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Got my tray, enclosure and fittings from Victoria Plum a couple of years back. Reasonable price, good quality and swift delivery.

Lovely. It’s good to see open shelving rather than a row of slabby wall units.

Wife and I use Snowfire stick. Works well.

I’m no expert (need to wait for MikeG to come along), the question to ask is...where does that water go? It will drain to the bottom of the cavity and rot the sole plate and any other timbers it contacts. You have to prevent water or water vapour getting in and/or provide sufficient air gap to...

Why not just reroute the wiring to give you a wall switch outside the wet room?

Avoid MDF. Though it is a great material in many circumstances, for what you are proposing I’d go for pine slats as suggested. If you are looking to make drawers from MDF and using dowels, it would need to be 18mm which would make them very heavy. As it will be a functional rather than...

Perhaps we were wrong to get rid of bear-baiting as we then deprived the bears' owners of a living.

On that logic then we should be encouraging African poachers to keep killing elephants and rhinos so they can keep selling their body parts to the Chinese.

Very nice...and cheaper than Festool

Hi Robert I’ve just checked my router and I misremembered how I fixed it. I actually used 2 of the existing threaded holes in the base to accept bolts to secure it to the table base. So no nuts. I figured that I wouldn’t need more than 2 and it is certainly very stable. I also took the springs...

I have the exact same router and a home made table. I took off the base and used countersunk bolts and nuts through two of the existing holes. Countersink is on the table side which I then overlaid with thin ply to give a smooth top.

That ironwork is absolutely gorgeous, particularly the bell pull. And what an ingenious solution to fit the lock. Hats off to you. PS - is tiffling the same as fettling?

I’ve used thunderbolts internally (fitting a fireplace) and they work superbly. However, not sure if they are suitable externally where corrosion would be an issue.

My wife has the most amazing sense of smell. In our last but one house she swore she could smell gas in the area of the patio. I pooh poohed her for weeks till she ground me down and I got in the gas board. They got their sniffer out and eventually found a tiny leak in the main 3 feet under the...

There is no beading. The panels are built into the door as part of the manufacturing process. So what happens if the glass gets broken? Replace the whole door? Sounds like a daft manufacturing method to me.

Posher than Blyth.

I can’t offer advice a la Mike G but just wanted to say welcome to the NE. I’m in Blyth, Northumberland, a great place to be.

Ok thanks. It is an emotive issue, particularly on this day, and easy to tread on someone’s sensibilities, particularly those with personal experiences of loss.

Just a small correction AES. I never said ‘war-loving volunteers’.

+1 for paint. My understanding of the arts and craft style is that wooden furniture and doors echo a Medieval English vibe. So the timber would be something like oak, not pine. Stripped pine anyway is a bit historically inaccurate. The Victorians painted their doors.