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Lines in the car park of my business unit; some people park like proper twunts and it makes it difficult to move the tractors around. Other paint I've tried rubs off really quickly, so I figured if it's good enough for local authorities...

It's called efflorescence, happens when moisture in the wall comes out carrying salts with it. Either the wall is getit damp or the bricks were laid in the rain and the frogs filled with water/there is water trapped inside the wall. Brick acid cleans it off, I'd consider carefully whether...

watched the water board repairing the road; at the end of the job they brought out a big roll of tape, like bitumen tape, cut a few sections, laid it on the road where they'd gone through the white lines and blow torched it to bake it on Anyone know what this product is called or where to get...

Can't beat a bit of up n down, though I'd far rather be holding laddered tights than ladders tight

Don't make too much of a fuss about it; a 4 bed house might well bump you into a higher council tax band and sale time is when the changes are made I think it likely some solicitor is creating the problem (and money for themselves) by insisting on seeing regs sign off for this work. If it's...

Floor layers wouldn't be using BnQ self adhesive vinyl stickers; they'd be using Karndean. They'd then also be using a dedicated glue which would either be fine to go straight onto concrete or it would have its own primer/sealer

The blue stuff could be Marmox/wedi style tile backer boards - a blue styrofoam sheet coated both sides with a cement layer with reinforcing mesh. Commonly used to separate e.g. A concrete slab from electric underfloor so the UFH actually stands a chance of warming up The marmox boards need to...

Screwfix do the vitrex lash system. I appreciate that it might seem expensive for spacers, but what's the cost of making a pig's ear of the job..? If the substrate is good and level you don't necessarily need a levelling system so long as you're consistent with your trowel angle and you drop...

Technically (to make the BCO happy) the end of the joist that is "sat on a wall" needs to be secured to the wall to lend it some lateral restraint so the bolted timber route might be more appropriate. I'll also look to fix a wall plate to the top of the wall then the joists can be nailed to it...

I've an area of my garage that is covered with vinyl tiles, minging red things about 10inch square. They apparently contain asbestos. So too does R the toilet cistern and a strange large black smear of tarry substance on the wall.. I console myself knowing that the average person who led a good...

Do you plan to tile the new plasterboard? In which area of the bathroom are you using this board?

looking to put a floor deck into my garage to make a storage space above it. One end of the joist will be resting on top of a dividing wall, the other has to get support from an existing double skin engineering brick wall, higher than the joist level. I think my choices are thus: Masonry...

A better one (on site, I mean) is "hey, new guy, I bet you can't lift that bag of cement above your head" Get someone behind him ready with a Stanley knife

Why do you care? Rental property? If none of the above methods works, grind it out and use self levelling compound (if you're bothered) to fill in, then paint the floor so it a)hides it and b) makes it easier to wipe up next time

1cm? Most brickies I know can't even build a wall to within 10mil accuracy. Why don't you leave it?

Might want to remove any existing foundation, dig down a bit and cast a new one with the rebar sticking up out of it, brick round it and then fill with concrete..

Is it still on show by the time you've climbed back down though? :)

Given to understand that Nest's default premise isn't ideal for "one or two people with irregular comings and goings" as the idea is you just turn the knob up when you get home and down when you go out, eat learns your schedule and how hot you like the house, measures the delay between calling...

Are we really suggesting that if the thermostat in the hallway failed the plumbing system would explode? Cmon, the thermostat is a clock and temperature controlled on off switch, and this is an android phone controlled on off switch. If the OP installs it in parallel with the thermostat switched...

It could also be that your hudl doesn't understand the colour format of the video. Can you upload a short video taken with your GoPro to the forum? I'll convert it to a few different formats using ffmpeg and we can do a bit of trial and error...