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Hi Can anyone recommend a lock and or supplier for a typical overlay cabinet door to a wardrobe. 18mm carcases and 18mm doors. Fitted a wardrobe recently and the customer asked for one of the doors to have a lock retrospectively fitted. Have not done this before so any ideas welcome. Thanks in...

its good stuff. I buy mine from them. Cheap, easy to apply with an iron and easy to trim with a blade or a dedicated trimmer. Makes light work of the edge problem with mdf and none of that rubbish sanding sealing nonsense. Tel

I do these regularly in alcoves and the batten torsion box style is the way i make them. Mdf is totally fine fine this type of work as long as its properly supported. It also paints lovely and a white professionally painted shelf makes a nice backdrop for colourful books IMO. Sometimes vertical...

For floating shelves above. No need to mess about with brackets or rebar. Not in an alcove. 32mm Batten all round, including a front piece fixed into the 2 side pieces to form a crude torsion box. Then scribe and fix 12mm to top and bottom with a front covering piece to hide the sandwich. Quick...

You don't need to bother with inset hinges and face frames etc to get this look. Just build the carcase as 50mm short on the left side and 10mm or so on the right side. Then use the L-shape filler piece described by Jason B and others to pull the left hand filler up flush with the doors and...

Pete if you dont mind me asking what camera did you use to take these? with as they do look very crisp. Well compared to my Rubbish iPhone 5 whic i use to photograph my own stuff. They always seem a bit dull and slightly out of focus. Thanks Tel

Looks great Pete. Really nice install and the paintwork look great.

I do this daily for a living. Waterbased acrylic paints only. No special primers or sanding sealers.....forget all that it is not required. MRMDF only. i would normally edgeband the end grain of exposed edges that will be prominemtly seen such as door sides carcass sides etc. with a white paint...