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Thanks for the replies all. As part of the cellar conversion it's going to get "disturbed" a little bit at least, so I'll look into replacing it. Currently it runs right under the electricity meter, and is earth bonded there. If it's replaced with plastic, there will be no metal section...

Hehe, by that token going to Gambia without a malaria jab must be safe if one person does it and doesn't die ;-)

Hi, I haven't been able to turn up the answer to this by searching on here - sorry if this has been covered. The water supply pipe coming into my house is lead - there's about 8m of it inside the house, and I would guess about 6m more outside before it meets the main in the road. It's...

That won't work though... it would still require the electrician to come at the same time as as the meter is moved, which won't (or might not) happen (and then I'll be in the dark all night with a defrosted freezer). Sounds like if the DNO will not extend the tails, then I'll need to get...

Coming back to this... I need the meter (etc.) moved by the DNO, and the consumer unit changed and moved by an electrician. Given that it's unlikely I'll be able to arrange for these things to happen on the same day, will the DNO be able to install longer (around 2m long) tails to the...

Sledge hammer does seem to be the way forward: Thanks!

Thanks Thermo. OK, so I'm looking at one of the sort of stand-up ones? Actually I just tried the low-tech approach: sledge hammer and crowbar. Got twice as much done in 5 minutes as I did in an hour with the breaker - it helps that I have hollowed out a lot of the sand from underneath so...

OK, bit of an update on this. I took off part of the wall and it turns out the actual construction is a bit different to what I thought. It's something like this: The top layer of concrete varies quite a bit in thickness but it's broadly around 10cm. I actually need to remove it and...

Using a concrete breaker to take off the top layer

I dismantled it a bit and the actual construction is more like this.

Thanks very much Rich. I'll get the hedge trimmers on it then, take it back to the size I want, which will basically remove all the green, and wait for it to fill in.

Right, here we go. Not brilliant photos but I hope you get the idea. The photos are quite high-res so you should also be able to see whether it really is a coneaster. Behind it is a wire fence. Not quite sure what's behind that on my neighbour's side - more of the same amongst other things...

Just because Sainsburys offers a replacement of items you break, doesn't mean EVERY shop automatically "has to" or "does". Wickes might choose to or choose not to - that's their business decision, same as it's Sainsbury's.

Thanks Rich. Will it only shoot from the point of the cuts, or will new shoots come out of the long lengths of wood? (Ideally it would be bushy and not too deep. Don't want to chop it at the top and end up with something resembling a lollypop.)

Hi folks, The bottom of my garden is surrounded by what I think is a Cotoneaster hedge. (I'll post a photo when I remember and perhaps someone can confirm.) It's very very overgrown and straggly and really only loosely resembles a hedge. There's no foliage at all closer than about 100 or...