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Mark, I have over a ton of pressure treated timber in a massive verandah roof, similar in construction to a pergola. My experience (repairs) is that the treatment has penetrated deeply, the wood, with care, planes and finishes well. Above ground surface, it is very durable. May I suggest you...

Careful! Ikea kitchens DO NOT conform to 'normal' sizes, particularly in wall units. This can make for ****ing horrible problems with doors and (sometimes) appliances. DAMHIKT. Sam

Oh two. Cheap, glutted with data, deals to die for, specially if, like moi, its SIM only, no tarty phone deals. "Gwan, gwan, gwan, Fadder Roger, you know you want to..." :D Sam - who really has been to Craggy Island...

Thanks Trev, its a dead ringer, even to the dribbles on the rhs, to the one I had. But, mine should still be in Dundonald! Sam

Trev...have you any idea where your 'green' lathe came from please? If its a sh1te hammerite job on top of cream....??...I think I once owned it!! Sam

Hello Woodworld, for deeply personal reasons, explained to Pitchpine in a P.M., I am no longer able to release his workshop space. Have at it Forumites, the man needs this stuff gone! Sam P.S. I may be 'going dark' for a while, going to be busy.

I bought an older-than-me ML4, for just over £200. It can do all the small stuff like bushes, bolts, collars, yada yada, perfectly adequately. A big weighty lathe is nice, I was taught on a Colchester, but who has the space? A concrete bench or similar and a small ML10, Drummond perhaps, maybe...

Talk about a topic diversion...

Ahhhh! Thank you Roger. There are times I'm slow on the uptake. :( Gotcha now Blackswanwood; agreed. Sam

TN? Thst is a sigmoid curve, not an exponential one. QUITE different implications!! :D Blackswanwood, I am still struggling to see how this would work, but what I think you are getting at, rightly, is that for many, symptoms will be so mild as to not be noticeable? So, their viral load will...

Yup. Tesa. 3M not far behind. Just has to be fresh. Old stuff seems to lose its adhesion; I got into a right horlicks when I had to use acroll from the depths of the toolbox... Sam

Sammy.se, yes, it is. The ply is more rigid than the rubber, leaves a clean edging, cheap as chips, replaceable. Just need GOOD double-sided tape...DAMHIKT... Sam

Ummm..."if the number of people getting infected increased it was not a directly proportionate number that then died ... the proportion who died increased at a faster rate. "...so, you're saying that: if the morbidity rate (infections) increased, the mortality (death rate) increased at a rate...

P.M. sent. Sam

...really? THIS is a random exponential graph, taken from somewhere on t'internet. If fatalities rise "exponentially", they will peak at infinity, i.e. every living being on the planet...the reality is 2% mortality - but also, only in those who contract the disease. Sam

Thin ply, double-sided tape. It works! Sam.

Pitchpine, colour me very interested!! Will make contact via PM at a civilised hour tomorrow. Sam, 30 miles north of Hexham.

Thank you whiskywill; interesting reading. I retract my comment in the light of your supplied information. Broadly speaking, viruses can be very fragile and some will 'live' (remain potent or viable) less than a minute outside a host. Obviously, with Covid19, given what you quoted, there is a...

At the risk of being re-christened "Canute"...I can see NO point in wearing a facemask...unless...you actually HAVE Covid-19. That way, your droplets are (partially?) contained(?). Facemasks - as worn by Joe Public - will NOT act as a prophylactic, despite the 9999999 million people thinking...

EDIT. "Morbidity" is disease occurence, "mortality" is deaths. 20% of people will get symptoms, 2% of people will... Sorry, Roger, skim reading and not thinking... Sam