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I'm not suggesting building control is the cause of the problem. You do have to wonder, though, if proper BC might have identified an issue before 88 x 3 storey houses were just about complete.

I tried briwax when I started and it seemed too soft, marks easily with handling. The 2 main turning wax brands are Hampshire sheen and Chestnut, both have a range of products. . Chestnut have a very informative website. If you are using a sanding sealer first, waxes can be applied thinly so...

So it looks like BC was outsourced to NHBC, not clear who signed off on the design. So we have the builders who will have costs and loss of income, the site developers and landowners who will have lost money through delayed income, maybe a few off plan buyers who may have consequential losses...

I'm surprised this hasn't had national press coverage. In a nutshell, 2 building companies working on a large development in Cambridge, expensive area so homes likely to be £650k and up (and up...) discovered that the foundations of some newly completed houses were below standard. Quite how...

The huge gap in company law is that its so hard for Directors to get disqualified. We has a company pop up in our village, rented office and showroom space from a local farmer who never got paid, all fancy and flash, must have taken a fair few orders, did a couple of bodged jobs, one for...

"No Prob" for you, we are all different and the experience of one person does not invalidate the general point. I can read a vernier, with effort, no effort needed for digital. We all make choices.

When you are older and you need glasses you will. Old eyes need more light and are less able to change focus quickly. Verniers can be difficult to read.

I have both manual and digital calipers. Inexpensive, Toolstation or Screwfix don't remember which. For Woodworking 3rd decimal place accuracy is irrelevant so even inexpensive ones should be fine as long as zero means zero. Digital ones you zero each time anyway. Plus and minus: Digital...

Yes, RP Coronet Herald has swivel head, very good and indexed with click stops. Not just for bigger things, if you turn it 30 degrees it makes bowl hollowing easier, less bending over the bed. The RP website has decent information, use the different tabs on the product page. They also have a...

Long time since I bought any paint, was in a builders merchants today and was surprised by how much the price has gone up. Same for things like sealants. Even if you already have some things like undercoat they will need to be replaced one day so maybe price it in at replacement cost not the...

Iceberg colonoscopy? Good job it was only the tip ......

I thought Allen heads/keys etc were like Hoovers. I'm going to 'hoover' the floor with the Dyson/Samsung/etc. Allen was a trade name, widely used these days and everyone knows what you mean but really they are hex socket screws, unless of course they were hand crafted by Mr Allen himself...

A reminder for those of a certain age. Ted Lowe was the well known BBC commentator in the days when few people owned colour tv sets. He is well known for this: "and for those of you who are watching in black and white, the pink is next to the green."

We have 2 concurrent active threads with the same question going here, this one and the one now hijacked from an original question about windmill hoppers, titled "Compound Mitre Angles". People have tried to help on both. I'm fairly good with trigonometry and calculations generally, but I have...

Lots of good ideas here. I encourage you to get on with sealing end grain cuts to reduce splits as soon as you can unless you intend to turn immediately. You can use old paint so nothing is lost even if you make new cuts. Newly felled timber can start to develop splits almost overnight, as I...

Looks like we have 2 concurrent active threads with the same question going here, this one hijacked from the original question about windmill hoppers, and the stand alone one about angles for splayed box. Maybe sticking to one will halve the effort (and potential confusion) for those trying to...

The cyanophytae (cyanobacteria) perhaps - can survive almost anything. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyanobacteria

The original question - how do I know its genuine - is a good one and I always wonder how you would tell. Fossil and rock shops always seem well stocked, where does it all come from? A quick google for 'fossil forums' brings up 2 or 3, including a UK one. That might be a useful place to ask...

If you are running a car company or a gas boiler manufacturer or almost anything, the performance of you and the business is judged by how much new stuff you sell or how many new customers you get. Your bonus and the share price won't be one penny higher because of the stuff you service and...

Glass will filter out some uv, but uv glue works well enough to stick rear view mirrors to the inside of a windscreen in some car designs. You posted in early January, if the attempt was in mid winter, thick cloud, low sun so there is more atmosphere that light and uv has to get through, even a...