Garden DIY advice, please?

Desert Orchid

Desert Orchid

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We returned home from holiday to find our rotary dryer had collapsed like a blown out brolly.

I've bought a new one, along with a zinc-coated metal spike and a 25kg bag of cement.

My question to the panel is, do I need to mix the cement with sand or just some water and if so how much?

Also, am I better to dig the hole narrow and deep (my idea) or wide and flat (Mrs Mo's idea)?
 
If I understood a word of that I would try to help.

In the meantime, keep small denomination money handy and use the credit card.
 
Don't forget to run a cascade on the counter-sunk champf before you put that thing up, DO.........you'll be courting disaster otherwise.
 
just buy a bag of ready mix concrete..this has all the ingredients you need...gravel...sand + cement

just add water...dig hole...about a foot square and deep...and pack concrete round spike
 
EC1 said:
just buy a bag of ready mix concrete..this has all the ingredients you need...gravel...sand + cement

just add water...dig hole...about a foot square and deep...and pack concrete round spike
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I might just do that... at least I can get a refund on the cement the next time I'm passing B&Q.
 
I'd go deeper and wider if I were you. Get\make a piece of plasic tubing that fits neatly around the bottom of the line pole and stick that in the middle (trim after the concrete is set), so you can remove the line whenever you want.
 
Is this of any help?

http://www.breezecatcher.co.uk/install.html

Melendez's idea about the plastic tubing makes sense too. I had to remove my whirly gig earlier this year (well, my Dad did) and it took some doing. I was left with a massive block of concrete which it took three people to lift into a skip and a big hole in my garden which soon became a pond.
 
think you might have used just a tad too much concrete originally there :p

as long as the foot by foot by foot hole is cut squarely it shoud be enough...if unsure then make 18 inches cubed

you will need some really heavy washing to dislodge it

if hole is kept cleanly square then digging it up should be easy...its when you just wallop any old irregular hole in the ground and fill it with concrete you get problems with digging up....also if you don't make hole a proper cube you can get instability.
 
Just replace your entire garden with concrete to a depth of 6ft ~ that should be deep and wide enough; or perhaps you could buy a tumble dryer with the refund you get on the cement.
 
If you are going to put 6Ft of concrete ovet the back garden will you give me a shout. I may have a couple of 'items' that I'd like to throw in.
 
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