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Hi, We've got a really old cottage with a tiled mansard roof. The bottom slope (approx 80 degrees) has slipping tiles, and if you try and put them back it's like playing ker-plunk and they all start slipping. I'm firmly of the opinion that this has been bodged (~1980s) as not all the tiles are...

Hi, I need to add an additional towel radiator into the bathroom. I was thinking about using a couple of self cutting valves to make the connections to the existing pipes.......is this a wise idea, are they reliable? It's a system with a pressure tank, do I trust to the valves not to...

Hi, I’m doing up an old car and I need to heat small parts to anneal them. I brought a Mapp (goGas) blow torch to do the job, this worked quite well but now has developed and internal leak. I tried to fix it by replacing some of the ‘O’ rings, but this hasn’t worked and I’m not prepared to...

Hi, I've got a narrow strip (~400mm) of Type 1 which has been put down as the base for a rustic garden path. My plan was to tamp it down with the 10" & 5" tampers I've got. Would a hired wacker plate do an altogether better job?, or can similar results be achieve by hand/sweat? Ta!