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This image shows my mother's garden. The yellow demarcation represents the deck. The black demarcation represents the boundaries of the building. The red circle represents a drain access cover and the brown square a drain (and gutter pipe). The lightning symbols represent electrical connections...

Two spare pieces came with my drill but are not mentioned in the documentation. They appear to be small metal masses connected to springs which separate the masses from small metal plates. The mass and plate are connected to each other by a copper wire. Any idea what they're for?

If it dries, why will you need to scrape it off?

Thanks for the advice guys. I'm not sure I'll be able to find a tube of the exact internal diameter which I require. If I can't, I can maybe use the sheet roller at a local community workshop. Which edges won't be parallel? The ones which come together or the curved ones?

I would like to shape some metal in the fashion shown at the bottom of this lamp. I probably don't have the necessary tools and I certainly don't known enough to even know what information to search for online. Presumably, I would want to start with a sheet of aluminium? How could I circularise...

I think you should get a switched mode power supply which would be cheaper to run (there's not much price difference, if any). E.g. something equivalent to this...

Hey. Check eBay. I've no idea what design you're looking for but, for example, this one is quite nice: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Rose-Pattern-Plaster-Coving-MPC044-/160836298220?pt=UK_Home_Garden_Decorative_Accents_LE&hash=item25729725ec#ht_2448wt_888 For delivery, they've a minimum order of...

I'm not planning on using it often so the storage and expense of a dedicated drill press is hard to justify. Do you think that a tool which allows a regular drill to be used as a drill press would be worthwhile...

Hi. Thanks for you advice. Have you any idea of what would be a reasonable price to pay to have an external socket fitted? Also, re: burying of connections, does that mean I would not be allowed to render over the cable between the lights?

I want to install some 12V LED lights into the wall in my mother's garden. I plan to chisel away the render to allow me to fix frosted acrylic tubes in which I will place several LED strips. I'll then render over the connecting cabling so that the tubes are set in the wall. The main issue is the...

I can't find information advising what fixing to use for particular purposes. Would it be okay to use light-duty wall plugs to hang a hanging basket? Could you give advice regarding the jobs that the different (light-, regular- and heavy-duty) plugs are suitable for? Thanks.

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Oh dear. I bought a tap but it certainly didn't come with a nut and olive. I bought this one: http://www.screwfix.com/p/15mm-x-outside-tap-with-hose-union/41948 Is this the sort of nut I need? http://www.screwfix.com/p/conex-nut-15mm/66118

Do I need a "pipe-to-tap connector" to stop the connection from leaking? I don't have any specialist tools for plumbing.

Hi Merlin; that's great, thanks! But what's the name of the first peice and also, how do I connect them all together? Thanks a lot! Edit: Aha! Using Google's new reverse image search function, I've found that it's a tank connector! Thanks a bunch! I still wonder how they connect but perhaps...

I want to hide a water butt in the bottom of a wooden planter which I built, underneath the plants. The problem is tapping the water. I would like a brass tap to go through the planter and into the plastic tub within but I need to find a suitably long tap to go through the 2.5 cm of wood. How do...

You can buy silver things to put in to reduce growth. Copper is also supposed to work though so I would just throw in a few copper coins. My supervisor uses them in a cell culture incubator to save buying chemicals.

Does it not matter if some rain still gets on the wood?

I might be mistaken, but in our climate at least, the panels tend to degenerate before they've been able to pay for themselves. Looking at the cost per unit of energy generated, you start to see just how economical it is to generate power at a station and distribute it via a grid! Again, I could...

Mum would like to do her bit to lessen the drought in England so she's commissioned me to connect a water butt to our drain pipe to collect water. The problem is that the bathroom sink (and I suppose the bath) also connect to the same drain pipe. All manner of detergents and other herbicidal...