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We're in the process of moving from Surrey to Devon. Like you, cost is eye watering. Two and a half large vans and approaching six days end to end - and that's with us packing all but the fragile breakable items. One quote was £8500! The other two were more manageable and it's working out at...

Welcome to the forum. I'm originally from Plymouth but have lived in the south east for many years. It's a lovely part of the world - sea and moors all within a short distance but with most things you could need from a city close at hand. We're in the throws of relocating back to Devon -...

Using mine to build rocker plates for my turbo trainer :

So, you're one of the eight, are you? I love Top Gear Magazine - it makes my day.

We're in the process of selling and buying. The important thing with property is to get posted in the property portals, primarily RightMove, and a few of the others such as Zoopla and On the Market. I'm not aware of a way to get on them unless you are with an agent of some sort. I would avoid...

I've only just seen this Phil. How devastating for you. So sorry to hear this news. A few weeks ago I discovered that a fitter who used to work for us had died from Covid - older than your son at 41, but, un-jabbed, and so tragic for his family. I can't begin to imagine how terrible you must...

I also have two of them. The first one was purchased back in about 1987 and is pressed steel with ply laminated top. It's heavy, sturdy and decent. The second was purchased in about 2014 and put to work in our business. It feels light, tacky and cheaply made. It does the job but I'm forever...

I'll be poor if she goes first - she isn't into fancy clothes, shoes or make up ...... ..... which means that I get to have nice tools, cars, bikes and watches while she's still alive and I can enjoy them ;)

I started out doing an apprenticeship working for another of those big companies, albeit a little further down the road, an outfit called Plessey. I did well with them and got an electronics degree by the end. The initial pay was rubbish. Even after getting my degree, it was still rubbish. I...

It was fantastic to see that again Phil - I've not seen it for years.

Welcome Pete, That's a well filled workshop! While I love the turning, the moorland view is quite breath taking. Although living up near London these days, I'm from the other side of the Tamar and Dartmoor comes to mind in your picture. Fingers crossed, we'll be living back near there soon.

I bought a very cheap set way back, I think it was a low budget 1/4" Aximinster box set. I learned a lot about routing simply by playing with this set on a small hand held router. What I learned with this allowed me to choose a more useful and robust range of bits for hand held as well as...

I bet your neighbours love you ;)

Warm water in a bucket, a few caps of bleach and a splodge of cold water washing powder or liquid . Agitate it nicely in a bucket and then soak the deck with water (make sure the sun isn't on it). Then scrub the solution into the deck with a stiff brush and leave it there for at least 15...

I will never take any car that I own car to a car wash - ever. Equally, I don't spend hours and hours cleaning them on my driveway. I agree totally with what manicminer has said. Owning a black car with an almost totally black interior, I have to pick my moments to clean it and a sunny day is...

We have a similar system which I built and installed myself. We have a little box as part of the system which periodically pulses a few LED's onto the wall as a haze - red when the system is importing from the grid, orange when we are heating water and green when we are exporting. It's a nice...

I understand that FIT's are transferrable - certainly we plan to transfer ours to the new owner of our house (and their solicitor has already asked) and we plan to claim FIT payments on the place that we are in the process of buying.

Those of us who own their panels (of which we are one) have a straight forward system: come sale time the buyers solicitor requests information about the installation (MCS Certification) and about the FIT contract and the average annual yield. This is done during the enquiries stage. If they and...

We fitted them 10 years ago when the FIT was at its maximum - as was the cost of the hardware. Due to shadowing being a problem we went down the micro invert route and this is more expensive up front. The system has, more or less, just paid for itself in pure FIT payment terms at about now. So...

I'm in the hobby category rather than professional user but am in awe of the dust extraction possibilities offered by Festool. I use a Numatic NV750 and cyclone which connects to a variety of tools through a Peter Parfitt Dust Port system. The port sits above the MFT table so the hose doesn't...