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Did my Husky saw recently. Wife said it's god knows how many years old and to just buy a new one. (she doesn't understand) The pipe (push fit) came out ok but the part inside the tank just disintegrated. Replacement pipe with new filter and a good clean up and (drumroll) nothing worked. So, new...

Heard on the radio the other day some person complaining that she had to wait nearly 3 hours at Exeter services to charge on the way to holiday in Cornwall. Anybody who thinks the leccy infrastructure is going to be anywhere near ready for EVs and electric only heating by the time the bans come...

Years ago I worked in Aussie. One job was a huge long retaining wall behind a hotel called the Red Bluff Hotel. We used to set a $5 bill as a tingle in the centre of the course and lay from each end. The first to $5 kept it and the other bloke put the next one in. Once set up, you must realise...

If 'tyrant' gave you the prickles, I wonder what you thought of this description: “The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a...

Pumped concrete is a completely different thing - it contains flow and plasticising additives. Tamping concrete does the opposite of pushing aggregate down - what it does is bring the fat to the surface, although I appreciate that is effectively the same thing. From your description, your...

The only issue I see with £330 is that it is too cheap. As noseall says, I'd slap his wrist.

The only option for 5m deep is a piled footing.

You almost certainly have terracotta vents. The mould is due to cold bridging through the vent walls. Tricky to eliminate entirely but may indicate that you room has a higher level of water vapour than normal.

Looks ok. My advice is put some cross rails/handrail around. Especially if you have any smaller humans visiting.

The diagram is wrong. The lintel is a tie, to comply with regulations, the next course of ties should be 450 above the lintel. I wouldn't put a course of ties on the cavity tray.

A lot depends on what you want from the house; live in it for the rest of your life, live in it for 10 years, extend and upgrade it or do it up for as little as possible and flip it? You see, we don't know any of these things and that makes it difficult to advise. We also don't know if you are...

Bristol airport is a regular drop off for me - friends, family etc. You can drop off for free at the silver zone car park - and the flyers get the shuttle bus to the airport. Several times I realised I was the mug ending up paying the six quid for the drop off, so, last time, about 4 or 5 weeks...

That spec doesn't work at all. Either the masonry above a lintel is just infill to wall plate level or there is masonry walling above, in which case there would be a cavity tray in that area. No room for a wall tie. General specification for wall ties is they should be placed within 225mm of...

You did already post that page. Was there anything specific you are concerned about?

Take the third page and refer the codes (C, D1, D2, D3 etc,) back to the relevant page and it should explain what the defect is. It all seems pretty innocuous, but those screenshots aren't the whole report.

Planning permission is needed to demolish a pub. There might be arguments over the use being lost but much easier to just make it unsafe and send the bulldozer in. I don't see how the LPA, or anybody else, could make anybody rebuild it brick-by-brick.

The extreme excess should chip off with a hammer and bolster. Carefully run along the edges of the bricks with a slight angle, and then see what's left?

Off the top of my head - so subject to confirmation - if I recall correctly, no panel (for a half brick wall) should be longer than 1800mm. Personally, I would be careful of a half brick wall that high. My advice would be to set a threaded bar into the base of the piers > build around it > and...

The vertical liquid dpm (up the wall) isn't necessary and opens up the possibility of moisture bypassing the slate dpc. Add the PIR as shown but cut a groove where the slate is to form a break and just run the liquid dpm up to the PIR. The PIR itself acts as a barrier to moisture - you don't...

How about these monsters;