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Oh that was probably a mistake. You'd have been well better off going to autotrader and seeing whats under £1000. An old model swift is readily available for under a grand, does 40mpg on the motorway and will have at least 50,000 miles left to run.

My lawnmower is (I think) broken, after several years of abuse. It caught a piece of sofa cushion stuffing, made a burning smell, and seems to have changed pitch. Since my garden is filled with such wonders, replacing just to burnout again seems a bit of a waste, so I started looking at...

Glyphosphate is the "active" part of roundup. "Attempting" to kill weeds is a bad idea with this stuff, it will kill weeds, and anything else green it touches. Mix it to the required strength (on the label, probably 10ml per litre) Spray on anything green you want dead. Wait. In a few...

My Garden has a fairly pronounced down hill slope, that I'm just ignoring at the moment, it would need something like 20 cubic metres to fill, but it also looks like several colonies of mice used it re-enact The Somme. I was kind of hoping all the various mounds would be trodden down and the...

Chopping down trees is easy, getting rid of stumps is hard. You've been robbed. You either need to dig it out, pull it out with a serious tractor, blow it up or use a grinder to turn it into wood chip. Or ignore it. My, much smaller, stumps, get a 10mm wood drilling to encourage them to...

The five dabs method done well sounds like it uses a lot of expensive labour to save a few pounds of materials.... Dont badly, its sounds like a bad way of saving a few quid. Just saying...

Its the garden, and we have little mexican dogs, so rodent proof isnt a big issue, fox proof is a bit more of an issue though. So I was intending to build a "skirt". Making it a buried cage is a pretty interesting idea, but for now, it needs to be mobile. I spotted that weldmesh seems to...

Erm, can my apparently not disconnected neutral still shock me then? Should I be pulling all the breakers before touching any circuits?

I need to build a chicken run, around about 2metres square, and say, 1 metre high. My DIY skills are, ok, although not really in woodwork, so I could a bit of help. Will this wood be ok? http://www.wickes.co.uk/sawn-treated-softwood/invt/107136/ I'm thinking 1mx1m panels, with the...

I've changed my settings so your posts are no longer being blocked, it isnt me thumbs downing them.

Ok, appliances moved and RCD tripped again over the weekend, so I want to take another look at this light, fix if possible, disconnect if I have to. Would http://www.screwfix.com/prods/30669/Electrical-Supplies/Electricians-Tools/Circuit-Testers/Philex-83007R-Digital-Clamp-Meter be an...

Honestly, theres loads on the internet about this, unless you admit them to your home and sign a confession, they cant touch you. They have no right of entry to your home, unless they a court order, which they dont. Detector vans are technicaly possible, but they have no way of proving you are...

I had a tv at a house under renovation for two and half years, plenty of "youre breaking the law" letters, plenty of threats to visit, one visit, some more "youre breaking the law letter" and then I moved in and bought a licence and they didnt say a word. You need a licence to receive live...

Doesnt a higher voltage give greater torque though? Or did I just get salesmaned?

JB Usualy I dont mess with electrics, them being complicated and dangerous, but since this had been wired up, I considered it to be within my limits of replacing like with like. All the cables are now tidied away and the lightsw no longer habnging off the wall, it doesnt work, but its at least...

didnt work, oh well, its all tidied away at least

595+vat. More than i thought apparently. Secure topper course mechanicaly remove and remortar ridge protective rear face replace damaged slates replace flashing

Where did you even get the fuse from? I'm pretty sure they're different than the the ones you can get from B&Q? I'm with B-A-S for once, thank god your not dead and hope no one finds out

Wow is that all? Someone trying to sell me new guttering said a new roof would be looking at £20,000, and my slates are fine.

I've had about 6 tiles ripped off the roof in the recent bad weather, in three groups, all are right at the front of the house, so low down. I've had someone out to look (wednesday), and they're writing up a quote which I should get today. I'm just wondering about how much should be I be...