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Crikey! Is it April the first already?

scaff board? Are you sure? Someone who knows what they are talking about will be along in a minute, but my ten cents' worth... Scaff board is unfinished and will be high in moisture, so over a 3 m length, if you don't treat it carefully, it will twist, cup and split as it dries in the house...

I have a couple of sets from these guys and they are good quality bits for what I use them for - worth a look... http://www.axminster.co.uk/11-piece-micro-drill-set-610188

Jog on over to YouTube, put 'Making a planter from decking' in the search bar and take your pick. Any number of easy to follow tutorials which should get you what you want.

I have these - http://www.axminster.co.uk/4-piece-drill-countersink-set-300372 Cheap and cheerful but do the job.

If it is a cavity wall you have drilled through two bricks, inner and outer skins. I suppose it doesn't actually make any difference to fixing it, although you can get away with a less robust fixing on the inner skin. I would definitely fix it though, apart from keeping the weather out, you...

Buy a couple of vent covers, fix them over the holes and swear blind you are increasing the ventilation to the loft space?? Having said that, if it was me and the wall is single skin brick, I would chop out the drilled bricks and replace. Filling the holes with pug will work, but you will...

Carefully drill the heads off, remove the bolt and use mole grips to back out the screw.

drill the heads off, remove the timber, get mole grips on the screw shaft, simples...

Car based products are perfect for acrylic baths and usually significantly cheaper then anything sold especially for baths.

Great tip Burnerman! What is your opinion of the additives you get that promise to prolong the life of petrol? I guess the ethanol is still present, so the bad effects are still the same??

It looks like this is what my local repair guy calls a "2 Season" strimmer. When I asked for clarity, he explained - if you are lucky, you may get 2 seasons out of it. I have been down this road, replaced carbs on cheap strimmers, tried to clean and tune carbs which must be made by 9 year olds...

My understanding - Impact drivers do not necessarily have extra torque, it isn't this that makes them good at what they do, it is the fact that they 'hit' the screw to turn it - hence Impact. I'm not sure how this translates in terms of torque - A Level Physics was a long time ago.

One thing I have come to realise over the years is that, almost without exception, you get what you pay for. Cheap things are cheap for a reason. I have lost count of the bargains I have come home with only for them to fail within a few uses. That being said, I still have a NuTool belt sander...

Two very quick rules for clamps... 1. You can never have enough clamps 2. Just when you think you have enough clamps, rule one applies

What flooring do you have? Screeded concrete (I guess not), well seasoned floorboards, brand new floorboards or some form of sheet material? We had exactly this problem, the leak had been running for a while before I noticed it, we have 110 year old painted floorboards which dried off...

Someone who knows what they are talking about will be along in a minute... But, whatever you do, don't just fix into the plasterboard ceiling - there lies madness!

Just a thought, but magnetic catches epoxied to the MDF and screwed to the frame?

"then most women get fed up cooking over a hot stove" Just to redress the balance, so do blokes!

Bought daughter two Ikea desk/tables (Bekant, I think) about 10 years ago when she started University, they have been used and abused and survived a house move, they are still as good as they were when new. She and her husband are artists/graphic designers so the tables regularly get dog's...