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Likewise, 63mm everywhere and always both motors running. No pressure relief valve, just a simple rule I stick to, never close a gate until you’ve first opened another!

Hunts DC imminently introducing an annual £50 charge for green bin garden waste collection. We have 3 separate compost heaps on the go but still used the green bin for stuff not suitable for composting. Likely we will have a few more bonfires.

Since we moved here 16 or so years ago, I have been intending to replace a pair of room dividing glazed doors. It remains the only item not done in the house, and was left undone as I intended to use timber off our own land. The tree I intended to use proved unsuitable, and I am looking to bail...

Providing they were powered on, they might make half decent ear defenders?! but would misplacing them include putting them up for sale on this site? (Still wouldn’t buy you that planer thicknesser Though.

Oh what a cruel question when I reckon the majority of readers on this forum are likely to have diminishing follicle resources!

I have used it when there happened to be sheets of it waiting to be used on the workshop I was building, but I used 2 pieces so that the blade hit neither the floor or the insulation. Just easier than lifting a full sheet onto something bench height.

We have sentimental attachment to our decades old dining table and chairs too. But the carvers are the thing I would change if I could. They mandate that you can only have one person sat on the ends of the table, whereas the ends can accommodate 2 people at a push using seats without arms. So...

Why would you want them specifically laser cut? if you have a track saw and can cut full sheets of plywood at 45 degrees then I don’t see what extra benefit you will get. I have rather a lot of them…

+1 for jones evacuated tubes (copper rods are heated not black water filled pipes. Heat then transferred to water in a manifold and pumped through 10 mm pipes to your tank. mine very efficient 10+ years on. Surprisingly little fluid in the system.

If it’s anything like my oil burner, lockouts can be unbelievably frustrate as mine has several sensors that can call a lockout, but only one error code (a red light). I had similar issues two years ago, and my servicing chap swapped out virtually everything, one at a time by way of testing, and...

Conflating dominos with biscuits doesn’t suggest practical experience of both/either?

Someone once had an idea with similarities to this involving the flue to the oil power station on the embankment. the big idea was to ‘scrub’ the exhaust gasses by spring them with mist. The cooler exaust didn’t rise properly (albeit not helped by a shorter chimney than designed being fitted for...

I have had one fail about a year ago. My perception was that they do play for time, knowing that it’s something most people are severely impacted and just want it fixed quick. I gave all the measurements and photos that they asked for, and my installation was compliant with their installation...

I had a similar problem with a very large old shed. I bought a breaker from screwfix for £150 (almost as good as a pneumatic drill) and broke up the old slab, and then used that as the base before pouring concrete over it. It gets heavy machines over it frequent and is still perfect.

in the centre of Leicester, a tannery! always easy to park for free near to that, but hard not to gag! Also a place that boiled bones and skins etc for glue on the edge of market harborough. If on my motorbike I’d look at the clouds to see which way the wind was blowing to know whether to hold...

TalkTalk have a poor reputation, but their data security history should have been enough to put them out of business in my view. Their systems have been breached and sensitive customer data stolen (including banking details, most famously in 2015 but they were successfully breached at least...

I have two 1M rulers, one aluminium the other steel, both presents. for some reason both have metric down one side and imperial down the other. Turn them over and that pattern is repeated. I was putting in some new, deep window boards last week and wanted them to fit precisely (trim and silicon...

When I worked in London in the last century, I was a very frequent visitor to Buck and Ryan on Tottenham Court Road. A brilliant tool shop in its time. Also lots of top end hifi shops. Nothing there to tempt me into London now though.

Consider 60x60 led panels. My workshop is 2 rooms each 10x5 the one used for woodwork has 2 rows of 4 panels. There is no ghosting at all, and the various lamps I used to use before on individual machines are all gone (and my eyes are lousy these days). Stuart

Re spreading the load with multiple cleats, it helps accuracy to ensure that the space between the rails is exactly the same everywhere (I use the same spacer every time I add any). For anything Carrying a heavy load, I fix the highest one to the new unit and hang it up. You can then slide the...