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Hi, I wouldn't usually do this but I'm getting desperate. I've been unemployed for coming up to a year. Up until September of last year I was working for the public sector on a project teaching media skills to under-served and at-risk people. A charity approached the public sector organisation...

I've got the 3M mask with replaceable filters. Ideally I'd have gone for powered respirator but the cost, weight during extended use and excess power consumption steered me away. The 3M is great. I get my filters on eBay - I'm fairly certain they have fallen off the back of a truck or...

If she's already managed to get her phone set up and get online then she probably has something of an idea what she's doing. It's probably worth mentioning that people being taken advantage of on the Internet is the exception rather than the rule, it's just the news that makes it seem as if it's...

Didn't realise there were any more Wiganers on here. Out of curiosity, where do you buy your hardwoods?

We had two black bins at our last place, and two green at our current one despite having more bedrooms here, which should mean more people in the house to fill the black bins up, and a much less demanding garden meaning the green bins hardly see any use. Sent from my LG-H815 using Tapatalk

I have a set of two. They've seen light use over the past year or so and unfortunately the clamping pressure hasn't lasted. One is just okay, another really struggles to keep hold of anything. I've had some decent stuff from Aldi, tools wise, but I've thrown the clamps in with the sandpaper as...

Well I know what I'm doing once I get this shed built.

There's a road near me called Laburnum Road. I assume the front gardens used to be lined with laburnums but they should probably rename it Pitbull Road these days. I don't know about being easy to turn. I have a few blocks that just laugh at me and blunt my tools. I'm wondering if they're...

Didn't want to start a new thread so thought I would hijack a post on here. I'm building a workbench next week, and I have a lot of very good pine from the spare room bed. It's one of those low beds that's about 6" off the floor, which would look alright in a modern house, but we've decided we...

Is there a reasonably priced version of the cole jaw out there somewhere, or is it possible to make your own relatively easily?

Got them out, turns out that they were completely plastic with no metal parts and the two I tried to remove before posting were a bit knackered which is why they weren't coming out easily.

There are two veneered MDF cabinets on the wall of one of our new spare rooms, as well as a wardrobe. I'm trying to take the cabinets down and put them away in the loft until we move out because we have another large wardrobe that I want to put against that wall instead. The problem is that...

I asked in the Warrington branch of Axminster and the chap said that Sorby was a competitor so they don't sell their stuff. Sent from my LG-H815 using Tapatalk

Theres a UJK mini jig available. I have it and if you clamp it firmly then it's a decent bit of kit. Avoid the Axminster pocket hole drill bits, however. They can't seem to figure out how to stop the bit snapping at the point where it becomes thinner. Get a cheap Chinese one off ebay, I...

It surprises me that Frank hasn't shelled out for a coring system given his interest in engineering. I'd half expect him to build his own. Sent from my LG-H815 using Tapatalk

Is there much difference in difficulty between buying a shed from a website and buying the materials to build to my own specifications? How much of a pre-built is actually done for you?

I'm moving at the weekend to finally get away from this old, leaky money sink. I'm after a new shed for the new place, but I'd like to keep the cost at a minimum so I think I'll probably end up getting the cheapest 8x10 that I can. My first question is about the difference in bargain sheds. The...

My local chippy were celebrating the result of the "independence day", as they kept calling it, when we went to get some fish and chips on the day after the vote. They immediately raised all their prices and have now closed for two weeks while the owner goes to Spain. Anyway, maybe I should...

A few people on here are working out of 6 x 8 wooden sheds so you have some enviable space. A lot of people tend to recommend a bandsaw over a table saw if you want to save some floor space. A table saw takes up a lot of room, especially if you include space to maneuver around it; imagine...

I had one. Not sure what happened to it but it's probably in one of the junk drawers. I'm moving house at the weekend so I imagine it will show up. I'll make a post once I find it.