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Hi guys, not posted in a while, but I'd like a bit of advice on a lintel. I'm a small scale concrete products manufacturer and I've been asked to make a fairly large lintel. I've made plenty of smaller lintels over the last twenty five plus years with no problems and I'd like that record to...

Hi guys! After 8 or so years of drilling holes and putting in thousands of screws, my B&D Firestorm 18 volt drill has expired. Looking at what's on offer these days, the choice is mind boggling. What I want to know is, are the current B&D's any good or would it be worth getting another...

Cheers. I'll look into that.

Looks like I'll be getting a high level toilet from somewhere. I'm not worried about noise, I just want the s**t to flush away. I've better things to be doing than hanging around for a cistern to fill up 3 times. The powers that be should think about things properly before they come up with...

Six litres! That's pathetic, we had to flush the bloody thing 3 times earlier after my daughter had done her business in it. Eighteen litres of water when ten or twelve would have done it. That's not conserving water. Do you know of a syphon that would go further up my cistern so it fills up...

Well, I did the obvious thing today, I looked inside the cistern to find that even with the float set at it's highest, there's sod all water in the cistern. Even if I were to fill it manually the overflow still wouldn't allow hardly any water in there. I'm going to ask my mate if there's a...

Don't know if anyone has any suggestions, but my new toilet has a dreadful flush. It's a close coupled type and I had it fitted by my mate who's a plumber, so I know it's been done properly. It takes two flushes just to get rid of any amount of paper. I know that we are supposed to be trying to...

Of course I use a vibrating table, I'd have arms like Popeye if I didn't :) The pinholing is due to the lime that is added to Castle O/P now. That information comes straight from Castle's technical department, I won't name the guy on here, but he also told me they have lost most of the...

As I said I can't use Castle O/P due to the pinholes and the hardened product gives a dull thud rather than a nice ring when you knock it with your knuckles.

Hi all. I've been making patio slabs and balustrade for over 25 years. I used to use Castle Cement, but due to the fact the are bulking it out with lime I am unable to use it due to pinholes in the finished item. I have been using Southern Cement, but even that now has had it's setting time...

Definately contaminated with 25 years of various vehicle related spills and in all honesty it looks like quite a weak mix. As you can work out by my nickname I know what a decent mix of concrete should look like. I reckon a proper steam cleaning would get it clean, but I have a feeling he'll...

Hi all. First I must say thanks to those who replied on my tiling query some time back. It's all gone down nicely and we will be moving into the house at the end of this month. My question today is not for me, but for a mate. He has set up on his own as a mechanic and the concrete floor...

Cheers for that. The adhesive is thin and it's really well stuck to the concrete. I think I may take a chance and and prime and level it. It's my own house so if I make a cock up I haven't pi***d anyone off but myself.

Hi all! I know similar questions have already been asked, but here goes anyway. I've removed the Marley tiles from my kitchen floor and of course I'm left with the bitumastic adhesive. Is there anything I can use as a primer over it so that I can use a floor leveller on top, or have I got to...