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So, building regs to one side, any advice on how to make one? Frame cross sections and pointers toward pivot mechanisms would be really handy if I have to take drawings to the council….

For different jobs, I use different methods for marking out. Sticking on a pattern and carving through it for some jobs, tracing around a stencil, or pricking through a pattern and dusting. It all depends. Laying out a lettering project on a 2m tall cross in a dark coloured timber in this...

Mmmm, the gorilla who “fitted” my windows was FENSA registered and in high winds my windows can rival any harmonica for tone qualities (while he charged me 2 days pay per window ). Guess I’ll have to have a chat with the council then.

I get the TSG, but the window doesn’t overlook a neighbour and I’m not moving the lintel, so informing the council is a surprise. If it’s a (pivoting) window, not a new door, then there’s no change of function?

My better half wants to double the height of a kitchen window, installing a single 2m x 1m window almost to floor level using a double glazed panel in a softwood timber frame as costs will be virtually nil if we can scrounge the glazing from the “please take” pile at our local UPVC workshop, I...

So, for carving, I like to lay out the pattern on the wood with a pen, usually a biro or roller-ball nib as the ink doesn’t soak into the timber. The problem with this is the roller ball needs constant refreshing on a bit of paper as the ink won’t flow properly. Anyone able to recommend a good...

Sea Egg was a famous little boat at 12’ loa. Smallest yacht to cross the Atlantic for many years. I guess it keeps harbour fees low when you can pick up the boat and carry it up the beach 😃😃😃😃

You circumnavigated on a 17’ boat?! That’s incredible. That has to be one of the smallest boats to achieve that

Conversations like this I find massively triggering after asking, on a cycling forum I belonged to,(I have been a long distance cyclist and motorcycle rider) and following a situation where a large group of club riders created a particularly difficult situation for a large number of other road...

Anyone know where I can source a self-coloured (black/grey) striker plate to receive a latch 60mm from the leading edge of the door frame?

I always prefer old tools, but, you have to choose carefully and expect to sharpen.

Marcos was one of my favourite manufacturers, Frank Costin is probably my favourite engineer, perhaps even more than Colin Chapman. I even owned a late incarnation Mini Marcos for a year or three. 1275 powered it was both fast and quirky - I loved it.

Going down a rabbit hole, Nieuport-Astra were using multi-layered laminations set at 90 degrees to build record breaking racers. The curves on that fuselage are amazing,

So I spent some time searching on line, some arguments over whether all those rivets are copper or aluminium, the gorgeous wheel covers are a much later addition (mahogany riveted to aluminium base apparently); the coppering of the underside is later too. The “skin” is mahogany over “something...

More a question about the bodywork really

It’s Friday evening and getting late, idle thoughts time. I thought I’d read up a bit on the “tulipwood” Hispano-Suiza and was surprised to find it was 1/8” mahogany strips riveted to stringers (https://silodrome.com/hispano-suiza-h6c-tulipwood-torpedo/ ) I wondered, if one were to build a...

There is an adjoining room

Was more thinking of noise insulation rather than thermal

Ok, so, studding. I have put up a few (literally, I have built four over the past 2 decades) . The framing out and door lining I understand but I normally don’t bother plastering over the plasterboards, just using lining paper as a quick fix. My better half has been known to change her mind...