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Nice work and some nice tools on display too :wink:

Sounds typical of what B&Q are doing at the moment. Selling less and less DIY tools and more 'home makeover' stuff. Glad to hear of someone getting a bargain, I always seem to miss out on these things. Just don't tell us they had Triton routers stacked to the roof for 50p each, what ever you do...

All the reports and reviews of Bosch SCMS have been pretty positive. I was looking for one last year and in the end I decided to go for a non-slider. Main reasons were that I could get a better quality saw for my money (DW703 for £169) and it takes up a lot less precious real estate. When I...

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Another point is that although your current application is to cut 12 mm thick material, a bigger better saw would open up new possibilities. Like producing your own veneers by resawing boards etc.

I saw an edition of Tommy Walsh's Space Invaders the other day. In the show he was in a village in Derbyshire working with a guy called Jacob, restoring old sash windows. does anyone know if the 'Jacob' was Jacob Butler aka Mr Grimsdale, who used to frequent this forum. I looked in the credits...

Thanks for that Chipp. Am I right in thinking the boards click together and are not glued?

Do these engineered floating floors work on concrete sub floors. I have cheap laminate in my dining room (put down by previous owner) and fairly grotty carpet in the lounge and I would like to lay a wood floor right through. Apart from the cost, I am concerned about laying a solid wood floor...

Pren, good work. I've also been looking at your MILs kitchen in another post...you really are on a roll, keep it up.

Nice looking kitchen, well done. It is amazing what you can do on a tight budget. The "roots" behind the tiles sound more like fungal hyphae to me, was there any sign of wet rot in the joists when you pulled down the ceiling?

Hi Gower, Yes you can spray water-based finishes, just thin with water to the desired viscosity. A viscosity cup is very useful to get the correct amount of dilution. The cup has a hole in the bottom and you fill it with your paint and time how long it takes to run through. Paint spraying uses...

The Trend Routabout Jig would also make quick (nad neat) work of access hatches in chipboard flooring.

Andrew, this will probably be regarded as complete heresy but if you are covering with fitted carpet why not use chipboard flooring. It will be very flat and stable and if it is permanently under carpet , who will know or care (except you, of course).

I hate throwing things away but no blade guard on a mitre saw sounds scary. Have you checked with Hitachi about the availability of spares? It might be possible to get it running safely for a smallish cash outlay.

Much quicker and easier with a jigsaw than a router. Put the worktop in its final position and lay the sink upside down where you want it to go. Mark round the sink with a pencil/marker pen (it might help to lay down some strips of masking tape so you can clearly see your lines), remove the sink...

I saw the piece on the water torture...how utterly vile. I don't care if these guys are terrorist suspects, if we do that sort of thing, or condone it by not speaking out, we are as bad as the people we are trying to stop. The "war on terror" is already lost if we become terrorists ourselves...

A recent thread headed pre-finished plywood, had a link to Edens, who list oak veneered MDF at £39.08/sheet so your price looks spot on.

Drawer sides and backs were traditionally made from 'secondary' woods, frequently pine I should think. If you use a jig for your dovetails you may not have a choice of dovetail angle, it will be dictated by the router bit (okay, there are different angled bits available). If you are hand...

I have one of the B&Q PerformancePowerPro SDS drills. It cost me just under £50 complete with a set of tools. I bought it on a bit of an impulse, thinking it would be useful but not really having a specific job in mind. I have since used it for lots of things like chopping a hole in the kitchen...

That sounds like trouble to me :lol: