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Whia bits/blades are very long lasting. Dewalt, erbauer etc haven't lasted long for me. Just snapped a wera, but I'm willing to accept it was user error o_O

Probably wise to leave a gap. Rather than lawn edging, what about driveway grids? you fill them with gravel. You might want to use a weed membrane too.

As a rule of thumb, for espresso, I try to extract twice the weight of grinds to water, so 14g coffee to 28g of water in an extraction time of around 25-30 seconds. If it's sour when you taste it, tighten the grind up, bitter, loosen the grind. On barista express machines, you can override the...

OP, would also add, some skip outfits offer cheaper skips for soil and rubble only. Last one I had was around £110 for a builders skip.

Cheaper to buy a breaker from FB Marketplace, might get one for £50, then you can sell once you've done with it. Mine has been used to pull numerous floors and slabs up. I used an angle grinder to make a cut around 150mm from the wall, and removed the slab that was around 100-125m deep, then...

Has the system been working properly or is it new to you? Presuming you do have 2 x zone valves on your system? This allows separate control of floor and rest of the house. They look something like this: Zone Valves

Could it be heat loss of the room? If the floor probes are not allowing anything past 27°c, perhaps now that there is insulation missing the room can't maintain your target temperature. Do you have a room thermostat? wondering if you could could disable the floor probes for a day or two. I...

I've been using volumetric concrete wagons, handy as you don't have to work out the quantity to precisely, as it's mixed there and then. Good luck with it.

When I refurb'd mine (1900 house), I reinstalled suspended floors. The old floors were rotten and wormed, so had to be replaced and there were a couple of old concrete ones laid onto ash (no DPM's) and cold as the arctic. My kitchen is now a solid floor with UFH. As it was my first dealing with...

Haven't got managed to get on with this yet.o_O A few months ago though, I noticed a drive had been covered with what look like small granite/basalt chippings (10mm guess), these were dropped onto a hot tar base by some contractors, seems to have stayed put, but not sure if you can DIY that?

My bother is 99% sure he's having shower wall boards in his refurbed bathroom. The walls are a mix concrete block (painted) and part stud work. What is the correct thing to put up on the wall before the shower wall boards? Been looking at STS boards (wickes), can you use plasterboard adhesive...

As we are on the subject of time delays, Flameport, could this be used as programmed timer for heated towel rail? Sangamo Powersaver Thanks

I've used these before, about 5 courses tall, you can make curved walls as your mock-up (not quite as tight though). I wasn't aware of the limitation of 600mm, but don't really think it would be problem making it taller. Each course of bricks sits back 25mm or so from the course underneath...

Could do with a VIP code enabling for new users, it used to stop this kind of cr4p! :cautious:

What about secondary glazing for this window instead?

Does the water have a greenish tinge? I was recommended to use X700 biocide (Sentinel products). I added this through the magnaclean filter, a simple process, scoop out the water with a small glass... and then bleed the air out.

I filled the gaps with expanding foam, then aluminium duct taped all the joints. This passed the inspection.

This might be what you need. Flue guard

I did a spade deep and wide as a footing for my sleeper walls. All has been good. Just make sure you put some DPC on top to the wall before resting your joists on there. Wherever wood is in contact with the brickwork, slide some DPC inbetween. I went around the hearth with a a trimmer (90º to...

If you are replacing it early 2024, then why not just lash-up some cavity batts/rockwool for the the time being (for the animals) Then, when time to replace, build a proper warm roof.