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When on hols last month I was watching workers retiling roofs in Atlanta (in stonking heat). The roofs were chipboarded, and were felted before the tiles were applied. The tiles were ashphalt and came in strips of around 6 x 2 'tiles', which were nailed down. Where the felt had bubbles in the...

No, all is free running, and the door can be closed by holding the remote button down. It's something electrical. One of the aerials on the control unit (which takes not only the remote but also a signal from the door) was touching the base board, so I've repositioned it, I'll see if that has...

What are the UK regs regarding supplying drinking water from a storage tank? There are such things for sale (just a plastic tank with a better fitting lid) and appliances such as the Grundfoss pressure booster use a storage tank.

I can't speak for all makes of radiators, but usually the threads in rads are tapered, and require tapered plugs. Steel plugs should not corrode and are perfectly adequate. Use ptfe tape on the threads. Chrome plugs are the worst as the tape will slide on the threads. If your threads are...

I installed a Cardale Thermaglide electric roller door in Feb last year. Occasionally when closing the door will stop after closing about 12" with the LED on the control panel showing steady amber (door stopped in mid position according to the book). The door has to be closed by holding down the...

My opinion is Magnetic water conditioners have little or no effect. Electronic water conditioners (from my own experience) reduce limescale deposits in pipework and fittings, including shower heads, but you do get limescale deposits where the water lies, mainly on washbasins. They are easy...

Thanks for all the interest, I think I have it sussed now. The collection tank is up in the roaming hills a few hundred yards away. It is a rather grotty steel closed horizontal cylindrical tank half set into the ground. You certainly wouldn't drink from what flows out of the 4" inspection...

Thanks for the reply. It's a private water supply that comes from an underground spring into a collection tank about 2-300 yards away. At some point a previous owner decided to reduce the feed pipe from 1" to 3/4" somewhere under the house drive (which I have labouriously dug up). The...

The main water feed as it arrives under my drive is in black poly (what I call Alkathene), marked S & L Polythene BS1972 Class C 1". (It is currently reduced down to 3/4" and gets blocked by debris at the point of reduction.) I need to extend into the house in 32 mm MDPE and also pick up a 3/4"...

For occasional use I have found that the DIY cans sold with a plastic gun are excellent, you can control the flow and by sealing the pipe the can er, can be used again until it's empty, unlike the standard use once and throw away cans. A bit pricey, but worth it.

A one inch gap is huge shrinkage. As oak beams don't float in thin air, I assume that the gaps are not structural. I would use expanding foam as, despite its messiness it does penetrate and stick to anything. Alternatively just fill with a render mixture and finish with plaster. That's messy too.

Removing roots can be a real pain. You will have to dig out quite a way to get a bushman saw in, the dirt will destroy chain or other saw blades very quickly, and there's always a huge root or two that goes straight down that can't be reached. As yours are not too large I would chop off the...

Turn the power off first..............

I use a hot pipe because of the lovely fumes.............. ahhhhh!

I am fortunate enough to live in a house with a large south facing roof, a huge garden, no gas, oil heating and a huge bill with it, so I am interested in any way of reducing the costs and getting a little more warmth in the house. But I have no solar energy generation of any kind, and none...

I was rather impressed with some Moscow footie pitch reported in the news today (there's apparently a big match on). They grew their own pitch down the road at a cost of £1.5 million. When they lifted it and laid it at the stadium they weren't happy so they imported a Slovakian pitch at a mere...

We did buy a 'posh' set of taps for our kitchen, much against my wishes, which included a filter on the cold - 'to remove all those nasty smells and chemicals.' I didn't realise there were any. I haven't fitted it, the flow will be absolutely poor, and if it's used the filter will need changing...

EMWC East Midlands Water Company - http://www.emwc.co.uk/ Lots of info and very competitive prices.

If you look at the bottom of this thread there is a box with five threads discussing this. These may be of help.

It looks to me as if the cab hinges are standard kitchen issue, if so you could easily replace them. As for what the stay thing is called, ask in a hardware shop if you have one, or your local shed. PS Actually your hinges look like the usual 180 deg jobs, so a swap is unlikely to be of help...