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Well these appear to be w@nk! Bought a pair in July. Used at the weekend in my genuine Makita impact driver. One failed instantly. The second has one bar but put in the genuine Makita charger and though it appears to start charging the red fault light soon appears. Only a matter of time before it dies I guess. 2X 18V 5AH BL1850 LXT Li-Ion Battery For Makita BL1840 BL1830 BL1860 Cordless UK 88381464123 | eBay 2 x 5.0AH 18V Battery for Makita BL1850 Li-ion. For Makita194204-5,194205-3,194309-1,BL1815,BL1830,BL1835. for Makita BML184, for Makita BML185,for Makita BST221Z, for Makita BTDW251Z,for Makita ML185, for Makita TD140D, for Makita TW251D. www.ebay.co.uk I've contacted the seller. Not getting my hopes up. Did get a lead on hopefully cheap, genuine Makita batteries. Rang them up. Scarce on the ground. A few months ago he was doing 5Ah for £50 - 60. All he could offer was 6.0Ah genuine Makita at £85 +VAT. Reckons it'll get worse/prices going up as some issues with lithium. B@ll@cks to that, looks like I'll be digging out my corded and extension lead like in the old days.All part of the grand Chinese plan I reckon, make the West reliant on this stuff then turn the tap off!

I know a bloke who ran his plastic water pipes through 25mm galv conduit...

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I've a selection of stainless steel tubes here in different diameters. Happy to send you a length. I could even weld a big flat washer on top. It'd last indefinitely. What diameter is the gate pin?

I'm thinking floor stat probe thingy!

Can't that just be a bit of UFH pipe capped off under the floor?

Do take care if bending down, weeding, hedge trimming etc that you don't smack your head on those studs sticking out of the posts. Are they M16 (needed a 24mm spanner)? If so I've some plastic nut covers that might help stick on the end, with a nut, I could post you. Tbh I don't know if it's normal to cut them down?

Got a photo of the tube and plate? I'd be casting those into a little concrete plinth set level with the ground. However, you want to avoid sharp edges on that bit of concrete or it'll rip the side out of your car tyre! Knock up a bottomless, little wooden box with some bead round the top to create a chamfer maybe.

I could do with a couple of jumbo bags of "genuine", black tar scalpings or whatever they're called. When I dug out for my gate power supply I had to break through a layer of it on what is ostensibly an unmade drive. At one time it clearly had a layer of this stuff down. The previous owner "topped it up" with fire ash. Given the number of rusty, burnt angular ring nails that come to the surface periodically (and lodge in our tyres ?) burning pallets was a thing. I've been left with a nom 300mm wide, 13m long depression in the drive that needs filling. Come winter it'll just be mud! Found some seemingly legit road planing places in the Tunbridge area that might sell me a couple of bags if I transport.

Old post/poster but did you ever have a go at making your own panels?

All true.

12.5mm Knauf Aquapanel here then Aquaseal tanking membrane over that in the wet room corner.

That looks fantastic! ???

I see what you did there! Needs work.

This is where I get bored and it starts to go slow. Doing the hardcore, got bloody great lumps I'm breaking up with a club hammer to get sort of level before the sand blind. Boring as Hell. It'd be much easier if smaller bits to start with. I've about 7 or 8 jumbo bags of assorted rubbly crap. Debating hiring a crusher one weekend to turn into a nice pile or ready to use Type 1, 2 esque. Would be handy when I do my drive. Blinded it with some all in one. Went over with the little Evolution electric whacker (the 5kN one). I'll round up a load of small sand, ballast etc plastic bags to lay down before the DPM as a bit of protection against some of the sharper stones: Still debating casting the dwarf wall...

Pronounced "vit"?

5 Star Grout?

Ponal isn't German for "pony" is it?

It wasn't out of date was it?

Longer than usual though...

I couldn't at the moment anyway.

That was @pocster!

It's still got his goat...

This is a hardwood sill, some abandoned project of mine. The ends of the jams would have tenons on that slotted into the mortices in the sill: A galvanised steel weather strip sits in the groove. You can see how traditionally the weather strip extends through the jams. The weather strip provides full width protection against driving rain. With our old, original back door here the hardwood sill was so worn and weathered, I folded up a bit of aluminium sheet to go over it. Painted with some special metals primer is was on there ages before I fitted the uPVC door and sill. It butted up against the weather strip and was shaped to go round the jams, the full width of the rotten sill and hooked over the front. Still got the folded ali bit: