Recent content by Jim22

Hi all, Really sorry for the late response - I did read the comments but some family stuff happened. Anyway, I think i will refit the garage with electrics at a later date. Delving deeper into the older forum posts here, it seems fitting new electrics outside the new wall boards will be a...

Hi all, I have been lurking on this forum for advice for a long time now, but not found an answer to this particular question. I currently have power to my garage which consists of 6mm cable feeding into a 32A cartridge fuse, which then feeds one socket :? . I would like to add another 4 or 5...

I have not used them but have seen them used to great success, although not for "routine" work like rad valves. That doesn't help answer your question, but I was given some great advise that may be relevent. Take a pair of mole grips and lightly "crimp" the pipe behind the ice plug -that stops...

Can we all agree there is room for both torches and politics on this site... :wink:

Excellent cheers guys. You know it never dawned on me to use a smaller bit...i will use that trick else where. Amazing how my mind jumps over the obvious! hehe. The two walls i currently have to do are party walls, so damp should not be a problem. So i think i will hack it off, it is mostly...

Hi all, As a fairly handy set of people i am hoping someone will have come across this before. I live in a 1930s house that has walls seemingly made 90% of crumbly black mortar stuff. I am fairly sure after some googling that this is ash mortar or ash plaster. It is about an 1 to 1.5" thick...

I have never seen these before, looks useful. Like others have said, i dont think it should be inherently bad for your phone, certainly wont hurt the storage or processing. As for the battery I think that hanging it on your air vents in winter, when it is blowing hot air will certainly do more...

I had a similar experience with Travis Perkins. I ordered 12 lengths of decking timber, at a fairly decent rate and with free delivery. I realised that i had missed one length off, popped into the store to pick one up as it is easier than changing the order, or so i thought. Only in store the...

Oh that sounds like a good plan. I am not heard of that wet sand process. Does it basically buff the surface? Thanks for the advice, will give it a go tomorrow!

In the approach to christmas it is that time of year when I go through my off cuts and create presents. This year I have made some burger boards and a cheese/serving board out of some canadian maple. I love the pale look of the boards and would love to keep them that way, but any oil finish I...

Thanks all for the help and advice. I think we are going to go with DHS following a few reccomendations. Seems they are big enough to have some "security" while offering a much more competative price than BG. In total, this just tipped over the £3k. So saved me £1k...now what tools can i buy...

Oh wow. Just goes to show the range of quotes you can get there! Makes it harder to know what is a good price. But £4k by the sounds of it is a bit steep. We are only looking only to get a new boiler installed in a new location. It seems that the pipe work needs to be taken from the old...

Hi all, I am looking for a little advice. We are looking to get a boiler moved from our 1st story back bedroom down to under our stairs, but we have been let down by two plumbers in the past. So far only British Gas have bothered to give us a quote of £4000, which seems a little high. Has...

Hiya, I am at work right now, so annoyingly cant see pictures but i too have the issue of the TS-250. I have it hooked up as recommended, i am using a shopvac, but yet more dust ends up on me than in the pot! The guard too is worse that useless too, I found that by blocking its dust port...

Hi all, I hope this is not repeatition but a quick search suggests thjs had not been asked in a while. I have about £200 quid burning a hole in my pocket and want to buy a shop vacuum. Currently I make do with a respirator but the dust is getting everywhere and it seems that reading this...