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Most... But not all! Including mine. They don't have that feature, the ones in our old h9use did... Thanks everybody for your replies. I'll give it some consideration.

We get a fair bit of condensation on our windows in the house, I've just stumbled on these trickle vents on the internet that they say can be fit to windows that don't already have them as well as replacing existing units. Does anyone have any experience of fitting these to windows that don't...

If you like your stairs really creeky and with loads of holes for spiders to live in then make them now. Yeah, the moisture content in the house now will be high but it will no doubt dry out and in that time so will the stairs and because of that the wood will shrink. Personally I wouldn't...

looks like an oak burr to me

Damn it! Looks like I am going to have to find somewhere else to get rid of these bloody chicken pellets!

Try molten aluminium. Doesn't do the Jaspers any good and you get a cool sculpture afterwards. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGJ2jMZ-gaI Failing that borrow a few Bantam hens. Nothing grubs up a wasp nest better and they are entertaining to watch too.

I like Jaffa Cakes myself.

it's on as soon as I start and it doesn't come off. I forget it's there. I spilt tea on my kitchen floor the other day trying to drink through it.

I just wear a paper mask.

Same here.

nice.

but unless you did that to every tree you felled on the off chance it had rippled timber you wouldn't have the cutting a few weeks later when the timber was sawn. Then it would take what? 35-50 years for your sapling to reach maturity and be felled and milled before you know if it worked or not.

But by the time you determine that the tree has got the rippled effect to the timber it's been felled, transported and milled. I imagine by then it's going to be too late to take any viable cutting as it's dead? Or maybe not?

by the time you know it has rippled timber the time for taking cuttings has long past I would have thought.

haha! Fair enough.

How do your hands get dirty in that process? Unless you've been trying to catch your chods?

That's a real shame.

Watching this thread with interest. I have just bought a heap of Beech with the intention of building a bench... Not only that but I was given an old Record Vice today which I intend to tart up to go on said bench... I won't copy you entirely though, I'll paint my vice red. Seriously tidy...

I have dodged either my Dad's fist clutching the plastic handle or the rope as it came whipping past my head more times than I care to remember, we used to borrow an old Seagull outboard to put on the dinghy to go fishing, looking back I think rowing there might have burned less calories than...

Could be. Weathered teak goes kind of silvery so that might be a clue but as Custard says it's difficult to tell from a photo. As has been said on here... Free wood! It looks tidy enough. I'm sure there is plenty you can do with it.