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You just fit it on the other side of the door (ie the outside). Here's my Suffolk latch on the outside of my outward opening loo door:

But he is doing his level best to do good with it. Malaria research has jumped ahead because of his input, for instance. Why is it that someone trying to do the right thing by the impoverished and downtrodden of this planet is in your crosshairs?

What's this "Karen" thing all about?

I just so wish the quote function worked in a different way so that the hypocritical, illogical, self-satisfied, selfishness of some trolls could remain properly hidden. This particular one would have been perfectly happy for my wife to die as a price well worth paying so that he could strut...

Excellent stuff! =D> =D> You may be the first person I have ever seen to apply a finish to buttons.

It's in the fridge, between the Helman's mayonnaise and a 2 week old pudding. She'll need the angle grinder.......

Really? Are you sure? I think that's American terminology.

I couldn't comment because I don't know the local detail. I mean, it looks like it should help, but if it's wrong, it's wrong.

There's lots of lonely people on this forum, then, as a direct result of this thread.

Windows in a barn. That's not a "thing" around here. When I run into issues like this, I toddle off with my camera down the back lanes and byways, taking piccies of old worn-out buildings to see how it used to be done. Then if you can repeat the look but without the pitfalls, you're on to a...

It shouldn't take too much effort to make that work. It might be better, though, to make individual frames for each of them and have two opening windows. Shame they're almost square........that's not a great look.

Not Morrells, but try Ingilby Paints, Sudbury. They make their own, and it only costs about £8 per litre. They'll actually make it to your specification if you want, with matting agents, colours added, UV inhibitors etc.

That was my first thought, but I'm not sure that Jeld Wen used multi-point locking. I fitted some in a conservatory a 20+ years ago, and there were individual locking handles only.

If you want a near invisible finish which just adds a little lustre and a lot of protection, then try a water-based lacquer. It's easier than varnish to apply nicely. And cheap, if you know where to get it.

Danish oil will do, but actually it is already a mix itself, being part varnish, part oil. Tung oil produces the best results in my eyes. Linseed oil works. Osmo works. In fact, any wood finishing oil works, and I've no doubt that even some food oils such as olive oil or rapeseed oil would work...

Wood racks. That's I want to see. Lots and lots of wood racks.

It would be great if you could include something in your photos, Derek, which gave us a sense of the size of these models. Is it the size of a matchbox or a shoebox?

Thanks. Interesting. I tend to do 30 or 40 strokes stropping, which is probably more than most, but not enough to compare with the buffing wheel evidently.

Very nice ace. Shame about the mortar colour, though.

Given that we are, uniquely, in complete harmony on this one ( :) ), could you do an experiment for me, DW? Could you prepare a chisel the way you now advocate, but stop before using your buffing wheel and try to achieve the same thing on a strop instead. As you know I round my chisel end on a...