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A "friend of mine" just 10 minutes ago hit his knee with a mattock blade whilst digging a trench. Apparently it's quite painful... ?

There's rules for outbuilding sizes. Worth reading up and seeing if hes flouted any. Suggest they might like to go through the process again...

I'm turning into Victor Meldrew in my old age.

3.9m? Link to random site but pretty sure it's correct: https://www.planningportal.co.uk/info/200130/common_projects/43/outbuildings Retrospective pp is when you build something you didn't have permission for, somebody grasses you up and you have to apply properly and hope the council don't make you bulldoze it! ?

Go and have another conversation with the twat and record it. Post all over FB if he wants to play dirty and vindictive.

If within 2m of the boundary I think it needs to be less than 2.5m in height? Check and if it's more (higher) suggest you'll make him apply for retrospective planning permission! ?

It's not like it grows on trees...

I put a £25 SLIK sliding door gear atop a standard door. Surprisingly quiet when lubed with graphite lock spray from Lidl. ?

If your referring to where I said wooden wedges above, I meant just to tap in and hold the frame square and plumb whilst the foam goes off.

Some info here in a thread of mine. Wooden wedges are your friend:

Proper job. Hand dug trench? When's the party?

I've a wooden trellis arch built by the previous owners that collapsed, uprooting the clematis growing up it and laying it horizontal on the ground. It's gone mad since. Half a plan is some gabion columns, maybe an arch type structure, that I'll fill with flints as they turn up. Believe me they do!

I did consider this. Filling with soil, it needs a couple of m3. Getting it there/delivered a bit of a pig due to access etc (and my back ?). Did think of filling the void with beach pebbles. I could take soil over from home but only got the car. The ladder idea I can make up at home and take over on the roof rack.

Got to repair this deck. Decent materials used originally, just a pity they never wrapped a bit of dpc around the outside! I've cut back to the midpoint of the first bearer. (Killed my genuine Skilsaw blade in the process hitting a screw I missed taking out). Found the void filled with the obligatory "we can hide it under the decking" crap. Presumably bits of an old crazy paving patio: One end of the bearer is shot: I'm going to chop that back with the multitool and 5 star wood treat everything. All cleared out: Plan is to make up a "ladder" o/off the same 145x45 bearer. I'll sister a section on to support the rotted bit I chop out. Then treat all that & wrap 3 sides in dpc. That'll get screwed the existing bearer. I've boxes and boxes of 5x90 st/st screws bought on special from Screwfix. I'll go mad with them. Then 3 new deck boards running perpendicular to the existing. The dpc will be high enough to protect that edge. Looks like they originally had some 3x3" support posts straight in the ground. Long since rotted, I'll support the repair section on the slabs I took out. Then a decking cleaner, jet wash and some of that Cuprinol non slip deck stain.

Waterjet cutting? If John's flood water is at circa 60000psi he's in trouble! Needs to redirect it to cut some of that granite up!

Out of interest what centres did you plant at and in a regular line or staggered? We planted a 5 species hedge mix against a South facing fence. Big mistake for maintaining the fence but SWMBO has the deranged idea the hedge will eventually replace the fence! Barely trim the hedge tbh and it must be over 6' high now. Same down the front, I went to all the trouble of making bespoke trellis fence panels set between grooved concrete posts and she plants holly inside. Luckily the mature beech and conifers adjacent have insured that's got little chance of doing much.

How about boxing in floor to ceiling with a subtle mitred corner? (NOT so wide as in my bathroom). Then box the horizontal ones from there.

Spolit nowadays by the sounds of things. When I was in the Scouts first thing we had to do at camp was dig the bfo lat pit. Skip's toddler son fell in one year.

Just found that Skil (genuine) saw blades don't like decking screws! Mug that I am I'd brought the Evolution saw too. Can't decide on repair locally or replace...

Found one of these yesterday slow to drain with water sitting in the basin for ages. Some bio digester the day before helped a bit. Chock full of cotton buds wedged vertically ?

Does he consult? Might be worth @scottishjohn enquiring. Let's face it, his is a bit out of the ordinary what with the space, the quarry etc. As an aside I wonder if there's any mileage in water source heating via the quarry?

Thanks, I'll look for an Ikea label. Sod's Law even if it is, then the white waste pipes will be at the wrong height. They come through the back of the cupboard in tight fitting drilled holes.

You're meant to use a PCD (poly crystalline diamond) type blade for cutting this stuff.

Had a similar issue with my Geberit wall drain. The whole 50mm/2", inside/outside dimension lark.

So neither Marley, Floplast or McAlpine p traps fit onto the grey waste. Neither did the BSP to Euro adapter that @wozza suggested! Nearest yet tbh but you tighten it so far and it slips. So...I sawed off 70mm off the telescopic insert then sawed off the threaded section of the adapter and used that as the locknut itself. That I had to drill out with a 40mm Starrett, then sandpaper to fit over the pipe. This after Starretting down the male insert so it fitted into the grey. It ended up looking like this: .....and it still f***ing leaked! Backed it off, cleaned the Jet Blue Plus off of everything and whacked in some Forever White silicone. Seems to be holding..... And then.....I found the main sink was bodged exactly the same way originally.