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I'm dropping the level of a ceiling in my pantry. Its only coming down by a few inches but the cable through the ceiling to the rose, (and into the ceiling pull switch for the light), is "just and no more" long enough to wire into the rose where it is. I need to extend everything by a few...

Thanks for getting back to me. Yeah I'd thought about that and pretty much discounted it for two reasons; 1. Most importantly, damage. The mouldings are delicate things and I'm not certain how they would have been attached. I would guess glued and nailed, (or just nailed into the frame)...

I have an old Victorian House. The house has a cellar and the staircase to the cellar runs under and parallel with the staircase to the first floor. There is a frame and panel cellar door set in a frame and panel wall that both closes off the cellar staircase and forms the side wall beneath...

Yeah. Good point. Hadn't thought of that. What you can't see in the picture is that there is a good two to three inches vertically between the top of the drain edge and the top of the drain surround. So I'll probably take the pipe down to about three quarters of an inch above the grid. That...

This weekend I noticed one of my patio tiles, near the kitchen drain outlet had cracked and a corner had fallen. I took up the tile and noticed underneath that the sand had almost completely gone. After some testing I found that the kitchen drain outlet was overshooting the actual drain and...

Thanks for that wgt. Interesting reading. I think that Gluelam beams are what the door is made from. No idea where to get it from either, but at least now I have a name.

Your Great Aunt sounds like she was a fine lady! You're right about the solid wood, that might end up being the way to go. I had an idea that the laminated stuff may be cheaper and posibly more stable. Pointless if I can't find any though. Thanks guys for all the advice.

Yeah that had occurred to me. It really doesn't look like it. The large central rail isn't checkable without killing the door, but the outer rails seem to be laminated accross the width (and length) but not accross the thickness, (unless they have an outer edge laminate specifically to create...

It talked a little about "engineered timber" which largely led to other similar sites and tons of stuff about engineered wood floors.

Thanks Chud. You're absolutely right. So it's lucky I got all of that too. Plus some other bits and bobs, like four routers, two tables, a woodrat, jigsaws, a multitool, circular saws, an extensive collection of hadtools from Veritas, Lie Neilsen, Stanley etc. two seperate dust extraction...

It doesn't appear to be does it. And yet I have a door made from it. Someone is making/selling it. Thanks for trying. Any other suggestions gratefully looked into.

It might be, but they seem to be selling windows not wood. Thanks though.

Hi I recently bought an internal door for my house. It was a custom made pine victorian four panel one. Quite nice. I have a Festool Domino, I would like to have a crack at making one myself. The timber that goes to make up the door, when I look closely, isn't made from sliced tree...

Oh and it seems there is a fair old amout of water from the black rubber hose at the back of the boiler that comes down from the upper chamber. Opening up that chamber, there doesn't seem to be any clear source of the leak. The water coming out is yellowish (like radiator/inhibitor mix).

I have a Baxi Duo-Tec Combi 40 HE A. The heating aspect of the boiler is running just fine, (its hot and sunny, I don't need it but it's running fine). The hot water is not. When I turn the hot tap on I get cold water. The boiler hot water light comes on, and then the temperature display...

Parts ordered yesterday, arrived today. Very clear instructions with the part. The job took about 15 minutes. The heating seems to be working normally again. Thanks FlyingFish. Help much appreciated.