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Re: Ladders Sales Direct, anyone used them?

This may be even later, but there is information on the .

xerxes | Tools and Materials | www.diynot.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=1395455#1395455 - 5 November 2009 12:05 am

Re: Old tools

The is an excellent source of all kinds of hand tool knowledge. Useful books are: W L Goodman, British Planemakers from 1700 ISBN 0713507683 and R A Salaman, Dictionary of Tools used in the Woodworking and Allied Trades 1700-1950 ISBN 0046210202 . As...

xerxes | Wood / Woodwork / Carpentry | www.diynot.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=1316687#1316687 - 29 August 2009 8:51 pm

Re: Fixing Oven hood into 1" Plaster

Those fixings are they about 25mm long? may hold well enough in the plaster for now; the problem is that if as you say the plaster is about one and half inches thick, it could break out and the hood could fall. Bear in mind that if someone were to le...

xerxes | Building | www.diynot.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=1315079#1315079 - 28 August 2009 10:27 am

Re: What is it?

Wotan has the correct answer: the movable knob is designed to be repositioned to ease shoe leather pressure on particular points, especially, as JML says, for bunions.

xerxes | General Discussion | www.diynot.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=1314503#1314503 - 27 August 2009 7:01 pm

Re: Big bro' is no mo'?

This would be good news, except for the probability that in its place will come a TV format that's even more depressingly dumbed down.

xerxes | General Discussion | www.diynot.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=1313649#1313649 - 26 August 2009 7:48 pm

Re: Apologies for ole chesnut but now desparate

A rawlplug won't hold in a hole in a steel lintel. You would need to use a hollow fixing. You've been given better advice by Sunray and Regsmyth. If you need to remove the screw that's turning in the oversize hole, you could try using a pair of locki...

xerxes | General DIY | www.diynot.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=1313638#1313638 - 26 August 2009 7:40 pm

Re: Stripping and staining a kitchen table

Commercial mass-produced furniture is often finished nowadays in two-pack finishes which are very hard to remove. You could try a chemical stripper, but a heat gun would be more likely to succeed. However, the labour involved is hardly worthwhile. Ik...

xerxes | Wood / Woodwork / Carpentry | www.diynot.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=1313586#1313586 - 26 August 2009 6:52 pm

Re: Best way to raise Floor Level?

Your joists need to be deeper than four inches if you're creating a dining room. You will need to take into the account the loading on the floor and the span of the joists to calculate what you need. Don't forget you'll need to provide ventilation fo...

xerxes | Floors, Stairs and Lofts | www.diynot.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=1313292#1313292 - 26 August 2009 12:53 pm

Re: Where is all the carbon coming from

I too fully support energy saving and the recycling or better still, reuse of materials. I don't support the mass delusion of man-made global warming theories and the consequent authoritarian measures by bureaucrats to impose yet more taxes and restr...

xerxes | General Discussion | www.diynot.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=1313286#1313286 - 26 August 2009 12:41 pm

Re: Any projects planned for the Bank Holiday weekend?

I'm enlarging the entrance to the loft and fitting a loft ladder. So far I've cut the ceiling out and fitted new trimmers it's a bit worrying when you're at the stage of having floppy unsecured joists . Now I have to try to lower the preassembled hat...

xerxes | General DIY | www.diynot.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=1313277#1313277 - 26 August 2009 12:26 pm

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