Onoff

Something like this then: https://stores.dhsequipmentparts.com/blog/howto-wacker-bpu3545-belt-adjustment-replacement/

Slots? Pulley shaft on a cam?

Didn't they go out a few times more but it was never as good as the first time?

Gail Porter?

Having no experience of cement type backer boards I used 12.5mm Knauf Aqua Panel. What I found is that you MUST use the proper screws. Other screws just chew it up. Also your battens or studs need to be dead level as it's quite brittle and will (hairline) crack. That being said it's got a reinforcing mesh running throughout so it's not going to fall apart even if cracked and tbh subsequent tanking will fill any cracks. Allegedly you can score and snap these boards. I didnt. Cutting was done with: - Starrett type hole saws of various sizes - a cheapo, old circular saw pressed into service as suggested by @PeterW - super cheap, carbide edged jigsaw blades (code 67688 from T'station) as recommended by @Nickfromwales

I'd have fought SunAmp over this. The SoGA says stuff should last a reasonable time, up to 6 years I believe.

I'm blaming the rain for the lack of progress... Ideally drill your bricks for any conduits BEFORE you lay them! ?

I'd allowed for 10mm. I'll double check I achieved that when I fitted the door.

I've seen non numbered seals used by DNOs contractors. Worse still they've fitted a new head once before and fitted no seals whatsoever!

Don't think I would recommend the one I've just fitted as per above picture. Maybe I got my sums wrong ref the volume etc. Maybe it's only working 75% as one edge is so close to the wall. Silver Glass Timer Humidistat LED Display 100mm Diameter Noise Level 31dB Extraction 115 m3/hr Complies To Latest Part F Building Regulations Using the wet room corner and the room gets steamy as does the window. Humidity gets to 90 odd percent on occasion. Fan will run until well into the next morning. Still, it looks good...

He had "forest" wallpaper on the wall opposite so that reflected in the mirrors. Was really effective.

Not as naff as it sounds but years ago a mate did a pseudo window in a windowless room by sticking mirror tiles on the wall as the "panes". He then used self adhesive white mini trunking for the "frame". Done in a Georgian style complete with pole, curtains and sill.

There's a long term project in a number of African countries, costs aprrox USD600 per install. http://www.ecreee.org/sites/default/files/event-att/20130423_wacca_presentation.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwjagPD_24TkAhWLTBUIHeERA94QFjARegQIBBAB&usg=AOvVaw3Y5SwBqfPIevajy6hfhNt0&cshid=1565866738131 I've read elsewhere that bringing a similar scheme to rural India, where it would benefit the population hugely, is hampered again by the whole taboo, "job for the untouchables" thing.

Invented by ME!

On the biscuit front maybe something a little off piste like Garibaldi? Can't go wrong with Tunnocks either...

If I had the time and money if have a go at a biogas plant. Figure my plot's geography lends itself. Being on a slope I'd site an outside WC or garden room at the top of the slope feeding the gas plant. The same top corner is also where most of our garden waste goes so I could have a feed into the plant too for green stuff. I've read 50/50 brown to green is optimum. The extra "brown"; my neighbour has ducks, chickens, horses and dogs. I'm sure they'd appreciate a crap chute set into the fence! ? As the slope runs East down to West some solar thermal panels on the South side would keep thinks warm. All gravity fed from the top of the slope. Gas pipe down to the house and/or back to the garden room to a boiler or gennie.

(Posted previously): Why waste this "brown gold"? https://www.motherearthnews.com/renewable-energy/other-renewables/biogas-generator-zm0z14aszrob 2 to 3 cows required here: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel_library/methane_nepal.html

My Gurkha friends grew up using a local Nepalese design. Mum would cook on the gas produced and they did their homework by gaslight. They had buffalo though! Seems it was a ritual Mum would muck out the animals and feed the biogas plant. Interesting that using human waste was considered taboo.

BG fitted a smart meter to my Mum and Dad's place and at the same time a Wylex REC2 isolator after the meter. They fitted new tails between the meter and REC2 but left the original 16mm, cloth covered tails now between the new REC2 and consumer unit. They wrote on their notes recommending the original tails be changed which I did.

FINALLY sorted the brake / clutch. Those two poxy, broken 1/4" BSW bolts fought me until the end! Moved the big orange patio ornament yesterday. Getting it back to the main lawn was fun. A mate and I handballed it down originally...he's having his hernia op tomorrow... ? Now to sort: - Seized pulley on the cutting deck - Seized pulley on the grass box - Seized grass roller, back of the grass box. Biggest problem is the corrosion on the cutting deck side skirt. Was going to make up a new one today and weld on but it hasn't stopped raining.

Sorry, not tried oil yet on any bricks. It was only this thread now made me remember. @Brickie's your man.

You apply linseed oil to the face before laying as far as I'm aware. It was @Brickie who said it "saves all the aftercare". Tbh I forgot and laid my pillar bricks unoiled.

Is that an internal stack?

+1

Best you contact McAlpine then and tell them they've got it wrong and that it can only be used to go into clay... ?