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I recently recycled these, details posted here on this forums - from this - To this -

I developed this technique whilst laying parquet flooring described in this thread -Laying reclaimed parquet and am posting this here since the method is applicable to any woodworking where you want a fine fit and can perform incremental cuts to achieve the required size - In the process of...

That device uses tech similar to light dimmer switches - a triac is placed in series with the load and via a simple timer circuit like a resistor + capacitor in series the voltage on the resistor gradually rises over a short period as the capacitor charges and this rise is used to control the...

@ Jake - For the just floor two coats of Bona whitening primer and then two coats of Bona Traffic HD Extra Matt - the whitening primer takes some of the edge off the tendency for Baltic pine to adopt a yellow/orange tint when sealed. If you are referring to the the loudspeaker then that is...

Factual correction, that was a picture as built back in 2015, this after cleaning up a bit is the speaker today!

After a bit of a clear-up in the garden I started to have a sort out of the area to be laid with the remaining prepped blocks, the area is open-plan and covers a total of 55sq m encompassing a living room, sun lounge and a kitchen. I only have around 14 sq m of blocks prepped, but need to lay...

Just re-read your post and noticed you'd recommended Snickers flooring trousers and their bean-bag knee pads - after some independent research I too chose those - and I concur they are brilliant!!

I have blocks from 3 different sources, - lifted from the original house + 2 ebay purchases and they are pretty variable,. One of the ebay lots were mixed sizes, containing maybe 25sq m of blocks matching the size of the originals in the house and the rest were a longer but similar width variant...

You could apply this technique to any materials you have to hand or can source. Obviously the workflow would need to be adjusted to suite but bear in mind with the size blocks I ended up with 10 sq m is 665 individual blocks - i.e. a lot of repetitive work so the workflow is important to get...

Thanks everyone for the compliments - as the thread title alludes, this was a lot of work upfront with little to show for my efforts until the final moments. Equally and as others have commented I would not think this was a commercially viable project in that most clients would not appreciate...

Many thanks for your replies, I looked at the Padauk one suggested by Tom however it's way too small, the ferrule on the existing is 30.6mm dia and that one at Toolnut is only 19mm and the existing barely clears the shoulder of the forging. I don't have a wood lathe but I do have a Myford 254...

Hi, I was recently abusing a much loved Ward & Payne 1/2 inch mortise chisel and the handle started to split. I say abusing, I was chopping some thick branches of a conifer and since the sap is rising in the fine weather the blade kept binding so I used the chisel to releive the blade by...

Hard to say definitively - cleaning the blocks takes around 2-3 days per 2.5sq m, but laying them is super quick, just checked the timestamps on my phone pictures and it took 2 days to lay the blocks excluding the reveals and edging and bear in mind the last time I did this was about 30y ago and...

The original skirting was I suspect made up by the on-site chippy when the house was originally built and as such it was pretty rough and uneven. So what with additional required because of the extension I'll probably buy some in or get a load made up by a local shop. It was interesting doing...

This is after the 1st of 2 coats of Bona Whitening primer - Slight hiccup - I spotted this !! ..so chopped it out and replaced it! Finally finished it all off with 2 coats of Bona Traffic HD extra matt- here after 1 coat still drying in the late afternoon sun And here after the 2nd coat...

Finally all blocks laid - Time to hire a floor sander - this is after a few passes with 40 grit - One drawback with the processing technique I've used is that whilst it's relatively easy to see and reject say worm eaten or water damaged blocks, some as I found were hiding defects under the...

So after a few months refining my technique I got a workflow going and processed around 27 sq m of blocks and had to stop doing more - I have a total of about 60sq m to do, since I was running out of storage space! So decided to lay some in my hallway and downstairs toilet which was...

I've not posted for a while and this is going to be a long one but I hope of interest to folks - Preamble - a while back I bought an old property circa 1920's which had part woodblock and part quarry tile flooring and as part of a new extension wanted to lay the entire ground floor with similar...

You might try margarine - it's efficiency is obviously dependent on the specific glue type, however it is excellent at removing e.g. the residues left when you have removed double-sided tape from glass and a thin tough to rub off skin is left. It's also surprisingly good for heavy degreasing of...

Hi - I clad my workshop in shingles and used 190mm reveal on the verticals and it's been up around 8 years with no signs of rotting. Roof reveal will depend on your pitch, mine was at the lowest possible for the UK ~14 degrees so reveal was only 100mm but again seems to have stood the test of...