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Anyone with experience of Nordan windows? Are they good, bad or indifferent? Particularly on followup?

Thanks for that - the roof overhang is 230mm - so we should be ok.

Hi folks, We are doing a substantial renovation of our house (gutting). The wall cavity is pumped with something of an uncertain thermal value, some kind of foam that was done long before we bought the house. The architect has specified has specified 100-120mm of exterior insulation. When I...

So some lemon, bread soda and alot of elbow grease - this sink has cleaned up pretty nicely! It is as actually very beautiful as is, au natural. Full of lines, showing it's age - like all of us I supose. I would be slow to respray it to a show room finish - I think it would look weird or...

Hi folks, I have heard reports that Air Source heat pumps are higher maintenance when compared to Ground Source Heat pumps? That Ground Source is around longer and is a more tried and tested, and trouble free technology. I have also heard that Ground Source Heatpumps are more efficient with...

Hi folks, So I am planning on doing a substantial house renovation in Ireland, we are reorganizing the room layout significantly to make the living room south facing. It is not a significant problem - more a pain in the bum, is the current location of the chimney stack. In the new design is...

Picture of the sink in question is here.

Hi folks, Any tried/used Tubby UK's Sink Resurfacing Kit? https://www.tubbyuk.com/shop/shower-sink-resurfacing-kit/sink-resurfacing-kit I have a 1950s Belfast Sink that is in need of a restoration. Ray K

What do people typically use for this? https://www.rustins.ltd/rustins/our-products/ceramic-care/acrylic-ceramic-glaze

I inherited my grandmothers Belfast Sink. Well kinda inherited it, it was being used as a plant pot and I asked could I have it. My dad remembers installing it in her kitchen in `59 or `60. I remember it in her kitchen in my childhood. It was removed in the mid `00s and put into the garden by...

Couple of bad spots of rust. 1. The underside of the stove - clearly leave it out in the garden didn't do it any good. https://goo.gl/photos/WT8ex69X9nRs6orr8 2. Toe of the one of the legs. https://goo.gl/photos/xpS47fJfazjH7FFQA I was just going to wire brush the underside and spray down...

We planted a couple of pear trees in the garden last year, in peat moss and processed chicken manure. We put them in, next to our mature apple trees and along with some new apple trees. The new apple trees are thriving but the pear trees are looking a bit sad. They are in a sheltered spot...

Funny they don't use fire rope there also.

Yeah, think I need ones with a flat jaw.

No, you adjust the screw, tighten the gripes on the bolt. Test. If it rounds, release the grips, tighten screw slightly and try again.

Don't follow

There is a screw at the end of handle that can be used to adjust.

Some pictures of the gripes. I am guessing that centre bar shouldn't be bent Three amigos https://goo.gl/photos/J3cHvDgXYrhGvpaH8 Bent bar https://goo.gl/photos/zVGq5CXmed12UFvV9

I bought a stove by accident.

They look similar, but imagine mine are a cheap Chinese knock off. Will post a picture.