Recent content by mclarenf1racer

finished and hung door today. really pleased with it and so were our friends. decided to renew the facings so the photo I have listed the facings have not been treated yet. chems the door is a monster over a metre wide and think the height was about 2.3metre. the letterbox was the one that was...

last coat and ironwork applied, hope to post one when its hung

Thanks for your responses, appreciated. chems, so far it has taken me about 3 full days in the workshop, thats getting it in, stripping it fully, sanding it, repairing it and giving it 1 coat sadolin classic and 2 coats extra durable, put that 2nd coat on this morning. billy, I think the paint...

thanks jacob, I now have photos listed in the projects section victorian-door-renovation-t53912.html

thanks jacob for your response and to everyone else, I now have photos listed in the projects section. victorian-door-renovation-t53912.html

our friends asked me if I could do anything with their front door one time when we were over having drinks, I was like yes no problem, never having renovated a door before but i had this vision of what I wanted it to look like or should I say what It looked like previously. got the door to the...

andy thanks for that upload, I have to say that it is a moulding like bl2. which I have had to cut the rebate into. I have been happy with the stripping of the door and how it looks, my question now is I am attaching these moulding to the door, how do I seal it so that the water doesnt run down...

I refurbishing a victorian exterior door and have renewed the mouldings, what advice would you give to seal/attach them onto the door so that water cant penetrate behind the moulding and so I can stain it without it being noticeable?

well turns out the door is softwood, all of the mouldings were done so I was looking to replace them with an off the shelf, sorry, I had looked at various websites found an architrave in jewson, tried to contact my local centre but the phone just rang and rang, drove to the local jewson and...

Hello there, looking for a bit of advice on refurbishing an exterior door with lots and lots of paint on it. its an old door from a sandstone victorian type building. my plan is to replace the panel mouldings as some are rotting, any ideas on where I can get my hands on a hardwood 2.5inch...

giant africans nails I am wondering how these nails are different to our british nails?? sorry couldnt resist :D

As my workshop is a converted garage in a residential area I have been looking for ways to cut the noise down so as not to be annoying to neighbours. I am thinking of purchasing an axminster QUIET slide mitre saw. http://www.axminster.co.uk/axminster-ax ... prod32404/ try looking for noise...

I am trying to join together some 20mm x 95mm redwood, 6 abreast, I have them on a flat surface and all lined up touching each other side by side, I then have thinner strips of timber of which there are 3 and have these running accross the boards one in the middle and one almost at each end, all...

I'd get them to send it back to you and then refund them, once you ensure that it is your plane and not one that has been switched. what was your returns policy, did you have returns accepted on the listing? if you didnt and the listing was an as described then open up a dispute with ebay and...

thanks Jim, was aware of the B&Q bit but not the MFC bit, and now I know, can add that to my huge list of abbreviations. Its good to see how other peeps get the same job done, well done to everyone. :)