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Any of the Osmo oils, the standard polyx will darken it slightly but top oil doesn't or you could go for a white/ grey coloured top oil for a bleached driftwood look. Fiddes wood oil is one I like similar to Osmo polyx but a bit runnier and quicker to dry.

I will criticize people for getting a bargain. There's two possible reasons it's very cheap, either it's rubbish or someone hasn't been paid. There's a lot of forced and slave labour in China particularly. There are far more modern slaves than there ever where when it was legal.

You can straighten the two long edges and use biscuits, glue and worktop connectors to make a piece up to 1200 wide then edge the short edges as normal but if it's standard laminate you will be able to see the join. If it's the more expensive stuff with a 3-4mm top layer you might be able to...

Of course you can, it will probably look like 2 worktops joined back to back though. A sheet of plywood painted or with Formica glued on would be a cheap option without the join.

I used the dregs of a rattle can of appliance white to retouch a rusty radiator it softened when the rad got warm and stuck to the sofa. I guess if high temperature paint doesn't heat cure properly that may happen to you. I bought a new radiator something I should have done first.

You can buy a high volume low pressure sprayer very cheap which can handle most paints and are quite easy to clean up. For airless I guess you'll have to Google hire places. Cuprinol sell a fence paint sprayer which looks exactly like a plant sprayer and I have successfully used a small plant...

You can use offcuts wherever you need them. You can cut thinner slabs with a stanley knife by squashing it down with the straight edge or use a saw or bread knife .The slabs should be cut just oversized and sprung in so there's no risk of them falling out, it's flexible enough that you can butt...

I remember cars breaking down when I was younger, didn't realise it happened anymore.

Impossible to say without seeing the problems. Are you sure water is coming from above and not sideways into basement. Is leak all along beam or tracking down it if it has a fall. Is it just condensation on the cold steel You may be able to seal small leaks with roof repair mastic either...

Bulb was never 100% renewable. They sold any old electricity from the grid then bought renewable energy credits off renewable generators . If you buy fossil fuel generated electricity during peak hours then buy credits for the off peak hours when there's a surplus of renewable this is only 100%...

For food you want a wood with no taste and that is not posinous, so no laburnum . Sycamore, maple,beech and birch are all traditionally used in dairy buckets and implements due to having no flavour of their own. You can get food grade oils and waxes quite easily. I have some very thin walled...

Cedar covers a range of species some are more durable than others but I think they all take preservative well so would be easy to protect. Depending on the softness carving may be hard to get a crisp edge and it may weather away faster so oak would be better for that. I don't rate sapele for...

I don't think many species can be pickled it must need a very absorbent wood to penetrate into. The species I have seen is radiata pine ,a long leaved fast growing tree grown in southern Europe and southern hemisphere. It looks like a really cheap soft pine and bits I have seen have blue stain...

It seems that you will have to do something to keep the client happy. Though you blame on going building works a screed is laid as dry as possible to avoid shrinkage and would generally be considered dry enough to lay flooring after a couple of months. Autumn is also a normal time for doors to...

Older preservatives did contain arsenic but that ended over 10 years ago and now they are copper based, still torching might release posinous fumes particularly if the preservative was solvent based. Burning goes about 3 mm into the timber so with thin t&g that may not leave you with much solid...

Soft copper pipe as used for air conditioning units comes in a handy coil that probably wouldn't take much effort to coil tighter, or simply get an old hot water cylinder and use the heat exchanger coil from that, you might be able to buy them new for fitting when solar panels are added.

I'd second top oil as well which despite the name looks like a wax suspension.

I would not use oil on ply particularly birch due to darkening as mentioned above. A good water based finish will keep the colour and be easier to clean up. Another possibility is Rustins plastic coating which is a two pack and gives a great finish. What ever you use roller or spray will give a...

You can file down a key and then use it to bump locks I haven't tried but apparently it works.

A couple of large dovetails would do it. Dovetails are designed to resist the racking force you will have . Otherwise just reinforce the join will a fillet glued and screwed in. You won't get furniture grade dovetails in ply but the mechanics will still work.