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I’ve taken a punt on an online supplier for some Iroko bench slates because none of my local suppliers had any. It’s been nearly 3 weeks now with the bank holidays (they quoted up to 10 working days) … is this normal or have I been spoiled by the next day delivery I’m used to with consumer...

Thanks to this group I found Tuff Saws for all my bandsaw blade needs, does the group have a similar recommendation for mitre saw blades? An small business or recommended manufacturer?

I've been asked to make a plinth for a local football club so they can have the match ball on display in the run up to the start of the game, like they do in the Premier League nowadays. My question is, would something like Hydrofugo or Medite's MRMDF if they were painted, be up to the job of...

Other than the blade not being tracked properly, what else can cause a band saw to wander to the right like this? (I know, a table saw would be ideal but I don’t have one.) It’s Iroko wood so very hard but it’s dry. The one piece I have cut was under a lot of tension and warped straight away...

I normally use the extension arms to make repeated cuts the same length, using them as stop blocks. What can you do to “extend” your stop blocks past the end of the reach?

The place I’m using as my workshop is rented and inside a metal shipping container with plastic lining on the walls, not something I could really screw into even if I was allowed. I want to put up a temporary stud wall to kind of line the inside, but I don’t want to do the whole thing, I want...

I collected the keys to a shipping container the other day that's fitted out quite nicely to be a workshop. Before I start moving anything in, I'd like to get it insured but it's too far away from my house to be covered by my home & contents insurance. I've tried the NFU as suggested on...

I'm on the lookout for somewhere I can set up a workshop in High Green, Stocksbridge, Chapeltown, Hoyland ... that kind of area. I can't build one at home so that's why I'm on the lookout. Something about the size of a single garage would be fine, it's only for my hobby stuff so I'm not after a...

A few months ago I started collecting the price of various sheet goods from a bunch of UK suppliers, I've got data for OSB, hard & softwood ply, all 18mm 1220x2440 and 2.4m lengths of C16 Here's some graphs I made from the data I collected, they show prices are coming down, but not very fast.

I’ve just finished giving the changing rooms at my local club a kick of paint, and to finish off the project I want to refinish the benches. The room is used by both footballers and crickets and the cricketers boots in particular are tough on the wood. What hard wearing, waterproof finish...

I'm trying to work out what the best plan of action is to lay a laminate floor in our bathroom. The bath is curved rather than straight so I don't fancy scribing the whole width of the bathroom across multiple boards. I was just going to lay the boards long and put the curved plastic back on...

Evenin all, I'm Stuart, a software developer by trade but during a 2 month layoff in March/April 2020 I started doing some DIY around the house, watching a few videos on Youtube (10 Minute Workshop & Gosforth Handyman mainly and Freebird Interiors on Insta) because my daughter wanted some...