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As it has a returned edge then yes, take it to a local fabricator and they will - hopefully - be able to shorten the spashback in a professional manner. You'll be looking at this thing for years, so it's worth the effort to get a good job.

I think that the laws of physics probably include one or two about capilliary action. There's no problem with soldering 'upside down' fittings, just a little skill and experience required. Prepare and heat as usual, then when the fitting is hot enough to melt the solder wire, apply, and the...

Yes, I wasn't sure whether the pic was a plan or sideview. The comment 'one tiny ^%^^%^ing screw which left the ballcock lose on the spindle' is rather worrying. Well, not to me particularly, but you get the drift...

Do you mean that you had a rectangular feed tank and you drilled the hole for the ballcock too close to a corner so you had to bend the arm of the ballcock sideways to clear the adjacent side? (phew!). And are you saying that the ballcock can twist sideways and that this is what it did...

I agree entirely with your sentiments, but as there doesn't seem to be a practicable way of telling that there is cavity wiring then the conclusion must be that (foam) cavity wall insulation should be banned as a trade. I asked as I don't really like to hear workmen, who may well be perfectly...

<..they are supposed to check for these things before pumping their rubbish in....> How are they supposed to do that? I mean, how, actually, do they do that?

The patterned side should face the inside of the DG unit, and the patterned glass should be on the inside of the building. I assume this is so the pattern doesn't attract dirt, and to make the glass easier to clean by facing a flat glass face to the outside (the patterned glass may have slight...

Hi, Given your admitted lack of knowledge in this area (nothing to be ashamed of!) I think it would be unwise to offer any advice to you that involved sticking your fingers in the fuse box. Do you have any neighbours or friends who might be familiar with this who could help you? Failing that...

No it doesn't, the weight increases. What do you mean by that? The 1000 t half or fully immersed weight does impose less strain on the crane, as it is being supported by a force equiv to the water being displaced. In the case of a boat, fully lowered onto the water, the crane registers zero...

Should it not be 'the volume of water displaced by any object has the same weight as the object', irrespective of whether the object floats or sinks?

The question clearly stated a half-filled glass, and the finger not touching the glass. So, discounting a hugely fat finger, the glass cannot overflow. There will always be gravitational pull. So, if you had some sort of strain gauge on the crane, it would not change as the weight was...

Are you sure?

And if you really want to waste a few brain cells, our favourite mad scientist puts a half-filled glass of water on the scales. He then dips his finger in it without touching any part of the glass (Don't ask why). Do the scales read more, less or the same?

As we're all adding conditions, I'll add that bath-full in this context means the normal level of bath fill, say half-way up the sides, as the OP intended, and all the water remains contained in the bath,........ Right. To compensate in some small way for the weight of the human body, our...

Well, if a bath-full of water weighs 150 kilos, and a 100 kilo body climbs into it, the total weight will be 350 kilos, no matter how much the water is displaced. Anyway, one's bum is always on the floor of the bath.

You'll just have to take approx measurements up to your normal fill line, squaring the corners - use common sense. Ours is approx 4'6 x 2' x 7", which gives 5.25 cu ft. Multiply that by 62.36 lbs gives around 325 lbs (147 kilos). I would get hoplessly lost if I tried to do it in metric. One...

Skanska didn't do this install, but they show this type of install on their website. ' Groundworks began last July with the creation of 46 piles to a depth of 10m. Sections of augered flight measuring 1.5m long and 300mm in diameter were installed using a 12t piling rig and connected to one...

Confident? He was spending the in-laws' money on his pet theories, it seemed to me. I thought the programme was quite sad, the elderly couple hardly consulted and ending up with a building the majority of which I thought they didn't really want. I would have thought that they wanted a low...

More here - http://www.roger-bullivant.co.uk/news/12/chathams-grand-design.html It's warm air that's being pumped through the pipework (I guess it starts out as cold air). Skanska seem to do this sort of thing in a big way, so I guess there's some previous, as they say.

In a (prototype!) system which is integral with the foundations there's no possibility of tweaking if it doesn't work too well. It's do or die. There seems to be two unknowns - apart from the inordinate length of the pipes - one being that there would be no sun playing on the ground from...