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why not approach the problem differently/use materials that are going to end up somewhere else instead; temporarily throw down whatever you're sarking the roof with, as flooring to walk about on while the trusses are fitted, then sark with it, then fit a floor.. or perhaps you're using sheet...

additives in the wood glue to speed up curing time, how waterproof it is, some improvement to final bond strength (but we're talking low tens of percentages at the most, not doubling/tripling etc).. plus one is likely more dilute than the other straight out of the can. they're the same thing as...

Note of course that woody is saying here that laying the start and end slabs and putting a line between them and laying to the line will produce a level result - it's true. What seldom produces a whole job level result in laying any kind of masonry unit, pressed, moulded, baked, cut, cast or...

Indeed, masonry units are seldom perfectly regular and you can't guarantee, in a row of ten, if you level #2 to #1 and #3 to #2 and so on, that by the time you get to #10 that #10 will be level with #1 To see it in action, take two things of equal height; wood offcuts, bricks, pool balls...

Most of the cheap Chinese ones on eBay match your described spec set.. look for foscam clones and buy a few to assess how well they work. I'm doing he same, as I haven't found any reliable reviews of the variations so just gotta suck it n see. Look for cameras that support onvif, then they...

Launch a car tyre in there when he's not looking, to generate the requisite black smoke the council are demanding?

That's nice, but do recognised certification bodies such as gas-safe, niceeic/napit/elecsa have the same opinion? I recommend you get you plumber and electrician beforehand and talk with them about the extent of work they're happy for you to do yourself, and then let them do the bits they want...

Solid core goes in the walls, multi stranded flexi stuff is used for patch cables (from wall socket to pc), reason being that the sockets have essentially a 8 slots on the back with sharp edges internally. as the wire strand is pushed into the slot, the sharp edge cuts the sheathing and makes...

Alas, there isn't some sort of law for fuel economy like there is for the speed[computing power] of computers (doubles approximately every 2 years) - I recall finding a newspaper page from the 70s that was an advert crowing about how the new renault line up would have the arab oil boys...

A mirror opposite the window, same size and shape might a) bounce some more light around, b) help add to the symmetry you've been going for and c) allow you to fit some grey coloured designer radiator - https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?&_nkw=vertical+grey+radiator - to make the rad less...

Pretty much what you want to do, including drainage, except the drive slopes the other way

As others have suggested you really need to find out more about your wall construction before you try again. It is likely some kind of masonry with plastered plasterboard on top but what we can't tell (only you can) is whether there is any air gap between the plasterboard and the masonry, and...

Interesting philosophical question that. If I gave you $3m, would you buy (and keep) a Chiron? Technically it's spare, as you already afford the rest of your life, so it's an additional lump sum that you don't need. Or would you argue that it wasn't spare, as it could/would be put to far better...

It's a funny definition of proper when it doesn't do approximately 99% of the things 99% of the populace expect a car to do

Vegetable content in a multigrain breaded sandwich? Call yourself a northerner? You should move back to whatever poncy southern county your "slow roasted ham hock, quinoa and chia seed panini" heart yearns for. If it's not a smashed pork and black pudding pie next time, yer banned! ;)

Won't take long for 9mm MDF to turn into 18mm LDF when it's in contact with moisture!

How did you get from "starting in two weeks" to they need a couple of weeks to finish another job, so they'll start in April 2018"? Over the time on my place I've tended to hire guys on price for the first job they did and assessed how they worked, then asked them to work on day rate if they're...

It's a good point; should the ply run at a 45 degree angle to the floorboards, to eliminate the possibility that the edge of some ply sheet coincides with the edge of a floor board? Do the ply sheet edges grin through? (Bizarrely, I can see some of my UFH pipes grinning through my polyflor...

I second the oscillating multitool idea.. you can also buy small txt saw blades that fit in angle grinders (confident and competent users only, warning!) If using a hole saw in a drill : either use the pilot drill and get it started cutting a few mm of the big hole, then remove the pilot drill...

Ok, so now is the time you're gonna want some reasonable insulation! Maybe consider taking those concrete blocks out, replacing them with insulation boards, fitting the ufh between the beam lines and plopping a pug screed over it, keeping it thermally disconnected from the beams, then floor over...