Recent content by Mike13

wet and pushed in is much better, the paving expert site says to make it stiff enough not to stain your hands when you squeeze a small lump. brushed in dry ends up much softer, I didpart of my patio steps with brushed and it has failed much quicker than the rest that is still strong.

The worktop was cut by them, I asked for 4 slots as the top was the 72cm front to back and needs more clamping force, they gave me three, and the clamps have not yet been tightened. I needed access to things and was not ready to do it straight away, the day job keeps me quite busy really.

Well they relented and have now taken it for repair, I know wood is a natural material and moves, but this was well sealed, kept dry and has still split, so that end of the log must have been wetter than the rest. With a home repair, with an 80mm split in a piece of wood 720mm wide, I would not...

Yup, and if cordless you usually do not get charger, batteries and tool on sale at the same time!, but decent quality, proper LG batteries etc. I went for the aldi versions as they were available sooner when I started looking.

there is always ikea if there is one near you that is

It looks to me as if it is on your side of the party wall, but only just. It might be shared, who installed it? was there some of the pipe there before you started your roof extension?

Dow corning MS4 is a silicone grease, more usually used on vacuum gear, but perfectly fine for plumbing.

I have a full stave solid wood worktop, it was designed to be an L shape, so a breakfast bar stub and a longer worktop against wall. It was fully sealed and made shiny with osmo top oil top and bottom. It was then laid flat on the final resting place where it will be screwed down later. I was...

yes, maybe it has got scale on it, or it was not greased when assembled. I still have a bit of a tube of Dow corning MS4 that always helps with leaking at o rings

Just use a metal drill bit to get final size, it is only going to remove 0.1 or so, wont harm the wood or the drill. Mechanics jobbing drill in small increments wont be as expensive as the wood ones.

According to Osmo themselves, https://osmouk.com/product/topoil/#instructions look at the instructions tab, 120 for oak or beech, 150 for pine,and 240 as the finest grade to use for just before the application.

Look on the osmo site for instructions, use the right medium grade of sandpaper to take off the high spots. It needs a certain amount of roughness to allow the oil to key in properly. It does need many thin coats. I used a squeegy to do mine. Dont forget to use fine sandpaper between coats to...

As JohnD says, the cheapest ebay etc "stainless" screws arent stainless at all, the marine grade ones stand a chance of not rusting. I bought some "stainless steel" wirewool for outside use to stop mice entering, it rusted in about 2 days... so got a refund.

By the smell, exposed to lots of it in a previous job a while ago. the 0.5% and 0.22% are some of the active ingredients. the C10-C13 means it is a higher boiling point than pure natural gasoline though. Alkanes means it is the saturated oils, not the more volatile and reactive alkenes.

The solvent is "natural gasoline" fraction, quite a variable mix, it does take a while to fully dry,especially as it has been put on unheated timbers under the floor. The smell while strong usually is unimportant, unless someone in the house has bad asthma for example.