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Nonsense: - I get to pick and choose what I post, where and when. I don't get instructed by you, and no, I'll not be posting any photos on your say so. But thanks so much for for your interest.

:) I'm bi-lingual, but even I don't do that. They don't suit me. I work in mm, and if want to measure and mark from that side of a mixed tape from a set end I have to mark on the wrong side of the tape and transfer the marking out to the other side with a square. I've been working with mixed...

Decking you look at, or decking you walk on? Because I can't see it lasting long for the latter.

I do that. I'm bi-lingual.

Cedar is most definitely not suitable for seating if it isn't supported fully along its length. It is a soft, soft timber, and not terribly strong. I'd say this rules it out of contention as a deck material, too.

"Strong" and "durable" are two very different things.

It niggles me that metric-only tape measures are the ones you have to go searching for, and that metric/ imperial tapes are everywhere.

Yeah, but he knows what he is doing! :)

No, it was definitely A2A. Here, at 23 minutes onwards.

Over there, on the worktop. Next to the kettle.

Humour. Or irony.

A couple of weeks ago I watched the guys building Acorn to Arabella dividing up lengths along each frame to get their planking widths individually at each station. They are American, so it was in Imperial. They first converted measurements in inches and eighths to metric inches (ie 10ths), then...

Really? I have a bannister 4'-10 3/8" long and want to space the 12 ballusters out equally. What's my spacing? Whilst you're doing that, I'll divide 1483 by 13 and then go and make us both a cup of tea. You might be done by the time I'm back. :)

It makes no difference. Everything I do is designed in metric measurements, but most of my tools were manufactured when the inch ruled the world.

For those spans, you need 6x2s at 400 centres. That's without a snow load. If snow is any sort of possibility, then those need to be 8x2s.

What span is your roof? A 4x2 will only span 2m or so.

Yes, it does darken it a bit, and it cleans up the surface at the same time. I don't know that I'd let it pool, though. You wipe it on and off with a rag.

I would just wipe the whole piece of lead over with patination oil.

For ventilating a workshop and helping prevent the rusting of tools and the build up of damp or even mould, then a bathroom or kitchen ventilator is excellent. Unfortunately the thread is somewhat mis-titled, because the OP isn't really interested in air extraction (ie ventilation) but actually...

Funnily enough, I'll be using my jigsaw with an angled base this very day. I will be cutting a hole in a chipboard floor to gain access to some wiring below, and if you put an angle on the cut the piece you've cut out A/ doesn't fall into the void below, and B/ can be glued back into place with...