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poprock

More than anything else, I’d want to know about each brand’s customer service. Getting the wrong thing delivered, faulty items delivered, or the timing of delivery wrong … those are the things that fuck up your bathroom fitting and cost you money in contractors and delays.

Dinostar77

Funkstain wrote:

Surprise surprise: luxury brand Villeroy & Boch is top cos people gotta justify dat expense. They get 89%. Next up are our very own Armitage Shanks(burn) (83%) and Duravit (83%), then Roca, Ideal Standard and Twyford all brushing 80%.

TBH I suspect it's all much of a muchness really, unless you go with Homebase who are shit.

Our house is mostly Crosswater, which isn't on the list, and I think they're pretty good, 6 years with no issues yet

Thank you. Appreciated

Funkstain

Just so say that those ratings are almost purely on customer service ratings so

poprock

Hurrah.

LivDiv

What is the best brand of weed killer?
I need to do outside my place which is looking like the Jurassic era.

For the bigger weeds (knee height) am I best cutting them down first or will I be fine spraying them as they are?

I'm thinking I will be getting one of those 5l tubs with the pump and all that.

Armitage_Shankburn

Don't kill weeds. Let it grow. Natural - like an 80s porn actress. Why do people care about weeds so much?

LivDiv

Because I'm prepping to put my place on the market.

yourfavouriteuncle

LivDiv wrote:

What is the best brand of weed killer? I need to do outside my place which is looking like the Jurassic era. For the bigger weeds (knee height) am I best cutting them down first or will I be fine spraying them as they are? I'm thinking I will be getting one of those 5l tubs with the pump and all that.

You need to leave the weeds as they are for the weed killer to work on them. Chopping them down just gives the weed killer a smaller surface area to work from. RoundUp is probably the best known and strongest stuff you can buy without a license - there is however a massive class action going on in the states with it (cancer causing and panicky denial by manufacturer) and the EU are also looking into it too. So if you use that, keep the receipt and you might get a pay out in the future?

Armitage_Shankburn

LivDiv wrote:

Because I'm prepping to put my place on the market.

Yeah fair, just being flippant.

I'm getting into natural gardens though. My next purchase will have that in mind.

LivDiv

Cheers Unc.

Glad I asked as I would definitely have cut them first. I guess there is nothing to worry about cancer wise for a one off use and its more about people who use it day in day out.

LivDiv

Armitage_Shankburn wrote:

LivDiv wrote:

Because I'm prepping to put my place on the market.

Yeah fair, just being flippant.

I'm getting into natural gardens though. My next purchase will have that in mind.

I like a natural garden. They still need a bit of control to not look a state but leaving set areas to go wild is good. Wild grasses and flowers are good for the insects and they are good for us.

hylian_elf

Uncle, thanks from me too. We cleared out the front yard of new house in summer. It’s been taken over by growing weeds again. Gonna get RoundUp. Gonna go for a small one though.

Lord_Griff

Will roundup leave grass alone? Too many daisies

yourfavouriteuncle

Nope. It’ll kill anything green it can settle on. For lawns you need the lawn weed and feed stuff - autumn/winter mix now too.

Unlikely

While you're giving out professional advice for free, we have an awful lot of clover. Is there a way too suppress it without affecting the grass too?

Kow

How long after using Roundup can you plant new stuff? I want to finish off the ivy but I'd like to plant some new things in the same place.

Kow

Unlikely wrote:

While you're giving out professional advice for free, we have an awful lot of clover. Is there a way too suppress it without affecting the grass too?

I'll happily graze for a fee. I might shit all over the place though.

Unlikely

Back in your field, you.

Dinostar77

We use a professional company to look after our lawn. Its not expensive at all. The inital scarification is pricy but the visits for lawn feed and weed stuff is pretty good round £20 a visit. They pop round every few months. My lawn looks great now compared to when we moved in during january.

Frosty

We've got loads of weeds in our grass as in the time between the previous owners moving out and us moving in the grass was about 4 feet high.

I just slice them up with the mower every couple weeks. I like to think that the weeds have longer roots than the grass and are probably good for drainage and the wee wormies.

Ivy though. There's some sort of bastard ivy that's growing in my back border and it grows up by wrapping itself around my other plants and bushes and slowly strangling them. It's the worst.

yourfavouriteuncle

Unlikely wrote:

While you're giving out professional advice for free, we have an awful lot of clover. Is there a way too suppress it without affecting the grass too?

Longer term this is probably your best bet - they charge very little really. DIY again will be lawn weed and feed and then scarifying but it’s gonna make it look a bit bald and shitty until the grass takes back over from the clover.

Unlikely

I feared as much. Thanks.

yourfavouriteuncle

Kow wrote:

How long after using Roundup can you plant new stuff? I want to finish off the ivy but I'd like to plant some new things in the same place.

Roundup doesn’t poison the soil it simply prevents photosynthesis. Basically if it lands on anything that isn’t involved with this process it just becomes inert within an hour or so. It’s a pretty safe way of poisoning the shit out of specific stuff and not fucking over the rest of the area.

Armitage_Shankburn

Guys, anybody any good at drywalls? I wanna put up a mirror but it is really quite heavy. (Close to 15Kgs). Will any half decent drywall fixings do or do I need to think fancier?

Roujin

Hi Gonz, if you get some of these metal fixings, these are heavy duty bad lads that will hold like 25-50kgs if your mirror is one that screws in, or you can use the screw in the fitting as the hook/hooks to hang it on.

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You just drill your pilot hole into the wall the size of the fitting - usually 4-5mm and then screw these in. If you put a piece of sticky tape over the opening before you screw them in it can help cut down on any paint chipping.

Edit: I don't recommend hanging 50kg on a plasterboard wall unless you are sinking these into the studs behind the wall. But 15kg these will be fine going into the plaster. Oh and be careful that you have enough depth to fit these in, they're about 35mm long, but you can always saw or snip them down with pliers if you are big grip lad if you can't drill to the full depth because of blockwork or soemthing behind the plasterboard.

nick_md

Make sure it's well secured on the ceiling, Gonz - don't want that dropping and putting you off your stroke.

Lord_Griff

Haha

Armitage_Shankburn

nick_md wrote:

Make sure it's well secured on the ceiling, Gonz - don't want that dropping and putting you off your stroke.

Got mirrors on the wardrobe m8, it's the only way I can cum is to myself cumming OMG INCEPTOFUCK

Armitage_Shankburn

Roujin wrote:

Hi Gonz, if you get some of these metal fixings, these are heavy duty bad lads that will hold like 25-50kgs if your mirror is one that screws in, or you can use the screw in the fitting as the hook/hooks to hang it on.

You just drill your pilot hole into the wall the size of the fitting - usually 4-5mm and then screw these in. If you put a piece of sticky tape over the opening before you screw them in it can help cut down on any paint chipping.

Edit: I don't recommend hanging 50kg on a plasterboard wall unless you are sinking these into the studs behind the wall. But 15kg these will be fine going into the plaster. Oh and be careful that you have enough depth to fit these in, they're about 35mm long, but you can always saw or snip them down with pliers if you are big grip lad if you can't drill to the full depth because of blockwork or soemthing behind the plasterboard.

Thanks rouj, got a link to em instead of image? Sorry for being useless I am not a DIY man

nick_md

When my uncle showed me round his house several years ago he showed me the master bedroom which had one wall entirely covered in mirrors, nodded to it and said, "for when you're, you know" and shot me a greasy wink.

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