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I hope I'm not the only person in the world that didn't know about this, in fact it feels obvious after the fact but sharing it as a heads up. As a wearer of glasses I've recently discovered that you can indeed purchase prescription safety glasses. The reason this never occurred to me on my...

I didn't have a nail gun for this build. I debated getting one earlier on, but given the small build and the fact I've not fencing projects or anything coming up soon it seemed like quite an expense. From what I remember - the first few nails (that photo) were a bit rough, but once a few have...

Apologies, typo. You're right. The sheets were 1220x2440 (8ft x 4ft), but my model was based around metric measurements. My saw mill supplied the sheets which were great, but I used an online site that had a mix of sheet sizing when building my model. Basically the lesson here is, you can get...

The dry fit. I had yet to fit the noggins here but wanted to make sure things would line up and the rear wall matched the slope of the side walls. One tip I found from various sources was to build your frames on top of each other. Ideally right on the base of your build is perfect, but I had...

Another area that I spent time considering was the stud spacing. In fact I spent an embarrassing amount of time trying to figure out why my initial design was not spaced correctly in Sketch up. This was down to imperial vs metric sizes for OSB and other sheet goods. I've heard over the years of...

The build kicked into gear once the wood arrived - it was late April now. Having learned my lessons from the plinth I got this into place within the workshop on the same day as it arrived. One thing most workshop builds don't show or talk about is how much effort and time a task such as this...

The English Woodworker. You need to create an account but the video is free. I've no affiliation just a happy customer from the workbench video which I also recommend. About an hour long, very good detail. Plus a couple of other videos about use/configuration. Edit - just noticed you mentioned...

Next week I'll share the fun bit - (no, not a sharpening thread - ha) the actual framing. There was one big thing I'd do differently here so I'll share details on this in the hope it helps people out in the future. I don't have a "finished" cleaned up photo of the plinth but it does look a lot...

A close up shot at the end of the first day. Not too shabby. The messy top was me disposing of some left over mortar than was too little to use. The inside faces won't be seen of course as these will sit behind OSB so other than a quick brush down I spent no time cleaning these up. Despite the...

Up until this point I have been treating Sketch up as a plan, however once you start building something things can and do change. In this case the width of the door opening was going to be about 40mm larger. Sketchup also has the beauty of accuracy down to the mm, something that is just not the...

Late March, the plinth was started. This took three days which is terrible for a brick layer. But a few things to bare in mind. Other than minor pointing or odd repair this is the most I've ever done. Overall it was a good few hours of work but I was forced to do a bit here and there over a few...

The base was complete mid march. Note I officially started this work as of Jan 1st. In hindsight this was poor planning. Each time I stepped up to start the weather would get in the way. Mainly snow or ice. I had planned to be finished by the start of spring so I could work on the garden but...

Fully levelled off. I had just the right amount - the corners are slightly deeper but the minimum depth of 75mm worked without a drop of concrete left to spare. The benefit of using pre-mixed concrete is shown here. Once the empty bags were cleaned up there is nothing left to deal with. A...

After clearing the rubble away I setup the formwork and laid a DPM. The formwork was wedged between the fence posts and the internal concrete slabs that touch the garden. It wasn't going anywhere. I used some large spirit levels to make sure this was level - the garden slopes slightly. 31 bags...

The slabs in place match the slabs used on the patio area so these will be cleaned up and used in the garden to form a path from the steps down to the shed. Removing these revealed an interesting discovery, the base under the slabs was an existing concrete slab. This was a near oval shape...

I wasn't clear. If I omitted the use of the fence cheeks (the black components in those images) - can you use the fence on it's own so to speak? Does the fence connect down to the table with a T bolt? Thanks for replying.

The garden came with a space that was ideal for the shed so this would be the location and constrain the overall size. I had a few goals with this build. 1. Fit in the current slabbed area. 2. Stay under 2.5m in height. 3. Blend in with the garden, the two nearby bushes in particular. We want...

A bit of background. I've been reading the site for a few years now and a while back became a member in order to ask a few questions. The amount of content (entertainment + education) I've gotten from here while the missus is watching some crap on Netflix is huge so I'm going to give back...

Do those axminster fences use standard T bolts to attach the fence to the table? I have an inset router table in an MFT and fancy one of these, but I wouldn't be using the black table attachments in those images. It's not clear on the site on this part.

I was missing a piece how I thought it worked - thanks for the drawing. Searching around for "adjustable gate hinges" you can find some on Toolstation/Amazon, oddly Screwfix don't have them. Another option though. My bench build won't be till the end of the year - so I'll throw my...