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Hi All, I am looking for someone who has a metal lathe or knows of a company in the Waltham Cross area (or close by) that could help me enlarge a hole in a sprocket hub holder. I am building a motor powered trike and I bought an axle assembly and realised after looking at it setup on my floor...

Hi all, Recently bought a welder and I am now looking to get some steel. The big box stores sell a bit but not that much of a selection, and it's in smaller lengths. I want a few bits to practice with and then I have a couple projects in mind that I want to work on where I will need larger...

Hi all, I just made a corner cupboard that has angled sides and I fitted the doors with standard concealed cupboard hinges. After installing them I realised they would not close as the hinge mechanism hits the inside of the hinge as it is trying to close at a 105 degree angel ( I think that's...

Hi all, not posted on here for a while but recently been doing up the garden so as well as sorting out some decking I have also built a wishing well from pallets and a water feature. I used Sapele for the wood. If I was to re do it and had the space to spend more time on it I would chamfer the...

Hi All, I am going to be making a cabin bed, it will be be for a double mattress for 2 adults. the head and one side will be fixed to the wall (one timber wall and one breeze block). I have 3 designs and I am just wondering what would be best suited? also what would be the best way for mounting...

Hey All, When installing a door frame should the internal measurement of the fame be as close as possible to the actual door width i am going to use? at the minute with the frame thickness I was going to use there will be (in theory at least) 16mm 10mm 25mm extra space in the opening of the...

Hi all, I am working on my extension (flat warm deck roof) and need to run some plumbing through. According to building regs where I can drill my joists falls half way through my sky line (I have to drill through 2 sets of sistered joists with 2 28mm holes (or there abouts as taking through 22mm...

Hey All, Just bought myself a 1st fix nailer as I have a few stud walls to make for my extension, just wondering what size nails to use in it for making them up. I was thinking 65mm but should it be 75mm? Cheers Mark

Hi All, Starting our house extension soon and although builders are coming in to build it to water tight I will be doing everything else. I was looking through our drawings and noticed a note that stud walls are to be 4x2 with 400 centres with 12.5mm plasterboard. However, I was going to use...

Hey All, So finally almost finished my plans for our side/rear extension and after we submit them and hopefully get approval I will be needing a building reg drawings and a calculation for an RSJ (2 meter opening too join the old to new). Just wondering if there are any structural engineers on...

Hey all, I went to change my track saw blade the other day and the bolt would just not budge. After trying for a while I become frustrated and took the impact driver to it and that was the worst with i could have done as it stripped the. My questions is, is there a way I can get the bolt out. It...

Hi All, I was wondering what thickness of insulation would be needed for a warm roof (to go on an extension). Looking about I cannot seem to find the nominal thickness that would be required as I'm trying to draw up some plans. Am I correct in assuming you have ply, vapour barrier, insulation...

Hi All, I am looking at doing a side extension and there are a few access points that will be under the extension. I am trying to work out if they need to be moved and if they can remain and something else then created to tap into it. I got a couple of pictures of what I'm looking at The bit i...

Hi All, Worked on a little project for the missus old man. Its his birthday Sunday and he likes to collect glass ornaments, so I said why don't we make a light stand that he can put them on. Here is the finished project. The design painted on was done by the missus, the wooden base and...

Hi all, So I fitted my door on the porch as you may know if you are reading my WIP. However, we had a bit of a down poor last night and when I open the door the draft excluder brushes off the water that seemed to be sitting under the door and on the sill I felt under the door and it was very...

Hi all, started to tile the roof and running into a bit of an issue and not sure what to do. So I have put the eave tiles down on there batten (Im using 19mm battens). and then when I put the second row of tiles on to meet the bottom of the eaves tiles the notches on the back of the tiles do not...

Hi All, I have a door opening of 920mm (give our take). I was originally going to go for a 838mm door (so frame size needed was 926, would needed to have shaved some off the frame but it should have fit) anyway after looking at a few doors we are going to go for a 762mm door instead as the 838...

Hi all, Today I was doing the roof on my porch, well trying to and then getting massively frustrated as I followed this walk though http://www.thisiscarpentry.com/2012/11/09/common-rafter-framing/ and cut one of the rafters, offered it up and the top of the rafter sat above the top of the ridge...

A documentary looking at Japanese carpentry https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7708E1bmoxc Cheers Mark

Hi All, So I have a little issue The height of the frame of my porch is limited with how high I can go because of a an existing roof line. This leads to an issue with the door opening. wickes door frame states it need about 2067mm of space but I only have about 2030mm of space. My question is...