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Epoxy putty from a model shop (milliput)...

sprayed it today, smelt like coal tar soap. A couple of hours latter the green fly looked destinctly dead... cheers for the advice.

or use vasaline... and run a magnet over them, in the past ive bought "brass screws" and they all went rusty!

yes invite a hundred yahoooo's in red coats with fifty dogs to ride thro the garden..

I got some rose spray today, says it kills green fly /black fly and black spot and mildew.. i think your right though it needs a hard prune. and soem TLC around the roots...cheers.

I live in Cornwall, which isnt a greta place to grow roses, they seem to get a lot of mold due i think to damp and clean air. Anyway, outside the kitchen there is a big climbing rose which has had leaves for a couple of months, it looked healthy and good until last week. Now its shedding leaves...

firstly foxes do not attack people not even small ones but i can understand your concerns, they arnt the most sanitary creatures. .. they dont like dogs (if you have one) or strong smells like Citronella oil, you can get Fox deterant sonic devices pretty cheep too..

in theory yes... chip it and use it as top dressing. But in theory it will take minerals etc out of the soil as it rots... but then people put bark chippings on the garden al the time.... As for trees yes many have preservation orders on them, yours might, but if its blocking out the...

Well you can cut glass fiber with a hacksaw easy enough, a grinder will be awfully dusty!

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Ive also heard of heat extraction from running water in a similar way.... Though i think Super Insulation is the way to go i reckon that ground sourced heating is maybe a way to keep old houses livable.

i had a hows it done with a mate this morning... so its basicaly a fridge... with the soil/bedrock being the inside of the fridge and the rad/heater in the house being the back of the fridge (which is hot to the touch just from stealing the heat from your yogerts). But what area is needed? One...

I ve looked up renewable energy etc... and most are not, takeing lots of oil to make (windmills etc) I just like the idea of sinking a bore hole in the house and getting heat...and wondered if anyoen had pratical experience. Theres a "Hotrocks" place just up the road from me and the house sits...

It would seem to be the heating of the future. Take water pump it round some pipes and extract the heat that its acumulated. I notice that all supermarkets now have a huge solar collector outside ie thier car parks, that got to be worth thinking about? is it really that easy or are thier huge...

You can get acid brick cleaners that you spray on and the grundge sort of rolls off like magic.. google brick cleaners. I ve used it a few years ago and its supriseingly effective (tho a bit harsh on skin/hair!)

for a super shiney finish (after t-cut) Car interior spary like "Back To Black" silicon polish is good.

yes thats what paint stripper is... might be good to soak the inside with too...maybe make up a tempory tank to leave em in over night.

You do indeed need either one to change the use of a chimney.(but not if its already in use).... assuming ones tells them.

Energy price wise..ive involentarily gon from gas to coal/wood/peat/anything burnable.... and id say its Ok if your willing to get your own wood to burn but your going to go through a lot of it! basicaly Anthracite is number one, coal then smokeless, then peat then wood... Anthracite can be...

Get the plants from a specialist hedgeing place.. like http://www.hedging.co.uk/acatalog/new_hedges.html (who do a rather good catalogue) bit late for bare rooted now, but bought in quantity fairly cheep anyway. Hawthorn (AKA Quickthorn) does make a good barrier but figure on 5 years for full...