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once water has got behind the render that is holding your p/dash.. the whole lot will be heading towards peeling off. I would certainly get the window guys back as adding windows after the p/dash can cause water ingress if the edges are not sealed. If you can not get them back look at your...

wowwwwwa.... stop many (3 for £99) verticals are made of non-washable felt type fabric that will fall to pieces if washed in a machine. If is slightly wooly, then you might try sponge and soap flakes, but not too wet.... slowly slowly. Polyester fabrics ar often slightly shiney and a test on...

there are afew manufactureres of glassfibre strand coating that is like thick solvent based porrage, (Grey in colour). We put some on our roof in 1991 and its still water tight and looks to last a lot longer yet. Its about £65 for 15 ltrs but worth it.

roof-coaters offer a treatment that has a 10 year warranty. seals and waterproofs the tiles too. search on google they are there somewhere

yep I have been going there for years, and there has always been a 'regular' theme going through my mind (or system) post visit, when I think about it. Blahhhhhh. :cry:

This is great, I love this product... turn a wooden shed into a stone one, a brick wall into a stone one, a stone one into bricks. NO it's not cladding it's sprayed on and carved by hand... brill :lol: a...

Made and fitted when men were men and thumbs were bl**dy. Imagine a dozen of them on your shoulder, up a ladder in the snow....... eeeee when I were a lad.

Could you break the walls down by digging around the edge and let the roof drop into the hole you have made???? (you only have to remove 12" of bricks , Kinda thinking Fred Dibna shore it up with wood and burn the bugger. Or maybe find a WW2 bomb..... ;-?

got a call to see why the water supply had stopped running from a spring in the hills in rossendale, lancs. walked 300 yards up the hill to a brick tank.... no water in it. walked 1/2 mile to the spring. water running fine. Opened the 'filter' a LEAD channel with a series of holes knocked...

Go in your shed and get all of those bits of copper plumbing fitting you will use one day :>), get those old 1/2p 's you meant to cash in and that collection of 1962 pennies. that copper bracelet for your artheritis. put them all in a bucket of 90% water 10% vinegar and leave for a few months...

£100.... why hesitate. Is it worth the hassle and danger. A quatro-bend ladder will cost £120. If ur cleaning PVCu try CIF (once called JIF) Better than stores PVC cleaner, easier than solvent based cleaners. Power washing will not clean off deep grained muck off PVC. Supermarket own brand...

Not the washer really but the nozzle. +2000 psi, 10-12 ltrs per mn, 3 x hoses in tandem and the magic *turbo nozzle. (*£50-80 for a proper one). So get your washer, buy the nozzle. Don't forget the harness, rope, cat ladder, normal ladder,stand-off, PL insurance, sand and cement, spare tiles...

Unknown by many, you can not actually kill moss, only supress it's grown with moss inhibitors. It will survive...... Forget B'N'Q off the shelf killer stuff, you need a pro-solution only available via a trader. By scraping you are simply cutting the lawn, and you know what happens when you cut...

Do a fast job by hiring a 'single tool' road compressor and buy a hand held air chisel from Northern Tools or machine mart with a selection of chisel heads. Whole lot for about £80 and spend one weekend blasting the lot off. No smashed thumbs, no aching joints and much much faster than by hand...

Aquashield fibre reinforced roof sealer is made under many label names. It is a solvent based fibre added paste that can be brushed, or trowled on to asbestios roofs or flat, garage type roofs. At about £45 per 5 ltrs in the B&Q's of this world, it's not cheap, but it works and can be rained on...

Uuuugh, why wud ya? Mind you, replacing like for like can be hard. But certain buildings do not lend themselves to single coloured tiles. Just like putting PVCu roof line products on a listed building...... would ya?

there is a product called Decopierre, it not been in the UK very long but been around for 10+YEARS in France, USA etc: I have a brochure if you want it.... very nice stone effect, hand carved finish

The shed was bought for an exhibition, and after we found a place in my garden for it. The timber is sound (being new), and to make sure there was no major movement in the structure by adding some 2x2 struts inside. The surface was then covered with plasterers mesh, nailed in place with staples...

Take a wooden shiplap shed and make it groovy. It took just a day to do 2 sides. (the others are not seen). thanks to jamie and pete.