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Hi everyone, Wondering if someone could tell me where to get this info. How far does the flue/terminal have to be from a neighbours boundary line? This is an external boiler fitted to the outside of a house (not mine). Can't find this in building regs? any links etc greatly appreciated, I need...

ahhh, thanks thermo, you'd think Ronseal's techy line could've suggested that! :? kkatz :)

hi everyone, Well spring is here, finally got my fence finished at x-mas! Would like to treat it now, but can't seem to find a 'clear' treatment. I called ronseal tech line - I found a clear one by them - I don't mean the clear wood preservers you get as they're not suitable apparently on...

ah, thanks guys, always had my doubts about that type of nail for this. I'm assuming they won't rust? I think it spoils the look of a nice wooden fence when you see the rust water marks down the boards. I figured that's why lost heads are advised? many thanks, kkatz

Hi everyone, yip still at it! last stretch now though! just wondering if I'm missing something here, but I cannot get galvanised lost head nails ANYWHERE in my neck of the woods, not even the building merchants have them. Can you actually get lost heads galvanised? They are for fixing close...

hi everyone just thought I'd give you a laugh by telling you all it was the spirit level that was off!!! posts have still moved but not half as much as old level indicated, its a miracle we got them that straight then considering! Decided to fix rails to front of posts instead now. We...

Hi deluks, its a b****y fence that needs to keep in my 'eat anything remotely furry siberian husky' and I am surrounded by sheep, cattle and horses! So good reason to want to get it right, I don't want to risk my dog being shot! Thanks for encouragement though to finish job to best of my...

I bet, funny! :lol:

Really? I won't be here that long! we'll we've done our best for novice's. We'll see how long it stays up. thanks for all the replies folks, great forum BTW dave and JohnD 'he' is a 'she' but I'm sure that makes no difference guys does it! :wink:

I'd say probably more like 30mm! Putting up closeboard, just as well! But we are fitting the rails between the posts instead of to the front, (makes more troublesome maybe) kkatz

well, we have measured with spirit level the whole length and its the same from top to bottom, so looks like it's moved. b****r, any other suggestions then for this folks? cheers, kkatz

hi dave, they'd been out in the saw mills yard so were wet when we bought them. When we erected them they were dry. Weather was dry one day and then drizzle on some days rest of week. Today has been the first real heavy rain since. The guy at saw mill reckons we don't need to weather proof...

Duh! I guess we can run our smaller level down the post! watch this space for results!

hi john, I have concrete posts running down one length of garden and they're a mess! they're falling over and the concrete's crumbled off them with metal rods hanging out! my timber ones look much nicer! maybe they're just not very nice ones in my garden! regards, kkatz

ah, we did wonder if maybe we should have put up rest of fencing eg, attatched rails and feather board, but we reckoned leaving them a while to 'set' solid would've been better, besides we still had about another 18 to do! regards, kkatz

Hi thermo, posts were bought from my local saw mill in our village. we attatched spirit levels to front and side when erecting and positioning, they stayed in place until postfix had set - 15 mins. We checked them again end of day and then every day for first 4 or 5 days. Then checked one...

Cheers thermo, I will now! :) we have had so much advice from different sources! regards, kkatz.

We have just been told about this, we thoroughly researched our fencing job and nothing came up about this! Our holes are 18" deep about 10/11" sq half filled with rubble and gravel rest filled with postfix, but we have 'haunced' the mix around base of post - as advised - to prevent soil rot...

Hi everyone, We are a bit bemused by this. We set 4x4 timber posts with postfix. They were aligned spot on. Now, about 1 week later most of them have 'tilted' by about 2 or 3cm -maybe more- either to the side or forward or back. We used 1.5 bags per post - as opposed to 1 bag - posts are 240m...

its 4" thick. There are various objects on the other side that we thought would help with sheilding from wind! a 7ft long shed an oil tank container for CH shrubs etc. A local builder said that's how he would do it? thanks, katz