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Hi, There is a 15 M fence in my garden on its last legs. It’s about 7ft tall but would replace with 6FT. Guy just told me these days that would be 4.5k which I think is ridiculous. He said it was cost of wood . I just priced materials online and it would be no more than £1200 even not...

I never knew. I thought they would go out beneath too. Ok so I have a Gert machi mattock, and them roots are gonna get whacked tomorrow. And there’s nuffin we could do about it

So I got all the roots I could see on the first one but even having cut through all of them it would not budge. It seemed like there were roots directly below I could not access. Do all roots go out sideways? Seems impossible to get to the ones underneath

There’s two side to it. One has a blade horizontal to the handle, the other is like an axe, vertical to the handle. Makes sense it’s the Horizontal one. Things might seem intuitive but bear in mind I work in a professional job and I’ve spent more time measuring my knob with dental floss...

Nobody told me it would be hard work

Wrong house, sir

Do I smash through them with the flat end or the vertical end?

There is no way in hell either of them would come up with a mattock underneath. I’m 16 stone and with my full weight on it, having cut the roots for 2 hours it wouldn’t move. They look smaller in the pic than they are!

I have a mattock. In the end I had to axe it from the top and split the stump repeatedly from the top. Is that how it’s supposed to be done? The roots were THICK like 3-4 inches some of them, not sure if the mattock would do it. I cut all the roots with the saw and tried to prise it up...

So I have one of those electric chop saws and a spade. If I dig out the soil around and just slice through the roots with the electric saw then if I jam a fork into what remains and pull hopefully it will come out?

I have a few tree stumps in the gravel border I am creating. I am not attempting to dig them up due to time and from what I hear it’s an absolute nightmare of a job! They were felled last year. Question is, they have been left for a year and are a bit dank and wet. Can I preserve them when...

Hi, My garden borders are a mass of weeds on account of me doing no gardening! I want to dig it out and fill the borders with gravel. A lot of the edging I see at b and q are £13 per M which seems expensive and it’s only wooden. Anyone have any ideas of a cost effective way to do it? I...

Hi, As I look out from the back of my house, the fence on the left is down, one panel. The posts are inside her garden. She just spent thousands remodelling her entire garden. Just prior to this she complained about my trees (which have been there 80 years) because the seeds interfere...

Hi, My front and back only needs a couple of weeks and I have non stop brambles and bineweed. I’ve tried spraying it all with weedkiller after cutting but it does absolutely nothing. Thinking of putting black plastic down round the borders. Even the grassed bits have brambles in there...

I actually had a think about this and I do agree, tradesmen do need to earn a reasonable wage and it’s vital work. I think the reason it’s expensive is due to the cost of tax, insurance and regs which don’t exist to the same degree elsewhere. Also I’ve been stung so many times by tradesmen...

Looked like poured concrete to me. Do you mean like system built tower blocks? I was almost certain they were poured concrete.

All the ones round near me either got rebuilt or the concrete got sprayed. I was going to buy one and there were enormous cracks in the walls

My opinion on this is people in the U.K. pay generally extortionate prices for labour. I’ve got a lot of friends who are tradesmen and they are doing pretty well for themselves and don’t answer to anyone. One of my great regrets in life is giving up my training as an electrician. Im not...

Didn’t explain this well. There were changes but he told me the costs as we went - his error, not mine. I was pretty chilled given the low price anyway, I know he’s scatterbrained

My wife comes from a hot country and it seems all their buildings go up very quickly and cheaply using concrete and steel poles. Currently in Greece on hols and it seems this is how it’s done here. Our poured concrete houses in U.K. all got either condemned or rebuilt. Is it because of...