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Hi mark I can highly recommend sikabond 54, I’ve recently laid a very large parquet floor which went through 3 rooms and a hallway, one room was about 15mm lower than the rest so I glued and screwed some ply down, the sikabond 54 filled all the unevenness and glued the ply to the original sub...

Take a look at Carhartt. Most of my t shirts and polo shirts are carhartt, there made for work use and are very high quality,

One of the highlights of the the day is opening my Secret Santa gift. Many thanks to my secret Santa, I received a beautifully turned mini bowl (with magnet in the base), a screwdriver with flats on it to stop it rolling away and a cartridge key ring all packaged safely in there own shavings...

I have a Bosch gms 120, I’ve had it for several years and thought it was no good at all, as has been said earlier lots of false readings. Last year i bumped into a Bosch rep at one of the local tool suppliers, I needed to ask him about a laser level I was thinking about getting, I remembered...

I’m working in camberwell today and can confirm it’s just started to snow here. My labourer is Australian and really hates the cold, he’s been wearing thermals since October I’ve left him working in Milton Keynes on a outside job, I’m just waiting for the call to say he’s calling it a day and...

ours usually gets switched off for a few months in the summer

Our airing cupboard is only 1m wide, 600mm deep and 2.1m high. Just to give you a size comparison. It comes on 3 times a day for 3 hrs each time

I got a dimplex 80watt tube heater, it’s 80mm long, it was about £20, that was a couple of years ago though, It keeps the cupboard just warm, the wife is happy with the way it operates which is a bonus

i fitted a electric tube heater in our airing cupboard when we had a combi boiler fitted. Works brilliantly, I had the emersion supply converted to a timer switch which controls the tube heater

Here is a picture of a veritas brad point bit. I have several of these they are kept in a drill box with cotton wool all around them to protect them, they only get used when I need perfect holes, today I've been using the 7.5mm to drill holes for shelf peg sockets. I use a bradawl to mark the...

I did a surveying and levelling course as part of my brickwork apprenticeship back in the early 80's and had to use one of those staffs, we used a Leica optical level on the course but my governor had a dumpy level for site use I now use a laser level with a similar staff which has a receiver...

any-tips-for-aging-brass-t98551.html It was me who asked about brass aging, link to said thread above. I've very recently changed all those knobs and all their window fasteners, electric sockets and light switches to polished chrome. As mentioned by others it's easy enough to buy brass tube and...

The bedec barn paint will do 13 to 15 sq meters per litre depending on substrate ( 65 to 75 sq m per 5 Ltr) Cuprinol fence paint will do upto 5 sq meters per litre. (24 sq m per 5 Ltr) When you work it out the bedec is better value, It's more expensive to buy The barn paint, it is about £40...

Just give it a good going over with the jet washer a couple of times ,you'll remove some of the existing fence treatment, the cleaner/reviver you mentioned probably won't remove the existing stain, it will clear off any algae and clean up the wood a bit. I have a petrol engined pressure washer...

Makita super express blades are my preferred ones, I cut a lot of oak flooring and I find they give the cleanest cut. The festool rep gave me a handful of various blades in a attempt to convert me to theirs, but I didn't like them. I think it's a case of trying a few brands to see which you prefer.

Brand new still banded in packs of 0.84 sq meters I have 12 packs which equates to 10 meters of prime grade European oak parquet t & g blocks. This is surplus to requirements, I've just about finished 135sq meters of it, I ordered 150 m2 as I got a good deal on it, there was about 2 m2 of...

What size is the room?. This is a job I have done for a few clients, most rooms I've encountered aren't too big, 20 to 25 square meters and I do them with a 100mm belt sander and random orbit sander both connected to a dust extractor. I recently re-did a oak dining room floor (18m2) with 2 huge...

Not to long ago I finished off a hallway for a client, they had already purchased the sheets of T&G MRMDF, i hadn't encountered it before but found out it's readily available. I really wouldn't be looking to grove it my self, it would take way to long to get perfect. You can get it pre primed...

I've recently had a job that was similar, we had to over lay the 2 upper floors of the house with 22mm solid oak boards (reclaimed from French oak beams) this was about 90sq meters altogether, i laid a 6mm foil backed foam over the existing floor boards and the glued all the boards together...

Absolutely brilliant Is the finish suitable to go out in the November rain, asks n0legs, very witty. I have excellent memories of seeing them live in Milton Keynes in 1993, my fave is Mr Brownstone