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Leaving aside the draught issue or whether the fitter should have tried to force the carpet under the skirting in the first place fixing with no more nails or similar is relatively simple . Assuming it will go back to it's original position , easy to tell if the paint lines meet up neatly , use...

One for PBC . As the EU dissends into chaos and possibly even total break up could the US be next , another civil war within 25 years? Bit on the pessimistic side but interesting reading.... http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/newsnight/paulmason/2010/03/angry_america_why_an_oilmans_s.html

We seem to have had this topic before and I said in that thread that on the balance I'd opt for out of the undemocratic fascist EU and hope that Westminster have the brains not to sell us out to un democratic fascist US corporations . One thing that causes debate is the question of migration...

There's a certain irony there , how the elder generation are always haranguing and criticising the younger but are now admitting to being in the wrong.

It's true that working with slaked lime water requires a degree of care , rubber gloves and goggles to protect from splashes but it does make a cheap and efficient method of blackening on a large scale such as a building. Stockholm tar was another product commonly used at one time on building...

Timber door , any half decent joiner could do that. Simply a case of cutting the bead or moulding away on the inside replace panel with glass and either replace mouldings or at worst knock up some new. Done it myself in the past to put in glass panels and also to replace damaged timber panels...

Another method that turns the oak a range of colours from red to dark brown and is cheap is lime water. I was first shown this method years ago and have used it many times . I've done it with hydrated lime but using unslaked seems to work better. Simply slake up the lime i.e. add water to it ...

I've been thinking along the same lines. If we accept the visit to the moon is faked then a mars landing even by a robotic vehicle seems even more remote. If we accept the argument put forward that it's all faked then the "living moving rock" becomes even more bazaar , it must be a brand new...

Yes I believe it's nothing more than a rock. Like most conspiracy stories the evidence is scanty , probably why NASA don't spend too much effort to provide evidence to discredit .

Suppose the obvious answer to this is to look for another picture of the same scene , taken at a different time and different angle. If it's a rock it'll still be there, if it's a cute furry animal it will have moved. I'm surprised neither side in this argument have actually come up with this...

At the risk of sounding obvious take the fire guard away. Open fires tend to heat by radiation and the guard blocks a lot of that. With regards to Burnerman's suggestion about external ventilation I have witnessed a very good idea and that is to put the vents in a wooden floor. This acts to draw...

Can't really fault you on taste but i was hoping to concentrate on the modern stuff.

We very rarely have coffee so that problem doesn't affect us but we do drink tea. I had always chucked the tea bags straight onto the compost heap which was fine but as you may know the bags contain polyester which doesn't break down. Not a huge problem just annoying picking little bits of...

I think it's only sci-if writers and producers that tend to think of alien life as essentially humanoid and that's probably because it makes filming so much easier. However , some scientists do suggest we would share some characteristics with an advanced alien life form so intelligent life may...

Think you've missed the point, I'm talking about proof. Just because we have discovered planets in positions that may support life and just because there are billions of suns with potential planets that could support life and just because millions of people believe aliens exist doesn't prove...

Following on from the Fools and Horses thread which was something of a nostalgia efts and not wanting to take it OT I'll ask a question in a new thread. Modern tv has come in for a bashing but there must be something that people like , so what modern programmes do you watch? For instance I...

Assuming an alien civilisation progresses along similar technological lines as ours it would seem logical that they too have asked the same questions as we have and have searched the heavens for signs of life. Presumably they too will have found planets and examined them and possibly looked at...

I didn't always see eye to eye with JBR and sometimes thought some of his posts were uninformed twaddle but do feel its the forum's loss .

I've heard rumours of some of the cheaper gas lighters slowly leaking but even so as joe suggests they are a better job than a petrol lighter which are fine if you use them all the time but even the best suffer from evaporation so unsuitable for occasional use. Personally I too don't smoke but...

I'm not going to say that there isn't or hasn't been other intelligent life out there , I very much want to believe even if actual evidence is lacking. The Drake equation gives us numbers in the region of 100 million worlds where life has ( possibly /probably ) arisen and even if a fraction of...