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You have existing heating in place, so all of the interior cost is sorted. You simply need the source of heat. Thoughts: Modern gas boilers - efficient, but picky, need a lot of servicing. When we had one, we certainly weren't winning on costs. The joke in the trade is that they use less...

Bits are consumable wear items. You wouldn't want a super hard bit or it would shatter and /or trash the screws. You also lose them pretty regularly. DeWalt bits are actually pretty good. Festool Centrotec are better - you don't lose them because you take the whole chuck off the drill...

The advice you appear to be giving is that whether you are trained or not, the sensible thing to do is to walk away. The liability risk is too great to get involved. Sounds a bit like the PCSO who wouldn't save a drowning child from a pond because he wasn't qualified to do it. Seems odd...

This is important. Get proper screws - Spax are way out there in quality and consistency. The have sharp points, self cutting starter threads and countersinks built into the head. With these, you need no pilot, no countersink, nothing - just screw them in. Yes they are a bit more...

We've clearly had plenty of brood all winter. We had orientation flights last week! We were waiting for a proper protracted cold spell, but it looks like we are just going to have to get on and treat.

Oooo-argh. Man comes in metal bird from across the great river. Must clean mud hut and slaughter children to appease the gods. Oooo-argh. Seriously... Wood isn't a problem, you can get whatever you want, though Cedar can be pricey (uneconomical to build your own hives). In terms of...

Best advice on this is from the Daily Mash:

When plod starts nicking people for tailgating on the motorway, I'll start to believe that they are serious about road safety. You can drive past a jam sandwich at 70 about 6 feet from the car in front, and they'll do nothing. If you blow past them on an empty motorway at 90, they'll nick...

Ultimately, it doesn't matter what the satnav companies do - there is a technology platform there, and people will exploit it. If we assume that in 10 years, pretty much every car will be connected to the internet, and that cars will "talk" to each other about traffic conditions etc, then...

This is the important bit. What does it do for the user that they cannot do with current products. How will they do it? Why? This is called "Functional Design", and it comes at the start of the development process. Lots of people (and quite large organisations) forget this bit and end up...

Ones bee suit is always pristine, ironed and starched before engaging with the bees. Doesn't everyone have a G&T delivered on a silver salver after inspecting each hive? [wakes up] No, my bee suit is the grubby thing covered in bee poo. It gets washed when it smells.

Agree entirely, I am not against dog ownership in the slightest (as I said, we have one).

The only problem I have with rehoming dogs is that you are sharing the house with an animal that could quite easily rip your face off if it put its mind to it. OK, we have a German Shepherd, which is a pretty big and capable dog, but you get the idea. An anecdote to illustrate. When I was...

Starett. Some of mine are 15 years old, have done tons of plasterboard, hardwood, softwood, ply. Never had a problem with any of them.

The youngest at 2 and a half. The secret of teaching a child to ride is to have an older brother who can do it. The youngest was so angry about this that he simply got on and rode the thing.

Sure, take the output of the average Chinese factory and put it through proper quality control and you'll get some good products. You'll get a very big pile of rejects too which they don't tell you about. Chinese Manufacturing + Quality Control = good product, same price as anything else...

I buy quality, regardless of location. If a British item has the quality, then I will buy it (and am probably willing to pay a bit more for a locally made product). This is pretty self excluding for Chinese products (which are currently rubbish), but let's face it, Japanese stuff was...

That vid looks like a really good way of getting a saw in your face if you are sloppy with the "up and down" part of it. If you are sloppy and miss a bit.... then the sideways cut may suddenly have an awful lot of work to do. I would be willing to do that with a plunge saw, because the...

The foxes know something is killing them, they know humans are bad news, and they will put 2 and 2 together pretty fast. Rather than seeing them looking at you at 20 yards, you won't see them at all. The good thing about a rifle is you can find somewhere warm and comfortable to hole up....

While they're at the "not scared of humans" stage, you'll get a few with the shotgun, but they'll wise up pretty quickly when they realise the man with the funny looking stick was the reason Uncle Freddy didn't come home last night. At that point you're up on the barn roof for a few evenings...