
In the building industry there are hundreds of thousands of products designed for specific uses. Some are highly engineered and others are quite simple but efficient. When a product is used for it’s designed purpose things go well and we live safe, warm and dry in our homes and venues that we visit or work in. But on the other hand sometimes a product is used for something it wasn’t intended for. The picture on the left was (is?) a nail. It is made of steel and is about 90mm x 4mm. Shot from a gas powered nail gun it is highly efficient for some aspects of carpentry. It was made in the last decade and now has very little value of what it was originally intended to do. What you see in the photo is not it’s original design! The other building product... Read More