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Felt flat roofs are generally considered to have a 15 year life span. This is on average - obviously this will differ depending on the prevailing conditions such as environmental exposure - especially to the sun

That plastic lawn looks god awful - yours will look smashing

I’ve got a vax spot wash. I would marry it if I could. But I can’t.

Perfectly normal to have cavity houses of this age. Plenty of them. Get yourself an endoscope off of Amazon

Thanks for the help - ended up going for miniature lilacs - hardy, perennial, grows to about 1m and flowers early spring to late summer - it’s a new RHS variety - can’t remember the name

Haha! Will check it out

Brilliant thank you both

Chaps we all love a well trimmed bush…. I need to plant a bush that: 1. Flowers 2. Is perennial and hardy 3. Is fairly dense but doesn’t grown higher than about 1m 4. Likes full sun Any ideas? Lavender is a pain and doesn’t flower long enough, hebes are pants, box just gets diseased and dies...

I’m in Surrey. Even that isn’t far enough from London in my book - that place has become a cesspit since Blair. Can’t wait to do what you are doing soon

I think Roar has a point here. Russia can replace their losses easily - most are saying 30k fresh troops can be mobilised per month. Ukraine can’t. https://youtu.be/HLS9Avoizhs?si=_IZJ1UevPq1C-r50 It’s just counting. It may be an uncomfortable truth but a truth none the less. This war ends...

Just a matter of time - but currently still considerably behind the competition. They need to be more competitive with pricing too.

On the subject of wimmin - mine this morning shouted at me when honestly she could have just spoken to me. I told her off for shouting at me and explained that I agreed with her point but the delivery didn’t need to be so aggressive. She told ME off for telling her off for the way she spoke to...

I wouldn’t be using EWI on a solid brick house - the chance of interstitial condensation would put me right off. The whole point of solid brick walls is that they breathe. You are hugely reliant on it being done ‘properly’ and given the level of talent on offer from most of these companies who...

Lots of stuff flying about the usual social media platforms saying that Russia are now offering ‘talks’ with the proposal that a buffer zone is put in place, they keep the land they have taken and it all stops. (I am not offering any form of opinion here - just stating what I have heard so...

I made a roughly similar point earlier in the thread. Russia are going nowhere. Ukraine are going nowhere. All that will continue to happen is that thousands of mostly young men will die. Talk. Just talk. If it doesn’t work then fine, just kill each other. But at least try.

Sadly my friend, i believe you are right

Yep this is fast becoming a problem it seems - the current age is 27+ but there is talk of lowering it. Just think of the tradgedy that has already happened for this to become necessary. I despair. The modern world should be beyond this but here we are year after year with hundreds of thousands...

Solid brick walls are vapour permeable and it’s absolutely imperative that they remain so. They naturally allow a degree of moisture in but also allow moisture to wick back out - provided this equilibrium is maintained, you won’t have a problem. That’s why none permeable cement based mortars...

I hope those walls are lime plastered? If not, then the walls can’t breath, moisture can’t escape and hey presto, you have damp. Also check: 1. Make sure the external ground levels are below the internal threshold 2. Make sure all air bricks are clear 3. Make sure no bushes or other foliage...

So apparently the US have outright said no to negotiations. Seems a shame they don’t want to at least ‘try’ - surely that’s the first step toward any sort of peace no matter how remote the chances of achieving it are on the first attempt. I do understand the reluctance and complete distrust of...