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However if you, like me, work and have a family you will find the majority of the time you spend woodworking is in the evening under lights. I put a series of windows in my workshop as a token effort but I assumed I'd be working under lights 99% of the time and made a decent effort to get plenty...

Ask Shadowfax though! As a resident fireman, he put me off polystyrene, although I did use it in my first workshop. Could the OP raid a few builders skips for some Kingspan/Jablite? Its just the stuff and fire resistant! Adam

I fitted four sets of double 6 foot. The "office" style ones that only display downwards. A) Becuase they were free, & B) It protects the lamps when you are swinging long bits of timber around. They have saved me from a glass shower on several occasions now. :shock: Adam

I have used unbranded refills but twice the printer has complained and I've been lumbered with unusable cartridges. Adam

Careful, you need to work out which side your plastic damp proof sheet goes (on the inside, close to the internal panels), and your moisture permeable membrane on the outside (under the shiplap) to allow it to breathe outwards only. I'm not sure about back filling with newspaper - I don't have...

If you do talk to anyone do call it a "SHED" not a workshop. Add workshop to your list of banned words when dealing with officials. Shed sounds small, and temporary and not intrusive, workshop brings the idea of noise etc etc. Adam

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think 15m sq internall is where it start to get borderline - try talking to your local authority. The 15m sq is a building control rule - they start to worry about flammability and roof loadings above a certain size, wheras planning worry about buildings over 4m high and above a certain...

I'm fed up with replacing expensive ink cartridges, and wondered if now is the time to take the plunge on a colour laser printer. It will not, ever, be used for photos as I prefer to send these off for printing, its purely for "home-business" type use, mostly black, but occasionally items in...

Not necessarily, only if it's really big. (I mean really really big). If its "small" (and thats still vastly large enough to be a workshop) then you should be fine. What are the internal (ignore any overhangs etc) dimensions you are hoping to achieve? Adam

Not all the rules apply simultaneously. Can you provide either a plan, or a description of your garden layout/house/boundaries/nearby roads - that might be easier. I can host a picture if you can draw something and email it me, or if you know how to add images pop something up for us to see! Adam

Remember lots of buildings come under building regulations but not planning. I think most authorities would be fine with a wooden building at the bottom of a garden closer than 1m, although I did put mine at 1m, and the gap has proved useful. I think, strictly speaking the 1m rule only applies...

I'd say its co-ax and thats an "F" type connector on it. You can simply unscrew it with a pair of pliers, move the box, and connect it back up. Or extend the cable with an extension, although I'm not sure about getting an extension made up. When I had mine installed, I got the bloke to provide...

Why is the 20m a problem? Is it because you are on a corner plot? Or are you planning to build it in front of your house? If its behind, it should be fine regardless of the distance. Someone here successfully built a large shed against a boundary wall against a main road I remember, the...

I used one and they sorted out a variety of scratches on both cars. One set of scratches (from a crash rather than a scrape) he was honest and said he would only be able to make it look cosmetically better rather than a perfect result, but all the others, including a patch of rust on an awkward...

I'd dig back through the workshop/projects section of this forum, and study each photo in detail, maybe by saving to your harddrive and looking in detail. There has been quite a few going back a while (so you may have missed a few) and I'd be tempted to write notes on anything you like/things...

That looks really good. You must be pleased. Rubbish, a bit of reorganisation (albeit temporarily) and I'm sure you'd be fine.... :wink: :lol: Adam

Devon, You can add some Turpentine (pure stuff not substitute) and/or White Spirit. Have you left the lid off at all? Or slightly open? This would allow the solvent to evaporate and make it go hard Alternatively, use it quicker! I get through them far faster than that - do you not rewax your...

I have the TS2500 (the old style one with aluminium). I guess I bought it just before the explosion of "cheap" cast iron models, and although I love it, ones such as the SIP seem to be good value for money. I think when it comes to tablesaws that a big beefy model takes up so little more...