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Could the following work? If the joists, the sub floor and the engineered wood flooring is to high, my logical thinking, as long as it’s only a small amount/area, could you not take some of the floor joists and have them planed down to the height you needed?

Hello I was given a router about 7 years ago, before I got into DIY. The man who gave me the router somehow had this router connected to a badly built router table. It was made up with scrap wood, some completely rotted, some bits were from an old fence panel. The router in question is a...

Hello Can you recommend a precision screw driver set, that has extra long depth, with as many driver bits as possible. I am after extra long precision driver bits (or as extra precision screw drivers in the common types) and some regular driver bits that has as many bits as possible, it must...

Everything has closed and with the internet, there are too many ways to find and buy/sell from top players who have the money and the audience. Sadly with the rise of china, there is a decline of British and major Europe economies selling out to china, who now make 90% of tools and more you...

The most annoying thing about the drill press with the much larger Chuck, I only need an extra 3 inches to resume what I normally use it for. Would a Jacobs Chuck require a key from Jacobs or did I break it using a key that may not of been a jacobs. (The place I got the drill press from didn’t...

Hello I have a drill press, works great except I broke the original Chuck. I have replaced it with a cheap Chuck, but it’s about 50% bigger than the one that was on there before. So, my question, as I now have a smaller drill press, would it be possible to get a new column that is a bit...

Either cheap or not installed correctly? We put artificial grass down maybe around 2010-2012 I think, and we have brought some new artificial grass this new year (2025 early January) as the grass had bleached to a colour we didn’t like, and you could see the difference in the colour that was...

Hello. This is more of a question of fire pits over the artificial grass. So, I live on a cutout of a hill, and this cutout has been there for some 1000 years or 2000 depending on who you ask. It was either the romans or the Normans. Anyway they didn’t cut the wedge flat, there are bits that...

I have noticed that parkside from Lidl have a jigsaw table, would it be a suitable replacement or alternative to a bandsaw or scroll saw?

Using a pencil is always something that I will use if I can, but sometimes I just need something that I can hold up using one hand (let’s say for a shelf) and when it’s level, I need to hold the other side of the shelf, I won’t have a spare hand to mark the hole for drilling, where the Marxman...

The space I have set out for these bins means I need to have a row vertically and horizontal too.

Hello Quick history I am autistic and disabled, spinal damage, to ankles with broken, trapped and bone slicing through my nerves, ligaments and tendons. I have cats, quite a few to be honest, and I leave my door open, with a few bowls of dry and water, so I don’t have to keep getting up, going...

This reminds me of being at school, last year of junior, 4 years of school teachers either telling me off for being right and argumentative to things out of my control like meltdowns, shutdowns, asthma or migraines and more. When I was in year 4, same school, a teacher completely lost control...

Yeah, it’s gotten damp… I am now on the lookout for a new marker…

Still full of gas… when you press it you can clearly hear it. It sounds as if the chalk has gotten thicker or something

Hello So, I don’t know if you have come across the marxman, a tool that helps mark holes for where to drill that pencils, pens etc can’t reach. My workshop is small, smaller than bike sheds just taller, and I have a clear roof, so I can make use out of the sun. Problem is this acts like a...

Something simple, yet never entered my brain…

Hello So, I am autistic and I am disabled. So, please note that with being heavily medicated with multiple medications including morphine, my brain has these bits in time where I can’t workout the simple tasks. So please forgive my lack of explanation or too much info not required here. So, I...

Yeah, fully understand that about the heat will destroy the “Tempered” metal, if that’s a word I can use from chocolate making. The bit that has me confused is the grit of the wheels, fine… yeah for a smoother finish, course removes more with the bigger grits… but the stones I have seen so...

I feel like I am being a bit stupid here. How do I tell what grit and what stones to be used for each and different pieces. Example sharpening gardening tools like axes to fine woodworking blades that require big chip removal, to drill bits. I have looked at some stones, and they say corse...