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  1. Onoff

    flint work

    Is it lime mortar?
  2. Onoff

    flint work

    I'll be picking your brains when I do my gate pillars! For starters are you "knapping" the flints (if that's the right term)? That is cleaving them in two etc or just selecting random flints and placing flat side out?
  3. I've love to see this technique deal with my flints!
  4. Mate went to one a few years back. High end kitchen fitted, all tiled and no sockets anywhere. Not apparently the case that they were even there and had been tiled over. Customer, foreign, refused to have the tiles damaged. The "sparks" had run around the outside of the kitchen extension and came thru the wall at multiple points with SWA! John (my mate) was only there to dismantle the units.
  5. I've just realised these are mosaics you're talking about!
  6. It can imo. These people appear near to you. http://www.jetcutit.com It's the sort of place you want. Not on personal recommendation just found through searching. (Must be 15 -20 years since I dealt with a fabricator in Scotland and that was in Edinburgh!) Water / laser cutting is great. If you have rudimentary CAD skills they can likely cut it. From house signs to faux hinges in everything from MDF to 200mm thick stainless steel at one place I use. Cutting tiles in half of course wouldn't need a drawing! I'm guessing though your sockets are already in place and you need to tile over them? Not so easy as having a batch of like tiles cut I'm afraid. @Nickfromwales will be along shortly about cutting tiles I'm sure!
  7. Just watched the YouTube video tbh and it does have a clever sticky out plastic assembly on the back. At about 6 mins in: Still think I could make one out of an old st/st door kick plate!
  8. So what is so special about this wall drain cover that it's worth over £70? http://www.tapsempire.co.uk/geberit-ready-wall-drain-brushed-steel-p-45251.html?osCsid=oq9q5thinjb3p3k80ibhbltvv3
  9. I'm going to go out on a limb and say find yourself a local water jet cutter and have them do it. But guessing not in Orkney?
  10. Yep. If they hadn't seen me yesterday I'd have ripped it out with the Leatherman and thrown it at them!
  11. I can see the acidity of the lemon juice coupled with the sweetness of the ginger honey syrup doing my tooth enamel the world of good. But what a way to go, sounds scrummy!
  12. I wouldn't if you want to see that garden finished! http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/newly-banned-drug-has-now-killed-seven-inquest-hears-26513562.html
  13. I was yesterday, taking 2 x 200 (white tablet form) ibuprofen then 4 hours later 2 x paracetamol. Didn't touch the pain. Maybe I should have tried them together. The only ibuprofen that work quickly for me are the little red see thu gel ones. I take them with tea. I don't drink coffee, the wife says it makes me aggressive! Politely declined my brother's offer of Tramadol! Been there with the slipped disc.
  14. Gin it is then! I had a check up and was prescribed pain relief last night then started treatment today. I'd planned last night to space them out 20.00 / 00.00 / 04.00hrs to keep the maths simple but was crawling up the walls. At 19.30hrs I had a cream cracker then x2 200 liquid Ibuprofen and one Co-codamol 500. I''m a big lad but within 10 minutes the pain had gone and I was talking to the wife laughing at Two And A Half Men! Seemingly the Co-codamol / Ibuprofen combo is well known for dental pain. It goes: - 2x200 Ibuprofen + 1 or 2 co-codamol - then 4 hours later 1 or 2 co-codamol - then 4 hours later 2x200 Ibuprofen + 1 or 2 co-codamol - then 4 hours later 1 or 2 co-codamol - then 4 hours later 2x200 Ibuprofen + 1 or 2 co-codamol and so on No more than 8 co-codamol in 24 hrs and don't take any other meds containing paracetamol I did feel funny all over. In bed I asked the wife if she'd put fresh sheets on as everything felt soft and silky. She hadn't! Very odd!
  15. Trying to avoid "sweet". Maybe JD on it's own? Must be 30 years since I've drunk spirits. Vodka and grapefruit juice was my thing. I went off spirits after the Isle of Sheppey incident of 87 involving Vodka, Bacardi and lager in the same glass. I remember Star Trekkin' was playing on the telly!
  16. You're going all @Ferdinand on me with the complication! I've honestly never, ever drunk gin in my life though oddly enough have worked in a couple of factories, Beefeater and Gordons. EDIT: Do not drink alcohol while taking co-codamol, as this will make you more likely to experience side effects like drowsiness, dizziness, confusion and blurred vision, especially if you are taking a higher prescription-only strength of the medicine. FFS!
  17. The local vicar ran over a, old, hidden, angle iron fence post and did similar, bending the shaft. I simply transplanted the engine off of a mower with a rusted deck.
  18. I'm falling apart. Another root filling begun today! I've discovered though that 2x200 Ibuprofen taken with a Co-codamol 500 makes the pain go away! Can't keep up with the dental bills tbh. Considering the sugar content in beer & red wine and that I'm keen to preserve some teeth I'm seriously considering whether I'm at an age (50) that I should be considering spirits as a tipple of choice? Any suggestions for a beginner? Nowt fancy or sweet mind!
  19. Stainless wire wool? http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Stainless-Steel-Wire-Wool-Packing-Heat-Wrapping-Kit-Car-Bike-Exhaust-x-1-Metre-/220908214659
  20. How about some faux stitching and it'd look like a quilt / puffer jacket? Is this like the leopard spotting I've seen with some EWI? I'd be well peed off tbh. It's not to do with heat is it? (A weird analogy but the old Fibre Sports bonded on X-packs on Capris were ace from the Ford dealers. Aftermarket jobs affixed with pop rivets improperly, used to show up where the pop rivets got hot in the sun and showed thru the paint).
  21. Add a belt, an alternator and a small 12/230 inverter. Hey presto a wheeled gennie!
  22. Had an MTD ride on now got a Westwood.
  23. My sole purpose on here is to make the rest of you feel good about yourselves!
  24. NOT guilty! Anything's better than how it was, solid concrete floor 60mm too high, damp too with DPC issues. Ceiling sloping, 6" higher one end. I will concede however that you could at least have a sh!t in it!
  25. Do you like the Tudor look? You could paint all those lines black.....I'll get me coat! Gently wash an area and see if it looks different?
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