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My shed is a similar size. I just put a few hit and miss vents in at either end. Far cheaper. All of my tools and machinery are in there and none develop rust. I have a much smaller shed just for garden tools and I coat these in oil before the winter every year. All nice and sharp.

This only affects a fraction of society anyway as only fraction bother to vote! Local elections were particularly poor recently here, with the highest turnout in the next village at 36% and the lowest at 12%. There is no secret ballot in the UK. Each voting card is logged with a number which...

Wizadorra, Woof and Play Days if I was having a good day! Worst one was "The Wrigglers" because it terrified me.

I use the M1 every day and the biggest problems in terms of driving style are: Sitting in lane two, seemingly avoiding an empty lane one. Simply driving too fast to properly anticipate the situation further ahead, or the potential actions of another driver Driving too close to the rear end of...

Interesting stuff, thank you for posting. I'm tempted by the one posted by @RandomGrinch. If the one I posted doesn't have a fuse then I'll steer clear of this. The Tapo switch you've mentioned does sound useful, but maybe not for us. The PIR is a good option, but as I say I like the control a...

It is a good idea, but I like the control over the times and would prefer longer periods of being on.

Thanks for that, yes I had considered this. It's a very valid argument. I've weighed it up quite a bit over the past month and decided to go for it. Rather than it staying on all night, maybe the best setting would be for the light to stay on until midnight-ish (a few hours after we go to bed)...

I have some lights at the back of the house which offer a nice level of lighting for the patio. I like to keep them on overnight as a bit of a deterrent, because when they're off, it's pitch black and secluded at the back of the house where the patio doors are. I have been remembering to switch...

Interesting stuff! Yes fuel sat in the tank for more than a month was on my mind, hence the post. There is a steel fuel line from the tank to the pump, thereafter it is hose to the modern carb which I think uses a plastic float (need to check that). As it happens it was Gates' hoses I used. I...

Lot of misinformation out there so I had been led to believe E10 fuel has a considerably shorter life when stored outside in car tanks. Need to do a bit more reading. Assume given the material of the pipes delivering the fuel and the new carb, none of that will be affected.

True but the stabiliser helps protect against the breakdown of E10 fuel, which is what I'm more interested in. The lead substitute just happens to come with it. I'm asking as although the car is used, there may be fuel in the tank which has been in there a month or more since the last top up.

My secondary school was built in 1965 and by the time I started there in 2001 it had all sorts of issues. The flat roofs leaked all the time, some of the windows were hanging on to dear life (one actually fell off its hinges from the second floor), the paint was peeling on all facades, etc...

I should have said, but it had them put in sometime after the car was brought out of a barn in 1994. I only found that out by chance speaking to an old owner of the car. I hadn't planned to do it though as the car doesn't do the mileage to warrant the work.

I use an old car (1964 Singer Gazelle) to get about and occasionally for work -- usually just me as our young son can't travel safely in it. I've been using E5 along with doses of lead replacement / fuel stabiliser, however this is getting very expensive to fill especially as my economy is...

£10 at my local scrapyard (Albert Looms at Derby). £15 for a used part-worn, good ones are £25. I had a pair of Bridgestone Turanza tyres put on mine at the start of the year and still plenty of tread left. Quick fit wanted £25 when my wife went and the moody fitter wasn't interested in...

The demand was there, and there was innovative design -- but the key thing is, this was innovation without development. There are some excellent contemporary reports from the 1980s discussing the housing boom of the 1950s and '60s, where houses were knocked up like stacks of cards.

Before my Dad retired he worked in manufacturing (furniture) all his life. Wagons going up to Yorkshire (from here, Derbyshire/Notts. border) would still get heckled by blokes shouting "f*ck off, SCAB", and this was in the late 2000s. I think all of Derbyshire's mines had closed by 1993 --...

Oh wow that brought back a childhood memory. Mum used to have 'Hoover' branded stuff and I remember the washing machine man removing something and tapping it with a hammer!

Thought I'd update on this. Replaced the temperature sensor last night and this seems to have solved the problem. I took the old one out and it was a little bit 'gunky' with an unknown substance on the surface, and replaced with the new one. The sensor slides through a rubber grommet with only...

Just to close this off. By sheer luck I managed to find a pack of four of the very clamps I need for this job! All I need do now is remove from the car, clean up and fit the new clamp. Chuffed with it!