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  1. Oh yes … and don’t hold the wires in your mouth … as I learned as an apprentice
  2. Plus drains sized accordingly … I recently witnessed a downpour onto an industrial shed and the downpipes and gutter backed up because the water couldn’t get away ….. until a chamber lid lifted and the roof water ended up in the yard.
  3. The local Scote-bags around here are experts with hydroponics and grow lamps
  4. That’s a fantastic offer from @Gus Potter. I love steelwork, so designed and fabricated and erected my part-portal garage/man-cave. Roof is 100mm kingspan but why o why did I go for valley’s 🙈. They look great but we’re a pain to make work especially keeping headroom to max by putting purlins between the rafters.
  5. Definitely right handed but now banned due to Max being offended and ridiculed by his work mates.
  6. Nope, that’s a Right handed tape, L/H tapes are graduated right to left.
  7. Water does expand and lose density but only around 40g per Cube metre over a range of +2ish to 30ish degrees C. So I think we can call the water gauge pretty accurate regardless
  8. Agree with @Bonner, plus when you say the vents are staying, I presume you intend extending outward through the cladding and not covering over them.
  9. @phykell all the above is great advice. Just to add, the deep bore report is great for water extraction but not much use for a pool, hence the 5m bores. With a above ground pool the mass (weight) of the pool and water are very important but with an in ground pool it’s very different, the mass off the soil you remove is generally much less than the big concrete tank and fill with water. When you empty the pool the ground wants to push the walls in and any water in the first few metres wants to float your pool out of the ground. If you have a high water table you will be looking at anchoring the pool down rather than supporting it.
  10. Simple answer - No. during high winds the blade tips sweep very close to the masts making guy wires impossible.
  11. Generic - whoever is making your gates
  12. Regular steel posts will not allow a brick covering, post fabricator will fit extended hinges if needed or you can get it done on site. Also be aware that a lot of steel posts are made as cheap as possible and thinner ones often flex with weight of gate (or kids climbing on them), this often cracks the brick or stone covering. make sure the steel post has been sized not to flex or go with concrete core and brick skin.
  13. A small kids ball, tennis balls generally go around the bend but something a bit larger may get stuck. Buying a cheapie endoscope camera would be a good idea here, if not you are into jetting (proper jetting or pressure washer) or digging out
  14. If you push the hose up from the chamber, how far does it go? Trying to identify if the blockage is in the pipe or the trap (u bend). My gut feeling this is a ball that gone down when the water was low and then pushed round as water flowed in … if it is a ball they can be a pig to get out.. jetting with a good hose or pressure washer back towards the house would be my preferred approach.
  15. Yes the connections have some movement as the seals are not on the end. Laser, water level or site level to check pipe height at both ends to check you have correct fall.
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