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Nick, I am sure that this is nothing to do with Norton/AVG. When you click back on the browser is just reloads the previous page which showed the post as unread. Refresh reloads the page from the server which by now knows that you have read the topic. So I guess that it has always worked like...

Still there. Try http://maps.live.com/ Andrew

Actually, this was exactly the point that I was making when I made the post in the first place. Namely that the work that this guy had done with the tools that we saw him using belies any theory that you need expensive tools to do a good job. And, I agree with you about photography. I often...

Nope. Used to be £30 which was a lot more managable to get up to if just needing to order one or two bits. Actually I guess I don't mean managable - how about less of a feeling that I am spending more than I ought. :) Andrew

That is the bit that impressed me. No way would I take a freehand router to a solid oak door that I had just made. PPro or otherwise. Andrew

I’ve just caught up with last week’s Grand Designs and am surprised that it has not been mentioned here. Woodworker built his new eco-house from timber almost entirely on his own. This is not the ‘house in the woods’ from several years ago – this one was up in the Cambridgeshire Fens so not too...

Well that unanimous then. Of course knowing my luck its just the sort of thing that when fashions change is going to appear on Antiques Roadshow and be valued in the thousands. :x

When I moved into my current house ten years ago the executors of the estate left an Edwardian wardrobe in one of the bedrooms. As I have decorated it has moved from one room to the next and has finally found its way into the kitchen where it is very much in the way. As an aside I suspect it...

I don't know Bullguard but can't you just check the 'Remember my answer for this application' box before clicking 'yes' or is Bullguard totally hanging? Andrew

If you are describing what I think you are describing then the normal way of doing this seems to be to have one door narrower by the thickness of the other such that you need to open the narrower door before opening the other. Now, if one side of the wider door is being covered by the narrower...

I've got to admit that this is one thing I have never tried. Has always seemed to me to be part of the old-school of plumbing - highly skilled and requiring a time-served plumber to do properly. Andrew

This is how it used to be done for water pipe which is 15mm but they now use something like a lead-lok connector - see my previous post. However waste pipe is typically around 40mm and that is a very big piece of copper pipe. Andrew

Not sure about waste pipe but for water pipe the usual way of doing it now is something called a lead-lok connector. Tightens around the lead pipe making a secure joint then a normal compression fit on the other end. I had one in place for ten years with no problem until replacing the lead pipe...

Ooooh. Most definately up for this one. Cycling distance as well. :D Ian. I'm quite happy to offer accommodation for the weekend. I'm just the other side of Cambridge from Nick and a lot nearer than Huntingdon. On a bus route into town too which might keep SWMBO happy. Andrew

Certainly wasn't difficult - more time consuming. The hardest part was getting pipe and insulation through the conduit. If I were doing it again I would try to find larger conduit (or possibly smaller insulation). I did have a problem with water levels in as much as I was doing the digging at...

Unless the whole house is plumbed in lead then this will be the incoming mains and so will in any case be before any internal stopcock. There should be a stopcock fitted inside, usually under the kitchen sink although mine is in the downstairs cloakroom. I am surprised in any case that a Bovis...

Can't help with the Incra but I bet that little haul looked 'interesting' going through the x-ray machine. Andrew

Am I missing something here? According to the page that George posted the package deal is 52.21 but a single 1000m K-series clamp is 38.25 making a pair 76.50 or 24.29 more than the package before taking into account the Duo-clamps. Yet Axminster claim a 12 pound saving. (OK over 12 pounds but...

On the contrary. One of the first things that Internet entrepreneurs realised at the start of the dot.com boom was that of the Network Effect. Online forums are fantastically difficult to build because when you have only a few users it is so hard to attract new users. It is hard enough with...

I used to when the limit was £30 but £45 gets a bit steep when we have a half decent too shop in town so I tend to go there instead unless I need something really big. Thinking about it I am not sure that I have ordered from Axminster since they increased the limit and seem to have got out of...