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Hi all, I recently inherited some Koi and now my original pond won't be big enough for them all to grow, now have 11 Koi and 10 Comets in same pond which is 11' * 6' * 3' The Koi are still relatively small but I want to get the new pond built through the winter whilst the fish are less...

Hi folks, I am laying a base for my 14'*9' timber shed that I am going to make the weekend, in the past I've always bought my ballast in bags due to limited access, however this time I've managed to get greedy bag around the back. I intend to do a 4:1 ballast mix, but I don't know how many...

Hi All, My neighbour has some jagged metal strips about 2" long that are used for joining wood. He got them from a hardware shop that was closing down a few years ago but neither of us know what they are called and would love to get some more I have tried searching on Google but failed. Does...

Hi All, I've recently turfed our back garden and my partner wanted a crocus lawn, as it's something he's always wanted, si I planted 2400 crocus bulbs just under the tilth and when my back recovered laid the new turf. Anyway yesterday I looked out and saw a squirrel trying to dig through the...

Hi all, I've just chopped down the variegated Ivy that was destroying my neighbours fence, it was twin trunked each being approximately 4" in diameter, because of the position surround by ceanothus and acacia I am unable to dig the root out. would drilling down through the middle of each limb...

Hi all, my front garden has always had landscape fabric on it, and I've always topped it off with bark every two years however the weeds always end up coming back as the bark rots down. I am contemplating putting another layer of fabric over the top and then decorative stones i.e cotswold...

Hi all, I've just laid some decking 8m * 4m, the ground that I've covered previously had some very triublesome weeds (mares horsetail) so I covered the ground in 1200 gauge dpm stapling it to the outside frame as i went, we've had rain for the past few days and I've realised that the water is...

Hi all, The saga of my house continues: the pump for the CH and HW is now making a tremendous noise, it sounds like the impellor is catching, I know that the system needs flushing as there is black water in the radiators (I have some sentinel 400) but I cannot do this until I have...

My house seems to be never ending plumbing job at the moment :cry: I had to turn the mains off yesterday so that I could reseat the toilet after tiling and I noticed that it was leaking just behind the key. I thought that maybe this was because I had left it fully open after I turned it...

I have just removed a radiator to decorate and the water that came out was jet black. My CH system is run from a back boiler and is approximately 9 years old. There are 7 seven radiators and a convector heater all running off the same system. I recently had a new valve fitted by the waterboard...

Help!!!! I had a local oddd job man fit a new bathroom suite for me yesterday. and today I have had to: 1) put a new push fit flexi pipe to hot water on the bath as the crimp on the one that he had used was leaking 2) replace waste on bath room shink as that was also leaking 3)...