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The other question is, what about the white fence installed in June 2014? Actually, I'm not happy with the white fence at all. Some of the pickets weren't primed with the right brand of oil, but ALL the pickets are mouldy - just different colours of mould. 15% zinc oxide was mixed into the...

February 2016: So what's new? The dark green gloss (now 4 years and 5 months old) is starting to show signs of failure where it was applied over previous paint, but still working perfectly where it is on a sound surface. Small hairline cracks have appeared in the gloss. The grey Bedec Barn...

FOR FUTURE REFERENCE Inch and a quarter solvent weld pipe (PVC or ABS) tends to have a 36mm O/D. PP push fit pipe is more like 34mm OD but we still call it inch and a quarter, and I note OSMA still stamps its pipe in imperial measurements. This is handy, because PP will not solvent weld...

Hi, can you tell me what you mean by a yellow brick please? I assume that's electrician's slang?

This is for my mother's house shortly up for sale. Buyer wants new washbasins fitted in rooms that are currently toilet only and she's foolishly agreed to get it done for him :roll: One toilet has horizontal branch of iron soil stack, the other toilet is plumbed into (presumably) clay drain...

To be frank, I wonder how truthful the claim is that PVC windows fall apart really is. In a sun-trap, my own ones have served since (I believe) 1990, so that is 25 years. They are showing their age, but could probably be refurbished if the sill end-caps were available. And, although A+...

Having looked again at the OP's post date, I'd hope this matter were now settled. But thanks for that link. Though the windows might not compete environmentally (depending on how long they last), they look dead good from what I can can see. Can you get them in other colours, or only...

Right behind you Dan. Was actually thinking of roughly painting over them with some green paint so they looked cared for without looking new. Heard a good one from a customer today, 'And there was a plumber, well, I think he was, he had paint on his clothes.' :lol: Though actually my...

See my thread on Holkham oil paint vs Bedec Barn vs Dulux weathershield. Windows rotted in 5 years? Bit of an exaggeration eh?

Another update: I decided to use white Allback paint on the new garden fence in June 2014. Some was primed with the 'wrong' ie non-Allback brand oil. Some with the Allback branded stuff. Some oil was applied hot, some cold and then heated with a blow-torch. Some parts of the fence...

UPDATE Went ahead and bought one from Benditnow, seeing as no one here had anything bad to say. Tried it on some 15mm half-hard Cu (Black label). No kinks or ripples (my first go on a bender). Seems like decent kit to me. Rollers can move slightly up and down their axes but no side to...

Would be grateful for anyone's experience of these pipe benders. http://www.benditnow.co.uk/index.php/plumbing-machines/bhb-15-22/product/show Anyone bought one? Are these any good? Never had a pipe bender myself (always annealed and used spring) and want to learn on something...

I had a similar job. In my case, there was no chance of my cutting the redundant socket from the asbestos-cement soil pipe, but I needed more length. I got round this by using two genuine Multikwik fittings. One was the (off-set) pan connector to the toilet I needed, the other was the long...

Thanks Ken, I did wonder if it were for expansion!

This is the bathroom extension. It abuts the outside of an 1890-built cavity wall with slate DPC 2 bricks below the finished floor level. On the left, in what I can only call 'horrible bond', is the extension wall. Having removed the old shower tray to replace it, everything was wet because...