Given that I'm hopeless at sawing straight measures had to be taken.
£39.99's worth of measures in the form of a Mitre Saw.
The first product of this wonder power tool can be seen in the picture.
I ran excitedly to Linda to show her what I'd achieved.
"What is it?" she asked, "It's a square" I replied.
"Oh, that's nice" she said.
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Unfortunately I haven't been able to think of a decent gag based on "the pen is mightier than the sword" (mitre...saw).
For straight sawing, I found my accuracy improved remarkably by just buying a brand new hand saw to replace the old blunt one I've been making do with for far too long. New sharp tools are a pleasure to use.
New shed? From scratch or based on a Homebase insta-shed?
Orlando.
Mr. Orlando,
I'm surprised at you!
My new shed will be build to my own design, for my own purpose and for my own joy.
Homebase indeed!
Agreed on the sharp tool front.
I bet I could still get them to cut round corners though.
BTW my new mitre saw has a built in laser beam.
I'm not sure why though.
Ah yes, I recognize that. Useful for sawing off ones thumb at a precise angle. I use a table saw for that. It's not precise but it will take the tip of your thumb off nicely
I've been told that the laser is for zapping the microscopic alien beings that live in the pores of the wood deflecting the blade as you are cutting.
No disrespect intended - I have been in a "shed" based on a summer house kit although I very much doubt this particular one came from a home improvement store.
A friend and I had been chatting to a guy on ham radio and he asked us if we'd like to pay him a visit so we set off into the wilds and were 'talked-in' to our destination. This turned out to be a rather imposing property with a sea-view in Scotland. In the driveway was a brand new sporty looking convertible (later referred to as "the wife's car"), a monstrous SUV, and a newish Mercedes Benz saloon car. I remember saying to my friend "You know that expression, 'how the other half lives'? I think we're about to meet someone from 'the other half'."
The owner showed us through the house to 'the radio shack' in the back garden. As we approached it he told us that the shell was built from a kit but he'd improved it a bit here and there. Inside it was the most luxurious and well appointed space of its type I've ever seen. He had added foam insulation throughout, plaster-boarded (dry-walled) the inside, floor boards AND CARPET! I have lived in worse places...
OK, here's the pay-off...
The thing is, it was so much like being in a proper building that it had lost its essential 'shediness'.
The reason the owner had gone to these lengths was to do with circumventing the need for planning permission that would not have been forthcoming for a proper building. But how this place could ever be described as 'a temporary structure' or by whatever other technicality it was exempt, I really have no idea.
Wikipedia: Shed, Summer house.
Orlando.
No disrespect intended - I have been in a "shed" based on a summer house kit although I very much doubt this particular one came from a home improvement store.
A friend and I had been chatting to a guy on ham radio and he asked us if we'd like to pay him a visit so we set off into the wilds and were 'talked-in' to our destination. This turned out to be a rather imposing property with a sea-view in Scotland. In the driveway was a brand new sporty looking convertible (later referred to as "the wife's car"), a monstrous SUV, and a newish Mercedes Benz saloon car. I remember saying to my friend "You know that expression, 'how the other half lives'? I think we're about to meet someone from 'the other half'."
The owner showed us through the house to 'the radio shack' in the back garden. As we approached it he told us that the shell was built from a kit but he'd improved it a bit here and there. Inside it was the most luxurious and well appointed space of its type I've ever seen. He had added foam insulation throughout, plaster-boarded (dry-walled) the inside, floor boards AND CARPET! I have lived in worse places...
OK, here's the pay-off...
The thing is, it was so much like being in a proper building that it had lost its essential 'shediness'.
The reason the owner had gone to these lengths was to do with circumventing the need for planning permission that would not have been forthcoming for a proper building. But how this place could ever be described as 'a temporary structure' or by whatever other technicality it was exempt, I really have no idea.
Wikipedia: Shed, Summer house.
Orlando.
My proposed new shed will be a modest affair but I hope to have a bit more headroom.
My one luxury will be a stove made from an old calor gas cylinder.
As for carpet pah! I say.
I've always thought a little pot-belly stove would be a nice thing to have in a shed.
Machine Mart do one for about a ton
(+ flue + insulation/seal to outside + rain cowl + ...)
Hmm, probably a lot more than a ton when all said and done then!
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