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If the posts are sound then by all means reuse them. Adding gravel boards is always better and no problem on existing posts, just make sure the posts are still vertical as a small deviation will making fitting gravel boards difficult but not impossible. As for treatment pressure treated wood is...

In my experience no but this is based on slabs that are now 12 years old and probably the dyes they use now are much better. a 600x600 flag only 35mm thick must be installed on a full mortar bed and get a few extra as there will be a few break during moving and laying.

Obviously the acid wash may discolour your pointing a little but thats the least of your worries.

Eek, that is grim. Your problem is not easy to solve. The problem being the stone will have sucked in some on the dye. It looks like your pointing in warm dry weather using a wet mix. This makes the flags very thirsty and they readily take in moisture and your dye has been sucked into them as...

I have a recently aquired medical grade piston vacuum pump that i intend to use for vacuum bagging. It has however arrived with no flex It simply has 3 Wires. 1. Bare ended green and yellow which is obviously earth. 2. Crimp ended brown wire which i presume to be the live 3. Crimp ended...

Budget job would be in the region of £40 a sq/m. As its a small area add a little extra. Probably £700+. However This is a very bad time of year to try and get someone for work that like. Any landscaper will be very busy now in peak season doing their most profitable work and therefore the price...

Yes it will move no problem but to be safe you should do it in autumn. Doing it in the height of summer is the absolute worst time. If you must move it now get it in and out within a few hours and water it well both before and after moving. They have a mass of finer roots rather than a few big...

After you factor in compaction 2 tons is quite close.

These will be a death trap in a few months when wet and slimey. One sleeper as an edge for a step isn't great but a flight of them is downright dangerous. If your not fully committed to the idea I would reconsider. How have you laid them? Normally there would be a small overlap of say an inch...

If you put it in as a Dr mix its going to be pretty easy to rake out. Hammer a nail into a bit of wood and have it protruding by 25mm then use that to rake out joints to 25mm depth. The dye will not stain if the pointing is dry enough. Test a small inconspicuous area first until you get the...

No problem. I'll ask the moderators to move this to the building section as you will get more opinions and advice there for an issue like this.

Forget all this dry nonsense, dry mixes dont work. Yes they are easy to put in but they never harden properly. mortars and concretes harden because the cement when hydrated with water begins the chemical reaction, dry mixes are crap because so little of the cement gets hydrated properly as water...

How long has it been like this? Its totally unreasonable to pile soil up against a wall that does not belong to you so I'm assuming this was done before your time. Your neighbour is right, digging it out and painting on a few coats of something is not adequate and will quickly fail. It is...

You're doing the right thing, wait until you know what you plan to do and have all the necessary bits ready. In an ideal world you never break open a drain run until you have everything you will need ready and waiting to go. The stihl saw and spade snap usually is fine but in a critical spot...

A vibrating roller will happily do the lot in one hit. A heavy 80kg+ vibrating plate would also handle 100mm in one go but you'd need 10 passes all over which will take a while if its any sort of size. As you suggested 2 layers of 50mm is a better bet with a plate. Oh and you also should also...

You'd be suprised at the cost once you total everything up. People assume that building their own shed will be cheaper and in reality the costs when buying in diy quantities you end up building the shed for maybe 20% less than you could buy it. The efficiency of pre fabbing things to a set...

To be honest I was just trying to be funny, just add a bit of sarcasm to a very long wordy post about a very straight forward problem. I hope you get it sorted and perhaps if you are in need of an explanation of how to lay a stack of blocks under a water butt the new ones with dedicated stands...

I would happily give you the blocks if you can give me back the 3 minutes of my life I wasted reading this thread.

If you have been feeding and watering and its still yellow in patches it may be worth checking for leather jackets. This has been a very bad year for them where I am. Don't fret, this is pretty unlikely and only worth looking into if you've done everything else right and its still not great.

You do small areas at a time and leave a generous layer of kiln dried sand on the blocks as you compact. This way the plate doesn't leave scratches really. Then brush it over to your next areas and continue.