paul1966

Thanks for looking, ordered some of ebay being delivered tomorrow

many years ago yes

Ok thanks mate

Dimensions are 4 cm X 22.5 cm

I was thinking along those line myself, you won't actually see the bracket as it's behind the back rest.

I know I couldn't believe it, it was the last rusted bolt on the bracket as well. I'll ask around and see if anyone has the skill to weld it, the bench must be over 50 years old so I'd rather have a repair that lasts.

I'm in the process of refurbishing an old church bench which has cast iron legs and brackets, on disassembling it today I managed to break one of the pieces that hold the back rest, as it won't be under a lot of stress i'm wondering if I can get away with JB weld, or the other option is drilling another hole in the main bracket. Or does anyone else have a better idea?

didn't know this either, suppose I'd better register my two chickens. It's not been very well publicised.

Roughly how much do you think for a new CU do you think?

If it's non compliant fair enough, hence the question so I am prepared for when the time comes.

We are having our kitchen extended and so it will need rewiring, at the minute the upstairs and downstairs are on one ring, Ideally I want the kitchen on it's own circuit, The consumer unit has spare spaces but when the time comes is the CU compliant with todays regs or would the sparkie want to update the CU?

was listening to her at lunch, she has a very selective memory, thought Jason Beers questioning was very good.

I really could do with not digging out behind the existing wall, would building a new wall about a metre away from the old and back filling be an option?

We're ok in that respect as it's over 6M from our property and a lot further from neighbours

Looking at options for what to do with this retaining wall, it’s 6.3M long and 0.9M high, we’ve been here 20 years and it was leaning slightly when we moved in, the top is now leaning about 2 inches, it's a split level garden and it's holding back the upper level. Option’s I’m looking at are leaving the wall as is and then building in front of it either Gabion baskets or concrete block’s laid flat then back filling with pea gravel. I think I’ll need to add drainage to the old wall as well as the new blocks. I’m thinking concrete blocks possibly rendered is the preferred option at the minute but open to any other suggestions.