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[Adam9453]

Its also worth fitting better lighting, some twin fluorescents with daylight tubes will make it feel much better.
Combine that with painting the walls bright white, makes a vast difference to how comfortable it is to work in with the doors shut.
My workshop has no windows and obviously its so cold and miserable at the moment that the doors are always shut, it however is so bright inside that I don't notice the time going by and before I know it, its 11 o'clock at night and the other half is telling me its time to stop
Its like the vegas casino effect :twisted:

 

[navypaul]

yeah next on my list is to upgrade the electrics i need bigger cable to handle the amps im demanding from the house c/u more 16/20a spurs better lighting bed tv sonos etc...

 

[MusicMan]

Nice set up.
Looks like you have a good dust extraction system. 8)
You're not the first person I've heard slating the Evolution Mitre Saw.
I've got a 10" Evolution sliding mitre saw, and to be honest I can't really fault it for the £180 or whatever it was I paid for it.
Good value for money in my opinion, but maybe the quality of the saws is a bit of a lottery and I got lucky?

Then I got lucky, too. My fence is straight and I had no trouble setting it up to cut square. It's one of my most useful tools. I do use it for plastic, tufnol, aluminium and steel too, though stainless steel was a very bad fail; gummed up every tooth and trashed the blade. Mind, when I got a new blade, I couldn't believe how well it cut. I've no plans to upgrade it.

If one comes with a bent fence, I'd send it back.

Keith

 

[Adam9453]

yeah next on my list is to upgrade the electrics i need bigger cable to handle the amps im demanding from the house c/u more 16/20a spurs better lighting bed tv sonos etc...

its a slippery slope, I put 10mm2 cable from the house to the 'shed' as i wanted to ensure it was as future proof as possible.
I must say having proper mains, lighting, heating, 13amp ring, 16amp ring etc etc is soooo much more comfortable and useful than running on one extension lead from the house!!

 

[navypaul]

i used to do that with my old garage but then i only had a circular saw a router some chisels and 3 clamps. ahh good old days

 

[navypaul]

Nice space.

When I set out garage out I pained the walls with some white masonry paint. Massive difference to the light at the benches and overall feel of the place. Worth thinking about perhaps?

Thanks for sharing,

Simon

pretty good idea, ill do that. It can get pretty dingy in there when the doors are closed trying not to annoy the neighbours

just painted the walls, NEVER AGAIN painting masonry is one of the worst things ive done and ive done some honking things, it was horrible but made a huge difference right away, thanks for the idea

 

[DiscoStu]

If I was doing it I'd have sprayed it. Especially if overspray wasn't an issue. I went to paint some Tongue and groove MRMDF in the summer did about 12" square before I drove to Screwfix and bought a sprayer. Best £50 I've spent in a long time!


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