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    Garden shed recommendation

    He did say "a small external cupboard".
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    Ivy, how bad is it?

    According to this https://foxygardens.com/sbk-the-brushwood-killer-and-its-various-uses/ it is Selective.
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    Leaf Blower/Garden Vac Replacement Bag

    I am not looking for anything. I said that the fabric for one of these bags has to be a closely woven fabric to let air out but keep as much of the leaves as is reasonable in, and that a mesh won't do that as it will let out loads and loads of dust. You are saying that a mesh that is fine but...
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    Leaf Blower/Garden Vac Replacement Bag

    Yes that is why I said "The bags for these machines are made of a woven material which is sort of a mesh but the holes are very, very small, and so trap most dust", most, not all. The bigger the whole the more dust that comes out. What exactly are you calling a mesh? How big are the holes?
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    Leaf Blower/Garden Vac Replacement Bag

    As I said, it depends on what you mean by a mesh. In the everyday sense, a mesh has holes clearly bigger than bits in between them. If you have holes that are a few mm across then loads of dust will come out when you use it on dry leaves. You might be happy with that, I wouldn't
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    Leaf Blower/Garden Vac Replacement Bag

    Anything in the everyday meaning of a fine mesh would not be appropriate. Garden vacs have an impeller and the leaves that are sucked in pass over that and are broken up (to a greater or lesser extent) which is deliberate so as to minimise the volume of the leaves in the bag. Some even have...
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    Advice for new boiler in 3rd floor flat - scaffolding really needed?

    @Ivor Windybottom If you had actually read what I wrote, and what it was in reply to, you would have seen that I made no comment whatsoever about the height of the work. What I clearly was pointing out was that you said that it will be only five minutes work and that it may well be quite a...
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    Advice for new boiler in 3rd floor flat - scaffolding really needed?

    At the moment I on the ground floor, in a moment I will go up to the first floor of my house. Later on I will go into the attic. The boiler is on the wall of the first floor. Why do you ask?
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    Advice for new boiler in 3rd floor flat - scaffolding really needed?

    We had our boiler replaced c. 18 months ago and the chap spent a lot longer than 5 minutes on the scaffold. The new boiler had a different layout and the flue for the new one was some distance away. So as well as drilling the hole and fitting the new flue he removed the old one and sealed the...
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    Mould on wooden floorboards under box

    Do you actually mean a manhole? They are large (18" by 2'6") whereas the covers for water meters are much smaller, no more than 6" on a side. Water meter covers are quite easy to lift.
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    NEIGHBOUR CUTTING MY HEDGE WITHOUT MY KNOWLEDGE

    My understanding is that no mark means it is not recorded on the deeds. There may be some other record, e.g. an exchange of correspondence between the parties. VG.
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    NEIGHBOUR CUTTING MY HEDGE WITHOUT MY KNOWLEDGE

    Never has been for me and a mate (a retired building surveyor) said that it was rare before roughly the 1980s and is far from universal even now.
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    The ultimate Parkside/Ryobi flex?

    Or they are both just using the same image, which may have been 'borrowed' from somewhere else or one of these may have taken it from the other. I have seen reviews where what was delivered was not what was shown on the website. With a range of reasons, the shade is different (of course it...
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    Cleaning slabs.

    For hard surfaces like patios then something containing benzalkonium chloride (BAC) is the appropriate product. That includes Patio Magic (which I have used) and a number of other products. The branded products are c. 7% BAC and you dilute it down to c. 2%. Patio Magic, etc, are relatively...
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    Cleaning slabs.

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    Changing a downstairs RAD VALVE to Thermostat without draining off the whole system.

    The top post in this section is SHARE YOUR DIY PROJECTS WITH US - >> NO << QUERIES HERE Please !!!!! There is section for plumbing & central heating where this would have been replied to sooner.
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    Storing glyphosphate in van and spraying it

    But none of the actual studies of glyphosate have reached that conclusion, and there have been dozens & dozens of them. The IARC looks at data and them categorises things with no numerical risk assigned. So everything goes into one of four groups: - Carcinogenic - Probably carcinogenic -...
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    Brick buster face plate for coax cable VM

    Something in the diynot software blocks links to Screwfix. The best option is probably to suggest Screwfix and give the product code, in this case 58284.
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    Concrete post tilted. Gap in fence

    If only I had mentioned that in my first post
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