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You want a low profile threshold, something like this? https://www.ironmongerydirect.co.uk/pro ... ium-227390 No cill, you just fit this straight to the floor. You could put a rain deflector on the door too

Hang on, have you pulled the temporary battens off?? You want to leave them on so the felt doesn't blow away. Nice progress though

I've been slating a roof all week, it's been a bloody killer! Way too hot, we've been taking a break every hour so, and yesterday we even made a tarpaulin tent to work under to keep the sun off. Before that the slates were untouchable

Only when the socket screws are undone otherwise they earth it :)

If you're temporarily battening it, do the top piece of felt first but don't nail the bottom edge until you get the piece below on, no climbing on dodgy Battens then. You only need day 4 nails, nailed in by hand half way not with the nail gun to hold a 4.8m batten down. If you have to walk on...

Staples wherever you want, as long as it's draping between the rafters slightly you should be fine. If you're going to put the battens on straight away you'll only need a few staples unless it's windy. It tends to get windy as soon as you pick up a roll of roofing felt even if it's been calm all...

No way I'd go to the effort of chasing in deeper boxes just to fit some swanky sockets! I have fitted some flush ones before though, they were bloody awkward and that was with 25mm boxes and then a tile on front so probably 31-33mm. What about just replacing for nice fresh white sockets? Quite...

You need to get one face flat, then make sure the fence is square with the bed of the planer, run the wood through again with the flat face tight against the fence and that should square it up with the first face. You can then use the thicknesser for the other two sides.

Silly question but are you chiselling in from both sides of the timber? It shouldn't be too hard, 35mm from either side is not exactly deep. What's the length of the mortise? 7mm wide 70mm deep by?

I've got a charnwood table saw and it's absolutely ****. The tilt for the saw uses a crappy circlip and it keeps popping off. I've changed the shaft and changed the circlip at my expense and it still happens. No way I'd recommend them to anyone. When my saw was delivered the rip fence wouldn't...

Have you tried a pair of pump pliers on the chuck to free it up? Use some thick cloth around it first if you don't want it getting scratched?

Would it be easier to plane one side then cut to 3mm and then sand?

No you're right there it wasn't designed for holding a substantial amount of timber. The washer plate on the ones I have used is very thin and the timbers seem to tighten up against each other. It would be interesting to do a side by side comparison to see if there was much difference between...

I've fitted around 15 of these in the past 5 years or so and none of them have had that problem that I've notcied, they're in a couple of holiday lets that I regularly do maintenance on so I see them quite often. Can you buy the actual moving sash seperately for them? It would be very easy to...

Things must be changing all the time because only 2 years ago I replaced a fire damaged roof on a property and the new roof, designed by a structural engineer used both m12 coach bolts and the timber joining washers. I do agree with you if they're not used properly they do more harm than good. I...

Even m16 is OTT I think. M12 would be fine surely? Assume you're using timber joining plates too?

Put two screws per joist either side.I wouldn't screw down the centres. Be careful when screwing near any pipes and cables.

Really starting to take shape now! What's the m16 rod for?

I think you could make it easier by using veneer, or even a thin veneered piece of ply/mdf cut up to triangles and glued onto a backing board such as mdf. You have plenty of options to screw/glue the backing board to the wall and then cover the screws with the triangles so they're hidden. You'd...

How wide are your doors? 18mm MRMDF with 6mm MRMDF panels would be fine IF the doors aren't too wide.