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Weird, as I distinctly remember on a previous thread you mentioning your single glazed windows stream with condensation in the winter. One would have to therefore assume your house isn't as dry as you claim. If you rented your house and the tenants said they didn't want water streaming off their...

Good and bad. If it turns out the tenant has been claiming rent they didn't qualify for the council just takes the money back off the landlord. The landlord then has to try and get the money off the tenant which is basically impossible.

really? You don't think banks are in crisis and contributing to wealth disparities? preventing people having bank accounts and/or charging higher interest rates, overdraft charges etc? Expensive car repairs stopping people getting to work? Supermarkets pushing alcohol and poor quality food at...

In that case everything is a social service. The local pub should be subsidising drinks Supermarkets should be selling goods at 0% profit Banks should be lending money for free Garages should be fixing peoples cars at cost etc etc where does it end?

I'm not sure that Jacob is aware that if the council is paying the rent directly to the landlord and it turns out that the tenant is found to be fudging the system and shouldn't have had the rent paid, then the council just simply takes the money back from the landlord. The Landlord now has to...

I've already explained the main reason why this is no longer the case. In addition to increased demand for housing generally, which includes factors like more people separate and need 2 houses. It cannot return, unless households return to a 1 income situation, which they aren't going to do. If...

So instead your kids should have bought a house each? Which they can't let (rent) any of the rooms to other students as that would be exploitation.

Most of the increase in house prices can from when women went to work. (I don't have anything against women working etc etc). It's simple economics. 1 household income could afford 4x salary. Some households had 2 incomes and could afford to push the price they could pay on the house they...

No, no it doesn't. There are way more options, as with most situations. Here are some additional options that are far easier - People eat 'slightly' less meat and actually reduce their overall food consumption. ~64% of adults (18+) are overweight in the UK which has a knock on effect for other...

hmmm, that doesn't look too bad as just a flat version. Might try a few different versions and see what comes out best. With a tablesaw I'd use a jig and each piece would be screwed down so shouldn't be dangerous as hands will be well away from the blade. The only bit that might cause an issue...

Hopefully you aren't refering to Tesla lorries that appear to be absolutely rubbish and haven't matched any of the ridiculous claims that Musk constantly makes. Diesel hybrids would seem a sensible half way house.

For the reasons specified they are likely to be some of the last users of diesel. I believe this is where Hydrogen or biogas could be a contender. It will take a long time to change as tractors are hugely expensive.

I can see your point for some people, but at the moment I'd have thought that most people purchasing sawstop are more cautious users to begin with. This may change over time if it's harder to buy one without but for the most part if you are purposely spending more money to stay safer then I...

If you travel through france there are thousands of wind turbines in the fields. Makes no difference to farming as far as I can see, except for the small amount of space directly underneith. solar panel farms seems less sensible to me as it is on good farming ground in most cases and I'm...

Oh I understand it, I have a young son who will grow up into that world. It plays on my mind constantly. I don't know how we get past the people blocking it though. Ulimately the only thing that can make it change is the government imposing rules to make people change. That requires all the...

Whilst I'm not old enough to speak from experience, I would argue that the 'boomer' generation did have to live through things that people would cry about today, it's easy to forget what we have available today. My parents grew up in the early part of their lives in a house without a fridge or a...

They might have been cavity wall but that doesn't mean they were insulated. My house was built in 1955 with cavity walls but no insulation at all (it has been retro fitted a few decades ago).

This is the metal example I've seen https://www.instructables.com/Metal-Barn-Star/ which hopefully gives some ideas of proportions. I hadn't thought about it til you mentioned that where all the points intersect will be a vertical cut. I was thinking it was more complicated at that point. I...

Hi, I was thinking of making a 'barn star' (one of these if you don't know what they are https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnstar#/media/File:BarnstarProud.jpg) for decoration on the mantel, as I don't have a handy barn to affix one to. They are often made of metal but I've seen them made of...

I am assuming that oil is not consumed though and will be recycled back into the oil refineries to be re-processed.