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Just thinking ahead, does anyone have any wisdom for me as I design a brick BBQ and oven (we don't just cook pizzas in the oven, so it isn't a "pizza oven"....it's an oven)? How complex is it to add a small smoker? I've loads of room for it, so this thing can be all-singing-all-dancing.

At the moment there is no evolutionary advantage to evolving. We have no defenses against it, so winners and losers aren't selected out of the virus population, and thus no great evolutionary pressure or likelihood of it changing. However, once we have defenses, be that through a vaccine or...

I'm curious about hornbeam. It's sometimes called ironwood, isn't it? What's it like to work with?

A nail is easier, quicker and cheaper. How are you keeping vermin and insects out from under this suspended timber floor?

Are you making this up for a giggle? We have no immunity to it whatsoever. It is a novel disease. No-one on the planet had any immunity to it before last October. If a vaccine provides any level of protection at all, it is better than the status quo anti. Honest debate is easier if one party...

The difference in cost between insulated and uninsulated is entirely down to the cost of the insulation. No other additional material or cost is involved. The only thing is, your sheathing board has to be on the inside. So for £50 or so, I believe some of our younger brethren say something along...

I can't see anything other than minor aesthetic differences, and as it is a tool those don't matter anyway. Make whichever one you fancy.

Sometimes hyperbole doesn't help make your case. It makes your case look ridiculous instead. That fails to understand vaccines and how they work in a population. Say it has an efficacy of 75%........we would be back to relying on herd immunity in which we all protect each other by being...

For a start, the sane 80% of the population will stampede towards their health-care centres the second there is a vaccine on offer, so we're only talking about the remnant nutters. Rather than making it compulsory, they'll just be coercive, I reckon. Like, you can't get access to government...

Well I've seen lots of tables I like less than this one. I suspect you could laminate those legs such that they were quite strong. I was much more frightened for Steve Maskery's proposed table leg structure than I am for this one. I also know that if I made such a table for sale that I'd want at...

The very last thing that you should consider regarding the spacing of studs is the Rockwool! It cuts in seconds with a Stanley knife, and is really forgiving of inaccuracies. Determine your stud spacing according to the structural needs, and the size of the sheet material you fix to it...

It was Top Oil. I also have a similar negative experience of PolyX.

Osmo just isn't durable enough for a table top, I'm afraid. I did all my oak windowboards here with Osmo, and they are all stained and very tired looking. It looked great for a while, but none of them lasted more than 2 years. I'll be stripping them soon and using a wiping varnish instead.

A 1:50 section is not a lot of use to anyone. Ask for a labeled 1:20 section. And careful of that stair. Without the min 50mm going at the turn, it doesn't work.

No, absolutely not. I wish I'd known decades ago that varnish can be the simplest finish to apply, and it can be done in a dusty workshop without any equipment at all. All you do is A/ start with any old oil-based varnish (ie not a water-based one), B/ thin it down with white spirit (same volume...

If I were ever tempted to own a lathe..........

I'm struggling to find builders who are willing to even price for work at the moment. My favourite 2 builders are booked up for all of 2021. Builders were busy before the lockdown, and all that work they couldn't do for a couple of months is now backing up with their already-full order books...

Part of the answer to this question depends on how much paint you are applying. Five coats of hand-brushed Bedec MSP on natural timber produces a very different build up from a spray finish on some MDF.

Who has told you to do the job, and who has sized the new timbers? A birdsmouth only exists so that the rafter can extend past the plate and form the eaves overhang. If you don't need to form an overhang, you don't need a birdsmouth, and can just extend the seat cut for the whole width of the...

That terminology is American. We have 4x2s this side of the pond.