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When I was quoting for work, at the start, my success rate in winning the quote was pretty low. Over a short period of time I realised that is was as much about selling of a perception as it was about actually selling an item. What started out with a 25% conversion rate got to about 75% by the...

It all depends how old you are Brian. If you are somewhere between 25 and 30, you will probably see a benefit. If you are an older duffer like me, I would hold on to it and hope that, when it gulps it's last breath of gas, there will be something much cheaper to run than the current crop of...

I'll be looking for one later this year as I have gutters and facia boards to look at as well as lime pointing and some painting. I have my eye on something like this https://www.laddersandscaffoldtowers.co.uk/acatalog/Trade-Master-Professional-Scaffold-Towers.html It's pretty pricey but I...

I'd agree with that: we run ours at about 18, some rooms at 19 during some parts of the day. At night we run many of the larger rooms with a 2 degree set back. The house remains warm during the day (as we are almost always there). In really cold weather one or two of the larger rooms struggle to...

We moved last May and our new (to us) house runs on oil. I've experimented with various timing scenarios to heat it and have come to a similar conclusion as you: it's best to simply set the temperature and just leave it running all the time. We run a slight set back at night. A few caveats...

Like Colin, I also moved to Devon last year and have come up against the same rust problem. I used some fine steel wool to remove the surface rust, then cleaned the surfaces and have coated the them with ACF-50. I bought a bottle together with an applicator for about £30. So far, so good.

You could have gone for something like this: https://www.axminstertools.com/axminster-professional-ap25afs-air-filter-230v-107709 While not completely organic it could loosely be called light plant equipment

I am now the owner of a Kitty combination set up. It's the K704 I think. I remember collecting it, new, with my dad from Axminster Tools when they were in the high street. I have a catalogue together with some instruction manuals. The catalogue is dated 1984. My dad always wanted me to take...

It's not, and that's my point: It was, or claimed that it was, but the system became corrupted through the back door in exactly the manner that you have described. So even, so called communism isn't what it once was. I doubt also, if Xi Jinping is short of a bob or two, even if some of his...

As ever, total sense Terry ... in my humble opinion, obviously. I would like to see our core infrastructure owned by British companies and I suspect that a lot of other countries would rather see their industries not owned and run by international arms of British companies - but that's just how...

I'd rather see them employ large numbers of tax payers in this country and provide some level of customer service than run operations on a shoe string budget and reward offshore investors who do not contribute to the UK economy.

I think that the whole country has veered away from nationalisation so much that, to bring it back across the board as a reaction to what is happening would be too much - legislation, I doubt, would allow it as there are too many private contracts with time left to run - on all levels of...

The current pricing will establish a precedence from which gas and electricity pricing will be set for many years to come. The UK has dug such a massive hole of foreign dependency in chasing cheap prices and we are being blackmailed by those who sucked us in. We have little alternative energy...

The will either come out quite easily or they will be near impossible. Generally, if you can slide them along slightly in the track then there is a good chance that you will be able to replace them. If you cannot, it's probably not worth any further effort. If you can get them out then there...

I have the Flir C3 and my cat looks at me nervously. ;) Having these things give a slant to the old adage about looking at the world through rose coloured glasses, doesn't it. It also worries people when I talk about using my camera for blue movies ( filming cold spots - for those who...

Luckily, she wasn't in office quite long enough to have the Downing Street flat redecorated, again.

A thermal camera shows the temperature of surfaces. Most domestic cameras do not have a zoom lens so the user needs to physically get nearer to a cold spot in order to find the pin point source of it (if there is one). Unlike a mobile phone camera a thermal camera has a rather crude resolution...

Aside from many of the artists mentioned already, I'd add Sia (solo and with other artists) to the mix.

It's too soon to conclude anything much. In theory, I could have borrowed or rented one and got a snapshot in time under a relatively fixed set of conditions. Instead, I wanted something that I could use to measure and gradually improve the thermal makeup of our house. So far we've been around...

Septic tank emptying tanker at the local garden centre today - you'll need to look at what is written on the side to appreciate the joke.