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all the reviews seem to rate Ego. a 56V system as well. more research required but glad to know that someone on here rates them. ?

I've moved on from Oregon now. just researching and watching some reviews of the Ego tools. seem to get good reviews although I'll probably end up with Makita I like to research as many options as possible!

oh dear. this is not a good review! https://www.techgearlab.com/reviews/tools/cordless-chainsaw/oregon-cordless-cs300 I'm starting to lean towards Makita. too many recommendations to ignore although I will definitely do more research. Anyone got any first hand experience of the Oregon power tools?

thanks. seems that there are a lot of Makita happy customers! I definitely cannot ignore that.

so, again and sorry to bang on about Oregon stuff but their 36V chainsaw is a pretty reasonable price. https://www.screwfix.com/p/oregon-cs300-36v-li-ion-brushless-cordless-40cm-self-sharpening-chainsaw-bare/2432k once you already have the batteries that is! I just don't know how good their machinery is, although I believe their chains and bar quality is not in doubt.

interesting, I didn't see the multitool. however (and just playing devil's advocate here as I'm a believer in you get what you pay for but there is a form of diminishing returns on that the really expensive stuff) it is hugely more expensive than the Oregon multitool. and seeing as a lot of these company use Oregon chains would the actual Makita tools be that much better than an Oregon tool? https://www.screwfix.com/p/oregon-ph600-4-36v-4-0ah-li-ion-brushless-cordless-4-in-1-multi-tool/922hf

I can't see a Pole saw from Makita though so I'd still need to get another manufacturer for that. ? but a very interesting point about not changing fittings often as that happened with the Dewalt drill I have. the batteries won't fit their new stuff so if I went with Dewalt (although probably won't due to cost and your mate's review!) I'd have to buy new batteries as well.

they look more expensive that DeWalt but I guess you do get what you pay for. I'm not a professional builder though so I'm not sure that sort of robustness is needed but I will research them some more.

agreed. so if going with multiple manufacturers you'd end up with multiple batteries and their chargers! this is an interesting concept and not something I'd really considered as I would generally be working on my own on things and so with 2 batteries one would be on charge while using the other one and I doubt a situation would ever arise, for me, where multiple tools would be being used at once. although the shortened life span is not something I'd considered. Would you then buy multiple manufacturers or simply one battery per tool?

in this thread I started it was recommended not to go for a 'basement guy' as they'd likely slap some zeros on the end of the quote as they're specialists.

morning all, I'm wondering if there is such a thing as brand loyalty these days where you completely buy into that company or if, now that most manufacturers have the ability to share batteries amongst all their equipment, it's simply a convenience to use all of the same manufacturer's equipment? The reason I'm asking is that I recently bought an Erbauer SDS cordless drill and a couple of batteries with the thought of buying new Erbauer power tools as and when I need them and I can use the same batteries with them all. and they do a lot of different tools which should satisfy my needs (most of my other tools are corded apart from a really old DeWalt cordless screwdriver/drill which is on it's last legs)..........but, I'm after a cordless Pole saw to do some trimming of branches around the garden etc but Erbauer don't do one! so, as I've only got the one Erbauer power tool at the moment and not fully in their ecosystem do I knock them on the head and start buying a company who does Pole Saws and go with them for everything? or do I buy one company for garden tools and stick with Erbauer for building tools? or do I mix and match as required? and then if I start with a new company for garden/external tools who should that be? I've been looking at Oregon garden tools and they seem to be pretty good and reasonably priced although their batteries are hugely expensive. Then there's DeWalt who are expensive on the tools but the batteries seem to be cheaper. I'd like to stay away from the 'budget' end of the spectrum as I'd like these tools to last through the build and beyond. anyone have any brand loyalty these days? or do you simply buy as you need and not worry about who the manufacturer is as long as the tools do the job?

if it's under an existing garage then I can understand steep costings due to underpinning and digging out under an existing structure but £72k to dig a hole and waterproof it seems crazy. I wish you all the best with it.

£72k for a 3x3m basement! holy cr@p that's a lot. I'd be looking to build a shed instead. doesn't bode well for when I get my basement priced up.

out of interest (and it's probably because you've already got the batteries) but why go for an electric one instead of a petrol one?

yep. I agree for the road side of the hedge but I still have to do the garden side!

