Onoff

I used the Aquaseal tanking system. Dead easy.

Bars available in 50mm here: https://www.vevowindows.co.uk/windows/georgian

Can't you just have a fully glazed uPVC door with a 15 panel Georgian bar between the leafs?

They're black hence sh!t and will rust in no time. S'fix also do galvanised.

I would have had the new uPVC frame and sill made to the same dimensions as the old window/sill. It's just the way I roll. This is the drawing I did. The ar5ehole surveyors who measured up for some of my other uPVC windows (pre me buying the place) should be shot. They left 20-25mm all round. All so they could fit them asap. Huge gaps around all 4 sides with no expanding foam or Compriband. They covered it all over with plastic trim that they mitre bonded (super glue'd) on. I'm in no rush to get to the next job so did it exact. The thing that kills a job for window fitters is if they have to start hacking openings bigger. Means they can only double glaze 5 houses in a day rather than 6! ? Go with less 5 or 10mm all round if you feel happier. If an old wooden window has swollen watch for that. You'll just need more foam/thicker Compriband/wider trim. If you get the chance watch the series White Gold on TV for a good laugh about the early days of double glazing.

Ah well! The burner has been running fine for nearly 3 months but started locking out again. Going to change those bearings next.

Like that! ?

Scythe?

SWMBO lives in hope!

Sounds swell... Another one, are these in fact sickles rather than sythes?

How, traditionally, are handles fitted to sythes like this? These handles are rotten with woodworm. Plan is to remake them in local timber. Is it called a "tang" the section that fits into the handle? Something in the back of my mind is saying the tangs were heated up and pushed into the wood...

I'm very tempted... [£58.35 50% OFF]Doersupp Rechargable Grass Trimmer Hand-push Gass Mower Lawnmower Power Display Adapted to Makita Battery Gardening from Home and Garden on banggood https://banggood.app.link/ALnsAhNOYfb

I'm after reclaiming some wilded areas. There's some self seeded cherry in there needs to come out. Hesitant about diving in on the sit on mower as conscious of the wildlife in there. Plan is to hand sythe it and rake to encourage it to move out. 100% there be grass snakes, slow worms and various rodents in there. I'm going to refurb these I just found clearing the tumbledown stable and go all Poldark on it! ? One's a left handed jobbie.

Cut ours today with the self propelled one rather than the ride on. Avoided the cowslips. A lot of daisies and dandelions didn't make it. Did feel for the bees. Still loads of uncut areas full of wildflowers mind.

Pretty sure I looked at Duravit. Was certainly on my shortlist. Couldn't be cr'happier with the Bernstein pan though.

@newhome, I feel your pain to some extent. The old stables down't valley a couple of hundred yards from me is to become a printing works. Plans look bloody awful considering the setting here, like a modern light industrial unit from what was the yellow stock brick building. How the Hell the single track road is meant to handle delivery trucks I don't know. I can see them getting stuck in the snow. So much for it being an AONB! ?

Skirting was traditionally affixed with bfo iron clasp nails. If you "rip" the skirting off you can end up taking bits of the wall with it and areas of plaster. I have a few times managed to identify where the clout nails are and drilled them out using a 14mm Starrett hole saw with the pilot drill removed. You just sort of jam the teeth over the nail head and drill. Just be careful ref hidden pipes/cables. Another alternative is over skirting. https://mdfskirtingworld.co.uk/skirting-boards/scotia-mdf-skirting-board-cover/ Tbh you can make this up from taller, ordinary skirting and a batten panel pinned to it. Guaranteed you'll have a gap to the wall in places. Use flexible decorating caulk in a mastic gun. I used to brush it in with a wet paintbrush then square off with an old credit card.

I have a hunch it might have been...

Flexible sanding blocks are good: https://www.screwfix.com/p/sanding-sponge-75-x-125mm-80-120-grit/781jg

Again...

For a can't go wrong deal look in Aldi when they have these 140A inverter arcs. I call it my poachers welder. So small I can tuck it under my coat on site. Get a mate to keep watch etc. Saves all that silliness with hot works permits! ? It's not the super, smoothest inverter compared to my bigger, 160A Parweld but it's still good & pretty much a hand tool it's that small. For MIG I've an old Clarke 130A that I keep in good nick like Trigger's Broom. Dug it out last weekend as refurbing a Workmate other wise destined for the scrap heap.

I recently used a decking cleaner from S'fix. Followed by Cuprinol non slip stuff. It really is non slip.

"I'm just going for an outfall"...it's got a ring about it.

NOW...this thread is everything WITHOUT pictures...?

Sageglass! Just remembered.