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My Dad's replacing his old rotted wooden decking with composite. The photos show where he's removed the old decking and the old gravel that he's going to build on. He's currently got it bagged up and he's going to rinse it off before reusing it. I haven't got a photo yet, but apparently it's...

There is no waste side or side we wish to keep here. My Dad just wants to cut up the old decking in situ, basically cutting the planks in half, to make them fit in his car I guess. I think there's a joist a few inches either side of where he's going to cut, so neither side is totally unsupported...

Thanks. It's been pretty hot and dry lately, so the old decking should be dry but it isn't as rigid as it used to be and sags a bit in places when standing on it (hence why it's being replaced), so that might increase the risk of binding. Would it be safer to screw or clamp a rigid piece of...

This looks like a reasonably priced Wet and Dry vac with a power take-off socket but does anyone know if the hose will fit the exhaust port on the Makita SP6000 track saw, or if there's an adapter I can get? https://www.aldi.co.uk/wet-and-dry-vacuum-cleaner/p/816200704850700

That makes sense, thanks. I'll try that before buying any more tools.

Thanks, that's good to know as I'm thinking of using it to trim some doors, so maybe I'll sacrifice both of my old Evolution 1400mm rails and cut them into 633mm+767mm and 865mm+535mm. My Dad needs to cut down the middle of his old wooden decking in situ to take it up before laying new...

I'm having doubts about whether a mini circular saw would be suitable for this job now, as I read that they're only suitable for doing rip cuts into wood from the edge, not doing plunge cuts like this and it will kickback a lot if I try. Does anyone make a mini plunge saw? I think a full-sized...

Yeah it's OK, I know where they are and none of them are near the top of the joists.

I thought I'd be able to cut a straight line with my multi-tool but it seems harder than I thought to stop it wandering. Yeah, the floorboards are 18mm thick so I need to cut to that depth.

I'm just going to use loose rockwool to fill the cavity between the rubber pads under the OSB. As I say, soundproofing the hall isn't that important and I'm mainly using it to practice before I tackle the main rooms. I might run the electric cables in conduit above the floor in those, and maybe...

I'm not replacing the floor boards in every room at the same time, so when I lay the OSB sheets in the hall they'll have to fit against the floorboards in the adjacent rooms, and in any event when I do replace the floorboards in each of those rooms, the OSB sheets that I lay in there will have...

It's not about the appearance though. The line needs to be straight so the new sheet, which will have a straight edge, fits against the remaining floorboards.

I'm soundproofing the flat and will need to put a layer of self-levelling compound on the concrete slab and then rubber pads which the OSB sheets will sit on. I don't really need to soundproof the hall but it will give me a chance to practice doing these jobs before I tackle the main rooms. I...

I need to replace the 18mm floorboards in my flat with plywood or OSB sheets, starting with the hall. Most of the places where I'm cutting the floorboards to lift them it doesn't matter if the cut is straight, but where the new sheets are going to butt up against the floorboards from the...

Thanks. I'm not keen on getting a cordless one, and the fact that the Rutland needs two batteries, so I'd have to have at least four to be able to swap them out and keep going, puts me right off that one. I've got a few Einhell cordless tools and if I was going to get a cordless one I'd rather...