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Hello, the past couple of years i have been taking up a HUGE amount of concrete from different areas in my garden. Many many many tons of the stuff and i just cannot carry it all through my house as there is so much. I have decided to stack it in a corner of my (fortunately) large garden and try...

500 mm below ground is plenty. One bag of Postcrete would not be enough and personally i would go buy some ballast and cement and make my own mix, cheaper aswell. Drying time is longer, i would leave for around 3 days before fixing panel. If cost is not an issue, go ahead and use Postcrete...

Thankyou so much for your help and the attached links. I definately need to put some posts in the ground so thats my weekend job and it seems its the right time of year to do some major pruning. Already looking forward to next years crop! Thanks again.

4 years ago someone gave me a grapevine cutting which i literally just stuck in the ground not expecting much to be truthful. 4 years on and it is massive! This year we had grapes by the bucket load and what a lovely taste. Now the leaves have dropped i need to train it a bit and also untangle...

Thankyou for all your help and advice. On recomendation of a PC nerd friend (no disrespect) we have downloaded anther program called Auslogics Disc deframgmenter. Worked a treat and best of all, unlike Vista Disc Defragmenter had a progress bar so you could see what was going on and how long it...

Round a friends last night and hi pc is like a snail. Turns out he has never run a disc clean up or disc defragment or any sort of 'clean' in 6 years of having the computer. We ran a Disc Defragment and 8 hours later it was still running. Is this ok? Can you just let it run? How long could it...

If you cut back the trim the way you described you would find it very hard to stick the bit thats left onto the last tile. Even if you could any slight knocks would soon loosen it. Personally, i would hack off the last row of tiles, fix the trim correctly and then tile. If the row you take off...

on a recent trip to France i noticed on many chimneys pots a spinning silver fluted sphere. Sorry for the description but its the best i can do. What are they called exactly.And what do they do? Would one of these fixtures improve the performance of my wood burning stove or are they just to stop...

Hi, i am tiling a large kitchen floor that has underfloor heating with a natural slate tile. I am going to be using a silver sand/cement mix for the grout. Using conventional grout for floors with underfloor heating i always add an additive (or use a single part with additive in mix) Is there a...

Hi, been to see a job today, 18 metres calibrated slate, kitchen floor. Now, this is a new one to me. The surface to be tiled comprises 300mm x 1200mm plywood sheets that have been routed to take a underfloor heating pipe. The sheets are 14mm thick and the pipe is 12mm, leaving just 2mm of ply...

Hi, we have a log cabin in our garden which we want to move 20 metres further down. It has 3 double sockets and internal and external lights. Power comes through armour cabling direct from fuse board. Can we join onto existing cable through a junction box or should the cable be one continous...

Hi, have just seen an amazing tool in action. Like an angle grinder that you lay on the floor by the architrave, set the height and a wheel comes flying out cutting the wood, leaving a space for the flooring to slip under. Hope that makes sense, sure it will to the right person. Im a floor tiler...

Hi, recently my boiler (18 months old condensing) stopped working. I had recently bled my rads and one rad was completely full of air. Filled up with water but boiler still did not work. Read the manual and checked the pressure on the boiler and pressure was low. Opened a valve and filled system...

Hello and thankyou for your replies. I don't know what the climbers are called. There are lots of them and very mature , surrounding my garden boundary so getting rid is not an option as they are so intertwined with the fence panels that they are the fence! Re the membrane idea, i was going to...

In my previous 2 homes i grew some fantastic veg. I do not claim to be an expert but learning all the time. My latest garden i am having real trouble getting anything to grow in the ground. Everything starts OK then stops. Very dry and dusty in summer so i am thinking of completely changing the...

Hi David, when ever possible i take up old tiles. If i am confident the old tiles are sound and not loose i will tile over existing tiles. On walls i use BAL Mosaic Fix, not cheap, but a superb adhesive. This adhesive would also be fine to use for the job in question. I would definately remove...

Took my 6 year old TD Peugeot Boxer for and MOT today and they advised me that in order to do an emision test they have to over rev the engine beyond its normal operating revs for x amount of time. They had to tell me just incase the belt snaps. Is this right? I have never heard of this if thats...

just thought to post this for your enjoyment. dear old Les. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Thp46olQz3M&feature=email