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Just started wood turning a few months back and I've just completed a job I've been wanting to do for a few years now. This is my dad's old set of chisels that the handles have been used and very much abused over the years and I've now rehandled them as a christmas present. They are made by...

convection heaters will heat the room faster as they are just heating the air not the surrounding material. The problem with that though is that heat rises so you get a warm layer higher up. Underfloor heating obviously heats from the floor up so tends be a more uniform temperature. Also I find...

Like some others have said its a bit of a luck of the draw. I personally like french cars as find them far more interesting than many others. Haven't had a problem with my peugeot in the past 5 years I've had it, other than a broken spring. But I know of many other people with broken springs due...

I built an English Bench like this one and its rock solid. I can't quite see if your front (and rear) side/skirt is cut into the legs? Mine has it so the legs are inline with the skirt (I have a leg vice on the one side) and I cut triangles into the top like this English Workbench Designs - The...

Plenty of places were it isn't an issue. Grenfell, sadly, was a bad use of it.

Seems to be much more common in other countries than the UK. All of the ski chalets in france have them, although dont know how much that is just traditional looks over efficiency but I assume they do both.

That is true but it is rarely taken into account when people quote prices to run things e.g (not real values just for example) If you say an old style external vented tumble drier costs 80p to run for an hour and a condensing one costs 40p to run for an hour this doesn't take into account that...

I'm just getting all my wood together to make external window shutters. This is for a couple of reasons namely - Keeping heat in in the winter, keeping the heat out in the summer, keeping the light out (have a street lamp over the road so need blackout curtains at the moment), reducing sound...

I've got the same saw, but don't have that problem. For what its worth I would suggest. - remove the blade. - rotate the bottom wheel and feel for worn bearings -if bearing are ok clamp a block of wood to the base with a small gap and rotate the wheel so you can see how much and where the...

I've been using osmo oil for some oak door and window frames that I wanted to keep as light as possible. It obviously does darken it but not as much as something like danish oil. Osmo do a white oil but that is adding pigments. When I made my oak bed I wanted something that wasn't full of...

If you are not using a fence you should look at using a starter pin on the table (sorry if you know this already) Router Table Starter Pin Makes Routing Smoother. I didn't and almost took my finger off. I was doing a test cut on a (too) small bit of wood and it caught the end and pulled around...

Nice job on the shutters. I'm making some cedar ones that will be external (sliding across). It seems to be such a sensible Idea. Reduces sound and light, reduces heat loss in the winter and heat gain in the summer.

How do you control sound travel around the door? With a trad door it butts up against the door stripping, this looks to have a clear path of travel through the gap? can you put a brush seal around?

To be honest I don't think it will come to it but 'if' they have to protect the grid it's the only way I can see is feasible to disconnect some and leave others connected?!

https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/consumer/energy/energy-supply/problems-with-your-energy-supply/if-youve-been-told-your-energy-supply-will-be-disconnected/ "If you have a smart energy meter in your home, your supplier could potentially disconnect your supply remotely without needing access to...

Well this video of the breakdown of a smart meter suggests otherwise. At around 7m 5secs in you get to see the nice big relay that disconnects the supply. This might not be the case with all smart meters but I would be suprised if they didn't. Why else would you go to the trouble of installing...

Well looking at the evidence being widely reported at the moment that elec companies can switch you to a prepayment plan, it would seem that they can cut the power on and off. Otherwise there is no point switching to prepayment. E.g if you don't pay the elec stops - therefore the meter has the...

One important factor that I haven't seen mentioned above is the mAH. I've seen a lot of the main big brands you'll find in the supermarket selling rechargeable AA's with mAH of 1300/1400, which is pretty poor. I am careful to check the ones I get are over 2000mAH and are typically 2100/2300mAH...

I see your point but I can't see how they could achieve turning off elec in one house but not another (e.g. a carehome next door) without using smart meters?

Been reading about the potential for rolling blackouts this winter and one thing struck me. They talk about different blocks being temporarily shut off but also about how certain places will be exempt e.g. care homes, hospitals and people with specific needs. I may well be wrong but from my...