LMSC This is absolutely beautiful. What a grand design and development! Well done. Retaining walls and slabs will be very expensive! Let me think about it as we plan to extend the back garden enhancement this season and aim to wrap up everything next, if we can’t finish this season. It’s mostly a one-man job. It takes time, unfortunately. 😊

Thanks. Those pictures were taken when I had finished the main work. The bricks and pieces of wood on the beds were to stop the local felines doing their business and had to stay unti I managed to find a way using slightly raised chicken wire to stop them and until plants were established. As I said that was years ago and now it all needs replacing. Also, virtually every year I treated the wood too which was a major job and not cheap, which you don’t need to do with brickwork and slabs.

I’m going to price up both ways and if brickwork and slabs comes close to the cost of wood either more or less, I’m going for the brickwork… maintenance free.

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      Pompeyexile 30 years for an “all wood” work of that type and extent is fantastically good durability.

      Perhaps a mad idea, but - depending on what is rotting, and how much - would recycling most of the current “healthy” decking and adding new (similar or deliberately dissimilar) decking “around the edges” be feasible? It may be cheaper than replacing everything…

        Pompeyexile I’m going to price up both ways and if brickwork and slabs comes close to the cost of wood either more or less, I’m going for the brickwork… maintenance free.

        Pl keep us posted. We will do some measurements for our garden. Am thinking, once done measuring, go to Selco for a chat.

          LMSC The mask - yes. You can get different filters depending on the job. Creates a great seal - cheaper disposable alternatives leak like a sieve.

          CamVac: https://www.recordpower.co.uk/category/dust-extraction

          Yes pricey, but very good indeed. £380 for the smallest with two motors. Having that option is great, especially if you ever get a planer/ thicknesser.

          The Kemo module will allow you to create a master/ slave set up so turning on your tool will then power up the extraction. You’d need a double gang plug socket and project box to wire it together.

          https://www.conrad.com/p/kemo-m103n-master-slave-switch-component-230-v-ac-1091973

          Ready made options don’t have great power ratings, but this one seems to have enough headroom. I’ve not done it myself yet, but it’s on the list just as soon as I can get some time.

          I’m afraid I’m a pencil and paper man, technologically inept.

          I also agree with @CoyoteOldMan - there are so many more options with a ½″ router. Have a look at the UJK router table for instance - a whole new world of possibilities.

            LMSC simonc I don’t remember. I remember measuring 2 or 3 bars! I was planning to bury PVC pipes. Does it work? How is it different to to MDPE.

            its more common to bury PVC in the US than here from what I have seen. You can, but joints are more effort and less forgiving in movement than hose. This in either 25mm or 30mm is ideal, and then easy to get connectors to the pop ups. Much like flow profiling, pressure and flow are related and depend on the pipe. You also need to measure how much flow you have as the sprinkler heads are rated by flow. Not enough and you can only run one at a time, which just means more zones and more pipes back to the controller, rather than plumbing them in on the same pipe.

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                simonc Thanks again! We do have something similar to your link, which we purchased from Gardena. This can go under the ground as well. The cost those MDPE looks fine for 100m.

                It is definitely a separate pipe lay out per zone. My controller has 6, which is more than enough. 😊

                Cheers mate!

                Edit: We any way require a new set of pipes for sure. The MDPE looks good for us.?

                  So had a right couple days of it and im propper annoyed

                  The company supplying the grass and decking were ti deliver yesterday. The dacking came with a grass to follow at some point. It came at 7pm. One man on his own with 7mx5m of grass

                  So today i un pack and start doing the grass, theres no driver bit for the decking screws so had to order that last night off Amazon. Came today at 3, with all the excitement, i lay the grass and trum, then remembered id the sample in the car, only the wrong grass!!! Now i questioned this pre order, so today spoke to the owner, tough poo you cut it !!!

                  So suck it up, and lay it. Do the decking and heres the next kicker. I built my frame to spec to finish on 44 boards.

                  Asked the company the size of the board, 150mm. Not an odball is it, nope true 150mm

                  Turns out there 147mm ffs, so i have lost 130mm over the run and now have a 20mm gap. To say im annoyed is an understatement.

                  So heres the end of todays work

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                  Can anyone recommend a non-chemical based patio cleaner. After ignoring the patio for many years, it took me 3 hours to clean the 75% of the lawn with the AVA pressure washer. It’s a beast.

                  The patio looks decent now. It will benefit from some soapy water. But, I can’t use chemicals or anything, which will kill my plants and grass;
                  because the waste water will end up on my lawn and plants.

                  It needs to be something, which won’t kill my grass and plants. Appreciate recommendations please. Thx

                  LMSC simonc I don’t remember. I remember measuring 2 or 3 bars! I was planning to bury PVC pipes. Does it work? How is it different to to MDPE

                  That’s the problem in the UK, our domestic pressure is so low. 3 bars will be ok, 2 might be too low but you need to check flow and importantly pressure whilst a tap is full open too.

                  I am just getting mine set up and cleaned and tested again and was reading up on the specs.

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                      Cleaned the Patio today all 700 sqft of it! takes me almost 4 hours to do with my pressure washer….a hated job but done now, and the patio looks better for it.

                      Contact me

                      The karcher patio cleaner is amazing, the enclosed one

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                        We didn’t bother cleaning it in 7.5 years. I am not joking. I was surprised it took me 3 hours to complete ¾ of the back lawn.

                        Something to bear in mind with ‘prepared’ timber 3 mm is allowed for preparing (planing and thicknessing)

                        If you are using T & G boarding ask for covering size.

                        Composite decking buddy,

                        And i did ask, twice infact😂

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                        Does it require spacers to allow for expansion ?

                        Cuprajake Thx!

                        Oops Jake!

                        I had asked for a non-chemical patio cleaner.

                        That’s a good deal.

                          simonc Will measure and let you know.

                          If it is 2, I would require multiple loops. Thx

                              Thats just water pressure it comes as part of the k2 kit

                              May of linked the wrong one

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