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It's everything around these parts gets scale on. At my elderly parents yesterday and an overflowing ball valve was simply scaled up around the moving parts.

Is there a norm for which side fence you own on a property? Where would one find such details? Cheers.

Made up a frame out of 145x45. (The ladder frame came out a little twisted as the radial arm saw I went and borrowed to cut housings, well the timber bed it sits on is all warped, means the housing depth is different front to back. I really must fix my own saw for the sake of a capacitor!). Cut out the immediate rot and a bit beyond then smothered everything in Rustins Advanced Wood Preserver. I'll slip in a length of dpc along the front edge and sit the repair section on some of the removed broken paving slabs. I used the Ronseal deck reviver/cleaner. Going to finish in grey, non slip Cuprinol deck stain. Edit: I still need to get 3 lengths of decking!

I've never known what cornichon meant so have avoided eating it as it sounds posh. Like "wholemeal"..... ?

Icynene filled walls are super quiet too.

Yep! https://www.diy.com/departments/windolene-glass-cleaner-0-5l/257820_BQ.prd

I've just finished a jar of pickled onions...can I use the vinegar from that? ?

Have a read of this thread. I actually bought some copper sulphate but haven't yet used it as I was worried about it harming the environment. https://forum.buildhub.org.uk/topic/10605-water-coming-in/?tab=comments#comment-179034

What's wrong with good old Windolene to obscure windows like in the old days?

After many years of use I stripped the dishwasher to it's component parts. The "grey tube" at the base was pretty much solid. You have to wonder how many get thrown out for this.

Much easier to clean...according to SWMBO! ? Tbh the flush/ "scouring" action on our Bernstein pan is superb. Really shifts "stuff" if you know what I mean. https://bernstein-badshop.com/rimless-wall-hung-toilet-wall-hung-washdown-wc-nt2038-nano-protection-with-soft-close-seat-included I get moaned at much less now...

A number of my neighbours have buried LPG tanks. Two at least are now landscaped over. One changed from an above ground oil tank. Local scrotes lent over his fence and cut a bucket sized hole in the tank and fished it all out over the course of a dark night. Another has a semi buried oil tank in that it's a big hole with walk space around. The top of the tank is level with the surrounding ground that slopes up to the house. Fenced on 3 sides, the 4th side is adjacent to the road for easy tanker access.

Oh I don't know...turn over onto your front when the bath's draining and give yourself a swirly, gurgly treat...

So you don't have to have handrail, kickboards etc to stop the partially sighted, wheelchair or infirm taking a tumble?

Always had removable glass that I've had to fit and bang the beads in. I did do a one piece window, below, i.e no openers but that was still frame first then fit the beads. I used Compriband and foam for the one. Wooden braces in there as to make good the render fillet that holds the glass in I needed to render up against something.

Feeling pretty good about mine and my lad's plastering efforts in the bathroom now! How do they get it so thick in one place the level rocks like that? Was the wall boarding not flat to start with? I'll admit we did then make use of Easifill 20 and a Mirka sander: Whoever said spotlights hide everything isn't wrong! ? @nod, in the case of a badly plastered ceiling or wall that's been painted, do you have to take the paint off to redo?

+1 What I used. Hotels etc use it to help stop things getting grubby and cut down on cleaning time.

...keep going

Down here I think I've said before they would put a layer of crushed glass bottles / old window panes atop the meagre hardcore to stop the tunnel bunnies chewing up through the concrete floors.

I only want 3 x 3.6m. I'm added to the list and they've taken my number.

At the timber merchant: "Got any decking?" "Nope, been waiting for fencing since June!" ?

I've got boxes of old Telemechanique switchgear in perfect condition from before a range change years back. Completely non interchangeable with the next generation. Ffs a push button is a push button! Ditto other manufacturers.

Just gone to replace some Kidde units. KF1 now the KF10, KF2 the KF20 and so on. Of course, not only have they changed the alarm but the base patress too! Love it when manufacturers do this. It'd be so easy to twist the old one off and unplug it. Then just plug in the old one. That'd be too easy.

Satisfying though.

Tell us more about the brews you make!