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During the last snow storm we lost a load of trees in the region and some of these took out power lines (we were off grid for approx 11 hours). This time around the winds started at about 3am and are just as bad now as they were in the middle of the night. I suspect that many of the weaker trees...

I've been using the mystery blends from Coffee Compass for a good few years now. This is a link to their current blend : https://www.coffeecompass.co.uk/products/mystery-coffee-mark-16-1kg?variant=10068353908779 They change it periodically and I haven't found a blend that I don't enjoy.

We have a Valiant one which we use on our primary wood stove. Not the cheapest, but it doesn't need power, is pretty quiet in operation. The room which is about 23' by 13'. The recess in which the fire sits is relatively small and we were finding that heat collects in the vicinity of the fire...

Well, our sale and purchase went through two and a half years ago and we are very much enjoying living in the property that I described earlier. I converted one of the out-buildings and now have a 25 by 14 foot workshop with an adjoining double garage and a further 12 by 12 room to keep my...

Thank you Katomi woodsmith, I have kept my dad's lathe (and chisels) as my wife and I plan to learn how to do wood turning at some stage - a bit like yourself. I've also kept his bandsaw even though I already have one - sometimes it is useful to have one machine set up one way and another...

All very well for people, generally in more densely populated areas, who have a choice of what to use to heat their homes or use for cooking. Our village isn't on mains gas and, while we could buy propane at stupidly high prices, our only other choice is electric or oil, or wood. We actually...

It's taken me several years to get to this point and there was never going to be a good time : For sale is dad's Kity K704. He passed away a couple of years ago. I remember, in my early twenties, us both driving up to Axminster Tools (when it was a single shop on the High Street), buying this...

We live in an old house, much of it either cob or solid stone and we are 1.5 miles from a nine rotor wind farm. The owners of the wind farm subsidise our electricity bill to the tune of just under £140 a year for the inconvenience of having the turbines. To be honest, I think that it is a fair...

Not directly applicable here, but when we ran our own business, most of the jobs that we were doing followed a similar structure. Consequently, each job could be described by a row on an Excel spreadsheet and each milestone (or whatever) of the project could be described on that row with a...

I have nothing against EV's and appreciate that they suit many people's lifestyles and tax requirement. My wife and I live in the countryside and both outright own quite decent ICE cars. Gone are the days of changing cars every few years just because the neighbours have and because we also...

I'd never considered that - what an incredibly sensible idea - it's a right faff getting things started single handed otherwise.

I bought one of these https://www.laddersandscaffoldtowers.co.uk/acatalog/Quick-Erect-Trade-Scaffold-Towers.html I have the 7.2 m safe working height one together with stabilisers as I need a long reach for one side of our house. It's not cheap but, so far, it has been utterly brilliant. It...

Being out in the country, we don't have access to fibre and the copper line was stated as giving 17MB/s max. We went with 4g and an antenna. This gave us 44 on a good day. The house sprawls a bit and has thick walls. We have a mesh network and as the broadband signal relays its way around the...

Not that we have ever noticed, no.

We have the same machine as you Niall and it's somewhere between six and twelve months old. Before this we had a Miele. The Miele needed to be replaced as the drum spider corroded and it wasn't worth repairing. Both machines have sat on a tiled floor, we think on a concrete sub base with...

I'm on my second compressor. The first one died after 10 years because I forgot to check the oil level. Had I done so I suspect it would have out lived me. This is what I have now : ABAC L30P Monte Carlo (D4) Direct Drive 3 HP 50 Litre Air Compressor (10 CFM) It's a noisy beast but I don't...

SW England - A room refurbishment which will be replastered and new ceiling, not far from the consumer unit - 10 dimmable and adjustable LED downlights, 7 double 13A sockets, a couple of switchable 5A lighting points and certification - just over two grand with VAT. I was suprised at the...

We had a similar problem in our last house - a double garage and utility room on the ground floor and our bedroom and ensuite on the floor above. The bedroom was OK but the ensuite was constantly cold in the winter. We had the ensuite redone and I got the installers to rip up the floor and put...

uPVC installations are loose and floppy - the only structurally strong and square bit is the glass. If the void is square, the frame work can be installed in the void, packed with frame packers as required and then locked into place with heavy duty frame bolts. Then the glass can be installed...

I think that the spending squeeze will last a fairly long time and hasn't bitten as hard ro as quickly as the Government hoped it would. It may well take between two and five years for existing cheap fixed rate mortgages to expire and borrowers will be forced to accept whatever rate is on offer...