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I failed the eleven-plus in the 1940s/50s. I was going to be a 'blue-collar' worker then. A disappointment, but I got on with it. I passed an exam later for the 'Technical School'. what you might call a polytech. (Since promoted to Uni :roll: in Brum.) I didn't go into engineering though; I...

John, If you're going for a table saw, wait until you can buy a proper job. (Not one for which you need to build a stand.) Go for at least a 10" (250mm) blade, twin mitre channels, so you can have a stable cross-cut sled, and a sliding table, (if you have the space.) Also an induction-motor...

If you sell the Super Seven, you'll regret it; sooner or later! Especially if later, you are lured into making your own woodwork tools! :wink: John

:roll: Politics again Jacob! Tut-Tut! :lol:

Thanks Roger. I was okay until the graphs and bar charts came along. I could have worked it out maybe, but I got bored with it. I think this was a test in some specialist field, and hardly shows the raw intelligence of persons taking it! (I skipped some questions as I really couldn't be...

Dead link Roger. I get the blue, URL, but it's not responding. :x

The best you can do is tell them to take the measurements and then go online, to use a search engine to do the maths! They might manage that. If the room isn't a simple square or rectangle, then it might take too long to explain to them how to calculate. Sign of the times I'm afraid! Duuhhh...

My post wasn't meant as a slight towards you Jacob. Just a reworked old joke, usually applied to guitarists. The only disadvantage I have from not being able to play on sight, from music, (I can read it.) Is that I can't play anything unless I know 'how it goes'. However, my knowledge of...

Best way to silence a banjo-player? Put a sheet of music on the music-stand. 8)

That was my thinking exactly. I think you would be justified in charging them something. Five hundred is a fair wedge to me! :|

My garage has a sloping floor too, I always assumed it was to drain away water from a vehicle that had been put inside after being driven in rain. I just put up with it. My garage is partially integral with the house, and there are buttresses to each side where the house wall starts. So even...

That's called exercising common-sense. They don't have much of that these days; and if they do, they don't use it. I couldn't use that staircase safely, as I need a 'stalking-stick' in my left hand. This seems to be where the Health and Safety people are at odds with the preservation wallahs...

I work from a single-garage 17.5 feet x 9 feet. (No use even as a garage, as you can't get out of a saloon once inside!) I have a Sedgwick, 12" over and under planer/thicknesser. When I bought the machine I decided where best to site it, and then planned the rest of the shop around it. It's a...

Still haven't found this issue of GW though have we? I might have it in my loft, but I am no longer capable of getting up there! Nick, I will ask my Son to get up there, when he comes over at the weekend. Regards John

In a similar situation, I used an old hand-pressurised, garden spray to spray the parts of my shed I couldn't get to. The sprayer had one of those 'wand' type nozzles which just managed the job on a 10 x 6 shed. It didn't do the sprayer much good, but it did last for half a dozen sprays, (And a...

I can't speak for where you live, but here in the West Mids, it's just a case of going online and checking out the regulations for a shed. In my case it has to be at least 15 metres from my house, (if it's a wooden shed) and 5 metres from my boundary walls. Also it must be no more than 2.2...

Thanks for this thread. I was just wondering what I could have for tea today. I think I'll bake a nice Maris Piper, and serve with some tuna mayo and grated cheese (And salad of course!)

Asda's own porridge oats are quite good. Just use less water though if you don't like 'mush'. You can also cook them for less time. I like 'em thick, and half raw. I ain't supposed to eat them at all mind, cos they make me balloon around the waist. I counter that by making them with double...

+1 It doesn't look very good, even in the photograph. The framing does need to be meatier for a 12 x 8 shed. The bigger the area of the shed walls, the more wind pressure you're going to have; like fences; even when regularly maintained with preservative, the constant wind pressure over the...

Not impressed by the Parkinson's quip Doug, and I am somewhat surprised you made it. :( John.