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This whole idea is interesting. 1) If I start epoxying anything to stonework, someone is going to start having a hissy fit. The attachment is going to have to be into the mortar. 2) I have some 3mm dia neodymium magnets that I had toyed with using - but, as the mortar joints are recessed...

:love::love::love: No worries!! C of E would not be the right folk to contact about buying a redundant church. You can imagine that, being C of E, the whole thing is girt about by legislation that makes the Domesday Book (in which St Andrew's is featured) look like a racy novella. But these...

Can't paint the stonework!

but... As there is no plaster, the pins will all need to fit into a narrow mortar course between the stones. It is possible that the smalles of these would fit some of the courses but these are mostly around the 5mm width. I hope to put a few up tomorrow - I'll post pix of how they go.

I would like to think that He would. We are in the early stages of a huge amount of work to save this Grade 1 listed building, set in an iconic position. We have a funding bid in that will (if we get it) allow us to spend £400k+ on repairing some of the roof - but even if we get that, the...

... but the point is that any sort of strapping round a pillar isn't an option. One "pillar" is, in fact, a half-pillar emeging from a wall. Another one is an amalgamation of stonework that must measure some 10+ metres around. Some signs will go in a space where there are no pillars. I did...

The problem with our church is that we HAVE no corners! The accumulation of all sorts of semi-discarded (no one in church will ever throw anything away) "stuff" is a major problem that I am battling with - and is the driver for these interpretation boards.

I don't think that the duct tape (actually, I'll use the better Gorilla Tape) is likely to fail on these light boards. And I am not hoping that these will outlast the pillars! I'm not so sure. Command hooks look like they rely on being on a good, smooth surface. Our pillars are rather...

I look after an old church (bits go back to c. 950). I have made a set of interprative boards (200mm wide x 400mm tall) mounted on 3mm foam board and they need fixing to (mainly) stone pillars. It is clearly crucial that nothing is done that will damage the fabric of the place though I think I...

I was also concerned to see sheets of ply being cut on a saw with no riving knife or any guards at all. Awful workshop practice - as bad as mine (he says, typing with two heavily bandaged fingers). But as a "show", I quite enjoy it. Perhaps because it is local. This week featured "my"...

Hmmm... Smaller and cheaper is important to me. Following recommendations elsewhere, I HAVE bought one of "these with the bag". I have set it up with a Thien baffle cyclone - and (in summer) it exhausts outside. I am curious. "this would be great" looks so similar tho the working part of...

Not really an option for me. I can't "zone" it like woodieallen - no space so the extractor bag gets filled with a mix od proper wood, MDF, plywood, metal swarf, old sweet papers, unpaid bills and all... I don't produce a lot - but it gets bagged and binned. (Tried once, unbagged in the...

Hmmm... Here you are, complaining about the waste involved because you can't get a spare part - and then you write, ,"it'll do for the winter and ... change it in the spring". What happens with the discarded one?

Sounds good - just ordered (£5 less on Fleabay than that South American river place)

I, too, like the look of the Hardie plank. This is for a dormer on an estate of similar houses - all clad originally in wood. Some folk have now gone for plastic (and pretty dreadful some of those look!) so we're not forced to go for uniformity but I do want to stick with something that is at...

Clearing my grandmother's attic, many years ago, we found three boxes, all neatly labelled: "Cups without handles, Guide Camp 1927" "Cup Handles, Guide Camp 1928" "Pieces of String, Too Short to be of Any Further Use"

Like Rorschach, I have a homemade track and a [fill-in-a-brand-name-here] corded circ saw. I have a workshop that's too small to deal with an 8x4 sheet, so this is my only "first cut" solution, on trestles outside - when it's not raining. It's far from ideal. Bearing in mind a limited budget -...

Thanks for that. Have ordered some samples from both - we'll see what they look like off the glossy screen!

Just experienced similar. Bought two basic B&D Workmates - largely as trestles. One was missing the ABS thumbscrews that fix the legs open. A complaint to B&Q produced a series of demands for proof of purchase and the tool name plate sticker - and a warranty form. Whereupon they would...

I'd agree with the Prunus sp too - though I think it would be a "gage", rather than a measuring instrument!