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Sorry Bob I read your post as you were fitting into an alcove with a back and two sides. I would think the Medite would hold up structurally but if its in a high foot traffic area off a garage it may not be as dent and scuff proof as a particular ply? don't know. I used it to re-skin an up and...

I would strike a plumb line center of the back wall and both the side walls. From these lines check into the corners for both plumb and square off each other. Any old square thing will do, just make a mark at say waste height, out from the corner at the line on the square and check into the...

I used this for an exterior project last July and used the off cuts to make a planter, left in its raw state, it's still as good as the day I made it, fantastic stuff. It's not cheap but well worth the extra cost where wet areas are involved and if it's to be painted...

For fixing brass eyelets in fabric perhaps?

I would rip off the uncle ned and check out the timber / or whatever the construction is beneath. This could be in a sorry state if there has been any water ingress. If you have never had a brush with wet or dry rot you should rejoice in the fact that you don't know what you've missed, it's...

Ahh, I see what you mean, thanks. The guy making the mud huts has me enthralled, the video of him making those drills... =D> fantastic stuff. You know, I find that so much more impressive than just about anything I've seen from the digital world, proper natural inventiveness and proper human...

Sorry if I'm a bit thick but what channel? and what is AvE??

Sorry, but what are you talking about??? :?

Bugger that, I lost an hour there before I knew it. Fantastic stuff =D> Handy for someone without a pot to p...

Without doubt the most endearing, learned, best presented and watchable videos, are these from this lovely guy from America, Louis Sauzedde. He just reminds me of the men I served my time with, a master of his subject, craft, tools and a great teaching presence. This Skiff build is just a...

If you don't mind me asking, what is the tread timber? and what is the riser finish to be? is it interior or exterior, and what level and type of foot traffic will it have to handle? An interior office stairwell will be different to say a set of warehouse exterior loading bay steps etc. I would...

I don't think so Steve. My dad, was a master carpenter and cabinetmaker but died when I was just five years old. You know Steve, I feel him at my shoulder when I work with wood, he is there with me, sussing it all out and boy have I made some fantastic stuff, I am very, very good at what I do...

Thanks for that mate, a brilliant thread. How good can you get one of these machines? I only bought it to cut some metal for a one off project. It has had minimal use and now I don't know whether to sell it and buy a more accurate machine. Hence the thread.

Yes its just about okay for studwork but for anything like a super accurate mitre is useless. I did knacker the original blade by cutting a good quality stainless, mega hard steel wallpaper scraper in half of all things, sparks everywhere and it took forever and that was that blade shagged out...

Don't forget the crotchless earmuffs and of course the original cordless screw drivers, claw and club hammers.

Advice please. I bought an evolution rage mitre saw a few years ago (http://www.screwfix.com/p/evolution-rag ... 110v/21252) I think it is this one, to cut up angle iron etc for a ram press I was building and it did a very good job of doing this, I have no complaints at all about it for that...

And a bottle opener

Its a mess Noel, draw a line under the stress and write it off! Move on with the hard earned lesson mate. You can only suffer more grief here regardless. Get a no win no fee psycho to to take it off your hands and sit back and see what happens. In later life you will at least have the pleasure...

That's because you are not me, I, wanted to know.

Been there done it all and... On a 'domestic' project of that magnitude, (or even say from 100K upwards) you will invariably have the client employing an 'interior designer' who the main contractor, when they finally get to the second and finish fix stage, has fallen out with and now hates...