Recent content by niall Y

You can often reuse damaged bricks by flipping them. around and using the internal faces on the outside. Whether you can get the bricks out neatly depends on the mortar used. Sand and cement you're going to struggle but lime should be easy.

The 1st of June, and I went out before breakfast for a wander around the garden. My goodness, things are very behind for this time of year. I know that one shouldn't use "Chelsea" as any kind of bench- mark, as they use a lot of artifice and trickery to make their flowers bloom, but even so...

I think President Clinton summed things up perfectly - "It's the economy , stupid". You cannot have what you cannot pay for. If the economy isn't performing the tax revenue will not be there. If more and more of the country's trade is captured by multinationals who hide profits in low tax...

One can't help looking at the political scene in America, and thinking that this is how the Roman Republic came to an end. They seem to have all the same problems that we have - only dialled up a notch. In comparison, our choice of candidates to be next Prime minister don't seem to be quite as...

Your budget alone will limit you to the likes of Triton or Rutland. I have the old Elu which is the present day DeWalt. This is well over twice your budget, - a similar price to the Makita. I have been pleased with the performance of my Elu, over the years, but I have no Idea how well the...

I suppose it depends on what you are paying for the sheets. 7 x 9ft sheets at roughly £26. a sheet will be £182 .You shouldn't need any flashing. and the existing felt, with bitumen over the leaks will do for an underlay If you do end up using felt, you don't have to lift the whole roll up...

Have you thought of corrugated iron sheets. I live in a coastal area and got fed up with the felt ripping and blowing away, so replaced it with metal sheeting . You might need some additional timber under the roof boarding to get a good fix for the screws

Would have to agree with @dannyr on this - looks like a "Jews Harp"

I believe they are called " blind corner hinges"

When I closed down my workshop, at short notice. I had to put my machines in temporary storage in my back garden. I cobbled together a lean to out of onduline and 4x2's, and the machines were wrapped in tarpaulins. This worked quite well for a couple of years until I got a new workshop. There...

The "Golden Mean" is a very curious thing. Some artists and designers, especially when starting out in their careers can get quite fixated about it, and use it as some sort of ""crutch", or talisman. Probably, the best that can be said of it, is that if you use it in your work, then the results...

I always understood the "golden ratio" to be the relationship of a side of a pentagon to its diagonal. And the Fibonacci sequence to be the way an idealised population of rabbits could be expected to increase in number. :LOL:

To be fair, she was not the one who originated the problem or who hid it under the carpet until it reached the size it did. But, she was certainly the one left holding the parcel when the "music stopped", She should, however, be judged on her actions, after she became aware of the situation...

If you are cutting the shoulders on a sliding chop saw, with no problem , then why not the rest of the tenon? Failing that it shouldn't take too long to cut them by hand, if there are only four doors. After all this is what the tenon saw is for. Careful marking out, of course is key to getting...

An alternative approach is to get an adapter for your bench grinder. If you have a spare one you can have it permanently set up with two buffing wheels. You can even use your lathe - if you have one. I have 6" calico wheels for buffing. I use three different ones for polishing wood. The first...