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    Sandstone foundations causing damp?

    Hello. A friend of mine owns a house who's foundations he says are built directly on sandstone. The house was rendered with an impervious cement render. He has damp downstairs on all the lower walls. He maintains this is due to the fact that it has sandstone foundation's. He also tells me that...
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    Accessing chimney stack.

    Yes Burnerman. I'm too long in the tooth to be clowning around! I wanted to hire a saddle staging but the only place I could find is in N Ireland. Anyway some lads are erecting a staging for £340 next week.
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    Accessing chimney stack.

    Any suggestions on how to access a chimney on the gable end of a two story house. Right beneath is a single story gabled extension. The ladders will go against the gable end wall but about arms length away from chimney and ladders will extend only as far as arms length below ridge line if you...
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    Tarantino's denigration of "Movie Music"

    My jobs done then! Curiosity will always be mans downfall in the end.
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    Tarantino's denigration of "Movie Music"

    Ive just listened to Morricone's Mission Main Theme and indeed Gabriel's Oboe. I might have to take Tarantino AND Morricone seriously after all! But absolutely NO! like all Itallians, there is that flare of genius but they cant help decending into the pit of schmultz. As an aside, I'll never...
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    Tarantino's denigration of "Movie Music"

    If you listen to Radio 3 and Classic FM movie music is always being played. Its faux classical music! I thought Quentin Tarantino had actually said something intelligent for a moment untill I discovered he was refering to Ennio Morricone - what a fool!
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    Very very rough rough cast

    I'm painting the outside of a very large detached property and at the back the rough cast/pebble dash is very very rough. Apart from loading up the roller thick thick and basically 'troweling' it on would anyone recommend spraying? Its in very good condition. The guy who did it 15 years ago did...
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