I have a 3m high hedge along 2 long borders (photo below). We currently have an electric hedge trimmer but i’m not sure it’s up to the job so I’m following this thread with interest!

I'm no expert and haven't even started building our house yet as we're still waiting on planning permission! but I have had numerous quotes for open panel 140mm timber frame with the idea of fitting the insulation myself to save a substantial amount of money. the external wall makeup you've got there should yield about 0.14W/m2K and is pretty much the exact same make up I'm looking at doing but I might stretch to 80mm of PIR which would take it to about 0.12W/m2K. I'm still not sure about using the propassive osb instead of the VCL as I'm sure you can get excellent air tightness just using the VCL. I guess the propassive has less risk of someone piercing it and creating a hole in your nice airtightness layer when running cables and pipes etc. as such, I'm going to be eagerly watching this thread so I can read what those who actually know what they're talking about say!

I did in part. but I'm glad I didn't have to pay for it! I missed a few of the presentations that I wanted to see but I should get a link to the recordings so can view them at a later date.

Hi all, not sure if this is of any interest, especially knowing that the NSBRC is pretty much a selling platform for manufacturers, but I've signed up to attend to see if I can glean any information. https://www.nsbrc.co.uk/passiv-workshops

can't you use your 'old' NAS as a backup server? unless you're going to sell it of course you might as well put it to good use!

sorry, I didn't realise (or simply forgot) that the 1019+ is a 5-drive NAS! in that case I would probably suggest going for 4 x disks in a Raid 10 configuration as he'll benefit from better write AND read performance over RAID 5. then there is still the single drive for the NVR if required, or it can be configured as a hot spare. obviously, if you do configure the 4 x drives as RAID 10 you won't be able to add the extra spare drive if space becomes an issue as RAID 10 needs an even number of disks. Also RAID 10 will basically lose half the number of disks in total storage space. so 4 x 10TB disks in RAID 10 will give 20TB of usable space. whereas RAID 5 will lose only 1 disk and therefore give you 30TB of usable space. personally, I think 20TB should be enough and would rather go for RAID 10 to get the better read and write performance. but, then in that case and if the NVR is going to be part of the RAID 10 disks a 4-disk NAS might be better! see, it's never simple. this is a useful little RAID calculator (http://raid-calculator.com/default.aspx) that will show the benefits of the various RAID levels in case, like me, your memory can't remember them all!

and I'm sure I'll learn this as things progress for me.

sounds like you're as impatient as I am sometimes! enjoy and I hope it does the job.

it's hard to recommend what to get as it's such a personal thing and all depends on how much you want to spend and what it will also be used for etc. i.e. if you're going to use it for a media server using something like Plex for example, are those processors good enough to transcode video on the fly? or would you be better off trying to find something with an i3 or better cpu? I'm not sure how the Atom processors compare with the Celerons either but I'm sure there are benchmarks out there that can tell you. Although the specs seems to allude that if you are going to use it for something like that then the Celeron cpu seems to be able to handle it, assuming you believe the marketing that is! I'd say 2 network ports should be fine and having the 2 M.2 NVMe slots will help as you can add some SSD storage if/when funds become available. I use my slots (albeit via a PCIe card) as an SSD cache to speed up access to the HDDs but I don't know if Synology have this feature. so, all in all, on a basic comparison of those above I'd say the 918+ or 1018+ would suffice. I wouldn't bother with using 4 disks in a Raid 1 configuration though. the chances of 2 disks going in the time it takes to buy a new disk and replace a single failed drive is very slim! if you want a single disk just for the NVR then just configure 3 disks in a Raid 5 configuration leaving the one disk for the NVR. You'll end up with the same total capacity but still have a dedicated drive just for the NVR. if you are worried about losing all your data with 2 drives going then I'd simply advise to get some form of external HDD to backup your critical data to. I do this for my documents and photos. stuff that is too valuable to potentially lose. my movies and music and software can all be replaced but the photos and docs are irreplaceable. hope this helps.

Do you mean Horsham District Council? If so, yes.