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Now you've got me worried! I've had several fires in my pit so far with no problems. Maybe I've burned off all the moisture? Hope your experience was a one off - but thanks for the warning.

I'd forgot about the lack of reinforcement in the slabs - maybe it would be all too much trouble. I got the idea after using five large slabs to make a kind of outdoor fire pit. I raised one slab horizontally on some bricks to make the hearth with a grill on bricks above that, and then placed...

They are normal paving slabs usually used flat on the ground. It just seems as pity there's no way to use them structurally rather like they do in those prefabricated concrete garages.....

I would like to erect a garden building with some double glazing windows and a domestic double glazed door somebody threw out. I was going to make the walls from timber but I have a load of unused concrete slabs around and wondered if it is possible to use these for walls. For the two walls...

Thanks so much one and all. I got some Zinsser in B&Q in the end, have applied it in two coats, the gloss is now on and so far no bleeding through. So that's what I call a bleeding success - don't you? Thanks a lot

Hi I have exactly the same prob you had with painting over stained timber - except mine is worse cos it's tanalised too! What product did you find which worked please? Many thanks

Thanks a lot Robbie. Can you tell me where in the UK I can buy Zinsser Bin? I've been Googling it but can't locate where I can get it. I'm in Bournemouth so am near B&Qs, Homebase, Screwfix etc. Do you think that's better than Stain Block by polycell? The problem is that I've already...

Do hope somebody can help me... I have used some timber lats above a shower cubicle and wanted to paint them white. Somebody told me they were 'tannelised' or some word like that. Oh forgot to say that before I decided I wanted them white I stained them antique pine with Colron wood dye. I...