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Well that was a short and straight forward reply. Would you care the clarify your thinking as to why you came to that choice?

Hi I`m looking to build a fence aprox 5’6” high 8M long using 44x20mm landscape battens with 10mm spacing. The posts will be 1.2M apart 600mm down in postcreate. I know that for 5ft and above 100mm posts are recommended but due to their spacing and that you can see them through the battens I’m...

Thinking outside the box I like it :) Yes we had concidered it and also 75mm round fence posts but didn`t think we would like the look.

That Marmox curved multiboard looks VERY interesting and would solve many problems and make the rendering much easier, will look into it :) Normally like to see and touch things before buying to get a feel for them. But with the hidden block work would be happy to just order off of the...

Had not thought about that :( Just a little background. We live in a mid terrace house with no rear access and I am 71yrs old. The thought of carrying 4x the materials, mixing 4x the amount of cement and laying 4x the number of bricks is kind of off putting. That was the only reason for using...

Lol that made my day :) Why not AAC blocks and what would you use?

Looking to build a retaining wall aprox 600mm high using thermalite blocks as roughly shown by the position of the bricks laid on the ground. The inner circle has a 2M diameter, decking will be laid in there. The outside will be a 5M curve. The “spokes” coming out at the top is where built in...

Yes the system is sealed. Yes we will be replacing the rad but not for a whille so don`t want to have to drain the system twice.

Have lifted it off the brackets but there does not seem to be enough give in the pipes for the valve to clear the connector. Have even unscrewed the connect at the rad side in hope that had a shorter insertion into the rad than the valve into the connector. But sadly was not.

Thanks thats the standard way to remove a radiator with vertical pipes as you can move/bend the pipes enough to free them from the rad which seems impossiblr with the horizontal pipework.

Thanks for the reply. As a diyer can`t do the vacuum or freeze. Was hoping for a way without cutting existing pipe work and if poss without draining the system. Here is a photo as requested

Tying to remove a radiator that is connected via mainly horizontal pipe work. One end the valve is connection is via a soldered elbow with about 1cm of vertical pipe and the other end with a soldered elbow and about 3cm of vertical pipe. I have drained the radiator but can’t pull the valves far...

Thanks for the replies. I realise its not good practise to insert fuse while power is on and in future will not do so. 90% sure nothing was connected but will check again.But if nothing is still conected or hardwired what could becausing the faint arcing noise? Could not see any visible arcing.

Just changed a faulty wall socket, when I replace the consumer unit fuse (fuse wire type) with the consumer unit switched on I could hear a small amount of arcing as if drawing current. Everything on that fuse circuit was switched of at the wall. Is this normal due to the natural capacitive /...

I want to stain varnish my wood floor which is a continuous cover over the living room kitchen and hall, overall size of about 17 by 24 ft. In its simplest from looks a bit like this. The area in the middle is the wall / stairs separating the living room kitchen. Boards run from top to bottom...

Yes replacing laminate with laminate. There should be enough hight to raise it for the click but trying to do that at arms length under to cabinets would be physical challenging if not impossible. I can see Ceramic tiles would be possible, awkward but doable. Unfortunately ceramic tiles...

Looking to change the flooring under the fitted kitchen cabinets. Going to remove the kick board and replace the plastic legs with more attractive metal ones. The cabinets are currently standing on laminate flooring as fitted to the rest of the kitchen which we want to change. I will fit a...

Looking to paint some bedroom furniture. After a smooth crisp modern look. Initially I was looking to hand paint but feel with the combination of modern paints and my skills it will look hand painted. So thought best to spray paint. Started looking at what I call the all in one HVLP systems...

Nice idea but it is very tight on the corner, as in actually touching the wood facia. So it would have to stretch enough to allow for the extra thickness on both sides of the corner. Too much I think without the risk of splitting which would then necessitate the complete removal of the flashing...