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I watch a lot of the American renovation shows and it seems you need a 'ticket' to do literally anything over there. I may be wrong as I don't live there but certainly the shows seem to show this to be the case. I agree with the sentiment on leaving Gas well alone, but I am loathe to it...

I'm thinking through various ideas and I wonder if a good method could be buying one of the door blanks I linked above and then cutting out sections leaving a web like structure. Then filling the gaps with celotex and then boxing in with the tongue and groove. The advantage as I see it would...

Just back from a trip to france. We stopped in one of the service areas on the way down through france and I got out the portable gas stove to boil some water. The temperature was at or below 0 degrees so a cup of tea was quite appealing. Started the stove and it had a nice flame on the burner...

Ah yes I see. I guess the thing I'd be concerned about is me being able to make the L+B door that is perfectly flat to start with. I'm thinking plywood with bracing can be done on a perfectly flat floor. Re the thickness, the way they did it on the door in question was to use hinges that were...

doh, forgot to add the photos

I think it was your original post about running cables from other circuits etc that perhaps made people question your safety/knowledge. If you follow all of the correct rules and regs then it should be fine. The problem comes if you were to have random cables from other circuits run in...

Hi all, just back from a skiing trip and the door to the Chalet caught my attention. I need a new front door and I like the idea of something similar as I would think it is quite insulating. It was about 7cm thick and had tongue and groove inside and out and appeared to be plywood in the...

If everything is connected correctly then there isn't any more danger than a qualified person doing the job. There are however 2 potential problems. 1) Knowing you have done it correctly and 2) if something does go wrong then you won't be covered by insurance etc. I have done the majority of my...

I think it's ok to accept their culture is different etc. The difficulty I think comes when we say I'm not going to work in X conditions but I'm happy to buy things made by someone forced to work in those conditions because they are cheaper.

cheapest on mytyres for my car would be £75 but they are only D rated for wet braking, so what you gain for snow/ice you lose with all the rain/standing water we have. To get B rated I'd have to go to £99 per tyre. Plus £15 to fit. So £456 total for the tyres. Plus the cost of wheels (unless you...

If it were on the same ringmain as the downstairs sockets then they would also not be working. I would guess they are on their own circuit unless they have a timer somewhere

do you have a single meter or 2 separate meters?

Let's try the simple things first Do they come on with the day time connection? If so they weren't switched back. Is there a mcb/trip switch that controls their supply in the fuse box (consumer unit if you want to be technical)? Is that switched on?

In the UK the average temp is above 7c for 9 months of the year (even longer in the south). If you run winter tyres for 6 months here, you will just be wearing your tyres out faster for no gain, and causing more pollution. Our climate is totally different to continental europe. I'd be surprised...

or just fit all season tyres (or cross-climate if you want the marketing speak of some manufacturers) and not bother having 2 sets of tyres a year. Mine are 3 peak and M+S rated and last almost as long as any other tyre I've had in the past (over 20k miles). Not worth the effort of having 2 sets...

Hales in Drybrook, Forest of Dean is my go to place for PSE pine. It is high quality and I get to pick through. A few years back I remember walking across with the yardchap and said I was hoping for some boards that were pretty knot free, he mumbled back 'trees have branches'. We got to the...

Just to add a specific example... my secondary school CDT teacher cut off part of his finger (successfully re-attached) on a table saw. The problem was he was wearing bi-focal glasses and went to move something across the sawbench and misjudged the distance and caught the sawblade. Should he...

There are a lot of complicated things that are incredibly reliable and make our world a lot safer place. I don't like flying but if I had to I would prefer a modern plane with multiple layers of redundancy, hydraulics and computer controlled/monitored everything, than flying in a lancaster...

oh heck I've got a Dewalt blade on my saw and they are American. I'll change it for a Freud as that's made in Italy, so I'll be safe.

I haven't checked their sources but https://www.chaffinluhana.com/table-saw/ 'Table saw accidents account for somewhere in the neighborhood of 67,000 recorded injuries every year. While lacerations are the most common injury, around 4,000 accidents with table saws involve amputations as a...