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Hi Roger. I did try the Owatrol on a test piece of oak but it didn't fare well at all. It seems to work better with teak when I compare it to my neighbours boat. At the moment both the Osmo UV oil and the Sikkens Filter 7 are bearing up well. There has been some darkening of the wood but it...

I really don't think that it matters that the top of the windows don't line up with the door. They line up with each other - which does matter - but as they are small I think that the lower position suits them better. Often in houses with small windows they are set lower than the door so...

Snap! :wink: Looking nice. I used a cheap "end of line" window from Wickes. These sheds are built like bbsh's and will be there long after the adjoining house is gone.

Great to see the girls show us how it's done in the Women's Road Race. What a fabulous race. Congrats to Lizzie Armitstead on her silver.

+1. It sounded as though they thought they had a divine right to win if they executed their plan. Shame the rest of the field weren't working to the same plan - but I'm astonished that team GB didn't have a contingency plan to deal with an early breakaway. Given that Cavendish has a...

Yep - me too. Having Branagh doing his Caliban speech from the Tempest whilst in the costume of Brunel was inspired, and the transfer from a rural economy to the Industrial Revolution and the forging of the Olympic rings was stunning. I liked the hospital and dream sequence as well. Maybe...

Difficult to assess without seeing the structure. The key is to ensure that there is a good flow of air over the underside of the shingles.

Thanks Ben. I guess it could be feather edge board with grooves to simulate shingles but I doubt it. If you're going to use the right materials, why do it any way other than the right way? It's not difficult and cedar shingles have been used for centuries and are proven. When I researched my...

Ben - those are cedar shingles. Perfectly waterproof on their own and should last about 50 years, or sometimes more. I put them on my New England style saltbox roof shed. Easy enough to use. Batten the roof and do not use felt as there needs to be good circulation of air underneath the...

That's a difficult one to answer Roy. The trouble is that we're living in a time of record low interest rates (lowest for over 300 years) and borrowers seem to think they have a divine right to them at the expense of the savers who provide the raw material - i.e. the cash to lend. When I was...

In the long term premium bonds give a return of about 1.5% - so you're still losing money with inflation running at over 3%. True, you can dream of "the BIG ONE" but chances are vanishingly small.

This would be my approach as well for any time frame over 5 years. Unfortunately with inflation running at over 3%, and 2% being par for the course in cash savings there is currently 100% chance of losing money in terms of its buying power if you invest in cash. There are plenty of FTSE 350...

#-o I thought you were taking the p155 :oops:

Clove?

Nice neat job. What is the power socket recess box, and who makes it, and where can I buy one. This would resolve a problem I have at the moment. Thanks.

That looks to be "the business" and well done actually getting to complete an outside project in a very short time in this worst of all summers!

Wot the others said. You will inevitably find the odd nail or piece of grit embedded in the wood which will wreck your planer knives in no time, plus all the other disadvantages already mentioned. If you don't want to go down the floor sander route, how about a decent belt sander with...

+1 Another Tuffsaws fan here.

+2 I fitted a blade from Cutting Solutions on my TS 2010 and it transformed it!

+1 Used the Axminster cutter for cutting the groove to fit Aquamac 21. Does the job nicely.