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Amusingly, the camera outside our garage was activated last night at just gone 11pm. The "person detected" turned out to be a large spider spinning a web in front of the camera. Very ghostly on infrared!

I think I'll take it up with ADT. Adjustment may be buried in the setting, but I am still very new to the system and not yet confident of adjusting things in case I screw up the other setting made during installation.

I had a look at the sample tins, and will probably go that way, if they really are true to colour. Ideally, I'd like to repaint a defined section of the whole wall, rather than just over the plaster repair, as a means of better hiding the repainting, and that might take two, perhaps three little...

The only visible 'branding' is "alarm.com". It was supplied and installed by ADT. There is also no obvious light on the fairly chunky fitting (see image). I am yet to even try to familiarise myself with the myriad instructions for use of the whole system, but the installer did not think that...

I have had some electrical work carried out with new buried trunking meaning I have a need for a small volume of F&B 'Slipper Satin' paint to make good the plasterwork repair. But I only need to paint one small area, certainly not justifying a whole new can of paint! I'm guessing a couple of...

Hi, I have a new burglar alarm installed (by a household name company), but the doorbell camera needs some 'assistance'. Our front door is quite recessed and so there is no direct light onto the face of the person at the door: and with bright light behind them (daylight), the person is pretty...

I need to treat a garage wall to remove green algael growth before stabilising and repainting the exterior wall. Rather than pressure washing (the surface is a little friable) I want to treat with an antifungal wash and stiff bristled brush and then treat with a stabilising solution, before...

Attached are images of my shower drain cover which I have just cleared of the most foul hair blockage ever. I had to disassemble the whole thing. As I am practically bald, I blame my wife and daughter. What does the arrow on the underside (approximately at 'six o'clock') of the drain mean...

I have an Audi Q5 that periodically demands AdBlue to be filled up. Using a 10l bottle, I have never found it easy to fill, with about 50% of the contents frequently not ending up in the AdBlue tank, but dripping all over the back wheel instead, via the spillage drain hole. I am carefully...

My trees are not made of aluminium.

I have a lot of green wood processing from tree surgery to do, and although I have a chainsaw, it is noisy and annoys the neighbours. When new, my bowsaw blade is like a hot knife through butter, but after a few hours use, the brown non-stick coating (Teflon, I presume) wears off, and the blades...

Not really immediately: the treatment was applied about a week before attempting to remove the moss with the power broom. The tarmac is not smooth enough to use a shovel edge I've the whole.ofnthe affected area: it catches on small.raised stones and pulls them out.

Here's another image of the moss after being tackled with the new Stihl power broom. The bristles of the power broom are pretty sturdy, and certainly not fine enough to gouge out the soil in-between the raised little stones on the surface of the Tamacadam. You'll perhaps notice 'striations' in...

So I've posted an image of the moss, 1 week post-treatment: as you can see, it is pretty thick (but nowhere near thick enough to tackle.with a strimmer, or my very capable bushcutter). I appreciate the comment about being impatient. I think that might be the case, although waiting for the moss...

I don't think a strimmer would be effective against moss, as it is a mat of very low (altitude) growth. I have resorted to removing the (killed) moss mat with a Japanese hand hoe (the most useful tool I have for the garden: get one!), although the steel blade does lift the odd stone from within...

My driveway is tar mcadam and has a bad moss problem. I treated it with a 'professional' moss and algae killer a week ago and it turned pretty brown/ sick looking. Rather than trying to use a 'stiff brush', I invested in a Stihl power brush to fit onto my Stihl combi engine. I'm surprised just...

From new, the gaskets on our hardwood windows and doors were clearly ill-fitting and 'popping out'. The manufacturer (remaining nameless) seems less than concerned and adviced that we should use sealant to fix them in place. The fact that, if necessary, this should have happened during...

I would like to run power out to a 'summer house' and greenhouse. Two separate buildings. A huge part of the expense is likely to be digging a trench from the house out to the two buildings. The furthest run is likely to be about 100m from the house (electrical source) to the greenhouse. I'd...

I put some (allegedly) pressure treated posts into postcrete about five years ago, and I'm surprised (shocked) just how decayed they have become. See picture Is there a remedy that would prevent me having to dig them all out and replace them? If I did, I think I'd flatten the surface of the...