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In answer to question two - yikes no. For safe operation you want a minimal (few mm) clearance between the cutter and the plate which you achieve by using various different sized rings. The rings we are getting made cover a lot of situations and there is a blank - IIRC - so that we can make up a...

Good call not having a TV. We've not had one for 10 years now and I can only imagine the amount of time we have not spent just sitting there watching something we aren't really interested in. Has gone a bit pear shaped the last year or so with the rise of the iPlayer etc. As for differences...

Ok, I went back last night and looked at what I'd need to do to level up the floor. I don't think I'm going to be installing a wetroom. The drop in the floor is greater than 25mm/m and sloping away from where the drain would need to be. I'd almost need to install a set of stairs to get into the...

Thanks for that, should keep me busy for the next few weekends. I must admit it feels rather silly to refer to it as a walk in shower but the alternatives are equally silly like easy access shower - what, you don't need to pick a lock to get in?

Cheers, that video is strangely similar to the one I found on the Wickes site only with more technical content :D. I had intended to use a tray but I was thinking of trying to also make at least some of the rest of the floor slope towards the drain. Now I come to look at it again though I think...

Believe it or not this question is wood related! We have decided to install walk in shower on the top floor of our place. What I need to find out though is what to do about the floor. At the moment we have really old worm eaten floorboards to obviously they are coming out but what would it be...

Standby on most devices will reduce power consumption significantly. For example on a TV it will typically drop from 200W to <2W so putting a device on standby is much better than leaving it fully powered on. With a computer things are rather more complex though as they are capable of entering...

steve, I'm guessing that your lights are using 40W bulbs to provide an over all draw of about 400W. Therefore each hour they are all on they consume 0.4kWh. IIRC you can get 23W bulbs which would significantly reduce your power consumption. As workshop machinery is out to get your levels of...

In our house we always try to obey the law of physics :D

Just in case you don't trust logic I did the experiement :( ... We had no heating in our house during the cold snap last month and I can confirm from observation that when it's cold in the house the fridge and freezer do a lot less work. The fridge never came on and the freezer only came on...

dw, the best I can do is give you a rough guide because the standby usage of devices varies widely. The best use less than 1W on standby but some of the worst use around 25W. So, I put together a spreadsheet for you. It's not formatted terribly well here so you can download it if you want (and...

Steve, your usage of power is within the realms of believable but only if you are doing something that uses a lot of power for a good few hours a day. Your reported usage of 25kWh/day works out as a constant draw of about 1kW through out the day and night. Assuming you are only using...

We have a draughty, nay windy, old 6 bed house with solid brick walls and single glazing. Gas comes in at £4.61 a day on average at the moment for heating and water only so I'm expecting a yearly bill in the region of £1000 - £1100. I've not been keeping a close record for long so it will be...

To give you an idea of sizes a standard fiction book in epub format will weigh in under half a meg. The reader I have (Sony PRS 505) came with 128MB built in so, give or take, 200 books. Other formats, such as PDF, tend to me much larger. There is also a memory expansion slot (which I've never...

Fair enough, each to their own. I'm interested to know what you didn't like about it though. There are only a few things I would change to make mine the perfect real book replacement: bigger screen, slightly better contrast*, better selection of books (which will come I suppose) and finally...

Not wanting to hijack the thread but... Roger, I suspect you've never really taken an eBook reader for a test drive I suggest you give it a go as you might quite like it. They aren't going to kill paper books anytime soon but for a certain set of people they are fantasic devices. For example...

I'm not completely conviced that it fills any particular niche in the market well enough to really take off. I'm sure initial sales will be very good because there is a certain part of the population that has to own everything Apple make but after that you have to convice people they need an...

I was taught that on wood that brusies easily just partially dry fit the dovetails say about half way. Then the piece of tail that will show doesn't get squashed. I've tried it and it seems to work but it feels like a leap of faith during the glue up. I fitted a sink while SWMBO was at work a...

I seem to remember seeing somewhere that French wiring runs just single strands at a time through the conduit rather than our style twin and earth cable e.g. they use the conduit in place of the grey sheath. That makes the cable much more flexible so you can get better usage out of the conduit...

VNC is murder over the web, one of our clients insisted we use it. Turned out they couldn't figure out how to set up remote desktop so we did it for them.