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Hi all So, prices I have access to are £38 per board for Caberwood Pro MRMDF and £50 per board for Medite MRMDF. 18mm I’ve always used medite, and had a Quick Look at the Caberwood. The surface is not as smooth on the Caberwood, and it’s green throughout (which I don’t mind). The core seems...

I bought one from Lidl, useful for electrical work but that’s it because they don’t have much torque. I’ll try and find the link

Hi all Where are people buying their laminate flooring these days? The last time, I bought from Costco, which was great quality (12mm with underlay glued on) and priced well - it was for a busy area so needed something hard-wearing. Now I'm looking for something that is good value. Doesn't...

Since i Have tips on the brain: A great way to clean your saw blades is to use a clothes washing liqui-tab thingy. I put my blade in a shallow container (plastic usually) and break in a couple of liquitabs so that the blade is covered. I sometimes add a bit of water if the liquid is too thick...

There are some instructions online about how to perfectly calibrate the Festool tracksaw, specifically the Toe in / out, using a piece of paper. Great thing is, the Parkside (Lidl) has the same calibration mechanism. I followed the Festool guide, and had my Lidl making perfectly glue ready...

This is a clone of the Lidl saw https://amzn.eu/d/0c7lD56B

I’ve been where you are. Tried everything: aluminium extrusion as a guide, made my own wooden track, because I owned a good circular saw. I bought a Lidl track saw - it’s excellent. Track saw will make your wood working life better and you won’t regret it. I now also have a dewalt track saw for...

Hi I need to fit some LED cabinet lighting. The options are many and I’ve never done this before. I want a combination of strip lighting down the inside of a cupboard, and spot lights under the shelves (or similar). I think I’ve landed on using the Hafele Loox5 system of drivers and switches...

Open time on the everbuild D4 is closer to 10 mins, maybe 15 max, in my experience. Titebond 3 is my favourite glue, but I use it so infrequently a bottle goes bad, and it’s not the cheapest…

Hard to judge size and issue without a photo. Can you post one? How deep are the indentations? and is it so bad that the surface area which needs to be glued is now much less as a result? I doubt it. I would go with a D4 glue like this...

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Katsu now do a cordless router that takes a Makita battery.

Unfortunately not :-(

I'm very very happy with my Medite MRMDF as an MFT. Learning from experience, I would buy a pre-drilled CNC top from somewhere, to ensure 100% accuracy, unlike what I have. I used an MDF template, but because my router had a fraction of a MM out of alignment, it compounded and now I can't use...

I buy mine from Costco. £5 for 200. They don't last more than one use however, but pretty cheap.

Hi! I replaced almost all my dining room and hallway joists. 4x2 is fine for downstairs, where you have sleeper walls. The 6x3 or 7x3 are mostly for upstairs, where they need to carry the load for a room's full span. My advice is just use 4x2, at around 300mm or 400mm centres. Add 4x2...

wow that price is just ridiculous. You can get cheapy unbranded ones off eBay, but Trend (a good brand) also do one for £20 https://www.amazon.co.uk/Trend-SNAP-Snappy-Stepped-Drill-Silver/dp/B004MNPE0C/ (remember there are 7mm and 4mm variants)

I have used pocket holes. It could work. You can also strategically place the pocket holes from the inside so they don't all need to be filled and sanded. My biggest issue with the Pocket holes was that when tightening them, you need to make sure you have some good clamps, because they tend to...

I asked an AIGen image generator to create an image on a wizard created a festool TS55. This is what is gave me! haha. Comedy nonsense

It's a lot more complicated to make those tools than I thought! lots more robotics than I expected. I wonder how Makita make theirs.