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If they're in the same plane as the existing (ie don't stick out further into the room), and the top of the existing is good enough to act as a bottom shelf, then there's no need to put another box or boxes up there. Just make up a face frame to fit the gap.

Exactly. No, the cill attaches to the window, not the framing.

Did you make the knurled nut?

......but no longer funny, unfortunately. :)

That's fine, so long as it isn't part of the studwork/ framing. You make a wall with a hole in it, then insert a window with an attached cill.

No, you said you'd got a protruding bit of the frame, I thought. That's what I told you to ditch. If you haven't, you can't. I think we're both confused.

That's the job of the window cill.

Currys? Good idea. I'll just ring Little India. I fancy Lamb Dansak and a keema nan.

Quite hard........or very hard? Is it at all shiny (if you can find a piece without paint or other covering)? Plaster of Paris was sometimes used as or with a plaster, and that was nightmare-hard, slightly shiny, and very smooth. Lime plaster doesn't generally feel smooth. Not all gypsum...

Well, it's got some fancy features. My concern would be how strong and stable it is. If there is any flex or excess movement that would spoil it. Before buying, I'd certainly want to see one in the flesh.

I can't see how you'll make that work. I'd knock that out and just put in a flush piece of 4x2. This gets boarded over, so I can't picture a decent detail if it stuck out. You'd never keep it watertight.

Cripples isn't an American term..they're studs which don't go to the wall plate but instead support a lintel. I'm afraid I don't follow the rest of your question. But let me give you a few principles......the membrane sits flush with the outside face of the studs, other than at openings where...

Plasterboard didn't exist in 1930. What's the substrate, Ben? Is it a stone wall? How hard is the plaster (can you mark it with a thumbnail, for instance)? Can you see any hair or other fibre in it? I can't, and that immediately makes me suspect it may not be lime. Also, I'd expect lime plaster...

Thanks.

Thanks very much DW. I take it yours just has a normal cross-cut rake, then?

Honestly, the chestnut I worked with in Spain last year was every bit as good (and heavy) as any oak I have worked with in the UK. I used both seasoned chestnut, and some massive lumps of green stuff, which was indistinguishable from green oak other than for the medullary rays. Maybe the Spanish...

£1900+ (excluding VAT). This is for furniture grade 1" through-and-through boards, air dried (sometimes finished in a kiln). Interesting that the air dried stuff is twice the price in France of the stuff which is more highly sought after here, the air dried.

Yep, it's getting ridiculous, and that was the case even before lock-down. I just wish that someone would start milling chestnut in decent size boards, and drying it properly, because it is a wonderful wood and pretty much a like-for-like replacement for oak. They've got some absolutely gorgeous...

Much too bloody long! :) Knackered back.....much pain......can't get to the workshop much.......

I have "clamps" (carriage bolts) pulling the jaws together at 1/4 span, so already they're in the optimal position for force distribution, but the be sure, I have very slightly shaved a tad more off the faces of the jaws at the outer end than in the middle. I mean, a couple of really fine...