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Thanks - will read. Low, arrowhead shaped leaves around 6" in length, shiny, darkish green with pale veins, covering a fairly broad patch of garden. I've not spotted any fruit or flowers obviously given the time of year. I've got some glyphosphate-y stuff somewhere, I'll dig it out.

New house. Moved in October time. Moderate sized garden, once well kept with a variety of planting (I suspect an older couple with time and enthusiasm for gardening). Neglected and overgrown for the past 2 years or so. Lawn not cut, other stuff run riot, etc. Previous owners started clearing...

I have an old & dilapidated gable-roof garage which is corrugated iron over a timber frame. I need to make it weatherproof and insulate it to some degree. The Timber is of mostly serviceable condition, but the design is quite sparse - there are frames at 1.8 to 2m spacing. This has obviously...

I did consider that, however the amount of force (measured just now about 50kg) I'm putting on the driver, and the fact that the unthreaded shank is long enough to pass through the top timber means there's no gap between the two when (if) finally tightened.

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Here's a comparison with a cheap one from screwfix I picked up this evening. I've tried to align the tip of the screw head and you can see the end of the angled section on the flutes is a fraction higher. Interestingly I tried rsgaz's suggestion and the new, cheap driver bits will hold the 6"...

Here's an almost fresh one, probably done less than a dozen screws, but under similar circumstances.

Here's the slightly chewed up dewalt driver bit, used from new, and has done about 175 or so of these 150mm screws. You can see how the flanks have worn, mainly on the drive side, but also on the reverse as I've had to wind out a few screws that had hit some excessively tough timber (knots mostly).

10yr warranty on it all, including hardware, so I'm covered for a while.

Update: All the quotes are in, but to be honest we're not looking at the money, more the quality of service. Firm 1 was first to get back with 2 options (Acoustic glazing, and double glazing) Firm 2 we had to chase, and when the quote came in the breakdown had been adjusted to our spec in...

Nice - I think I prefer that approach, irritating in some ways as I bought a single long drill of a larger size a little while back for what I'd considered a one-off job. Seems now I should have got a set :-/

Nope, I'm using my somewhat decrepit dewalt DC740 drill-driver. With a full battery it's still got enough torque (appartently 20Nm, but I'm not sold) to cam out with me leaning my upper body weight right down through it.

I built an 'acoustic' wall at my previous place as the party-wall was a single course breezeblock and you could hear every fart through it. studwork of 63mm cls, set about 10-20mm off the wall, secured to sides, floor and ceiling, but not the wall. Where possible I cut the skirting board and...

Screws need to be countersunk, and with hindsight I'd have used torx or hex drive, but here I am. The driver bit has shown a bit of wear, but this is on the driving edges, I've got a second, fresh, bit and will pick up a few more when I next pass the tool-factors.