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Yes, body filler is easy to finish and still hard enough to withstand knocks. You can buy it as a two-part pack in smallish tubes.

They don't use chlorine (i.e. bleach) any more, they use peracetic acid: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peracetic_acid Many humans die when bacteria, which are normally cleverly contained by the gut, get out into the body causing all kinds of nasty complications such as necrotising fasciitis...

Must have been a hell of an energetic mole. Was it on drugs? (Don't bother answering, it was a carp joke)

Great advice as always from DIYnot members, thanks. Actually I've just phoned Bournemouth Water who are remarkably helpful and the nice young man explained that they have a Leak Allowance that covers lost water due to one leak in any five year period, meaning she won't pay a penny for the lost...

Thanks, that's exactly what I'm trying to tell her!

Huge emotional attachment to you? Did Grandma used to bath you in it? Nice old sink anyway, it will look gorgeous finished off with car polish.

Mum aged 87 lives in an old cottage in Wiltshire and has just received a bill for over £600 from Bournmouth Water, who came and read the meter after six months of estimated bills. BW and BG who cover her internal pipework, boiler etc. have both agreed that it's a big leak between the meter and...

There are probably half a million homes and Muslim institutions in Britain that have a shataff spray. Every single picture I have seen on Google shows this plumbed to a wall outlet with a tap. I can't imagine that any water authority would have the balls to condemn such an installation for fear...

When I retire to Scotland to do more cycling, walking, skiing, kayaking and climbing our workshop/kit store will have a urinal in one corner so I don't have to go outside to pee on the grass.

Not a wind-up at all. Traditional WC pans are not suited to males standing up, especially careless teenage males. This is why Laufen offer a compact home urinal with a lid and an aiming fly...

Serious question: I installed a discrete Laufen home urinal in an empty corner of the downstairs loo, flushed by a push-button straight on the mains. Is that against regs?

When you returned home after the plumber had left did you notice that your wife's bottom drawer had been opened and rummaged?

A good bit of advice I read recently: "Before tackling a wasps' or bees' nest, check that your escape route is clear...."

The ostrich pictured must be kneeling down. Either that or its name is photoshop-stritch.

As always there's a huge gulf between the situation as described by the media and the reality as understood by engineers.

I bet there's an airlock in the pipework somewhere. Get that plumber back. Have you paid him in full?

There are some fancy stainless steel and chromed steel towel racks available but they're a bit pricier than the standard pressed steel job from Screwfix. Have a look on https://www.warmrooms.co.uk/

Can't you wash in a bucket and nip down to the end of the garden for the loo? Millions of Africans seem to manage.

Thanks for the advice.

We have the same setup as you and we had exactly the same problem, less dramatic but the showers would get slowly colder and we would be turning up the heat to try to compensate, yet the cylinder was still full of hot water. The pump was sucking so vigorously that it was pulling cold water...