Category: Season 4

Welcome back to the Measuring Up Podcast and a very Merry Christmas from Andy & Peter! On today’s show:

• Cables on power tools can ruin perfectly good tools
• New toys we want for Christmas
• Posh speaker cables and stupid interconnects
• Electric vehicles – what’s the worst that could happen?
• Andy doesn’t have a truck any more – what next?
• What to do with fitted furniture in deep alcoves?
• Buying timber – a few things to consider
• Does Peter need to get rid of his super van?
• Tax on UK self employed folk – is it so bad?

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Continue reading “#041: Fitted Furniture in Deep Alcoves”

Welcome back to the Measuring Up Podcast! On today’s show:

• Andy is getting old and falling to pieces
• Venice flooding and clever wellies
• A brick laying question for our listeners?
• Can you earn money as a hobby without becoming self employed?
• Cash vs accrual accounts
• The time served thing… case closed?
• Black Friday
• Makers Central is back?
• Instagram MLM scams – stop following scammy channels!
• Tesla Cybertruck – the Marmite truck? Love it or hate it?
• Electric vehicles… when will the infrastructure be sorted?

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Continue reading “#039: Batteries and Cybertrucks”

Welcome back to the Measuring Up Podcast! On today’s show:

• Peter’s back from Venice and it was REALLY flooded!
• Holidays, when you’re ready to come home?
• Behind the scenes… nothing is real!
• Why are makers making less YouTube videos?
• Dry fitting woodworking prior to on-site assembly
• How do we remember to bring everything on jobs? Lists and grab bags!
• Drill bit storage – can this ever be resolved?

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Continue reading “#037: Think of the Children!”

Welcome back to the Measuring Up Podcast! On today’s show:

• Andy’s very excited about Disneyland… and the channel tunnel!
• French roads… where are the cat’s eyes?
• Peter’s planer / thicknesser and strange return policies
• Clever IKEA design
• Bad instruction manuals
• Audio casting and Bluetooth

Remember if you’d like to listen to the new weekly show just subscribe via Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/measuringuppodcast

Continue reading “#035: Bad Instruction Manuals… and Disneyland!”

Welcome back! Later on in the show we’re talking about some of our strangest encounters back in the days of doing handyman work. We’re also chatting about modern lives where information is fed to us via new mediums such as YouTube, podcasts and social media. Is there life after YouTube? How do you go back to working a normal job when you’re ‘YouTube famous’?? We’ve also got some really exciting news for you all – the show is now weekly for all Patreon supporters! If you don’t want to do the Patreon thing you can still listen to the usual show every 2 weeks but we’re ditching the aftershow in favour of a proper extra weekly show instead. Patreon supporters can listen to the weekly show at: https://www.patreon.com/measuringuppodcast

Continue reading “#033: Strangest Handyman Jobs?”