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I re roofed my workshop last autumn. Big double garage. Asbestos roof & all the purlins were riddled with woodworm, It was so bad that i was worried even a moderate snowfall would cave it in, chasing leaks was usual every time we got heavy rain. Because i could not empty the workshop & poor...

I heard a tip a while back, Run a long piece of copper wire just below the ridge line stretched between two screw eyes. Apparently it has the effect of preventing moss growth on the roof as the copper salts wash down.

Machine mart do a 12ton Clarke one, It will bend everything up to & including steel scaffold poles, iirc about £149

I just retired at 59, I was in a trade that was notoriously poorly paid (boatbuilding) for most of my career & didnt have a decent pension. The private pension i did start back in the 80's was crap & i cashed it in a year ago. I would have been better off buying tins of beer & having the...

I have never understood what the problem is with sharpening, First you need good tools with good steel, probably why most of my go to ones are over a hundred years old. Ordinary grey oil stone, i have collected about 7 over the years, I dont like red arkansas ones as i never seem to be able to...

75mm square is about 3" so its a big ask to steam if its square. Steaming always goes better if timber is steamed on the flat ie wider than its thick. Square stuff this large will likely need a compression strap on the outer side.

Price drop to £275 ONO

Its green, it will move all over the place, dont worry about it.

Most miserable man i know is probably the richest, high powered job earning a fortune, several properties rented out & numerous investments, Massive pension when he retires. Yet he is in a perpetual state of misery in case anyone else gets their hands on a pfenig of it all. Wont make a will "I...

Long ago while off work with a busted arm i had my toolbox lock cropped at work (boatyard) & most of my tools disapeared. Nobody had seen anything which was strange but odd tools turned up here & there. My workmates were a bit sheepish & hadnt seen anything which i found rather off. Ten years...

Probably longest for sale post resurection but hope is ok, Dads sawbench has been back in use for last 2 years but now i have a newer Startrite with tilt arbour & rather more powerful so Dads saw is redundant. Its in cracking condition & he had a new brook crompton motor put in it about 20 years...

Re anasthetics, my wife had her first hip replacement under a general anasthetic, she does not take anasthetics well & was quite poorly for the following couple of days. Second time she had an epidural with sedation & her recovery time was far quicker. 5 years & three years on respectively her...

Not me but my wife has had both hips replaced. The best advice she can give you is that the surgeon will give you a bunch of exercises to do before the operation. DO them religously as they will strengthen your muscles & increase muscle tone. This will increase recovery time post op by a huge...

We had a big extension built on our house 18 years ago, southern essex , on a hill, clay. Because the house had been underpinned on a ring beam the new foundations had to tie into that, Trench was 1.3m deep 600w with piles 11m deep, 300mm void former underneath the beam & a fair amount of...

I have used more copper boat nails in boats going through oak than i care to think. It will be fine.

When i was at school in the 70's schools did tech drawing, woodwork & metalwork which taught kids the basics, many went on to do apprenticeships & C&G, I did this & went to tech college to do yacht & boatbuilding. I stayed in the boat trade for most of my career. Then i became a D&T technician...

As above, the rear bearing has seized or partly so through lack of lubrication & the outer race has spun in its housing melting it. I had exactly the same thing happen to an ancient wolf power planer a few months back, it started making a shrieking noise & i found it before it had done much...

Mans gotta have a shed to escape the Missus, especially when the new series of Call the midwife starts!

I have a big 6ft two man crosscut saw that my dad was given about 40 years ago It was old then. Its one of those things that just hangs on the wall in the way. But last year we had cause to use it building a boat jetty & sawing telegraph poles on the side of the creek. I cleaned half a century...

I first came across the angle grinder used to shape wood & fibreglass back in the late 70's at Thames Marine's Canvey island boat factory, everyone had an air powered 115mm angle grinder with 36 or 40 grit fibre backed sanding discs. We didnt use flap wheels as they are better suited to grinding...