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Nice job.

So... Garden now looks worse than when i started. I decided (in my wisdom) that the lawn was past salvaging. It had been overgrown for ~20 years and had several large bushes covering most of it for that time. It wasn't a lawn, more a collection of grass plants separated by a few inches of...

That i agree on to a point, that area has massive cultural differences to what we in the west are used to. Us turning up and imposing our version of democracy over night won't work when the people your doing it to have been in a state of tribal war for longer than we've had a parliament. We...

All the links you posted are time stamped after the op posted - some really professional research! Our lads do an outstanding job in difficult situation. Granted every single on of them has signed up for the job - but it still takes a much bigger set of brass nuts to go to war than it does...

Yep on both accounts.

:D i keep meaning to take some nice ones, these were taken ~ 2 months ago and don't actually show the tiling being finished either - will grab some more tonight.

I mentioned in my Garden thread that I've recently finished the inside too... here are some quick snaps - I'll write up as and when i find some time. Kitchen had been moved into the end of the living room to make space for another (5th) bedroom as the house had been let out to students. As a...

Not possible for the digger unfortunately, the side path is ~9 inches to narrow and all the neighbors are the same. So i would have to bring it across 6 gardens to get it into my place.... The trench will be Farly easy to dig, the ground is pretty loose, i have some Armour cable and very...

So... a busy two weeks. I finally managed to get the 12, 30 year old root balls at the back (left) of the garden out after ~ 3 days and a torn muscle in my arm from swinging the sledge. They unfortunately had to come out as they were above the level that i wanted the decking to be - so root...

I've had lots of success with Trade it or e-bay. It's not all used slabs - lots of people over estimate and sell the exes on cheap - as long as your not in a hurry and don't mind picking them up.

For some back story my wife and I bought this ex 1930's council house ~9 months ago and spent the summer doing the interior. Now that it is summer (and the inside is finished) i finally get to work on my garden Being a novice at pretty much everything DIY prior to buying the house - i figured...