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    Best DIY workbenches for 2024 to get your home projects going

    by Stuart Pritchard Feb 29, 2024 5 minutes
    Source: Vonhaus

    Question: According to YouGov.com, what is the 11th most popular physical activity in the UK?

    No, after miniature golf and just ahead of pool. That’s right, bizarrely, it’s DIY. In fact, out of an utterly unspecified number of people polled by YouGov’s Fact Wombles, the popularity of making/fixing/decorating stuff with your own fair hands ranked 54 per cent ‘popular’ - way above the likes of football at 47 per cent and pole dancing at just 31 per cent.

    There is a previously oft-overlooked end to DIY deftness that is fast becoming an essential amongst those looking to expand their handyperson creative credentials: the workbench.

    The Sherman tank of the table world, the workbench comes in many guises but the one thing they all have in common is the fact that they’re built to take a bashing, tackling DIY duties both day-to-day and almost industrial. Some come with pegboards, some with

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