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(Further perpetuated by the Chinese imports Big Clive dismantles on a regular basis on YouTube ) Re the curiosity comment and its follow ups; a few people did note what I'm ultimately driving at with my despair- we live in a health and safety obsessed world that pours billions of pounds...

He really might have brought his house though... Happens all the time! Even brick ones.. Might as well install a new DPC while you're at it!

Actually, perhaps I should have suggested this be posed to the Electrics forum, as I've just realised you're probably asking about fitting an electrical isolator.. Perhaps you should turn this job down, as I'm not sure I'd be chuffed to learn that my child was attending a school where the...

So, the display on the meter was blank, and the front of the meter sported one or more things that were obviously pushable buttons, and she didn't even try pushing one or more of them? Crikey, if she was babysitting for a friend, and friend forgot to turn the TV on for her before they left...

It's a shared block; local council run thing. Used to be a textile mill I think, now it's all partitioned up into office rooms. I don't know if there is an unlocked room or area I can go to to see the distribution boards, but I'll have a look around.. best I can recall, I used to work for a...

I don't think it will be a trip switch, more likely to be a switch fuse - something like a Wylex 110m. Ask your DNO (that's the grid operator, not the energy company) or your sparky- it'll be him who fits it, not the DNO guy or meter installer

The office where I work has 6 banks of fluorescent tube lights on 6 switches (2 tubes per luminaire, 4 luminaires per bank, so 48 tubes/24 luminaires in total) that have developed a simultaneous flicker. Of late it has on occasions been so bad that the office briefly goes dark, and then the...

Might this thread be better off in the plumbing or gas chamber forums?

I like how you separated the wheat and the chaff there :)

If you ring up B&Q Southampton and point out their stupidity, they'll implement a policy of "no free deliveries to the isle of wight", so maybe best to keep quiet..

It'll cost about 500 quid to put a footing in, at which point the development is commenced - planning expires if development does not begin within 3 years Looks like your estate agents figures back up the "rule of thirds" reasonably well, particularly when one factors in the optimism that an...

You poured it too quickly - hot water from the tap is fine - put it in a 2 litre pop bottle and screw the lid on, but not all the way, so it dribbles out when you squeeze it (sounds like I worked out what's going on in John's pictures) Take a couple of minutes to empty the bottle over the glass...

But you should be able to wor out what's going on from the pictures.. The rest of the stuff sounds like it needs to be stored in the tip!

Odd, as I've a direct experience to the contra; the neighbour's windscreen split right down the middle as a result of her dopey teenage son trying to be helpful by defrosting ma's windscreen, pouring freshly boiled water down the centre..

Mini digger Joking aside, a circular saw with a tct blade will cut through wood and nails, so I'd just use one to cut it up into manageable panels while still standing and dismantle it that way.. worked well for the last static caravan I had to demolish

"If I were a rich man..." indeed

That's probably icynene or similar, not the same stuff as kingspan (PIR), and not the same stuff as in the soudal cans (PUR, and not consistent in its structure). Spray foams do well because they fill gaps well. There's a point beyond which it's senseless to focus on lambda and better to focus...

If you're gong to tile it again, level the substrate well, use good quality rectified tiles (tiles whose edges are cut after they're baked, not before - you can tell because the edges are dead straight and sharp, not rounded and soft) and be consistent when laying your adhesive (notch trowel at...

What dimension are the rafters?

I've used the spray on foam (https://www.abbuildingproducts.co.uk/expanding-foam-inx-10.php) and it's phenomenal - it genuinely is the stuff in the middle of a kingspan board; closed cell, dense, expands like berserk and makes an excellent job. It takes a bit to learn, and the technique is quite...