gaz_moose

i drive a few Citroen Ami's regularly and i would never recommend to buy one to use as an actual car.

i bought a 'rollerdoor' one off ebay. the cheaper ones with the shorter slats are thinner and less insulated/ more flimsy than the taller/thicker slats. i installed it on my own in a few hours. id got quotes from 2 local places to install near identical items and i think they wanted about 2 grand more than i paid for the door only. NODS one looks better as it has those white guide wheels in the top corners whereas mine just has the top bit of frame bent into a curve (which i had to bend to adjust as the door was catching the top box inner cover). id just buy it and fit it yourself unless you cant be bothered. they are really easy to do.

worst case it will need a bit of easi-fill to sort out any rough bits. as others have said it is achieved by not being crap at plastering. As a crap plasterer, I would say you can see where they have wet brushed it to clean it after plastering.

looks like you have some good stuff to sell.

loads of people have drama with that brush in stuff. seems to crack/crumble/fall out. id second flow point. those paving expert guys are decent guys.

i used to work next door to a double glazing glass place and they cut/ground a few car windows to size for me over the years. i know that car screens are laminated but the sides and back are toughened. can you not knock the walls around?

just buy an insulated one, also referred to as a reefer or a mobile site office. Somewhere i used to work had me put windows etc.. into a shipping container to be used as a fabrication bay and it was awful to work inside. the guys who build recovery trucks out of old tesco delivery vans often sell the old box body's for not very much.

the rest of the conservatory looks pretty old. i think I would knock it all down and start again. My conservatory was wooden built with twin wall roofing and i gave up bodging it with flashing tape. now it has a OSB3 and EPDM roof and is fantastic.

i get what you are saying but these are properly stuck down. the only way im going to get them up is to either sand them off or grind them off or just smash off the concrete underneath which will just make loads of dangerous dust. there is literally about 1m^2 left the rest have been blasted off years ago by someone else. every house round these parts basically have white or brown asbestos floor tiles, its just how it is.

Those beds full of lavender will look smart. Id probably chuck a load of daffodil / snow drop bulbs in too so you get a bit of colour in jan/March before your lavender wakes up in May. post a picture if you get round to the triangle bits.

could you use an ACO slot drain and run the lights in that?

that looks fantastic. did you try a triangle cut to soften the stepdown of the sleeper wall? Mine is literally the same and i was thinking of doing the same thing. I'd bought 19 2.4m oak sleepers and they accidently sent me 24 so was tempted to experiment.

I have been ripping a kitchen out for someone and knocked all the floor tiles off today. the plan is to eventually install LVT throughout. I'm currently left with a concrete slab that has the current issues, craters from me bashing it. some bits are weak and crumbly. some bits have bitumen still down some bits have white asbestos floor tile stuck down ( these bits are 2mm higher than the rest and the tiles are basically welded on). My plan of action was to slap a load of concrete hardener down as i have a load spare then pour some leveller down. But then i think i should do something to replicate what the old bitumen was for which leaves me a bit stumped. So.. should i go for concrete hardener a coat of SBR leveller. I was just going to use the 'just add water' screwfix mapi stuff. Or is there a much better option?, One that wont cost the earth or take ages 🤣. the job is just a favour and they don't even have decent biscuits.

I was talking to my neighbour who is a landscaper about turf vs seed and he said seed wins hands down. I cant remember what seed he said to use though sorry. i scraped my lawn back with the excavator bucket hoping to get a few tonnes of topsoil to use elsewhere and i swear it was only about 10mm thick on top of solid clay, which probably explains why that lawn was terrible.

the garden room guru group on facebook is a good source of knowledge for this type of stuff.