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Hello Dawg and welcome. Sounds like you're asking too late with too little information. How have you joined the wood already, what was the purpous of the joint. You could always try paint.

I find that behavior rather frightening. I have NEVER had a router bit snap in the manner you describe. I have used 6mm twin flute bits to make 12mm deep grooves in a single pass. I've even accidentally hit nails (and successfully cut straight through them before I noticed). The worst...

hello answar and welcome. If you want to mitre the corners to join two pieces of skirting board, you don't just mitre the top edge, you cut the entire piece at 45 degrees. That would take a fairly large mitre block though.

cheepest option is a thing called a USB cable.

A couple of years ago, I was quite interested in starting a home build project. If I could get a plot at a reasonable price. I then became aware of an organisation that call themselves "The United Plot Owners Association". The general concept behind this organisation, is that they present...

A man after my own heart. The crucial part here, though is "failure of an existing" You'd be surprised at how often older houses simply didn't have adequate DPCs fitted in the first place. I've said it before and I'll say it again: failure of a DPC is very rare, but having a deficient DPC...

I just finished a swapping the HD on my laptop. I didn't fancy the idea of loading the OS, drivers and applications from scratch and even then risk loosing some overlooked piece of work. So I figured the simplest method of achieving this would be with Norton Ghost. The trouble is, I can't...

All well and good if it's just a guidline, but if this is actually being inforced, I think you are giving educational psychologists more credit than they are worth. Maybe a better use of the findings would be to add something to the curiculum to tackle the root of the problem (ie. the...

3 I must be getting boring in my old age. Yes just three. A few years back it would have been off the scale :lol:

Not that similar then. My guess is rubbish in the cavity to a level above the DPC. Remove a couple of bricks outside just above the DPC (CAREFULLY, DON'T DAMAGE IT). Have a peek in between the two walls. You should see the cavity extend below the DPC. Anything breaching here will lead...

Actually, if you want really good quality and cheep, nothing beats making it yourself.

Softus, I have to agree with the others here. When I was at school, the comments I most dreaded were "see me!". It didn't matter a flying fig what colour those comments were in. Actually some of my teachers did, indeed use green. The outcome was generally the same. I would be sent...

Look up a local joiners. They'll make one to measure for you. Wether it's cheep depend on you locality, etc..

Does anyone have any ideas of how to fit an ash tray in a shower cubicle. Using a soap dish is useless as the ciggy gets soggy. I was thinking of some sort of cover over the top of it, but there is still the other problem, that the cig would be inclined to get wet, as you take it out to have a...

All walls have some residual moisture in them. Trouble is most surveyors use fairly crude instrumentation to measure the damp. It basically just measures conductivity. Now when you have a bit of water flow through the wall, it brings the salts to the surface. Once you repair the problem...

There's no need to get abusive. Don't tell me you tried to say query, but you can't ******** spell :lol:

I too have been called far worse (sometimes deservedly so :lol: ). Is it just me, or do the asterisks look worse than the original mild insult. It now looks like Sarahs comment was a lot more serious than it actually was. Go on Thermo, tell her the secret. I'm not vain enough to worry about...

This kind of problem is quite often caused by the lack of a DPM in the fireplace. Although the brickwork includes an adequate DPC, the fireplace in front of it, is often set onto some concrete and loosefill, laid directly onto the oversite, with no DPM. Damp then rises up through this and...

I once relayed a parquet floor in a church hall. I introduced the border to save having to nancy around with irregular skirting boards, radiator pipes etc.. at the edge of the main panel. Do you realise how much time this tip would have saved me :oops: Mind you, I don't think I even possessed...

I am not sure it would, That single 22mm pipe will have to accommodate the rising hot water (from the bottom tank) and the falling cold water (from the top back down). If that pipe went straight from the top of the bottom one, into the bottom of the top one, it would possibly work, albeit...