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In 40 years of home ownership the kitchen ceiling has always been painted matt vinyl white. There is no cooker hood, and I have never noticed any paint degradation between redecorating typically every 5-8 years.

You may also find that the rollers need a clean - accumulated dust + age means that the friction required to drive the wood through has declined with time. Meths not wax is recommended.

A few of thoughts - you may find a 2 door solution better:: fitting 3 narrow doors ~50cm wide will be less stable on the door track than 2 wider ones of ~75cm. Note most commercially available wardrobe doors start at ~60cm wide to fit a floor to ceiling gap of ~225cm - you are planning 300cm...

As the heat is discharged from the sand "battery" the temperature will fall. How heat stored is released and used will be different at different temperatures - possibly starting at 600C slowly falling to just above ambient at which point it is exhausted (discharged/flat). Fancy oils and...

The Egyptians built pyramids over 4000 years ago. A square at the base was easy to measure. But did they (a) work out the angle of the sides for a particular height, (b) build a scale model, or (c) simply go upwards until reaching the top was inevitable - only space for one stone block. The...

My principal concern is the quality and cost of the services provided - either to me personally or society as a whole. There are a few constraints on this simplistic statement: I expect that staff employed by the provider are treated with respect and fairly rewarded for a limited range of...

I started work in the City when bowlers, waistcoats, and shiny shoes were de rigueur. I have also seen what some perceive as degraded standards over the decades. I have come to the conclusion that what one wears only matters to the extent that it influences those with whom you are interacting...

Since July 2021, 29 energy suppliers have failed, affecting around 4 million households. Customers have been left to pay the £2.7 billion cost of supplier failures - a cost that will very likely increase. The main cause of failure - selling fixed price contracts leaving energy companies...

Personal view - I would sand the sides heavily and finish as suggested on a small test part. You can then assess whether the end result is acceptable before completing the rest. This is low risk. Plunge saw and router is more "invasive" on end grain - it may leave you a decent finish, but...

The usual definition applied to intelligence relates to the rational - the ability to understand and learn well, and to form judgments and opinions based on reason. Most exams test precisely this. This avoids "softer" attributes - emotional, creative, perceptions, moral, ethical, etc. AI is...

The purpose of education must be to enable young people to develop the skills, behaviours and knowledge to function successfully in adulthood. Traditionally this was tested by examinations under controlled conditions and mainly focussed on their capacity to regurgitate facts (history...

Unsure whether below completely holds water - but hopefully not wholly detached from reality. 200 years ago, before the dawn of B&D, skilled cabinet makers could produce exquisitely crafted furniture. Joints could be cut with precision, structural integrity meant that with care furniture...

Why would a tool manufacturer apply any effort into developing hand tools which for 80%+ of users had been superseded by power. It is no surprise that most developments are now confined to the top of the hobby market where price and aesthetics often prevail. Those items to which improvements...

The "forum" was the first use of the internet to allow exchange of views from a variety of users and started (I would guess) in a crude way for ~30 years ago. The format has remained largely unchanged - predominantly text - although pictures and videos are of course possible. Facebook...

Nothing to do with the fluid and possibly a dumb point - are you sure your proposed purchase is actually brass (much these days is plastic or coated) and not already lacquered.

The name 'LEGO' is an abbreviation of the two Danish words “leg godt”, meaning “play well”. The US attachments to "legos" seems odd to a Brit where the expression "play wells" is bizarre. Language use evolves. Just consider the unremarkable words we may have happily used 40 years ago which we...

Design, detail and craftsmanship all in one completely pointless package - how long before the first cup of coffee or cocktail are sucked into the black hole of infinite depth (until evidence spreads on the carpet).

The idea of putting a strip down the hinge side where the gaps are too wide seems very sensible. Glued and painted the addition will be almost indetectable. If the door is too wide, why not simply trim the door - I thought this was normal practice.

Resistance to metric measures is the preserve mainly of the over 50s. No great surprise. YouGov research I would hazard a guess the average age of forum members is somewhat older than 50 - and like me have got used to converting inches to centimetres and back again. Why only half the job...

At 10,000 rpm a router bit with a diameter of (say) 100mm will rotate at its edge in excess of 100mph. To put into context - an Olympian javelin thrower may get 70-75mph on release. Would not want to stand in front of that! There is a joy in finding solutions to woodworking problems...