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Could you put a piece of furniture, bookcase etc undet the window?

You're probably better off removing all the old paint and using primer, as the paint that looks ok now could become detached and peel at a later date.

There used to be a brown brush paint on the market that produced the appearance of light streaks in the painted item, like a wood effect, but I can't remember any more than that.

Sounds like a "bad idea". If you're going to camber over the tiles to brush paint them, then you are probably going to disturb the asbestos fibres which you could inhale and could float down into your house. You're better off leaving them be, or better still have them removed by an experienced...

25 years ago, I used International Paint's "Concrete Floor Sealer" and Bright Red "Garage Floor Paint" on my garage floor, and it's still going strong, has not pealed or faded. However, there are some chips in the paint, a few small areas of abrasion and damage from spilt spray-gun cleaner...

l bought a cheap B&Q tipped saw for my father and it cut wood like butter, so I would like to buy myself one for cutting branches of a tree, so just wondered how many teeth per inch should I look for?

When contacting the seller, ask if they have a "Vehicle Identity Check Pass Certificate", I was given this after my car was checked by the Vehicle & Operator Services Agency.

My car was a category C write off, and about a year after I had it repaired, the DVLA demanded that it be checked by them. Consequently, one would assume that an HPI Check would not flag it up, however when I went to part exchange it for a new car two years later, the garage said that my car...

Sorry if someone has already mentioned this, but if you do have a car that is written off because of the cost of repair, then at a later stage the DVLA may ask you to take it to be inspected by one of their engineers, to check that it is the original vehicle chassis number, and not two welded...

My car is 20 years old, the spare wheel is borderline, and I don't want to get an Advisory Note for it, therefore if I took the spare wheel out, will the car pass the MOT without a spare wheel, as modern cars are even sold without a spare.

The shower still works OK. As we did not have a hot summer, I did not have to change the connections around on the toggle twitch, which would have taken me a minute if the weather had been hot.

Because it will take a couple if minutes to replace the toggle switch whereas it will take a few hours to perhaps bang holes in the wall, relay the pipes, etc to enable me to fit a new shower. I hardly think that a shower costing £50 will be very reliable anyway, a two year guarantee is useless...

Sorry to bump this post, but I am still interested in buying this Heatrae Sadia unit, a new one too in the unlikely event that someone has one.

I am not a plumber, just a DIY-er, and I had to replace my 20 year old Drayton mid position actuator MA1 with another that I bought from B&Q about 5 years ago and no problems since: 20 years life sounds reasonable to me.

I now post images of the Performance Curves for the two pumps. I live in a house and the pump is 0.5 m below the maximum height of the radiators, about 2.5 m above the minimum height of the radiators/pipes, and about 2.5 m below the header tank overflow. Hence using top right CP50 graph...

I installed my current Circulating Pumps CP53 CH pump 10 years ago and it is still going strong, although to make it last I have used the slowest speed setting of 1. My previous pump only lasted about 5 years, also set on speed 1, consequently I am thinking of replacing the pump as in the past I...

Thanks Luke, looks like it has to be the Toyota then.

I wondered if anyone knows if there is any difference between the Toyota GT 86 & Subaru BRZ, particularly if you have driven both cars, eg mechanical and comfort. I have driven the GT86 but only up to 40 mph, it was a nice positive drive and quite comfortable, but too much traffic to say much...

Thanks guys. I was put off buying a new car, partly by the useless sales men, the fact that the cars that I tried, Civic, Auris, and GT86 were no more comfortable than my Corolla, and it passed the MOT after a small amount of work. So maybe next year.

Brilliant, thanks garethpa. And if my original strut does not have a cutaway, maybe I could cut one with my Dremel.