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I did a furniture upcycling course a year or so ago. We used these rollers https://twofussyblokes.com/mini-roller-sleeves/ Brilliant. Can't remember what the nap was but the finish was brilliant. Also used a good furniture paint (not chalk), very pleased with the results.

Yes they do look cool, saw it on Escape. £40k upwards and I'm not even sure they can fit a decent sized wheelchair.

A quick note on stairlifts. If you need something to get a wheelchair user to a different floor, you need a wheelchair at each floor. So stairlifts are really only useful for people who have some ambulatory capability.

@joncooper27 We had a lift installed 2 years ago (wife is a full-time wheelchair user), our 2nd lift (not in the same house). The first lift several years ago was a through-floor platform lift, quite industrial/clinical looking. The cost then was I think around £4000 to go one floor up. As...

Slight tangent but Woodgrafter posted a good little video yesterday about checking your combi squares for accuracy. Interestingly (and it is not a full scientific test) the Starrett was not quite at 45 degrees but was spot on at 90 iirc, the Benchdogs combi was perfect as was the Woodpeckers...

I thought Red Grandis is eucalyptus, quite nice to look at and durable?

I had two Eclisse doors, a single and a double, fitted in our last house - my wife is a wheelchair user and we did not have the space for normal doors in those particular places where we used the Eclisse pocket doors. They worked beautifully and I'd buy them again if we needed them. But...

I’m paying £120 plus VAT here. I’ve not has any issues with storing timber in them, they are one-use with some sort of anti-condensation paint on them. Had one with timber in for nearly three years and everything inside is fine. Not the coldest place in the world -south Oxfordshire- but a decent...

I agree with akirk, I've bought a few things from them including a straight edge and some mobile bases, all good. Service is very good, but they do send a lot of emails!!

I've used QuickJack spikes from Shed Base Kits - Plastic Shed Bases | Foundation Solutions. Bit more expensive but work really well, you don't have to do any digging unless you'ver got a lot of height difference in the ground, andvery easy to fit and adjust. You can also look at their standard...

I've had Eclisse pocket doors in our previous house, they worked really well. The problems we had were that the carpenter the main contractor got in had no clue how to fit them. I had to go through the instructions with him. The single door kits are much easier than the double door kits, but...

Will do, although it'll be much later in the year as I'm currently doing a lot of reno work on the house and garden and got to finish that before I can set up the Boss and get working with it.

;) Looking forward to putting it through it's paces!

I'll take it if it is still available, have messaged you Custard

I can recommend the Sylva Wood School near Didcot, Oxon. Wood School They do a number of 1-day or 2-day courses, plus an eight-week 3-days-a-week introduction to furniture making course - I attended this last year and it was excellent. They also do a 6-month professional course for those wanting...

Jeez, scary stuff! Very useful advice, thank you Imageel for the original post and for the excellent response from Julie, davethebb and others. I shall certainly think more about fire risks when I finally get round to finishing my workshop. One question. What are the main sources of fine dust...

Yep, builders left us in the lurch, no plumbers available for months, so did it myself. All turned out fine in the end, with plenty of advice from the local plumbers merchants and YouTube!. Luckily all leaks were quickly spotted and fixed with no damage.

Or try these. Shedbase.com | Shed Bases | Professional Solutions for the DIY'er. I've used these a number of times as time is more important to me than money, and they're not much more expensive and a lot easier than making a concrete base. And you can move the shed and base if you want to! Steve

I've just done our bathroom. Used uPVC wall panels over existing plasterboard but you can fix these straight to the timber battens, quite easy to fit and a lot quicker and cheaper than tiles. Just don't use the crappy plastic corner and end trims the suppliers try to sell you, I used wood...

I recently moved the towel rail in our bathroom and used the Arctic freeze spray. The towel rail was on plastic 10mm. It took a lot of freeze spray, a 300ml or 400ml can on each pipe, but it did work and I managed to add the bits I needed to be able to extend the pipework. I wasted a can at my...