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I once heard about a guy who was so fed up with his neighbours cat leaving calling cards in his garden that eventually his filled a dry brown paper bag with the stuff and then dumped it on his neighbours doorstep. Then he rang the bell and waited until he heard footsteps before setting light to...

I agree that the first action should be good insulation, and we've already done that and the payback time was incredibly short - less than 2 years. As it's only the two of us, we decided that solar hot water was not cost effective for us. When we looked at our HW usage, it's only a shower in...

You need to be careful with this. What happens if you want to sell your house and you've rented your roof to a power company for the next 25 years? Also you'll only get free electricity if you use most of your power during the day when it's sunny, but it won't help with cooking in the evening...

That's gorgeous. I bet your client is well pleased!

Kenneth Horne - "This week the producer told me that he was fed up with all the "double entendres" creeping into the scripts so I told him not to worry - if I found one I'd whip it out". I'm sorry I haven't a clue. "This week Samantha helped Tim to find some old files in the basement...

Sounds like you have it all in hand then. Job's a good'un! Keep us informed - this is all do-able!

Roy - I sympathise with what you are trying to do. We had a log burner installed about 5 years ago which had a rolled steel flue coming off the top of the burner. This enters the chimney through a steel "register plate", above which there is a 8" clay lined flue. All seemd fine initially...

I think campervans are all a bit heavy on fuel. The standard RV rentals in the US do about 10 mpg, and even here with the use of diesel I think they'll struggle to get something that does more than 20 mpg overall. I guess it depends on the sort of travelling they want to do, If they are...

Surely just a version of "larking about" ?

Was it this one?

Yo Bruv! Ya know what I mean? Wicked!

You're not married to Lynn Truss by any chance are you Roy? I do agree with you though. It all comes back to what I said earlier concerning the retention of words (and grammar) that have a precise meaning, which eventually becomes lost if they are deemed to be interchangeable. I need only...

That's ingenious Tom. Many thanks for posting.

Trend have gone and nicked the idea with their mortise jig. So if you have a spare £170 you won't need to make it for free from scrap.

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Don't you just love this forum! Thanks guys. Unless someone can convince me to the contrary I'll be going ahead with iroko. As someone pointed out elsewhere, there are plenty of examples of window frames that are 50 years old that are not falling apart, and so long as they are maintained well...

If I decide to use Iroko for my window project will I have problems gluing it? Reading around it suggests wiping the surfaces to be glued with acetone first to de-oil it. Even assuming I can find a ready supply of acetone in reasonable quantities (it ain't cheap), would an alternative like...

I completely agree Rob, but sometimes a word which has a precise meaning is misused so often that the original precise meaning is lost. Then when we want to express ourselves precisely and unambiguously there isn't a word that will do that any more.

No one's touched on the incorrect use of "less" in place of "fewer" yet. I get thoroughly pineappled by people who should know better - particularly BBC interviewers - who talk about "less people" - and I'll swear that recently I heard one refer to "a less amount" of people. Whenever I...

Well - I cannot even begin to to tell you how invaluable and instructive making a test piece has been! I did a bit of trawling round the net yesterday and found these at Toolstation. Given that they are cheap enough and we have a Tool Station 6 miles from home, I bought a pair of 300mm...