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Hi all. Been a while since I've been on here so hope all are well. My Heatmiser Central heating control system communicates between devices, a central control panel and the home network via STP cabled network cables. These are advised to be screened at one end (which they are) and ideally run...

Hello all. Have a frustrating tissue with a wooden fireplace surround i've built: it's made of 28mm thick pine glued (white wood glue) biscuit jointed and screwed together with the trim pieces glued and pinned. Where i've filled the screw and nail holes with a 2 part epoxy...

thanks but want painted plaster walls…never been keen on the lining paper look...

help, please!! i've got a lounge with gloss painted walls…the walls ar flat but the paint has quite a rough roller texture…rathe than just sugar soaping and painting over i've tried sanding the paint a little to get a flatter surface. problem: hand sanding doesn't even scratch the...

Just pointing out that it's a very wide seeeping statement to say that theoretically all HSS drill bits should performe the same. The alloy content of the blank makes up just a part of the performance of a drill bit... ...and, that cheap bits i've found are often not straight, or ground well...

if you are worried - take the sides out first and the weight is being held on the front, put the gallows in then if you feel you need to, prop the side on the gallows before you take the front out...that way it's always supporteded. Thats assuming you;re takign it down from the top to the...

Says who???? don't get that statement at all. HSS is just the type of alloy used, not an indication of straigtness (cheap drills are often bent), tollerance on size (is that 3.5mm drill really cutting a 3.5mm hole), tollerance of angles and releif of the tip etc. All this affects the cutting...

If the timer is pretty rough then you might have problems with the thicknesser gripping the board properly and consistently for a good finish. it's also likely to rock throught the tool hence you'd normally plane one side and then you've got a flat side to work off. like anything, combo...

Just checked...CN81 supports 5.4 tones for a 2.4m lintel and come in just shy of 200quid.. hats the advantage of this over a standard UB?

hello all...my bro in law is taking out an original fench door that has a window either side, about 2m wide. Currently the only support is a wooden plate above the door/windoe frame but the door frame seems to be taking some weight so can't simply be removed. Walls are solid 9" The...