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Cheers PaulJR, fantastic advice, really helpful, thanks.

There are some great ideas and advice here. A few more questions from the answers given.... Not quite sure what you mean by this - dowel bars would be reinforcing rods. Do you mean set some bars so they protrude from the couter weight and sit in the upper slab? Would you not put any...

Some useful thoughts here thanks. A friend recently used the weighted box idea to achieve a similar hole and it seemed to work ok. It was weighted by a large beer swilling friend on each corner. Having dug a much smaller hole on the beach last year I cannot begin to face the prospect of...

You saw surely........that is why I asked for advice I can mix cement and dig a hole but my technical knowledge is a bit limited ;-)

Hi, I have a boat plot on a shingle beach and need to sink a concrete base to mount a winch on. The winch base will essentially be a 1m3 block with a 6'x8'x8" slab on top. The 1m3 block provides the counter weight to the boat being dragged up the beach. A winch and motor will be bolted...

Hi, About two and half years ago I tiled my bathroom - quick job when we moved in the house. After 18months we had the bathroom re-fitted and I re-tiles. We used the same tiles with the same shower over the bath but invested in the recommeded power shower resistant, mould resistant grout...

I have used 1400 weight paper throughout my house with very pleasing results. Thick enough to cover minor imperfections and thin enough to remain pliable and workable in use. I had a similar sitiation to you with extensively patched old walls. My advice would be to get double length rolls of...

Right I have had a go at scapping the wrinkled patches - they are far more extensive than I first imagined. In some places the layer of paint will just scrape away. In others is it more stubborn but not fully dry. I am inclined to wait until; it dries and then just thoroughly sand it. The...

The primer tin says sand it. I cannot say i am keen on the prospect of sanding every little bit and angle. But a job done properly I suppose

I think I will go for scraping the worst of the wrinkled paint of and letting it dry for a week or two underneath. Then the whole thing should have dried properly and and I can give it a decent sand and a proper top coat I am using a trade gloss from Wickes. It says on the tin not to thin it...

I am sure it is not an anti-rust coating. I have tried wiping it over with white spirit and a rag. The rag turns very black and although the metal does not visably clean up it no longer leaves much of a dirty mark on your hand when handled. Do I need to rub over with wire wool to provide a...

There was a few days between undercoat and top coat - but I guess the uncercoat may not have gone off fully. The wrinkled patches are still pliable. It is better to take a scrapper to these now - or wait the 30 days mentioned above and try and sand them away. If I sand them now I will just...

No, definitely not a glavanized coating. IF leave a spot of water anywhere on the railings and you get a spot of surface rust the next day. This is just some sort of oil or grease or some such. You get a dirty black mark on your hand when you handle it.

Hi, Just finished painting the first coat of gloss on the new beach hut. The surface had been previously primed and undercoated. The results are disappointing to say the least. There are large patches of wrinkled paint which two weeks later can be smoothed flat with your finger - showing...

Hi, I have just had some new railing for the outside of my house delivered. The next task is to paint them for which I have bought red oxide primer and hammerite topcoat. The metal of the railings has some sort of coating on it - presumably to prevent rust. It makes the metal a dull dark...

Cheers, thanks for the advice. Sam

Cheers Noseall. I have a good view from a window. of part of the felt/guttering on the lower level second elevation at the rear of the house. The felt there extends 2-3 inches past the edge of the leading tile and sits right down into the gutter. The contractor attended today to deal with...

Hi During recent roof works to solve leaks (unsucessful and ongoing) the contractor added strips of felt under the bottoms tiles which laps into the gutter. The previous felt had rotted away and water was getting onto and rotting the facia boards. I have noticed however that the felt over...

Right, well naturally it was the fixed lug. So I went at with with a pair of pliars to try and flatten the lug and it seems to be holding so far. No doubt it will finally give up the ghost shortly after the next re-decoration and I will then have to knock a big hole in the wall. Anyway, so...

I shall try both approaches and let you know.