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£100?!?! Noooooo! Look on the Axminster site, you'll get a perfectly good saw for <£15.

Here's another vote for a conventional, backed tenon saw - if you can hold the saw vertically, you'll cut to the line both sides in one pass, though perhaps with bit of practice first! I've never use a japanese style saw, but imagine they are much harder to hold vertically, accurately, than...

I seem to remember a TV show a few years ago ( cant remember which one!) where a guy was building using locally felled oak, and they said a tree was about £100.

Hee hee, looks like this one could run and run... For what its worth, over the years I've screwed all sorts of shelves and cabinets (some of them properly heavy) to plaster board walls, using nothing more than plastic cavity wall plugs. None have failed. The huge majority of force from a...

There are lots of elm cultivars currently 'under development' in the horticultural industry right now, some of which are showing good resistance to dutch elm disease, so I think there is a good chance that we'll see elms back in the english countryside in good numbers in the future. I have...

I found that too, but beware the charges for doing so - Barclays told us they'd be happy to pay my deceased aunts bills from her accounts, but wanted to charge us £25 per bill - so we paid everything ourselves and claimed the cash back from her estate later!

I followed this advice when I acted as executor recently, but found that everyone who wanted a copy returned it very promptly, so I still have nearly all of them on file!

Just say, "Computer, I don't have a computer...." they soon put the phone down!

There are lots of victorian houses round here with single skin outer walls, so it must have been commonly done for a time at least. They are all still standing so presumably its not a structural issue, but the advice to make sure your insurers are aware of it seems sound!

Here's a cheaper version - extraordinarily efficient, and very little damage to the wood. I've pulled gazillions of floor board nails out using one. http://www.builderdepot.co.uk/priory-15 ... 9e424a9d31

Be careful what you buy, make sure you see the container before paying for it - there are some really rough second hand containers out there (DAMHIKT!)!

UK pallets are typically 1000mm x 1200mm; Euro pallets are most commonly 1200mm x 800mm, so you'd need to design you bed around these numbers.

There's a "request pallet pick up" button here : https://www.chep.com/uk/en/consumer-goods/forms/contact They can be a bit hit and miss with collections in our experience - sometimes they'll send a 40' truck to pick up a couple of pallets, sometimes they'll take weeks and weeks to get around...

Are they hobby friendly? Yes, very Can you self-select or is it by appointment? Either Will they deliver? Yes, at a cost I believe (never used the service myself) Do they have online ordering? No Are prices displayed at the yard? Don't think so, but the prices are on their website...

Yet another vote for threaded rod and resin / PU glue. Used it on floating shelves in our kitchen, and they're solid as a rock.

I have a Dewalt non-sliding saw - probably 15 years old now; it was dead accurate out of the box, and has only required one tiny adjustment since to keep it bob on. I bought it because at the time it was a couple of hundred quid cheaper than its sliding cousin, and it seemed likely to do...

They'll be round with the pig slurry wagon soon enough....

Baking Parchment has a couple of grams per sq mt of silicone applied, making it non-stick. Commercial bakers will re-use it several times, but use a heavier gauge of paper than you can buy retail, so its more robust for repeated use. The stuff you'll find in supermarkets is really only good...

This runs on the Bosch track - http://www.axminster.co.uk/bosch-gks18v ... nly-102771 I've had one for a few months now and it seems pretty good.

You'll love the L200's - I've had one for 17 years (yes, the same one - bought new in 2000!). Built like the proverbial brick out-house, totally reliable, fantastic workhorse, will pull a 3500 kg trailer up a mountain....and nice to drive too!