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It’s the main entrance to the back of the house, garage, etc so this isn’t really viable. Under the trees as it is, maintaining grass is hard work and we get about 6” of leaves dumped in the autumn - I have two lawns already and this needs to be a low maintenance zone. In a perfect world...

And do what exactly?

Our yard is something of the order 12x6m. It’s clearly been laid in multiple stages over the decades and been cut for access. Individual slabs have small cracks and between sections the joins have become quite wide cracks. We just had it properly cleaned and that seems a great time to address...

Tried all that already. It was originally totally immobile, after oiling there’s probably 1mm movement when I use a spanner. However i thought the pin should push in all the way to close, to my eye it sort of looks open (?) but still very minimal flow.

We noticed this radiator wasn’t getting warm. Bled it and removed the TRV. The pin has less than 1mm travel even after applying 3in1 and jiggling it several times over the last week. The pipe below does get warm now (before it was totally cold) so clearly there is some flow but nothing else...

What is the benefit... Evenness? Speed? Personally I get a tired hand on the gun but I hardly ever use it; so don't have the right muscle... I can't imagine that's an issue for trades though!

I've only recently come across cordless caulking guns but it seems all the main manufacturers do them. It hadn't ever crossed my mind this would be useful, what particularly is the benefit over the old school manual type?

Thanks for pointing this out!

Thanks @Madrab - I figured it was so expensive because it could heat water on the fly which is no easy task (basically a combi boiler). It sounds like one (or two, as we need a dedicated handwash sink for hygiene rating in a 'commercial' space) of these sorts of things is the obvious answer...

Yeah this answers the question I was trying to ask well. It's interesting to note it could supply a cylinder based system but that doesn't sound practical... The toilets are the opposite end of the building with electrical heaters so it's only the kitchen which would be used typically an hour a...

Our church had two of these fitted a few years back to replace a very old boiler (large Victorian style cast iron heating pipes). Historically we've never had hot water but are updating the kitchen and wondered if these can do that. We can't get in touch with the installer and I figure an expert...

Thanks. It was removed because it basically got condemned, due to being improperly fitted and then we got a new one that was easier to sweep. So this one will either be given away or sold (assume ot cost a few bob new but no idea), or we might turn it into an outdoor stove if I can get a...

I have this old stove which we removed from our house. I think it's regular steel not cast iron though it weighs a ton (I can barely lift it). We put it outside for a bit and of course that's when the rain came, while we were busy elsewhere. So now it looks like this: We're not sure what...

It's any kind of leverage/twisting I'm worried about... they're pretty rugged under compression? Of curse you can buy solid wood worktops but then the cost saving is gone... unless you can find someone getting rid of one in a refit.

A while back I watched a guy build a nice work bench. Metal frame but the top was made of about a dozen lengths of 2x4 on edge, glued together to make a short of laminate. Then it all got planed smooth. I was wondering, it wouldn't look as nice but what about using kitchen worktop? It's quite...

Looks actually quite nice although we have the added complication we do not want to kill squirrels - we're in woodland and there a lot of them causing nobody any problems. So positioning traps, especially lethal ones, is important. I like the humane nature though. The lack of any kind of...

As I say, they are smart... they are simply not going in the trap we have even after more than a week. The drowning method is (according to online research) a bit error-prone (rats are smart) and also not particularly humane. You also have to deal with a bucket full of dead animals. I saw...

Never heard of that. Anyone know why these soprts of things are supposed to work? I went to my local gun store just as lockdown was starting and got a 2nd hand .22 rifle and a tub of pellets (no idea what). I also got a cheapish red/green dot sight. So far the rats are winning. The council put...

Cheers John. We did consider connectors but the guy doing it didn't seem keen and it's on order now so we'll go with it. Thanks for those fixing ideas they both sound good. To make sure I've understood: Sleeve nuts would go through the plate and brick - so we make a slightly bigger hole - and...

Just a few inches each end will be exposed eventually, though initially all of it will as there is a cover to go on. It's 12mm steel being used along the same principle as strapping to hold two brick walls together that are trying to fall apart. It'll go (I'm told) through both walls with a...