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Hi Gary Just saw the drawing of your planned overhang. Are you still planning on doing this? I'm building the slowest workshop in the world with a similar roof construction to yours and my shed will also (eventually) have an overhang though in my case no more than a foot or so. I'd be a bit...

Tommy Walsh sounds like an interesting character. I can see him now sitting in his hydraulic shed, eyes glinting manically as he strokes the neighbours white cat. "Do you expect me to talk BloWalsh?" "No Mr Bond. I expect you to dig that hole just a little bit deeper." My own plans for world...

I'm seriously impressed at just how fast some of you guys work and thought you might like to kick back for a change, relax and enjoy a rare opportunity to wonder/laugh at just how long it can take a fumbling amateur to put together four walls, a roof and a floor in a fashion which hopefully will...

I'm up to floor level on my new workshop and also used hardcore/sand/paving slabs. Worksop is 20x12 and the floor framing sits on 3 long rows of British Standard Paving. That's the stuff they use on pavements. Its 2" thick, 2' wide, quite cheap and widely available. Mind you laying 60 feet of...

Thanks Old. I think I'll keep the gap. Extra insurance to cover all the holes I'm bound to make in the vapour barrier. I'm intending doing a thread on the build and have been collecting photos as I go. Rain though keeps holding up play! At the moment I have a hole in the ground which measures...

Just looked up the Lambeth website which defines a temporary structure as "a building which is not intended to be erected for more than 28 days". While I was there I looked again at the planning pages and I was wrong on my previous post. A shed bigger than 30m2 doesn't necessarily need planning...

I've been busy researching how best to put togther the timber framed walls on a new build workshop and one things still puzzles me. The layers I have in mind are, from the inside: 1) internal cladding 2) vapour barrier 3) insulation 4) breatheable membrane 5) air gap (air flow runs...

I've recently looked into the same issue for my own workshop project and Jake's remarks above are spot on. Less than 15m2 and you don't need to worry which is why you see many garden sheds built right up to fence. 15-30m2 is premitted development (providing you don't cover too much garden or...

Many thanks guys. Looks like a Freud or a CMT then. The saw is not the most flexible SCMS on the market but it was cheap (£240) and uniquely these days it uses an induction motor so shouldn't upset the neighbours too much when I use it a lot outside on my workshop build.Groundwork is finally...

I have an Axminster QMS2451 SCMS. I just wondered whether anyone can suggest an aftermarket blade which might be a significant improvement on the TCT blade supplied with the saw? It takes 10" or 254mm blades with a 30mm bore. I remember reading somewhere a view that much of the fine cutting...

Rutlands are pushing their MHG range very hard. Has anyone tried them?

These guys have some good industrial designers. Very cool looking kit. Wonder, though, why they didn't use an induction motor? BTW funny that you lived near Haarlem. I did too many years ago, in Hillegom....

Manufacturers of tools and other products are always looking for new "features" to woo buyers with. Often IME worthless ones. And yet they can overlook such obviously beneficial developments for so long. Incredible really.

Wouldn't that be a good idea! You'd need to find space for a kettle socket in each tool and then cut into the casework to install it. Unfortunately I think these problems would make the project too difficult. It's such a fantastic solution though I'm surprised it hasn't been copied by all the...

Don't know about you lot but I enjoy the design part of a project most of all. My ex would doubtless put this down to an absence of any need for committment but I really just like the freedom and the buzz you get from working out how to do something all by yourself. Or with a few friends! So in...

Yo Alf Thanks for the welcome.. Haven't been watching this forum for very long so I might have gotten some or all of this wrong. Is that you are the only girl on the forum? And do you have some kind of a rep for buying tools like some girls buy shoes? And is there some todo about making a...

that and "Building a Shed - Like a Pro". How did you guess?

Thought I really ought to introduce myself before tapping y'all for free advice. I was raised in one of these old fashioned Scottish families who would never pay experts to do anything they themselves could bodge for free. Despite this huge advantage I have remained for most of my 45 years...