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You need a decent bench anyway, Craig. That's the number one priority in any workshop.

A PT over a tablesaw every day of the week for me.

Yes. They must be two distinct buildings, leaving no opportunity to argue that it's one building divided into two. Fair enough. If, once your machinery is in place, if a building inspector did happen to get involved you could always offer to break up the bit of external concrete between the...

Is that building listed, or in the grounds of a listed building? Personally, I'd be loath to change the appearance so drastically. If you can't fix the existing, then I'd replace with something that looked all-but identical. Over-door windows are going to look wrong there.

Your kitchen hasn't been repainted since the 70s? Wow!! :)

The heat source is irrelevant. As always, it is just hot water circulating in a tank within a coil heat exchanger, so where that heat comes from makes no difference. Is a sealed system superior to a vented one with header tanks? In my view, yes, by a country mile.

I've no idea what Plastisol is....but it sounds like it might be plastic-based. If it is, I wouldn't use it. There are squillions of options if you look at a sheet material such as aluminium paneling (rainscreen)/ crinkly tin roofing, or cementitious boards, or render, or Onduline-type...

That's going to be a lovely space. Toasty and dry.

Very hard to comment without seeing photos etc, but I would always say in these circumstances to build a separate building. That way all the questions about stability of the existing and BR compliance of the total build area becomes moot. I've a friend who needed a quadruple garage, and I...

We weren't talking about Seb, but about Eshmiel, who has been banned as Jacob, and another one or two identities as well.

Coat hanger wire.

Does it work?

A friend of mine has just felled an English elm, and will be planking it shortly. It would produce a through-and-through board of getting on for 2 feet wide, I reckon. I know he'd sell me a board or two if I asked, so I could pass a suitable size piece on to you, but of course it would need...

I bet you didn't break chips out of your iron, though, on that knot.

You ought to post that in the Hand Tool sub forum, Trev. Someone there may be able to shed some light on it.

As I understand it, it's a requirement of the For Sale section that photos are posted of the items. I'd certainly be keen to see what these look like.

Surely you just unscrew a lightbulb and screw an extension into the bulb holder to run your machines and power tools? Well, if it was good enough for my dad.......... :)

Let me just add to this by saying that it isn't just the end of the blade that needs sharpening. The slightly raked-back sides are a critical part of the way these tools work, so although they don't need much sharpening, they need a bit of a clean up now regularly. Just hold each flat on your...

Stick with it Bill. It's a finicky adjuster, but an excellent tool. You barely need to touch the little adjustment lever to go from not cutting to hacking off chunks, but you'll get the hang of it. My blades don't hold an edge long, so keep on sharpening.

I'm talking about the panel into the slots. Make the frame as you did, but the panel within it has to "float", to an extent.