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Here is a larger shot The door leads into a garage, bricks on the garage side that the door frame is fixed to. The door frame itself feels solid enough, its the hollow plasterboard bit that moves/vibrates. This door does get a bit of abuse, not slammed hard but often pulled and let go to...

I need to do something with the cracks in this wall I've just pulled out some lumps of loose plaster to see what was behind. Basically the right hand side is a solid concrete block wall, plastered. The left side is around a doorframe, it is a wooden stud structure and plasterboarded. Looks...

I have remote RF fobs for my garage, and have opened it accidentally several times by leaning on the fob in my pocket :D I think any remote/app based solution needs to have auto-close after a minute or two. If you need longer then a manual "keep open" switch inside the garage feels like a better...

okay - so I pulled down the remaining side of the shed this morning and discovered a rather large problem that caused the upheaval of the flags I thought this tree was in the neighbours garden, but it seems to have grown from my side of the small wall. Seems a very big trunk if its just...

Cheers. Would be nice if I could get away with just sorting out the last row but I know my other half has eyes on something more Mediterranean :whistle:

I inherited this as part of a house move, it did have a shed on it which unsurprisingly had a rather uneven floor :eek: The whole area is 3.6m X 4m and is very solid apart from this end The fence posts are very solid with a couple of concrete gravel boards at the bottom, and these are on top...

I had a leak coming under the front rail of a quadrant shower enclosure so have pulled it all out to reseal, but as always it throws up questions :D The sealant joining tray to tiles was mouldy so I've removed that too, but there are a few bits of grout missing - quite thin gaps say 2-3mm and...

to some extent yes, however our garden is above the houses on the other side and even then only really one house with no windows at the back(!?) so there isn't a great issue with being overlooked - other than the "feel" of it being open. I guess people on the hill several hundred metres away...

ah that might do it, Mexico will pick up the bill too :D

Our garden fence is getting a bit past it so looking at options and wondered if anybody had any bright ideas :idea:. This is what we currently have 10x 6ft x 4ft (mostly) tall with 1ft concrete gravel boards so about 5ft high all along (and it slopes downward). Ideally I'd like the height to...

I could swap my bodge for your bodge :D Thanks for looking though (y) I've got a good seal on my parts with tape at 6 bar so should be good enough

Thanks all, will give the PTFE a chance then get some Loctite if it fails :D

1/8 NPT pressure sensor goes in the other end

I have a 1/2" BSP bush I want to connect to some 22mm pipework, but not sure on the right thing to get a good seal. I have a 22mm tee with a 1/2" pipe connection but the threads are parallel and the bush just goes all the way in, and doesnt bottom out either so not really an option for a washer...

Sorry, I'm not ignoring your replies, just got so many tabs open and forgot about this for a while :D Thanks for all the input, some good things to think about. I don't believe the hump is a dam of any kind, the road is quite flat at my end, falling towards with a steep hill at the end of the...

This sloping driveway came with the house we moved into (ie I didnt do it :D) - for some reason there is quite a big hump at the top then it goes back down to the road surface. Because my car is quite long, it wont go over the hump without scraping so I cant really back it down the drive. Whats...

why do I need a vent? It is not a chimney, just an external wall that used to have a flue through it?

So been a bit busy to sort this but should get something done soon as the wallpaper has now arrived :eek: :D Can anybody advise me on the best course of action for filling this hole? I've worked out the underlying concrete block pattern (please forgive the graphic work) I'm thinking completely...

Well I won't be buying the fuel, if she wants it on she'll have to buy the fuel! We do have gas central heating in the room so it's more a thing to look at than actually hear the room

I've just removed our old fire and fireplace surround and this is what I was greeted with clearly damp plaster on either side and the base is really rather damp to the touch. It looks like the installer just dumped a load of plaster in the bottom to level it up and bridged the cavity. I've...