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I have has a parkside (Lidl) belt sander for years. Don’t use it much but handy It comes with two clamps and has a flat top so you can turn it upside down and use it as a linnisher. Great for my needs

I have no experience of them but.. My shed sits on fence posts. It’s 30 years old or older These days they make posts from recycled plastic. Would this material be suitable to make a base from? It’s supposed to be akin to timber where fixings are concerned. But not subject to moisture.

“All these Immigrants” says the man who lives in Monaco

Sometimes it’s good to know your strengths, and your weaknesses. years ago my parents used an old school carpet fitter to move the living room carpet after a house move. It was an Axminster, so good quality on a woven base and you couldn’t really see a join. Might be worth asking local fitters...

II am no carpet fitter, but could you continue the stair run up to the landing? And wrap the landing down where the RH step is? Joining the carpet (ideally sewn if possible) on the line of the top landing ?

You can store up to 10 litres at home when using plastic cans, more if in metal but it’s below about 40 I think

Stained glass? Etched style? Modern obscured is less “Granny” than a heavy frost. You could have a high level window or a roof light?

I can see the point. Just putting it out there. One advantage of an opening out door is security as it’s harder to batter your way in. A well known bike club near me has only outward opening doors.

My house, a semi, originally had an open porch. When I moved in, the porch was enclosed with a pair of glazed doors opening in, with a fixed glazed panel on each side. The doors are a tight fit when using one, but fine for normal pedestrian, both open for moving boxes. Several houses had...

Just ensure that the table is ok to be outside if it has electrics in it. Our massive car sized lift which sits outdoors has a control box at the side with a waterproof enclosure Your lift, if electric, may have been designed for internal use only. It’s not an idea killer, just ensure that...

Look for something like this? You would get better quality from R/S/CPC This would allow you to power it from a 13A socket in the house (if 13A is ok) and switch it off when nobody is in residence but when someone’s there, leave it on (and down) then use the remote to switch on the power...

I used to see Dave Degens at the Kempton Park autojumbles. He was still well into his bikes

My old roof had two of those - from wickes. Solar powered, on/off and you could twist them 120° and pull the mushroom cap down for winter.

I can’t comment on your door and mine was probably 20 years ago but I think I used a pair of rods that could be inserted into the winder. You needed to wind one up, then when a second hole appears, insert a second. Remove number one, wind number two, exposing another hole and so on.

I understood that the chimney had a metal oven-like box in the flue? So using residual heat for cooking?

Given the hassle of lighting a large fire on one day a week for the copper, why not use it to also provide heat for cooking? Something that needed slow cooking could be shoved into the small oven, meaning that the day could be entirely set aside for washing. No need to stop for meal preparation...

Watch out for the expanding foam coming out in the stairway. A colleague at work hung out of a window to foam around a pipe only to discover the following morning that she’d dumped loads of foam ont her back step. She ended up having glued her back door to the step. Have a little practice first.

Is there any chance of rodents? Is that a soil pipe? Scale? I’d fill the hole with mortar and some brick debris. Use a stick/bit of wood to tamp mortar and brick into the hole. Can you get to the other side? You can get quick set mortar in a pack about the size of a bag of sugar. Some expanding...

Is the dwarf wall single /double or cavity? You could potentially build with timber /insulation rather than brick. Assuming that you don’t want to include this into the house.

You don’t want it touching the wall. I would leave it. Doesn’t the skirting hide any gap? There won’t be any load. You could stabilise the screed with PVA to prevent it crumbling