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Really great to see so many here letting the youngsters get involved and not wrapping them up in cotton wool. The odd hurt finger or two teaches them more that never exposing them to risk. Although the pneumatic floor nailer looked a bit OTT in one pic😁 By nine year old, we were melting lead...

I have a dumpy bag of crushed slate. more wood turned up thursday 200 lengths of Tg&v for roof sarkin and inside back wall, 10 more 6x2 for decking to go in front and to left, 40 cls for stud walls and 100 shiplap for back and two sides. £2200!

Three, pushing thirteen! Little angel is always asking can I help, what does that do? Type questions I just take the time to let her use the safer tools in a very controlled environment. Scares the S*** out of granny though. Can I use the sparkly nails?(bright galv). Quite happy banging them in...

Now finished the roof skeleton with the Jack rafters cut and fitted.

After spending last summer building my new workshop, I have now embarked on a summerhouse for he good lady. After looking at various designs, she had her mind set on a pyramid roofed open fronted summerhouse. We have a corner of the garden which lent itself to a 6m x 4m structure, so I put in...

I was gifted one of those, never did cut anything within 5mm of the intended line. Total waste of worktop space. Bought a second hand Delta two wheel, and that did me fine for many years. Have fun getting that working satisfactori.

Sapele for me.

And here it is, the original complete workshop which would fit in a 6’x4’ shed Comfortably. My workshop is now fifteen times the area and is struggling for space. the table saw has the plate I used in my self build. and the replacement top for a B&D workmate which holds the circular saw or...

That’s the way to go. looking really good inside. Well done.

My first table saw in the mid 80’s was made with a black and Decker circular saw attachment mounted in a plate that was designed especially for it. The plate was let into a piece of chipboard (all hand carved recess, no routers for diy then) and a frame of dexion style angle irons. A fence of...

Yes, planning stated it had to be sympathetic to the original buildings. This estate, being built on Duchy land, had all permitted development stripped. As my workshop was attached to the house and as big as many accommodation extensions, planning insisted it matched house roof covering. (which...

There are many companies countrywide who rewind motors, we have two within fifteen miles.

it’s not a problem per say, but your construction has to meet the load. My workshop build was dictated by the planning condition that I had to use slate or fibre cement slate roof tiles. Even the fibre cement meant a 1800kg - 2000kg load, which dictated a heavier rafter structure, which...

Nails, from a pneumatic coil nailer or Paslode type if you can scabby one for a weekend. They are very efficient and don’t beat the structure about like a hammer does.

Agree with Artie, if the system allows for a company to trade and not pay ‘fair’ tax, it’s the system that needs changing to prevent it. Tax avoidance is not the same as tax evasion. Now we’re out the EU this type of trading should be really easy to tax at local levels, keeping tax revenue in...

Again, if you’re in Mid Somerset, a bargain to be had here. £10.00 compound mitre saw.

Anyone in Somerset need a bandsaw, this is in superb condition, bargain at £200. Mid Somerset.. click the link here. nothing to do with me, just passing it on. On market place

Please don’t take this as a negative or derisory post, I love seeing other fellows builds. You’re probably looking at a ten year life for your floor supports, and you are putting the whole of the weight of the building on your fixings, not the support posts, by fixing them to the sides of the...

Yes, fireline was specified, twice the fire resistance of standard. Rockwool RW45 is better at acoustic insulation. I need that acoustic dampening rather than the absolute best thermal insulation. I don’t know the best insulation as far as fire resistance.

I bought the 350+ New for my workshop build last year with the intention of moving it on after. Since then though it has been used on fencing, a framing project at the local bowls club, creation of an arbour and, now planning has been approved, a pavilion sized summerhouse in the garden. I have...