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leylandii was from next door neighbors garden bordering our garden. It kept growing too high and into our garden side ways too much too, so I just got a ladder, and pruned them off. Yes, leylandii seems not good for composting. They just sit on the ground for ages, and don't really mix with...

Great idea. Thanks.

Our council has started charging for the garden waste Brown recycle bin collection. Not sure how much the cost is, but we and many people in the area stopped using the collection service. Just have been composting the garden waste, but when more than usual amount of trees have been pruned, the...

I have loads of green woods - the twigs, stems and branches cut from the leylandii hedges, old leggy fuscia trees and some holly trees lying in the garden in the piles of mounds here and there. They are lying in the corner of the garden, and I need to dispose of them somehow. I am going to...

Few days ago, I have done the similar job myself for the tall leylandii hedge which belongs to the next door neighbors but bordering with our garden and getting too high and ugly due to no maintenance by them. I wanted to reduce the height, so had to buy a tripod ladder. I used a Bosch hedgre...

Good advice thank you. It is a shame that well-known large DIY stores like B&Q don't stock quality timbre in their shops. :(

Great info. Thanks. I was also looking at local B&Q timbre stock list, because it is the near from us. https://www.diy.com/timber-joinery/timber.cat I was going to get exact measurment of the slats, and then get roughly same sized ones, and cutting them into exact size to fit into the cast...

Suppose it would be stright replacement job of the timbre rails as long as they are cut for the correct measurment. Need to drop by local timbre yard. I don't suppose B&Q would stock the timbre rails for the replacement? What sort of timbre would be the best for the replacement? Oak? Ash? -...

They are very similar to the 2nd one from the top. https://www.leevalley.com/en-ca/discover/woodworking/2020/august/restore-a-vintage-garden-bench

We have 2x antigue benches about 50 year old. The back and sides are made of cast iron. The panels that make up the seat and back are wooden panels. These wooden panels are rotten deep, and look weakened. Obvious options could be iether replace the rotten wooden panels with the new cut to...

But then I have never seen squirrel droppings. Are they similar shape?

I checked with google imges of rat droppings, and they definitely looked like rat droppings - the shape, colour and size :(

I went out to lock the shed this evening for the day, and on the way to the shed, I saw what looked like rat droppings on the lid of the green wheelie bin. But I was wondering, how could rat climbe onto the tall wheelie bin? Because I saw on Youtube videos, that rats falling into the buckets...

I wanted to leave the trees next to the window, but wife says she would prefer the trees down for more sun lights, so 3 trees were cut down. When the trees were cut down, could see loads of snails sticking to the window frames hiding behind the trees - so they are cleared as well. We still...

Ours were around 5-6 inches at the base, and 3 of them were just next to the window of the downstairs room blocking the window views to the outside. I got a prunning saw out, and took them down. It was not too hard work taking them down, but need to clear them from the garden, and will be some...

These Japanese maple trees were about a foot high when planted about 10 year ago when we moved into this old house. About 3-4 trees were planted, and they have grown up so much now, they are about 12 ft tall, and spread wide around the house. I did some pruning on them because they look quite...

I used to think Milwaukee tools were good quality. They tend to be always more expenisive than others. But quality?

Ok thanks for the info. Will give that a try. Not sure if we have scrap metal yard nearby, but will look out for it.

An old thread, but this is quite true.

I have a few of these used old car batteries to put out. I am just wondering if there are alternative places which accept the old used car batteries for recycling apart from the skip. I saw the local supermarkets such as Lidle and Aldi has big jars accepting used AA AAA C and D and PP9...