Recent content by Darren D

very inspiring, I could really do with a bit of hifi camouflage too. Did you look into IR repeaters - a tiny "eye" on the outside of the cabinets that relays IR signals to stuff inside them. Means you can keep the doors closed but still use everything. A lot of the home automation sites...

I'm interested in this too, in fact I'm about to buy one so this is a last cry for "no, don't do it" advice. It seesm to be the same as the Woddstar one mentioned here and here Darren

thank you, yes that does help. The rails are obviously longer than the gap so I push the top into the additional space area and then slide it back down into the bottom mortice. But will that work? The posts are pretty solid and the wood doesn't bend much. Also at the same time, I need to fit...

thanks all. I've sanded some more and it all appears to be sapele except for the landing which is something entirely different. Is there any way of making sapele erm... less red? I guess I'll get used to it. I'm inspired by the diy spindle route, I think it will look better as well as being a...

Fair point, I guess it would be easier to identify wood if you could see it! I'll do some sanding and take some more pictures in better light today. Thanks. My local B+Q stock them so I went down to take a look. They will definitely do the job. B+Q only had complete spindles (chrome plated or...

sorry more joinery... Our new house has a seventies staircase. Apparently it is hardwood (anyone recognise the wood?) and I'd rather work with it than replace if possible. I've got two plans, but they both resolve around the same first problem. Instead of connecting the bannister...

congratulations!!! Make sure you look at this aditional manual - it is full of useful stuff that isn't covered in their basdic manual. (click on View Tip in this link)

Interesting, seems about 50:50 so far. I think I'll do the obvious thing and waste a couple of boards to do one wall and see how it goes. Ah, OK. I was planning to butt join and pocket screw them together from the back as I thought this would give me best chance of an invisible join. Are you...

We are probably going to lay a hardwood floor in our living room. Homebase sell packs of solid "parawood" for around £12/m and this seems excellent value. We used it in our last house and it looked great. The boards are 120cm x 16cm and are 15mm deep and I was wondering if they could be used...

I bought some DeWalt batteries off the 'Bay a couple of weeks ago. Got offered free shipping if I bought a power tool too so got a 14.4v DeWalt Impact Driver as well (there are slippery slopes everywhere you look). Used it this weekend to put some 4in screws through some 6x2's. Nothing too it -...

We had a wall taken out of our 20's house at Christmas. Builder was recommended by local council (and was great). He happily got on with it and we ignored details. Building regs guy came around during the job and said it looked fine. Once we'd finished and plastered up, the building regs guy...

Hi Andrew, Did you have a chance to play with your new toy at the weekend? I'm very interested in this - the price is by far the cheapest I've seen and I need a new jigsaw. Also, was the carry case a systainer type like Festool use? I know Metabo use these sometimes. Darren

Thanks, that clears up most things. Are the 3 holes in the yellow insert also for the shoulder pin or do they serve another purpose?

I'm at the very, very early stages of building a router table, well I've bought some of the components. One of them is the Dakota router plate insert from Rutlands. It doesn't come with fitting instructions so I'm hoping someone can help out with some questions I have. 1. The table comes with...

Hi Matt, I'm doing the same thing. After a bit of googling, I found this excellent site that links to loads of free plans. http://www.freeww.com/routertables.html Although to be honest, I think Neil's (linked in previous post) is pretty spot on and I'm going to have a go at something extremely...