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Good start! Looking forward to following your progress - any update? :) And your wife will just have to accept mess for progress!

Yes, remove dead grass. Add soil to correct height and seed with appropriate grass seed. Water well/regularly :)

One of my dads friends fitted something like this into his under floor space:

Looking good!

Is that ring made of timber? Silly - rip it out - you can work off the slightly uneven slab and pack underneath it. I don't think all hope is lost :) Good luck tomorrow!

Would it not look strange from the outside?

Could I just use a hammerite type paint on these edges?

Hi there, I recently fitted a box section 32-1000 profile roof with a Polyester finish in Slate Blue: The supplier I purchased this from cut it down to size and subsequently the edges are raw metal, rough and exposed. There is also the odd scratch in the finish from transport. The...

Ah, I'm speaking from past personal bad experience. It's frustrating doing things twice! Perhaps make your mix just slightly wetter next time as well to prevent it drying too quickly. Good luck!

Contact your local agricultural supplier and consider polyester coated metal roofing. Again it will be more expensive than felt but will last many years! You get it in various colours and profiles compared to the original wavy galvanised finish.

Was the cement in date - did you mix 100% perfectly well?

Google hand tamp and either buy one or follow some of the similar ideas to yours online! :D

I'd agree - sounds cheap! I just had a chimney reharled with a few slates replaced and that was £1176 by itself. That was the cheapest quote for the work too.

Could well be a piece of rebar - trying a metal drill bit may work or you can get multi drill bits these days: http://www.irwin.com/tools/browse/drill-bits/masonry-bits

Not that I know of - the tint disperses throughout the mortar to pigment it - anything applied post mix would be a surface paint.

5 to 1 would work well.

Depends on your budget as you could always use hardwoods if you were concerned about health/durability e.g. cedar.

Sifting through them with a garden riddle would be effective but very time consuming - no quick easy option that I can see though - you could try the hose option but I have doubts as to whether or not that would work!

Drill the head off with a metal bit. You can also get special bits for extracting large screws - cant remember the name :)

http://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/cis54.pdf Yikes! Although it says operators can use respirators so I'm not sure how this applies when in proximity to neighbours. The Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations 2002 (as amended)