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    Book selling best outlet suggestions

    Charity shops sell on to World of Books for a pittance because virtually no market for them now.
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    scaffold board rubbish

    Ikea flat pack is really durable especially their early classics, they did eventually bow to british sensibilities for bed sizes, single, double and king size, you cant go wrong with their stuff. I have just sanded ( yep its a decent thick veneer) and repainted a Billy Bookcase from 1992 for my...
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    scaffold board rubbish

    Where i live which is about 6 miles out of Manchester, I ve noticed more and more properties when they have trees taken down the tree surgeons put signs up in advance inviting passers by to take whatever they want before they put it through the chipper which is a great way to get some free and...
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    scaffold board rubbish

    Being from retail i was very skeptical about the offerings from the store you mention because they can describe something as solid wood if a certain % is in fact solid wood and describing it as Oak needs an even smaller % of oak content. Such as an oak veneer, over mainly mdf with just a few...
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    scaffold board rubbish

    I think choice of wood has become like fine wine and fine art - which is a shame because historically each country, each region used what grew locally. When i tell people my bed is made from sycamore (not by me) they have only ever known it as the tree equivalent of a weed so are pleasantly...
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    scaffold board rubbish

    My actual career was in retail, starting in 80s and 90s but that included our stores in older buildings with quite a few in historic and listed buildings places like Chester, Bath York. Those stores often had timber racking in the stockrooms because of uneven floors, and non uniform rooms. So i...
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    scaffold board rubbish

    I agree 100% that the redwood available now from Europe looks good if time is taken with the finishing. I think for me the half dozen or so of my sons friends just starting out with their own homes, gained the confidence to ditch the safe flatpack option. Just explaining to them the difference...
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    scaffold board rubbish

    I am now a middle aged woman from the days when "girls" were not allowed to study woodwork or metalwork at school, so i worked weekends and holidays for my uncle an old school time served painter and decorator. He was appalled in the early 90s when rag rolling, sponging and faux woodgrain...
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