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Nearlyman

My property is a modern detached house - six years old - timber framed construction with a brick and render external wall. Clearly, to save money, the developers did not put a window in the integral garage whose external, timber framed wall is the common gable end of the property. Of the eight house...

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I live in an area where boundary encroachment appears, on the prima facie evidence, to be accepted by the region's planning authority, i.e. it appears to be 'the norm'. Three instances involving detached properties come to mind. My son-in-law's detached garage was built with the wall at his neighbou...

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One of our two apple trees, both now around six years old, is very unattractive due to its gangling "all over the show" appearance. It stands only 10 Ft tall has some four lower and roughly horizontal branches, staggered around the tree between 1 Ft and 2 Ft off the ground. The main trunk ...

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As a Septuagenarian myself I can fully sympathise with your dilema. I too have a property bounded by a natural hedge, which ostensibly is [supposed] to be maintained at a height of not more than two metres. My information is that it would normally be kept to the same height of the boundary fence up ...

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[quote="greggy"]the machine you are wanting is called.. a compound mitre saw. bsicaly its a chop saw that not only will cut angles up & down left to right but also diagonly too.[/quote] Thank you - 1) For the solution 2) for understanding the problem. Indeed I did end up using such a m...

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It's like this: I don't want to cut a mitre, but I do want to cut a 60 deg angle (a bevel, say) on each end of several 4"x2" joists across the joist ends across its thickness. The joists sit at an angle to the main deck frame which - unlike most conventional decks - has a footprint in the ...

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I have read with keen interest the posts re garden drainage issues. It occurs to me that, if the advice offered by contributors is unanimous in its recommendations that a [commonly very expensive] 'land drain' be installed, how is it this very undesirable and no doubt worrying characteristic of the ...

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just to let you know you're not alone. Have the same problem:extreme water-logging on a gently sloping site on a heavy clay soil. To make your soakaway effective you will, of necessity, have to lay a network of pipes from the higher ground in a fan like pattern culminating at the soakaway and severa...

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To Alavapint and Stoneyman Many thanks for the positive responses. Will now face the prospect of improving these wayward taps from a better informed advantage. The washer info is intriguing though - will take great care to heed your advices here. Happily, for the record, we do not live in a hard wat...

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Having surfed through the Forum looking for tips on curing this "common" problem without hitting the mark I turned to the Projects section. Here I did gain some insight and learned about the re-seating tool. Whilst this project would have solved all my issues - at one visit - at any previo...

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I think the one about the oranges flying better than lemons very extravagant and OTT - but it's his money. But I too detest cats defecating in my garden - they always find out where I just planted and proceed to dig a hole and perform. I have had success with carefully aimed nodules of soil about th...

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The standard garden shed erected 6 years ago and treated with an unknown preservative, has developed a band of heavy mildew 12" approx from the base - on the Norh facing side in particular, but also at the front and back. I cleaned the path around it with a HP jet wash very effectively, but dar...

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[quote="Godfather"]Hi Nearlyman. you rightly gave the cause as fitted in cold weather, the only method to rid yourself of this unsafe hazard is to gently lift edges off the tape [a hair dryer might help with softening the adhesive tape] and let the floor covering ease itself by riding up t...

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The vinyl flooring on my solid concrete kitchen floor in my four year-old house - laid by flooring contractors a few days before we moved in (winter time) - has, over time, stretched and produced ripples "like the Severn's tidal bore" at the edges on the longest axis of the one-piece sheet...

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