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I happened to be in the area of this job yesterday, and managed to get a photo of the door after glazing and painting.

I'll raise my hand to having done this. If it makes you feel better, I also recently drilled 8 holes (8!!) in a customer's wall before I finally twigged it was plaster and lathe not brick, and I had to fill, paint, and redrill having located the studs with a magnet.

That looks pretty close. I've ordered some something very similar, by Devanter. Obviously, having looked fruitlessly for days, as soon as I posted here I found a likely suspect!

I'm trying to find a suitable seal to replace this one, fitted to a tilt and turn window in a dormer of a clients attic bedroom. It gets a lot of weather as it's high up and very exposed, and with the wind in the right direction rain is driven past the seal. It's 20 years old, so I guess...

Assa Abloy have taken over everyone!

This is a good tip, which I've used in the past. However, I tried it on this job and ended up having to replace the bead in question, as the pin kinked, and mangled the bead. I think the stainless pins were just a bit too long & bendy. I bought 40mm as I was originally planning on a thicker...

The last job was some glass bead. I tried to find an off the rack moulding that looked in keeping, eventually going for a 12 x 15 ovolo glass bead. It's amazing how much material is needed on a design like this - I needed 15 metres to do the interior and exterior beads. I also had to pin the...

Not much love for oscillating tools? They are noisy, but I'm finding more and more uses for them. In this instance they weren't really cutting a mortice, as the centre lamination was the same thickness as my tenons. The mortice was created by notching the centre lamination, so the outer...

The following day it was time for glue up. Before I could glue I scribed the face of the mullions onto the outer faces of the laminated rail, then disassembled everything, carefully noting the best order for assembly in the process. I glued the centre lamination of the new rail first, then...

I started with a length of accoya which at 2.4m should have been ample, but ended up being *just* enough. A cautionary tale to inspect the timber more carefully when selecting, as there was a huge split/shake which cost me half a metre at one end. I dimensioned my components with the bandsaw...

There's the voice of bitter experience! I knew I'd find "something" under there, but I was banking on an old hole from a rim cylinder.

Not making exactly, but re-making this nice old door. Somebody removed the mullions and stile from the door and fitted some truly vile "stained glass-esque" glass. The design and measurements were taken from a neighbouring house with an unmolested original door. Took way, way longer than I...

Is the fence bottoming out because the workpiece is so thin?

Is it too much to hope that people don't contribute to this thread just to denigrate "that London" for sport?

A.T.Carpentry on Instagram have lots of good videos showing newell replacement, including shortening the stringer to fit bullnose steps etc.

Any milage in elevating the fire surround so you can slip the flooring underneath? Depends how much redecorating knock-on might be created.

IIRC Roger was using a slightly different product, which had a rigid reinforcer in the bag, so it was effectively an expanding wedge. The airbags I'm familiar with will inflate either side of the panel you're lifting, like a capital B on it's back, until you get very close to maximum...

The golden rule applies; if you're not paying, you're not the customer, you're the product.

I got a kit from ironmongery direct for about £100, which allowed me to accommodate a 44mm door in a finished wall thickness of 100mm.

Eh, never heard of a router table...? ... I'll get my coat.