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My house, a semi, originally had an open porch. When I moved in, the porch was enclosed with a pair of glazed doors opening in, with a fixed glazed panel on each side. The doors are a tight fit when using one, but fine for normal pedestrian, both open for moving boxes. Several houses had...

Just ensure that the table is ok to be outside if it has electrics in it. Our massive car sized lift which sits outdoors has a control box at the side with a waterproof enclosure Your lift, if electric, may have been designed for internal use only. It’s not an idea killer, just ensure that...

Look for something like this? You would get better quality from R/S/CPC This would allow you to power it from a 13A socket in the house (if 13A is ok) and switch it off when nobody is in residence but when someone’s there, leave it on (and down) then use the remote to switch on the power...

I used to see Dave Degens at the Kempton Park autojumbles. He was still well into his bikes

My old roof had two of those - from wickes. Solar powered, on/off and you could twist them 120° and pull the mushroom cap down for winter.

I can’t comment on your door and mine was probably 20 years ago but I think I used a pair of rods that could be inserted into the winder. You needed to wind one up, then when a second hole appears, insert a second. Remove number one, wind number two, exposing another hole and so on.

I understood that the chimney had a metal oven-like box in the flue? So using residual heat for cooking?

Given the hassle of lighting a large fire on one day a week for the copper, why not use it to also provide heat for cooking? Something that needed slow cooking could be shoved into the small oven, meaning that the day could be entirely set aside for washing. No need to stop for meal preparation...

Watch out for the expanding foam coming out in the stairway. A colleague at work hung out of a window to foam around a pipe only to discover the following morning that she’d dumped loads of foam ont her back step. She ended up having glued her back door to the step. Have a little practice first.

Is there any chance of rodents? Is that a soil pipe? Scale? I’d fill the hole with mortar and some brick debris. Use a stick/bit of wood to tamp mortar and brick into the hole. Can you get to the other side? You can get quick set mortar in a pack about the size of a bag of sugar. Some expanding...

Is the dwarf wall single /double or cavity? You could potentially build with timber /insulation rather than brick. Assuming that you don’t want to include this into the house.

You don’t want it touching the wall. I would leave it. Doesn’t the skirting hide any gap? There won’t be any load. You could stabilise the screed with PVA to prevent it crumbling

That door doesn’t look complicated. If you only want one door to match the original, then two off the shelf quality doors may be cheaper than having one custom made.

Ah! Great British News. Backed by Dubai.

I watched the Davis speech. If they don’t take steps to remove him, using the 25th Ammendment, America is toast for the next 100 years. He doesn’t know the difference between Greenland and Iceland. Says that nobody ever helped the US since the start of NATO and that we’d all be speaking German...

Assuming that the intelligence gathering done on Greenland is a 24/7, there are likely only about 50 on duty at any one time. I wonder how many (if any) have Arctic training. They will be mainly EW operators who generally don’t do much infantry training after basic. Although they will have to...

Dave Degens of Dresda

Ever heard of MARCOM? Joint Arctic Command? Are you aware of the countries that form the Arctic Warfare Command?

No, Greenland is part of the Kingdom of Denmark. It has a degree of self determination in the same way as NI, Wales or Scotland.

Trump and Farage supported the Chagos Chaos when Truss/Sunack negotiated it. Trump seems to be forgetting that he was in favour. Just like he has denied saying that the US population will get the $2000 bonus tariffs cheques that he promised two months ago. Do you ever think he might have a bit...