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Fill the soil pipe with concrete first!

Unfortunately you are treating infinity as a whole number, when actually it is a description of a series. Its akin to asking what is length x length - its a nonsense because length is not a specified distance but rather a concept. As to the original query of what is outside the universe - we...

Top of the range in the UK is traditionally regarded as Hegner. These apparently came off patent a couple of years ago and this is why the Axminster model is almost identical but half the price. You can get quick change top clamps for them and tensioning is via means of a simple lever, which is...

Here's a novel idea - why not insert a blade and cut the shape out. Send me £3 and I will send you full instructions on how to use your scrollsaw as a scrollsaw!

True, but the walls have been stopping earth since they were built with no damp issues. The front cellar already had a (thin and not level) concrete slab and no damp issues. OSB itself is a vapour barrier and the air flow from the fan pushes air behind the OSB and out of the vents to wick away...

Best bet is to ask one of the trade bodies such as NAPIT or NICEIC what they will recognise. I was under the impression it was C&G as well but I am not a sparky. You (or you BIL) could ask the same question on the screwfix forums if you can stand the sarcasm, or just ask in a good electrical...

Thanks guys. I think some of those American cellars are actually aircraft hangers! Just supposing for a moment that I actually did have the desire to build a mock market town in my basement - what on earth does one do with it once its built? Its in a cellar for goodness sakes, you cannot really...

OK, well I have been muttering on for so long about rebuilding my cellar into a workshop that its about time I posted some pictures of what I have been doing! The set-up I have is that its two cellar rooms in a Victorian house, the back room is approx 4m x 4m and the front room is about 5m x 4m...

So can a Woman after a certain age ;)

Hi, I am not aware of sanding blades over here, but a lot of us buy blades from the US anyway so if I was looking to get sanding blades I would probably buy from the US also. As to the specific sanding problem - how much is he trying to round over? If it doesn't sand easily then the standard...

We tried that a number of years ago. Now they thump us at rugby and cricket ;) (Current ashes test series excluded, although its not over yet!) Steve

Actually you do lose weight when you take a good dump, its simply that most bathroom scales are not sensitive to measure the difference. From extensive research when I used to work as a docker in the holidays while at Uni I can confirm that with a set of sensitive weighing / parcel scales, as...

:lol: did it over lunch. Snow is all gone but the train service is still Pineapple! Steve

OK, probably not the fastest way of doing it, but for those who want a methodology the following is the steps I took to get to the answer. It helps to use a grid in excel or on a piece pf paper to keep track of the positive and negative statements, and after a few of the questions you can loop...

Thanks. It would seem to be an areas of discussion as to whether the VCL is needed at all, and if so what form it should take. I see you have responded to the same query here Darren http://www.ultimatehandyman.co.uk/forum1/vapour-control-layer-to-new-concrete-floor-t29718.html and as you state...

Why would that be Darren - I never have done when using polystyrene under a slab - the DPM goes under the insulation as shown in the photo above? Steve

Hi Bob, Its a cellar with an existing slab floor of unknown thickness. Its dry but I wouldn't bet its got a DPM underneath. Its been fine for the last 4 years but it slopes and doesn't meet up with the floor in the other cellar room and having converted that to a proper room (with 4" slab...

Thanks for the responses chaps, appreciated. After alot of searching on t'internet it would appear that what I was sold as celotex insulation is actually Kingspan Kooltherm with a tissue face on each side. There is no writing on the boards at all so I am only going from internet images. This is...

I have some 35mm celotex I have been using to insulate stud walls and have a number of sheets left over. Its the pink solid foam type with a gauze backing to each side, not foil. Since I need to lay a slab floor as well anyone know if this stuff will survive concrete being poured over it ie will...

Nah - white to reflect the desert heat ;) Hat, coat etc...