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Years ago i brought 500 reclaimed oak flooring blocks to do our living room. Tar one side , varnish dirt the lot really anyway over the years i must have moved the pile about 4 times and got so fed up with them getting in the way i set fire to the lot, by heck did they burn well, cost me around...

I probably need to change the gearbox oil in my Axminster 15 inch thicknesser as i have been using it for about 15 years now, without changing it or topping it up, so does anybody know what i should use ? Thanks

pac1. A bit difficult to cut away the rebate when the door frame is fitted. Thats the problem with machined rebates their is little room for adjustment, a planted on door stop can be put on to follow the shape of a door, but fitting the seal to it could be difficult. phil.p. The doors are...

Hi all, have a problem with a door that i have made, its the first if 5 i have made for a renovation of a listed farm house, it is made from sapele and is 21/4 by 4 1/4 frame with 1 inch T & G boards both sides so weight wise i cannot even lift it. The on site carpenter has hung the first one...

hi i was thinking the same grayorm, what mix is he using, a normal sand cement mix that wet would not hold anything up! any idea's.

Hi andy, the trouble is they were cheap but infact they were well made, Do they have oak in china i would say they were made in eastern europe. They could of been hung straight from the box after a little sanding and would look good.

Hi marcros, so thats why you never got back to me regards the handles. Anyway DTR they are not what you are looking for, yours are recessed mine are surface mounted same as found on old blanked boxes. Still got a few hundred left, sold loads on ebay.

Hi all, had a customer who asked for eight oak 2ft 9inch ledged doors with beading on both sides. The prices of the oak to me was £124 per door so taking into account machining, thicknessing, cutting to size, edging, machining the tongue and grooves and beading they would be around the £175 per...

Hi Hammer, had a delivery friday from Devon Hardwoods, a load on the lorry had yandles ticket on it , driver said they supply yandles , maybe cheaper to go straight to Devon Hardwoods, they are a big operation.

Hi can anyone tell me what this new legislation is about regarding external doors, which came into force in june, or has this information been discussed before on another post. I have 8 external doors to make for a farm house thats being renovated and i need to know if i can make them. From what...

Hi all, got a job battening and insulating a room with 2inch xtratherm, popped into Bradfords for some 3 by 2inch sawn timber, low and behold the CLS they now stock finishes at 1 3/4 inch, so the insulation will protrude by 1/4 inch and the plasterboard will not be flush with the batten, i can't...

I used to get hornets nesting in my workshop soffit , for about 6 years, nothing this year or last , have not seen any around which is a shame, the only problem was when i did any evening work they would be attracted by the lights and working with 20 hornets buzzing around my head was no fun...

Grayorm, the guy i would say was in his late 50s. People don't realise painting and decorating is a skilled trade . Just buy some brushes and your off. You see it loads of times on the TV shows where some home owner is having a go at the painting, but never having a go at the plumbing or...

Hi all, just to add. He started by taking all doors off their hinges why ? then several day later propped them against the wall and painted them. He took all switch and socket covers off and wrapped them in plastic Why ? and then put them back as you can see loose and with several screw missing...

thanks for the reply's. All done now, see worst paint job, loads of uploaded photo's. Its a bad job when i have to get my 13 year old to do it. Now i'm in trouble with mum as its past his bed time.

On this job i was to busy to do the decorating, boy what a mess the so called decorator made of the job, have a look and see if its the worst you have seen, comments please for the customer. (hammer)

Hi why when i try to upload photos it says file is to big, what do i do ? :?:

I got 3 Tackwise Nailers and would recommend them.

The other half went to the post office with a parcel today, the nice lady told her a new post office rule just out is that they have to ask parcel senders if the parcel is dangerous or contains explosives. Now i know sometimes i am a bit daft but if i was going to send a bomb to anyone i...

Try working outside 8 to 4 no shade building a 6 foot by 12 foot pitched roof dog kennel and run plus a 18 foot lean to log and garden tool store for a customer. I just soak an old tee shirt under an outside tap and wear it over my head and down my shoulders and repeat once dried out probably...