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Yes its quite a drag from port to Rome and takes a large chunk out of Rome time. In port last September but as been in Rome a couple of times stayed in port and looked around the town and the famous kissing sailor, fellow travellers say it was a bit rushed to get around Rome to see the sights...

Unless they designed Trumps ballroom they are nothing

That was my thoughts when I saw your man bag in post 444

Best tell Lena

Between the two should be a nice warm location But I used 3 different sites and just took the room worst case from each site to size my boiler and accepted that these sites are not an exact science and left it to my TRVs to fine tune the actual heating of the rooms Sample output of...

Single beds, is that so you can cuddle up

You are quite right. Memo to self - get life insurance asap and cancel cruise insurance

Unfortunately I am quite ugly, wrong side of 70, had cancer, heart attack and acute kidney failure but I blame the wife as because she felt anxious once about travelling in the car (nothing to do with my driving) she saw the doctor who gave her a few pills, of course this has to be flagged up...

Yes, but its for 2 people

Well me and the wife are in the Caribbean for 2 weeks cruise in Feb, just a ordinary balcony cabin mind you but at £1300 insurance I wonder whether I should just sleep in the mortuary room

Why is there going to be a gap, boards pushed up tight to ceiling?

But don't tell the missus

Was that in anger or frustration?

I thought paving slabs were compressed during manufacture to give a denser and more durable product, the planters will be compacted by gravity and prodding

Well a standard lintel will be designed with a 1/300 defection limit at design load which in your case means 10mm, usually a limit of 5mm for bifolds but depends on manufacturer. But as your lintel will not be loaded to its limit the deflection will be less, determine the load and ask the...

No, but at a guess I don't think it would take much load before failure due to the tension properties in concrete being about 10% of its compressive strength so for a 30N/mm2 concrete the tensile strength would be 3N/mm2 which is 150 times less the HY reinforcement

Watched a video on a concrete slab reinforced with glass fibre verses rebar and the rebar resisted 4x the load, also at failure the fibre slab was in 2 halves after loading whilst the rebar still held the concrete together in a fashion. I don't think we are ever going to see rebar replaced by...

Stranded fibre glass is there to prevent thermal cracking during drying, on small planters I would imagine the dimensions involved do not particularly lead to any drying stresses being set up so fibre not necessary

You are making some planters not building a reinforced multi storey car park (last time I performed a slump test) , forget plasticiser unless you are going to start laying bricks , just careful methodical tamping of a well mixed workable but not to sloppy batch as you fill the mould using a...

MOT was a Ministry of Transport spec for grading sub grade material (63mm or 40mm to dust) for road construction, nothing to do with concrete ballast. As long as what you are filling is 2.5 x larger than the largest stones used the compaction and finish of concrete will be OK, your 1 to 6 mix...