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Genuinely, a grinder with one of these fitted: will make mincemeat of stuck on mortar lumps in seconds. Also a diamond cutting wheel will quickly clean up the ridge tile without risking breaking it. Dont use a hammer for any of this cleanup On the grinder note, buy a battery one; all round...

You already got there but this was the critical thing I wanted to pick up on from the initial post, that these longer ones are tension rather than compression members and essentially hold the bottom of the short ones up. Being long they will flex(if that's what you mean by sloppy) especially in...

Yes. There is no kind of voltage adapter/power supply in that cable, all it does is supply 240v straight from the wall socket to the TV, and the TV has a power supply built into it. Any lead you can find with the two ends pictured will power the TV

Can't see how you'd adjust it, short of cutting a section out of the rising pipe and using a coupler to rejoin, which would end up looking a bit odd, if you could even find a suitable thing

You might be referring to it being open cell, rather than closed cell, like kingspan is Or perhaps that aspect of it where if too much is applied in one go the solvent in it can't evaporate away quickly and the cell structure collapses again, leaving voids

makes a huge difference; your warm moist air in the bathroom will condense easily on the freezing cold plasterboard, soaking it damp (it'll never dry properly) and making it a breeding ground for black mould Even if you painted the ceiling with impervious latex paint, it would be slick with...

Mm, it depends on how it's applied. It can fail to expand and leave holes. For newbie users I'd recommend to damp the surfaces slightly first, then slightly overfill the gap and trim back the excess rather than try to gauge how much it will expand and risk not applying enough Dare say with...

Makes sense to me to punch fewer holes in insulation.. Nice job. Only thing I'd have done differently on the ridge is cut more tiles down to get rid of the need for the short piece near the end of the run (eg if there was 45 inches left to go, and ridge tiles were 18 inches, I wouldn't have 18...

Won't do a thing for the heat, but it's more for the moisture, which is something you should be concerned about, eg steam from a dishwasher etc If your windowsill and floor are massively out of level then you might need to let go the desire to have the worktop bang on and slope it some. "If it...

What an insultingly ignorance-filled read "The Universe According To JohnW2" would be

Yeah, it's cross sectional area so we will need maths too It might be better, in the absence of having an accurate measure like a vernier/micrometer to skin it and reshape it so all the cores are in a flat line next to each other (touching) like ooooooooo then measure the width of all of them...

That must have been a bit of an adjustment for the wife

Spin the hub with a drill while you polish the rusty bit out with a flap wheel in the grinder if you don't like the look Or just fit new pads and go about your life The rears don't do so much anyway; ever harder braking notionally shifts weight to the front - if the rears participated hard...

Interestingly, this is not a universal truth; water at 4 degrees C is relatively hotter than water at 1 degree C, but it is not lighter (more buoyant) Pond life survives by capitalising on this curious quirk, that a pond will stratify with 4 degree water at the bottom Betamax was a better...

I was more using it as an "recognisable by a man in the street" example of where someone could buy an engineered length of worktop that wouldn't warp. The article is more about a fitting complaint, I think - this would be supply only, which Wickes do reasonably well but by all means cast...

I think you missed the point about having things that strive to diminish or strive to preserve the stratification No, it could be any temp Oh good lord. You're completely missing the point, I think deliberately. I genuinely wonder why. They'll have to wait longer with the immersion, and pay...

There isn't in anyone's. Warm water is very good at sitting on top of cold water and not being cooled by it/not warming it up Willis doesn't change that in the slightest; water can stratify and sit around not mixing or conducting at the hot/cold boundary very well Let's present a "all figures...

Sleepers. Go big or go to Wickes :)

No, I don't agree with that contrived rhetoric at all, sorry. No one looks out the window and goes "oh, it's a nice day, I'll just go for a spontaneous 300 mile drive to use up all the range in my EV so I can exemplify the "wisdom" of some blinkered, stick in the mud forumite who waxes lyrical...