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Maybe one of the forums plumbing experts could offer advice , it's not really my area but it sounds like some kind of airlock.

i've just looked at a job which is fitting a kitchen , no problems there. The house is a smallish terrace , two downstairs rooms with the kitchen ( approx 1/2 the width of the house) behind and the bathroom behind that, so pretty standard layout. The kitchen has a doorway leading to the garden ...

As you seem to get on with the new tenant perhaps it would be easy to ask her if she has noticed any sort of vibrations?

It may sag a bit simply under it's own weight , a single complete pole would do that. I don't think it would be too much of an issue as you'll only be holding up netting. As you will have a couple of 1m off cuts , if I'm reading it correctly it wouldn't hurt to scrounge a few swivel clips and...

I've fitted a fair few lead gutters similar to what looks to be in your picture. The outlet or sump we generally tried to make at least 6" deep and if possible as wide. Again it all depended on the building , the amount of rainwater coming through and sometimes other factors. If it was possible...

As said patination oil is probably the best thing. That said I have been asked to repaint lead work . To be honest I never think it's the best idea but trying to clean up seventy odd year old lead is probably more trouble than it's worth and besides the customers wanted it repainting. The old...

Clue , "Till death do us do part"?

Ah , if just the toilet pans make you gag you'd best not come round when I'm picking the alpine strawberries that are growing in them . You have my sympathies with the dog muck. Some of my work use to involve cutting the grass on a young lad's house and that was always littered with the stuff...

Try somewhere like this ? https://www.themetalstore.co.uk/products/mild-steel-tube https://www.metals4u.co.uk/mild-steel/tube/tube/c56?gclid=CJvn5t3IiMwCFa8W0wodkTwCpQ I've brought tubes and fittings online myself for a gymnastics frame for a customer , not sure if it was the first link but...

Listening to a radio 4 programme some years ago about japan it was said that because fish makes up such a large portion of their diet compared to meat they can smell westerners differently because our diets are much more meat based.

Probably all relative really. I'm sure there are neighbours who think our garden is on the scruffy side , we have on the front three old toilets as plant pots , a herb bed that must look like weeds to some , a patch of potatoes ( last year at least , something different going in this year) two...

I can eat almost anything , there are several things I don't like , however , coffee , celery and tripe for instance. I wouldn't go as far as to say I despise or hate them as such and I expect there are many others in the same position. So while I wouldn't despise something purely on taste or...

To be honest I frankly don't know but I'd be inclined to try it out on a piece of scrap mdf . Oh , and if it falls apart don't forget it was jobandknock's idea

Perhaps a better method than simply scrapping the vat would be to have it zero or low rated for the first couple of thousand units and a higher rate above that ( figures would need to be checked) , then at least the poorer wouldn't be penalised .

I can't say for definite but I seem to recall it was all done in a day , the job being two circular bays. Must have done a decent job as I was then asked to form some architraves around a porthole window. I seem to recall steaming the timber until it was almost too hot to hold then applying...

I've done similar with wood skirting , soaking and bending. On one job where we didn't have the time I used a baby berko boiler to soften the wood in the steam .

My own experiences . I've been self employed in the handyman type of role for about four years now and a portion of that involves grass cutting. I started off with a second hand champion , Chinese built honda engine . Decent enough except for the pull cord assembly which is plastic and...

Given that some European countries have more liberal gun laws than us the idea that all pro gun supporters are all for leaving the EU is a best a pretty spurious argument. This subject came up on another forum and an American poster said something along the lines of he believed citizens should...

Going back a couple of years now but this problem was looked at and a proposal put forward by someone who posts on another forum I use. The idea was basically a huge program of insulation solving the problem of cold houses and also providing a boost to the building industry as well. His...

I've always considered guns , or for that matter knives , axes , bows and to a slightly lesser degree swords to be simple tools just as is a hammer or spade. People have of course been murdered with the later two tools but there is little call to have them banned. It is the person who holds the...