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Having the panels cut to size precisely will be a big bonus. I did this last year. The interiors of the cabinets are finished with Mann's interior water based varnish - I would recommend this product, and suggest in general a varnish/lacquer is much more suited to a kitchen's hard life than oil...

Thanks both for the replies. The YouTube video has made me feel more relaxed about my situation - the guy is using studs the same size as I am intending to and each one seems to be able to take about 50kg of weight applied at a distance of what looks to be a little over 300mm, so somewhere above...

I'm currently building a pair of shelves for the kitchen, each will be around 2400mm long and 280mm wide. They are a torsion box construction and I'll be attaching them to the walls using steel studding resin-fixed into the walls. My concern is that as kitchen shelves, they will be taking quite...

One of the bearings on my saw recently started making a very unpleasant loud whirring sound. A bit disappointing as the saw is just over 7 years old; it's seen relatively heavy use for a hobby saw I suppose but these things do have a finite life. Anyway, for anyone in a similar predicament this...

Well some of the dust will undoubtedly end up back on the filter, but most of it should fall away and end up in the pile of collected debris. Once the dust falls out of suspension of the airflow, it will settle out. It's not going to be as effective as cleaning out the filter with a compressed...

I have a Nilfisk Alto shop vac with a filter cleaning facility - you hit a big button on the top of the vacuum a few times and it cleans out the filter. The filter itself is a cylindrical element which is held into the vacuum by a central plastic assembly. This central assembly has a plastic...

Sorry, just seen this - as I've been asked to comment, I offer the following thoughts in the interests of providing information (categorically not taking sides in an online debate). Filters work by trapping particles as a fluid passes through a membrane with lots of tiny holes in it. A filter...

Yep, Professor MacKay's book is a great text for getting to grips with energy - accurate, accessible for the reader with limited scientific background but enough there for the technically literate to get their teeth into as well. Sadly the author was taken far too young and is no longer with us...

Beech - good to see you've crunched the numbers to make an informed decision, that landed around where I thought it would in terms of the relative benefits. Regarding some of the alternatives also listed, my own brief thoughts are: -Air source heat pumps do give you some leverage in terms of...

For a group of individuals who have collectively identified very strongly as interested solely in woodworking skills and projects, a lot has been said here without any woodworking being discussed. Christopher, I'm sorry to hear of your current circumstances - I've been fortunate enough never to...

The low pitch noise does seem out of place and sounds like bearings to me. Sent from my SM-N910F using Tapatalk

I would trust basic maths a lot more than a YouTube video. The calorific value of 28 second heating oil (aka Kerosene) is about 10.35kWh per litre; diesel is closer to ~10.8kWh/litre I think. So running at 100% efficiency and rated output, a 5kW heater will burn about 450-500ml/hr of fuel. These...

I bought this guy's plans and adapted them to my saw; I think it's the best saw fence around. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4pudkvHFOfk I added the Jessem guides to it which I think are great too. Sent from my SM-N910F using Tapatalk

Axminster sell a version of their portable thicknesser with a spiral head. Sent from my SM-N910F using Tapatalk

My garage is double skin concrete block with an insulated cavity, bare concrete floor and no roof insulation. The heater on full blast raises the temperature at about 2C/hr (it's a lot of thermal mass!). Once up to temperature, the heater sits on low for I would guess 80% of the time. The best...

Not sure where you are getting your fuel consumption figures from? My unit uses around 0.7 litres an hour on high heat and around a quarter of that on low. Given the compact size of the heat exchanger and relatively high exhaust temperature (mine is about 250C, but obviously exhaust flow rate is...

I installed one of these and wrote about it here: oil fired heater thread. Overall I'm happy with it so far. Your workshop is a fair bit bigger than mine - I wouldn't expect it to work miracles - but it would certainly be capable of keeping a well-insulated workshop at an acceptable working...

Another vote for Bosch T308B extra clean cut blades. I had to make a long cross-cut in 12mm birch ply over the weekend, as it wasn't straight (scribing a fitted cabinet panel) I had to use my Makita jigsaw rather than my track saw and was dreading what mess it was going to make. I was pleasantly...

My experience is that wall chasers and SDS drills are the best tools for finding things in walls. I've tried numerous detectors and I find them to be universally hopeless, even for live wire detection.

Learning finite element analysis for this problem is serious overkill - I wouldn't recommend it unless you find it an interesting hobby! All you need for beam deflection is Euler-Bernoulli beam theory. Solutions for common usage cases of cantilever and simply supported beams are widely...