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Whilst the garage will be forward of a line drawn on from the front facade of the house I do have the opportunity to ensure that the garage is not directly in front of the house (as yours is Bodone), which gives me some hope. It would probably necessitate knocking down the existing garage to...

the bulk of the garage is in our back garden, that's not an option unfortunately (it would be a lot easier ofc)

I certainly plan to have demolition as an option to get past planning. Whether that gets past the wife is another matter. As for the aesthetics, it doesn't sit well with me for sure. I think you're right to flag it up and I should probably have a deeper think about whether that would make...

Whilst I have a boundary on two sides where I hope to build, they are gardens and a small play area respectively, so no houses within close proximity, which hopefully eases things a little at least. It would be devastating not to be able to build on it, it's such a bloody waste of space...

my initial, uneducated plan.

I have a large front driveway that is begging for a new workshop, and my tiny (barely) single car garage is way too restrictive. Funds have been approved by the wife and I have a design that will fit the plot. plot is forward of the front of the house > 2.5m apex vertical height & < 2m to the...

You take a mug of tea to bed with you?

I don't know if this qualifies as "drum extractor" as being discussed above, but I have this, which worked just fine with my Triton lunchbox thicknesser. I have since bought a 1.5hp chip extractor which is laughably effective with the thicknesser (after I modified the adapter). Something like...

Yeah definitely Yeah unfortunately it's a hobby that's not likely to do much more than pay for itself and provide some lovely presents, which when I put it like that doesn't sound too bad.

The end result was well received

That's fabulous. I'd love to hear about what goes in to making something like that?

Beautiful 👌🏼

If they never get used, then I'll be happy enough with them just being a nice trinket. But half my motivation with them is to encourage the hobby, so we'll see. I've also been trying my hand at leather work during the dark evenings (nice hobby in front of the tv), so I made a leather case for...

After epoxying the brass ends on, I was able to clean them up and refine their size a little on the disc sander, and then it was time for some finish. I used hard wax oil as I figured that knitting needles are going to be handled a lot and take a hit of a beating.

A particular favourite of mine, is a Classic Mini desk that was featured on an early episode of Grand Designs. Doesn't sound like what you're after, but I rave about this desk at any opportunity. I find pinterest to be really helpful for inspiration. I generally keep a few boards that I...

The first few in the batch all used the same sized (too big) blanks, and were passed through various hole widths in the dowel jig, working my way up (down) to the correct diameter. This resulted in some fairly wonky needles and I learned that ensuring the blanks were just a hair over their...

It’s our 7th wedding anniversary soon and my wife has taken up knitting, so at the last minute I decided to attempt to make a set of 7 knitting needles. Only problem is, I have no lathe. I created a dowel cutting jig from some sheet metal and some blanks to attempt to turn in to cylinders and...

Nope, you've gotta show it. Let the viewers judge whether there are no lessons to be learned from it. You'd be surprised the number of lessons I've learned from somebody else's hastily thrown together jig. There are always new ways of skinning the cat.

with Sammy's reassurance that I could force it back in to shape, I figured before painting the other side (turns out I couldn't be pineapples to do that either) I'd just give that a go. I over bent it back in the other direction for a few hours and then weighed it down in place and by the...

I hope that you will provide us with updates on how you resolve this