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Oh I thought it was some kind of sprinkler system that doused everything in the event of the alarm being triggered 🙈😆

I don’t trust myself with smart water. I’d end up forgetting i had set an alarm and cover myself in it when I nip out to the garage for a bottle of wine or something 🥴

When I was a victim the police gave me a crime number before they even came to my house, and the insurance company paid out based on the crime number. I didn’t have or need cctv for it. It just feels like the kind of waste of money that people spend to make themselves feel better. Also you will...

It kinda has been mentioned. I said that when I was the victim, the thieves took a lot of tools that weren’t worth much money from me that were left to me by my dad when he passed away in my 20’s. He and I weren’t aligned on tool buying so he ascribed to the “it’ll do” philosophy, where as I’m...

Is cctv actually a deterrent? Like I would have thought that if I was a criminal that wearing a balaclava, or a hat and face covering would be an easy way around rendering the cctv useless.

That’s seems such a strange stance to me. Like where do they draw the line? If you have a bench top thicknesser is that okay? But floor mounted isn’t? Or are they basing it on power? Bed width? How about powered hand planers? I could understand them refusing if it was a tool of your trade, but...

Interesting, on what grounds? Are you a professional and they’re a tool of your trade?

Yeah I see your point. I was thinking if it’s bike locked to a wall then it could make the tools sufficiently difficult to access, but I guess if they were bringing an angle grinder with them then I guess I’m just gift wrapping my tools for them.

Yeah that was one of my concerns, if I find it frustrating to use then I’ll end up not using it and just leaving all my tools in the top. My thoughts were that I only need to unlock it at the start and lock it at the end of each day, so it’s not a case of having to lock and unlock with every...

How were your tools stored within your workshop Andrew? Once they had broken in was it just a simple case of pick everything up and walk off, or did they have to break into storage cabinets too? As I said in in a previous post I’m considering investing in big metal storage cabinets to prevent...

Isn’t that how organised crime gangs started extortion brackets back in the day? 🤔 They sent some people in to smash shops up and burgle them. Then they sent other people in asking for payment to stop the people smashing and burgling. When they received payment they would leave that shop alone...

I had my shed broken into in my last house and they took off with all of my tools. To be honest they didn’t steal much of financial value as I was just starting out. But they stole almost every tool I had inherited from my dad who had died a couple of years before, so I was pretty devastated...

Ooops! 😆

What’s your budget, and what’s she likely to use it for? If she’s anything like my sister then light and less powerful would be better, and so if so, you’re probably after a drill driver. In which case i got a cheapo one from B&Q ages ago, it’s made by mccallister, the weight is really well...

😳 I’ve recently started watching a YouTube channel for ‘sawyer design’ and he makes some nice stuff, but he has some of the most sketchy practices and he almost celebrates it. He started a catchphrase of “not your fingers, not your problem” and has been trying to sell T-shirts on it. It...

Probably not entirely true. …I imagine there’s no finger left to slice after about 5 or 6 🙃

Yeah I know they can be savage, I’ve had a friend cut his thumb to the bone with one. It was stupid of me. Similar to you, the clamp on my dewalt is also a PITA, so I just told myself “it’s okay I’ll be careful” (the irony isn’t lost on me) and so made a cut holding the workpiece by hand...

I see where you’re coming from, but I still don’t have anyone watching over my shoulder to point out any mistakes I’m making, so I worry complacency/hubris /divine intervention may still mean I need to take my socks and shoes off to count to 10. I have on rare occasion, when it’s getting...

Does anyone have any hands-on experience with one of these? I’ve always been put off by them not being a cabinet saw. I’ve never used a table saw but I’ve read/heard many times that contractor saws aren’t very accurate.

I’m not sure it’s to do with the power but rather the regulations that have prevented sawstop from entering the European market. I’m pretty sure both the Harvey and Laguna saws made to be sold in Europe are different to the rest of the word. I’m not sure which specific regulation stops them...