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One of the main causes are female hormones in watersystems. The use of contraception pills and natural estrogen in womens urine entering watercourses has an effect on wildlife and potentially people https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/birth-control-in-water-supply/ (N.B, No this is not...

yeah it's really hard to know what to do though. I've started avoiding non-stick surfaces but the alternative is mostly stainless steel. If you start reading things online it seems everything is toxic. I mostly think that vitreous enamel is probably one of the safest one so I'm switching to that...

That would make your hands stink and you'd be breathing in VOCs. I'd much rather use water and just make sure I dry my tools properly afterwards.

I regularly use my dads steel scaffold tower. It's not particularly heavy, nothing like full scaffold poles. Whilst Aluminium might be nice, if a steel tower was to come up for sale it would be worth a look (unless you have a reason why weight may be an issue). Whilst I hate to even mention the...

that's interesting. I was thinking the other way around. I guess it helps if the knife isn't quite lined up. I know occasionally my riving knife isn't dead straight as the blade guard is on the top and adds weight so i sometimes have to slightly nudge it to get it into the kerf.

Mostly a guess but my take on it is a few factors come into play. 1. There is some variation in blades so if I have a riving knife that is exactly 2.4mm and a blade with exactly 2.4mm then all good. But if I change brand and the new blade is 2.37mm my riving knife is now bigger than the kerf so...

My dad was a teacher so most of my childhood was having things made from school tables and chairs that were being skipped. Including a seasaw, honey extractor, most of the chair framework of our campervan (long since gone) and numerous other bits and pieces. My current garage stool is from the...

used to get scam calls at my parents house saying they were from Microsoft and that our computer has a virus. I'd keep them on the phone for as long as possible. They kept trying to get me to press the windows key on the keyboard and I kept saying it wasn't working. I failed to mention that we...

I'm guessing this is beech from the grain. 2 different benches but all look to be the same type of wood. The second pic I took a tiny chip out of the side to check it wasn't rotten and it is nice solid looking wood so hopefully once I've planed the top off i can get back to a good surface.

I think they are all beech from the look of it. The 2 long ones have a bit of cracking and are about an inch in thickness but the 2 shorter ones seem better with less cracking although probably 3/4inch. I'm assuming they are quite old as they have flat head screws. Will take some pics before...

Use ebay quite a lot and in general find it very good. Parents won a granite worktop once though and got it to for a low price as there was no reserve and starting bid was low. Contacted the person for collection and they said they had accidentally broke it. So my parents said no problem we'll...

Going to pick up 4 PE benches from my kids school today that they need gone. I guess I'll find out soonish but wondering what wood they are likely to be. Beech perhaps? Figure I'll run them through the planer and hopefully have some nice bits of timber. They have been outside for a while but...

could try jet washing out the joints and new sand when the weather is drier.

This ^ but in addition to just adding more insulation I believe developers should be being forced to incorporate passive solar heating. You dont just have to add heat from gas/elec There is a new building estate going up near me and they are 1950 style brick houses facing everywhich way. If...

Why waste heat on the room when you can just wear one of these https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/404433749023?var=674379556226&mkevt=1&mkcid=1&mkrid=710-53481-19255-0&campid=5338757644&toolid=20006&customid=ca24c42d1c055f1e461b8d762dc44c70&_trkparms=ispr%3D1&amdata=enc%3A1KXyOstwRQhOEgLb6Q6G2gg47...

My guess to why the pipes bang in certain places and not others is that most likely they aren't as secured in those places. It may also be that the pressure waves are being dampened in certain places eg going through an isolation valve or flexible tap tails. It's obviously entirely up to you...

Pressure and flow, whilst related, are 2 different things. The stopcock can reduce flow but I don't believe it will reduce pressure. So if the house has 1 bar of water pressure to an open stopcock then there will be 1 bar of pressure on the other side (eg the house pipework) assuming all the...

If you are only turning the stoptap a small amount and then getting rattling pipe, it would suggest to me that this is due to the valve not being fully open. If you look inside a stoptap you'll see as you turn it, it raises the valve like a little gate. This takes many turns. If it's only...

My house was very damp with condensation on the windows in cold weather so i bought a humidity meter so i could put values to it. We were hitting 80%+ at times. We've got a good dehumidifier now which has brought it down into the 50-60% range. Still need to re-point a chimney which I think is...

Obviously we are guessing a bit as to your exact needs but I would think you could add some pieces of wood from the joists to the rafters and then cross member/banister/rail to hold onto. should be plenty of places to screw into.