in the way too, but would really really like to leave the sink in place.

Yes, the two tails go directly into the tap body, at the end where it joins the rest of the plumbing it has a fitting with a rubber seal, and not a compression fitting so most of the ones I have seen on screwfix and toolstation are not suitable, that was the bit I was trying to help with until I...

the closest to the look of the flexi is this one: https://www.toolstation.com/flexi-hose-300mm/p24989 but I am sure it is a smaller connector up on the tap. bathroom currently occupied will try and take a photo later. the fitting I can get to is about 22mm af for the flexi and the pipe fitting...

As title, one of the flexis under the bathroom sink has sprung a leak along its length above the lower nut. there is almost no room to get in to undo it. the flexi has been there about 25 years, so expecting it to be difficult to undo. Any particular spanner I should buy to get at the nut up...

when mine were younger we always bought second hand stuff, usually sold on a few years later for a similar price. the rope for the swing was a consumable as they eventually rot/weaken in the sun and rain, but easy enough to replace.