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When I lived in Russia one thing that struck we was how the management of the language reflected the culture. The Oxford English dictionary is the best compendium of the language in use at the time and incorporates new words every year. The Russian equivalent dictionary reflects the language as...

One source of hardwood cane be old furniture, look local on gumtree for free/cheap vintage wardrobes will normal have solid sides that can be repurposed.

Rounding to one significant figure.

22 or 24mm Argon filled DGUs. I was thinking of vacuum glazing but the cost is hideous. £1200 cf. £400 for DGUs. Will be largely copying the mumfordwood designs. Room is being given 120mm PIR throughout. The current issue with the window is condensation on the single glazing. What I don’t...

I'm rebuilding a sash dormer window and then original design/construction is 'interesting'. The widow has a 1000mm wide center window and two 500mm wide side windows at 45° to the centre one. The centre sash has weights and the side windows do not, the weight pocket for the centre window is the...

As others have said a local timber yard should have more options for you. One thing to be aware of is that softwood is much more difficult to cut accurate dovetails in than hardwood. You'll need well sharpened tools and have to sneak up on your lines. Softwoods rings typically vary greatly in...

Welcome along. I recently made an office/computer desk for my brother's 50th. I found the design process interesting as I found I had to think about much more than a regular desk especially height, wrist support, leg space, power and cable management, and that it had to be a knock-down design.

Great write up thanks, I'm about to rebuild a sash dormer window, and I'd always planed a rod for the sills but I'm going to steal the idea of the ply sections. The 'epoxyfied' sill is an interesting idea. You've also made me much more comfortable over my choice of redwood for the window. F.

What board width do you want to work with? Fitz

I think you got your answer with minimal collateral damage! Quick change the title and run away before it grows arms and legs.

No involvement but saw this on Facebook marketplace £150 in Dundee https://www.facebook.com/share/EUA99aSRkDQcsn6H/?mibextid=79PoIi

I'm not a central heating designer but my expectation would be that room size and expected heat loss would be taken into consideration during system design and in a well designed system you get the right rate of heating, through the correct sized radiator or similar, into each space such that it...

Welcome. It seems we have a lot of folks from Canada, i wonder if there ares some UKW member location stats anywhere I can see!

I find a day in the workshop in my Crocs is a lot easier than in my workboots. A bit like putting the rubber mats on your feet rather than the floor.

I'd have a go with a card scraper before chemicals, should get into those square edges no problem.

I'm guessing the same system also heats a domestic hot water tank which is where the legionella risk occurs.

It was just It was really just looking for a price point, I've looked online and 75x200 on the available sites seems to be coming in at about £75/m but I've really no idea if this is sensible.

What a great conversation and a light-bulb moment for me! Idiotically I'm a chemical and process engineer by profession and in all my years of thinking about my heating bill I've never twigged to this issue. I now need to go an assess my system and see what my return temperature is and where it...

Personally I think saving any of the aged/patina look means you will also retain the stains, cup marks etc. Personally I would be thinking of a complete refresh, top off and cut the boards to fix the splits in the top, scrape and sand back to remove all old finish and marks etc, change the...

Brilliant work, i love a heavy bevel. How long until you let anyone put anything on it without a cover, mat, cloth, another mat.....