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Cheap ones are useless. You need an expensive one - except the cost of an expensive one would cover a lifetime's worth of new drill bits.

Settlement cracking would normally be a wider crack at top or bottom - indicating rotation. What you have there looks more like thermal cracking. Is it a particularly long extension?

The vent should be ducted below the level of the floor. This is normally done with a 65mm vent - see photo below. The vents in your photo are 140mm vents. Off the top of my head, I can't recall ever seeing a 140mm telescopic? But I may be wrong. noseall will know, if he's about? If a tele vent...

Rendering over the dpc is laziness. Correct method is to apply a hard thin coat render to the lower part up to the dpc > then fix a bell cast bead (this is the bit they don't want to do) at the dpc level > and then render above the bell cast bead. The thin coat below the dpc is susceptible to...

Half a dozen 5 or 6mm holes will have no detrimental affect whatsoever on the beam.

One thing stuck in my mind. One of the women accused and jailed for this said that she asked the PO investigator if there had been any issues elsewhere? She was told none - she was the only one. That was a blatant lie which led the woman to think that it was just her. I think that person should...

As a matter of interest, how would you deal with the 'problem'?

The gas shields the arc from the surrounding atmosphere, which makes a cleaner weld. Gasless mig wire has a flux core (it's usually called flux cored wire) running through the centre of the strand. The flux helps to clean the weld but it still leaves a fair bit of spatter. It's easy to clean off...

Last year, building a porch outside the house, I was quoted about eight hundred quid for a railing. Approx 3m long and a 1m return down steps. I bought myself a gasless mig welder at Machine Mart for £160 and did it myself. Took a bit of practice but the result is A1. (can't think of any other...

Best tip on insurance renewal is always get quotes at least 14 days in advance. The nearer you get to the start date the more expensive it gets.

Probably cast stone blocks. You'll find dozens of different options from merchants around the Cotswolds and South West. Nothing specific to know about them. They'll suffer similar issues to any other face stone or block.

If you need to run a dehumidifier to keep RH at a reasonable level, there is something wrong. My advice is look at the basics first; eliminate any true dampness, look at background ventilation and extract ventilation (humidity controlled) for wet rooms, consider levels of insulation and where...

When the ball settles in the wicket keeper's gloves there is nothing stopping him running out or stumping a batsmen who is out of his ground. The point here is that Carey immediately rolled the ball at the stumps - there was no delay, he caught it and rolled it almost in one action. Therefore...

I've done hundreds of these and all of the water authorities I have ever dealt with - four I think, maybe five? - use a 3m criteria for building near. I've never come across 4m? One reason for not allowing a build over is a critical or strategic sewer. I note Southern Water describe the line as...

No, don't get it?

It did amuse me the other morning listening to the radio. It was like an academic debate about the journalistic nuances and complications surrounding the 'duty' to report news and potential for misrepresentation in carrying out that 'duty'. There didn't seem to be anybody present to remind these...

That's a fair point. I presume you did provide buildover and technical details with your application?

Very unusual, and an odd reason for rejection, since the very reason for the application is to build over a sewer? I regularly deal with Severn Trent and Wessex and neither have any issue building over a sewer. Having said that, neither will allow a manhole inside the property and the minimum...

The walls weren't poured in one complete lift. From memory there are 4 panels per lift - which would make them, say, 2ft per panel. A re-bar was placed just above the last lift and the next panel poured. So it wouldn't be that difficult to extract a steel former and move it up.

I don't get it with the news readers? three or four hundred thousand quid for reading out loud.