Home DIY

Would love to have seen those offices!

And those chisels are lovely.

Have a look, now is the time!
https://its.co.uk/veto-pro-pac/

A couple of weeks ago I did a lot of lifting/carrying when digging out the kitchen floor and re-doing it, using a couple of flexi buckets.

Ever since, my hands/knuckles have been quite stiff and sore in the mornings when I get up, though they loosen up soon enough. Hoping I haven't done irreparable damage (no 'oh shit i've broken something' moments during the work) - any tips to remedy? R&R? Stretches?

How old are you, mate? I've started with - what feels like* - osteoarthritis in one of my knuckles. Have also been doing lots of DIY, but think this is a coincidence.

Could be you're experiencing the same?

*I already have it in a toe I broke, playing football, so have an idea of what the symptoms are

Probably just overworked the tendons, which take longer than muscle to repair.

32 - though it seems very much cause and effect here, probably dug out and shifted about 1.5t of material, carried back and forth to the skip/bulk bag in one long day

Hahaha, Its like a drug and before you know it you have 10 £300 tool bags

How often do you do manual labour?

Ah, I have a decade on you so more prone to the arthritis! And yeh you've done a lot of work there... can't think you need to rest up, particularly. Just keep an eye on it.

I am not a Doctor.

Almost never - just renovating a house at the mo, so a brief period of activity before many more years of sitting back in front of a screen

I’d honestly put it down to you not doing it that much, kinda like going to the gym. We done a job a few weeks back and it was a hard shift, I was more tired and I’m rarely sore but that’s what happens when you don’t stick in at school and have to do it full time 😂

Check the weightlifting thread re. DOMS 😁

Drain unblocked thanks for all the advice.
I managed to remove the small grate (which I thought was fixed) and ended up scooping out the sludge with my hand and washed out with hose pipe.

Finally had a chance to take a look. Turned out just to be a load of dust around the switch. 60 second fix and no micro-soldering needed.

Quick heads up for anyone considering buying any festool gear. I had a meeting with one of their reps today, apparently they are going to put their prices up a cross the board by at least 10% so if you want some it'll pay to get it sooner rather than later.

I'm all milwaukee, but it seems a common theme on everything just trying to push prices up and up. Only think that cant seem to go up is about prices.

Interesting.

Just about to pull the trigger on an ETS EC150/5
Guess I’d better bite the bullet.

Got a good deal on a TS55 and a CTL MIDI the other day too.

I'm all Bosch for battery tools and a mixture of manufacturers for mains powered stuff. I had this meeting because I've been talking to my tool supplier about buying the festool insulation saw and both sizes of the domino, this turned into a meeting with the festool rep who lectured me about how I need to replace all of my gear with festool stuff on the back of (potentially) buying one battery unit (and of course the massive loan the supplier was licking their lips about), and oh I need to do it quickly before prices go up!

Not terribly impressed with either ATM.

Bosch prices are pretty stable to be fair but this just means their likely to go up soon.

I know you've already bought into festool but if I were to buy a premium sander it would be a mirka one. Despite festool making their name with Sanders they can't hold a candle to the mirka ones.

I considered mirka. Reviews I’ve seen don’t show that big a difference and the hose / plug all in one connection for convenience etc are definitely big considerations.

Coming from an old dewalt, I’m expecting a massive difference in dust collection and speed.

I've known a few people switched to Mirka but they didn't last as long or perform as well in the medium term. They are lighter and feel nice though. Probably the lightness and the reliability are related.

Thanks for that, what's the code of the little one you have?

Forgot you would be flattening the backs. I've had some take forever, the massive Hulatfors ones I have took a long time.

hose / plug all in one connection for convenience etc are definitely big considerations.

We look at these things differently to mean that just screams more to go wrong (bent pins, hose / cable clips breaking etc).

Coming from an old dewalt, I’m expecting a massive difference in dust collection and speed.

I don't know how old your DeWalt is but in my experience both speed and dust collection are more dependent on the choice of abrasive and how it's attached than the unit. The unit will have a MASSIVE effect of the standard of finish you achieve though. I always use a pad saver as replacing pads is stupidly expensive (had this conversation with @Airhead not long ago) but this does slow things down slightly as the disc isn't as firmly attached to the pad.

I also find when I'm using my Makita in the workshop that dust is still a problem.
It's always attached to my m-class extractor and the work piece is on a downdraught table powered by a large high volume 2 stage extraction system but when I've had the air quality monitors running it still says I need a respirator. Extraction on sanders has improved massively and is great for picking up mess but it's the ultra-fine airborne particles that sanding produces masses of that will give you cancer/COPD which dust extraction isn't as good at capturing.

The backs have been good. Only one needed a lot of time.