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I've offered to have a go at making a new pair of entrance doors and frame for my church. I've never really made any external joinery before but would love to have a go. First question-- Which timber would be best to use for such a job. I'm thinking either oak, pitch pine or douglas fir.The...

Hi Doctor Bob, is it possible to show on the site how to do some curved doors as I can't seem to be able to pm you

I've found BG to take advantage of people. They will fit an own brand boiler and put you on a boiler contract at a monthly cost. There are decent boilers out there with a 10year parts and labour cover from the manufacturer. All you need to do is have a service once a year.(£60-£70 ish). If...

Slightly off topic to the thread, but there might be an "interesting" programme on channel 4 next week called -Worlds most expensive presents. Someone on there selling doggy coats for £40k, someone gold plating bikes,phones or cigars and selling them to people with more money than sense. Are...

I can't imagine any of the modern cars to be future classics, but I know of a local guy who's trying with one of the last landrover defenders. He bought it brand new and it's sat in a garage never being used

Hi Chris, Can I have first dibs on the extractor. Andy

I love having a rummage through a few buckets and boxes on a car boot. I've just come back with a moore and wright steel square, 12" one, for £3.

Have a look on the plasterers forum. I'm sure you don't use pva over Artex.

I was just thinking that if you got excited about your business again, maybe there would be Aston Martins, on order (with towbars fitted!)

The best find I've had this year, at a car boot , was an elu mof 96 router. It was still in its box with accessories (fence etc). I had to haggle hard, but eventually got it down from £10 to £6.

You could use expanding form. Use it to fill the gaps between the back of the plasterboard and wall down the side of the cut out and cover the pipes with it. When it has expanded and dried, cut it back to approx 15mm below surface of plasterboard, then fill it with bonding, to just below...

My wife started on E-Ciggy's in 2012ish and has never smoked a normal ciggy since. She actually tried a normal ciggy once and couldn't stand the taste. Over the two years on them, she has learnt a lot from a forum called -UK Vapers- and now buys all her liquid and electronic ciggys direct from...

The paint is cuprinol fence care from Asda at £5 a tin

I'm wanting to build a side gate in Redwood next week and was hoping to paint it in the same paint that I've painted the fence panels in,but it says on the can, only suitable for rough sawn timber. Can anyone explain why it wouldn't be suitable for smooth planed timber?

My van has just past its Mot again this week and I've always been told to drive it on the way to the mot in a lower gear than normal for a couple of miles to help with the emission test. A slight deviation from the original question but why does my van have a cat converter on the exhaust. I...

A quick question for MMUK, really out of curiosity, but why buy the different components from so far away from Blackburn, when I would have thought you would be able to find a Rehau fabricator in your own town or neighbouring one and you have the likes of Gap, for the slab, just round the corner

In the spirit of fairness I've got to give a thumbs up to TNT. I use TNT through a friends company and I found it amazing that the last parcel I sent was picked up, near Burnley, Lancs at 4.30pm and delivered to some out of the way village, on the coast of Cornwall, at 7.30am the next day. I...

Do you think it makes a difference to customers if you turn up in an old van compared to a brand new one? I was always brought up with the attitude of " if you can't afford it, don't buy it", so have always had secondhand vans. The latest one I've had 7years, bought for £2000, cost next to...

Try looking at this link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kh67mHaWGIA. regarding the self adhesive form

I always thought Gumtree was free