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I used to go to a holiday home in Wales, which was an old farmhouse on a working farm. The chest of drawers/dressing table in my bedroom had swastikas (or more precisely, reverse Swastikas) carved into the section below the mirror. I remember looking up the likely provenance of these, and...

I've used one of thesethese make my Karcher vac auto start. I ordered two and my dead used second to make a double socket with slave/master function on a fly lead. https://www.conrad.com/p/kemo-m103n-master-slave-switch-component-230-v-ac-1091973 They work very well, rated to 16 amps, and...

Beautiful, a really elegant little plane. Love it!

Log cabins have some particular challenges. I use one, and it works well, but you have to remember that the walls are cross grain all the way, so they expand and contract significantly seasonally, meaning the roof can go up and down by a surprising amount. Anything mounted vertically to...

Are you not concerned about your gapping changing radically with humidity? Changes in width that would be easily accepted on a planked doorway will look pretty awful on a nice bit of furniture

I made this table, to replace the folding patio table we've been eating at since before lockdown. With 3 year old and a 1 year old, cleaning between the slats of the patio table was getting very old, very quickly. The new table is all recycled material, the legs are from a previous table I...

Great news Droogs, get out there and enjoy your freedom (at least until they lock us down again....)

This big honking alcove shelf unit, nearly 2 metres wide. The biggest thing I've built for a customer, and about the biggest my workshop can handle! The bottom shelf is raised up to fit Ikea storage boxes full of toys underneath, and the rest should end up fully loaded with books.

I implore you Steve, never use the phrase "quick and dirty uncarriage" again.

Well, I finished them a couple of days ago, time will tell if they sag or not, but I'm very hopeful given how rigid the finished shelves were. I built in 20mm mild steel box section in the front edge of each shelf, glued with polyeurethane glue to the top, bottom, and front edge of the...

I have recently installed Polypipe Overlay UFH throughout the ground floor of my house, as part of works including adding an extension. It's 12mm pipe in 18mm rigid polyeurethane board, and currently it's glued down in the kitchen and rear extension, with 10mm Bamboo flooring floated on top...

I'd just cut a sheet of kingspan or similar to the correct size, and jam it in the hole. If it's a decent fit, friction will hold it in place, and it'll be light and easy to move when needed. Am I missing something?

Glad they had one - i asked repeatedly for a copy when doing my first Howdens install ( but thankfully not my first kitchen) and they branch could only issue one for their Profile/Handleless range, which has different installation details etc. Doing the second kitchen, with a full copy of...

Have you got the Howdens instruction book? I fitted my first Howdens kitchen without it and it was like pulling teeth at times. Get it, it'll save a lot of agro. IIRC, standard base unit height is 720,add 150 of adjustable leg/plinth, plus 40mm of worktop = 910mm, so near as bugger is to...

I originally fitted my isolators in plasterboard boxes cut into the unit backs. You will need to fix shims to the unit back, as they are usually max 9mm, and the boxes will only grip minimum 12mm material (i might mean 6 & 9mm, but the concept is the same!) They worked OK, but when i pulled...

Get some Space plugs. https://www.toolstation.com/kitchen-uni ... ing/p17556 Select the size according to the service void in your cabinets. These save a ton of time compared to struggling with angle brackets, and offer the possibility of removing cabinets without having to lift a while run...

If love to have a go at this - I think I've got some mahogany in suitable dimensions, god knows I need some compliant timber to stand a chance!

It is indeed - removed from a sleeper which after god-knows how long buried in my garden, still stank of creosote when I split it apart to remove the spike. How on earth did they get it to penetrate all the way through?!

The bit on the left is part of an up and over garage door gear, a bit of a red herring! Superb info on the rodding point, and makes perfect sense as there was a signal blood not far from my house, as depicted in the Painting 'On early shift'. Thanks!

Anyone know what this thing is? I dig it up in my garden a few years back. I'm next to a railway line, and I've previously dug up half a railway sleeper with a spike in it, so I speculate it might be railway related - possibly something to do with the riding of the overhead powerlines?