Smelly water feature

[The Medway Handyman]

Decking is alive & well & prospering I'm glad to say. Nice little earner.

[Andy Hall]

Ideal in fact. Material cost not that high. Construction not that difficult and once you know the key pieces like a solid framework easy to produce good results.

Price expectation not particularly related to materials cost.

Seasonal but it does compensate for the £5 tap washers.

Have you thought of selling the customers up?

Patios and decks need cleaning this time of year. Pressure washer needs servicing. Trouble is that that costs more than buying new one. However, as a trusted advisor you could sell them a nice PW that they wouldnt otherwise buy.

[Andy Dingley]

Yes, you can add the foam / brush filter that you removed and washed for storage last Autumn. Don't leave them in there if you're not pumping water through them regularly.

[Dave Liquorice]

Wouldn't last up here. If it didn't get blown away it would rot. You have seen the shed picture haven't you?

Eve 1999 the entire roof was blown off as a unit. It cleared the wall that the shed is leaning against in the above photo and just clipped the top of a similar height wall the other side of the road. The road is wide enough for cars to pass at speed, despite the blind summit.

[The Medway Handyman]

True enough. I can buy really good 28mm deck boards and treated sawn timber from a local importer at really good prices

I don't do £5 tap washers :-) I will re washer taps, but my minimum charge is £30 for the first half hour. Not that local plumbers will do it at all, they can't be arsed so it seems.

I do the odd bit of patio cleaning and it's fairly profitable. The market for selling HPC is highly price sensitive and highly competitive, so I'm not really interested.

True enough, if I found a potential client wanting a good machine I could earn a margin, but there is a perception problem peculiar to HPC's. A jigsaw, for example can be bought for £20 and a really good one could cost £100 - 5 times the price.

With HPC's you can buy one for £40 but a really good one would cost £500 - over 12 times the price.

[Great Scot]

Nooooh! bugral point in adding any chemicals, only kill anything living. Will also deter,or kill, visitors ie. birds, hedgehogs, voles etc. Kids, now there's an idea. Why is the water feature smelly? Perhaps because it is stagnant? Ever see a burn or brae that was smelly. No, and you'll never. Just introduce some flow of air to assist water circulation. Only needs to be minimal. GS ps. sorry about the kids thing. Lov'em, but couldn't eat a whole one

[nightjar]

That would be my choice, if I didn't just leave the pond pump running throughout the winter. It only gets switched off if it seems likely that the pond will freeze over and the Medway is not so much further North that it is likely to be a lot colder.

Colin Bignell

[Tony Williams]

:)

Sinking a few branches of willow in the pond is supposed to keep the water clear... and my Nan would always drop an aspirin into a vase of flowers.

[Owain]

I'm sure Mr Hall could find a really good jigsaw at £240 :-)

Owain

[Andy Hall]

Well.... the Festool is in that range.

Bosch blue, which is almost as good is around half of that.