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Time for an update. Stepped foundations didn’t work! After the ground surveys, structural engineer calculations, the simple truth was that at about 1.8m down we hit sand that was unstable, and the foundations couldn’t be dug. So plan B was required. We are now going to pile the site, in total 27...

For an anvil you need a smooth surface with well defined edges. If the anvil has a machined step, then it’s not smooth and not really useable in that area as an anvil, you have a legitimate complaint. It it’s smooth with 0.5mm run off, then it’s perfectly useable as an anvil and you have nothing...

Im looking for a sweeper for a long entrance way that’s sided by trees and is an 11 degree slope. It’s around 3/4 km long and gets covered in leaves, pine cones, pine needles and the usual rubbish. I was wondering if a Green Machine 400 series would be suitable. Looking at secondhand not new...

I found a video Bill made of the work he did on the drill on uTube, there are a some other videos if you check his profile

We lost a good friend recently, Bill, who was a genius with his hands and @Sideways and I have been asked to dispose of his workshop contents by his family. He was a cabinet maker for most of his life winning awards for his designs. He was also an apprenticed engineer and made engines and other...

Pretend you’re back living In the 1970’s when scientists were gleefully claiming that by now we would be doomed due to climate change….they predicting an ice age! Yes, you read correctly, in the 1970’s to avoid the imminent threat of global catastrophe from the man made ice age we should have...

Thanks guys, been through it today with primary contractor. Dot and dab tiles all coming off, surface being properly prepared and full bed adhesive for retiling. The upside is we can save the tiles…..they are coming off quickly and easily🥴

The bathroom had toughened safety glass panels around the shower area and splash backs (I thought it was just shower board until I took them out!) and the rest was painted walls. It’s a very valid and interesting point that it’s the paint that’s peeling.

Interesting observation, there is a lot of adhesive available (there is a lot more tiling to do) , it could be that he didn’t want to mix up another bucket full and it was the end of the day.

The other UFH has proceeded without a hitch….so far. a losses and and cement dry mix has been applied over the pipes fitted between the suspended floor. The pipes were placed on top of a DPM layer. Over the top the final floor boarding is laid.

Where we had routed out the concrete to lay the pipe within the floor we had another learning curve, between laying the pipe and before it’s been screeded somebody damaged a bit of it. Clearly this was Mr Nobody. So after consulting with the tube manufacturer, who advised lift it, another 200...

What’s the reason for this slight hiccup? Well, although the screed says it’s compatible with UFH, when you get out the data sheet yoi find that it’s OK for under UFH but nit to be used to encapsulate the piping for UFH and defiantly not for use on spongy surfaces that are expanded polystyrene...

OK, the latest update. Every day is a school day! And we learnt the wrong way that not fully reading the manufacturers instructions can be very painful. So, the contractor bought for the upstairs the screed that will go over the pipes encased in the insulated boards. The front of the packet...

I’ve a problem, which could be a big problem! I’ve had a few bathrooms tiled with large tiles that weigh circa 17+KG / m2. I think the British standard for tiling require wall tiles to have full bed adhesion rather than the blob method if the tiles exceed 70% of the weight bearing capability of...

I came across this handsome saw today in Face book. I’ve never seen one with all the accessories for sale, and that’s after I’ve 10 years buying and selling ‘old iron’. If my new workshop was finished and I didn’t have a backlog of stuff to keep me busy I’d buy it and fully restore it. The paint...

@Jacob The philosophy of spend spend spend, leads to hyper inflation and makes everyone in the country extremely poor. You could of course try eliminating money, rather like the failed experiment of the Marxists when they took over Russia. Absolute carnage that led to the starvation of millions...

I think any government would find it a hard sell to suggest we build more social housing to house people coming into the country rather than to service the needs of the domestic population.….don’t you? You must note I’ve not said anything about whether immigration is a good thing or bad thing...

The population in 1950 in the UK was c50 million, it is now 67 million, and with immigration is projected to rise to 70 million by 2035. The UK birth rate is below what is needed to sustain the population. Over a third of births are from non British born women...

Having dealt with literally hundreds of unions around the world, I have never boozed it up / had dinner with any union official. In fact most I’ve dealt with won’t accept sandwich’s at lunch if we were meeting all day as it could be seen as accepting a gift from the company.