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Cement based tile board would be a better bet for a long lasting stable substrate.

Agree, Linseed oil putty. It's the original method it was made with and does a good job. Only proviso is it's only really compatible with oil-based coatings.

Thanks for all of you for replying. It's really the bureaucratic nicities rather than the practical aspects. The water main is in the street out front, with several stop taps within half a metre of the corner of the building. A shared sewer and someone else's metered water supply already runs...

Looking for some information or experience on a wood-working adjacent question... Art studios. We're very fortunate in having a place we hope to use as an art studio (and for some woodworking DIY too) : it's the upstairs space of a building that we use the downstairs as our garage (just parking...

My adult daughters gained practical skills, but not a hobby enthusiasm. They always had access to tools, support and stuff, and they saw me doing stuff, from DIY to cooking to sewing, and with my partner, gardening and animal care. So they both have tools and can do stuff, but only do so out of...

Surforms were ideal tools for their period. In the postwar hardboard over frame DIY era Surforms were ideal hardboard trimmer and de-burr. Another period appropriate use was shaping the Plastic-Padding we used to bodge up rusty 60s cars. Ah memories!

Builders merchant maybe? If you've got an on-going project you can get cash sales accounts at Travis Perkins and similar with free delivery.

Personally, I'd say no. I suspect with this like many other schemes you'll pay for an occasional discount with endless trawling through tat and probably end up spending that saving on things you never really wanted.

Only note I'd make is that 20mm is on the thin side. By the time you've rebated the hinges there'll be little left to screw into. Equally these linings will need good support from the wall structure to stop sag or distortion. Something a bit more robust would be my suggestion.

It has relatively delicate proportions, but there are plenty of examples in existing furniture of this scale or finer. Shouldn't need stretchers for typical side/end table use. Google 'antique console table' for examples with and without stretchers.

No, but same county. Barnstaple.

I don't think the destination of a well resourced 15 minute city is wrong, as I clearly said. Just that I'm not surprised that the mismanaged route to get there might not achieve universal support.

Indeed I do. To know that's the way the vote went made me feel even more disconnected from the UK... a Brexit voting, Conservative voting UK doesn't feel like home. . If I could have found a way I could afford to leave before the barriers went up, I would have done. Equally anybody I know who...

Love the idea of 15 minute towns. I live in one. 15 minutes walk gets me to shops, GP, cinema, theatre, library, waterside park and out to country walks, and to a bus and train station too. It's an old-style market town that's not dead yet. But the transition to 15 minute cities is harder. A...

You've spotted the flaw in the concept. The glue may well not be flexible enough. Careful design to isolate the glass is the way to go. Video guides may well be just entertainment from content creators, not necessarily the route to a lasting outcome.

Or you could take the pragmatic approach and make a tapered wooden outer jaw to compensate...

Don't know about lore, but personally I'd slant the braces more and centre them to the gate. And notch the ends of the braces into the rails too. Less worried about a particular angle.

Short answer-no, not to hold water. Some folks argue that epoxy resin might work. But really nothing is guaranteed. Better to use a removable liner (plastic, metal, glass) than rely on any coating.

Fascinating. What's the application for the tulip-shaped large barrels?