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This is not a problem I have any personal; knowledge of but my brother is a cabinet maker, electrician, do-it-all and I've heard him talk about this problem. He mentioned spaying the underside of the roof with foam - a commercail task. If you think about it that metal is always going to be...

Wow - a wood workers forum and no one knows how to make you own dowel - that does surprise me. A sturdyish (~6mm) piece of gash steel - a suitable diameter hole in it - a square section of wood of the required diameter and just gently drive it throught the hole in the steel. I will admit...

Am I right in thinking that house insurance is still suspicious of sealed HW tanks and require an annual inspection, with the corresponding annual cost? Rob

Are we getting competitive on this ? My father drove my sister and I to Golspie from Edinburgh in 'Belinda' in 1950. I see that the current distance is 203 miles and takes 4 hours; we took 2 days! Our mother went by train taking the bulky gear with her. Rob

I learnt to weld as an apprentice in year dot, so have forgotten it all. So what I say has no real weight, but my brother a year or so ago did a starter course somewhere in or near Motherwell. No doubtt the instructor was well intentioned and got the class started, but my brother reckoned he...

Good thread- got a laugh or two. I've lived since 1975 in possibly mid 18th C build near Edinburgh and was originally a thatched plowman's cottage. You can see where It has been through at least 3 rebuilds over the years, mine being to bring it into 20th century living. I am now the sole...

My input would be to make your workshop CU have more capacity. I had a tablesaw that did work on the workshop ring main, but then the smoke got out after 25+ years and I fell heir to the motor from the local wood club workshop bandsaw - re-bearing'ed that and found that occasionally it would...

Don't be star struck by a Graduate - there are plenty of competitors of a siimilar age and don't carry the high price millstone. The reason for their popularity is that there is really so many of them and like the Myford metal lathes they were the go-to for so many. I for instance have an...

If you take a standard lead acid battery and leave it sitting on a shelf without any connections it will remain charged for ages. Its all the gizmos attached to the normal car battery that sucks power out it and then if the voltage gets to a certain low point the battery will die quickly due I...

In Scotland we are meant to be getting the call in blue envelopes. Nothing all week ! Anyway I went shopping this morning in the opposite direction to the surgery and got a mobile call to attend in 45 minutes - I'm 78 and not vulnerable!! Got it put back another half hour and was really...

I would recommend going with the same as bp122 above. The panels give a totally shadow free light and are also non glare. The OP's lights look to me as if they by their central location will introduce shadows and be anything but glare free. I'm also a little bit suspicious of anything that...

One of the problems with wood turning is the learning curve, and related to that what I see as the investment. I've got a scroll saw that was about £100 and was able to get satisfying work off it almost immediately, but there's no way that my investment in a good old lathe with variable speed...

I'll pick up on JulianF's point and will admit that when I read your post through I thought your facings were to be dense concrete blocks as 'breeze' tends to get used interchangeably. I wouldn't have thought the lightweight blocks would be advisable even with rendering if standing water is a...

It may be urban myth, but I undertand that WD40 was developed to protect the Minuteman missiles in their underground silos from humidity. It was the 40th product tried and consists mainly of fish oils. I am now expecting someone to come along and say that is a load of b******ks.

I was going to put his in as after thought but realised no one had mentioned it and maybe this is important. Does any one had any knowledge of what the fungus is that is infecting ash and should particular care be taken against it - further ash is a nice wood; is it suitale for working with...

Kingfisher is B n'Q and they own Screwfix so that's the business logic, but like all businesses it's the bean-counters who make the decisions, not someone who actually knows what the item is to be used for. My demands for lint free are not critical so I buy a big bag of kitchen rolls from...

One thing that I have heard is that the kits of electric drills that many organisations sell are made down to a price and that they do not have the life span of the top level item on its own. Rob

I come from a different perspective from many of the contributors here and in my late 70's with a lot of experience behind me - total old cottage re-structuring, furniture making, metal work, plumbing, electrical - I think I speak from a position of reasonable standing. I will admit to looking...

Go to Costco - or get someone to do it for you, or find them somewhere else - and get a 6 or 8 off pack costing possibly £15 now of industrial flooring mats that all clip together. These are 600mm square sinthetic rubber foam mats, 10mm thick, that clip together. Been on the floor of my 'new'...

The chair shown is suffering from loose rear joints, just loose front joints, a sagging bottom and a tiring cover. So if it was of any value it would be a complete dismantle, re-glue, re-cover, etc. It is really not worth the effort! Somewhere I have come across a glue that is aimed at...