Recent content by WillH

Can't remember how old he said he was but can remember my great uncle talking about where he'd hear them round here, and he died in 2014 aged 91. One of his regrets from when he was a child was egg collecting says they once asked a teacher about taking them and the teacher said if you just take...

Only used a Stihl one. Br450 with electric and easy start. Not too sure about the easy start, seems to require more force to get past the resistance but two pulls starts it. The electric start is handy once warmed up as you can tun it off and the on whenever without needing to remove from your...

blowing it in reminds me of tale my dad told me where the owner had it blown in. The insulation bloke said it seemed to be taking longer for the bit he was doing... dad went round corner and there was a putlog hole that hadn't been pointed and it was just blowing out of there lol

I'd find and fix the cause of the damp first then let the wall dry then dot and dab regardless of insulated boards or not. I'd go with insulated as it will help with condensation as well as retain the heat better another thing that can cause problems if everything else is sound is through...

agreed, if you've damp finding the cause of it is the main thing to do. we've been working on a rubble filled listed cottage similar age to OP the walls were bone dry the only water was above the kitchen window caused by the pointing or lack of. The old cement based pointing was removed which...

Not necessarily, about fifteen years ago my dad and employee were waved in to inspection area. Driving 7.5 tonne tipper both passed well before a test was needed. They were there ages as the vosa men couldn't understand why there was no class3 on employees license in the end they made dad...

what we would do is hack everything off then a couple coats of ka tanking slurry, sbr/cement mix painted on (the slurry can react with gypsum) then dot and dab insulated boards on or do like @Brains said and make a timber frame and insulate between and board onto it, might lose a few inch...

They say that they will be killing ones that would likely die anyway. While I agree that may be true some of the time it won't be all of the time and must surely have some impact even if only a small one. Not to mention it doesn't take into account the impact of a cat prowling around has as...

Had same decision to make a few years back and I went for a stihl 261CM with 16" bar it can run a longer bar but 16 was optimal Did a bit of reading on the net and in the end it seemed to be you would be happy with either make in regards to a 261cm or 550xp, but as we have a few other Stihl...

forks under then blocks to the jacking points probably the best way if you really needed to move it

Nope they're not that common but getting more common along with the other egrets. It's been a while since I did any birding but: They're a similar size to grey heron whereas little egret is a fair bit smaller. Main difference for most of the year is greats have a yellow beak during breeding...

You do know somebody hasn't gone out and planted them, and they've covered the wood over hundreds of years and are a naturally occurring part of the habitat Maybe you think removing some of them and planting another woodland flower would increase the diversity, which while it might do in that...

Yep, used to be a carpet of bluebells in it, not so much now

We had same when we went through gas pipe to a restaurant no minimum depth for them but one for us. They started at £650 but we kept arguing and they brought it down to £200. Customer was getting scared by the threats of legal action so told us to pay at £400 and he'd pay us. Judge might have...

Getting stung by the newspapers for the notice was the worst part of it. Yorkshire post wanted £730 for ours this year as we had to reapply due to changing from partnership to limited luckily the huddersfield examiner was a bit cheaper at £230 even then still a lot for what it is we felt.