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Hello I am looking to lay 40m2 of engineered oak flooring on the ground floor of my house and I want to fit it under the skirtings. Although the skirtings are not special the rooms were plastered in the 1930's with the skirtings in situ so I expect it would cause a lot of damage if I tried to...

Hi I am wanting to make a Study bed for my sons small bedroom. Its like a murphy bed but with a desk underneath. http://www.studybed.co.uk/ If anyone can point me in the direction of a supplier for the mechanism I would be grateful. Mark

Hi I saw a episode of tiny house sometime ago and the joiner on the programme made a study desk that turns in to a bed with all the computer screen disappears under the bed. It was really great. I can see a lot of these on the web and I would like to incorporate one in to my youngest's...

Hi I am wanting to hang a new door I have bought for the house. I have never done this before but I have done a lot of other projects. The problem is that I want to avoid hacking at the plaster surround so I am hanging it on the orignal Frame. The door isslightly too big so will need adjusting...

I have to replace some very old garage doors and want to create some from tantalized pine (C24). I have never made anything like this. It will be ledged and braced and my question is does the angle of the brace have a minimum angle. It is just that the doors are rectangular and the diagonal...

Hi I am wanting to make a built in bookcase on the backwall of our living room. It will be surrounding french doors. I am wanting to make it out of 8 x 4 sheets of oak veneered Mdf. 18mm for the carcass and 26mm for the shelves which will span 1.1 - 1.3 m. I have drawn a plan and will...

Hi I am looking for professional hints and tips when trimming down a new ledge and brace door to fit a old framed opening. The opening is about an inch smaller in height and width and the opening is not square. What is the best way to hang a door like this. I assume I will need to keep the...

Hi This may be an easy one. I have built a frame with 4" square timber and I am wanting to make it more rigid by adding diagonal bracing. My question is for the mathematicians, I have calculated using pythag the length of the diagonal brace corner to corner but I want to know how to cut the...

Hi After completing my first home office. I want to make some units for a walk in wardrobe various openings. Firstly I need to know a little about working with melamine. Types of melamine. Sizes and density etc... How to cut and how best to join to make stable units. I would be very grateful...

I am wanting to make some new timber windows with an opening sash for my garage. It will be first time I have undertaken anything like this. Can anyone advise on a good pictorial book or can share there wisdom? Mark

Ok Here goes I am making a number of Timber buildings and rabbit hutches etc, for our own use I may add. I need to get some tools together I think of the long term. I had a SIP SCMS which sadly has given up the ghost. It was pretty inaccurate when cutting mitres and had a lot of play in the...

Hi We have aquired a old 1930's house and the previous owners have stripped and polished the floorboards downstairs. The problem is that the floorboards seem to be just that, boards on the floor. They look like good quality pine but with no T&G. The problem is that it is blowing a gale between...

Hi This may seem a little dum but I am having problems cutting small sections of sheet material, such as laminated chip board. Lets assume I want to make a shelf 1m long and 300mm deep. I cut a 1200 x 2400 sheet into sections on the driveway using my circular saw. I usually find that the sides...

Hi I am wanting to replace the Skirtings in my old house. The last owner had fitted most of them himself and filled between the mitres. I am wondering what way a proffesional joiner would use to fit them and how to cut the internal and external mitres on walls that are out of true. Any advice...

Hi All I am attempting to build a 14' x 10' Garden Office from 2"x4" Frames and a Pitched roof. I have never undertaken such a task and have downloaded a basic frame shed plan to give me an idea how to form a window opening and a door opening in a stud wall. I am going to clad it with ship lap...

Hi I have a Axminster Table saw that advertises a 250x30x40T 3mm Blade. They only list a Perform blade but I want to get a better performer and have heard good revies on Freud. I cannot find a Freud blade with exactly the same spec.Body thickness seems to be specified as B=3.3mm b=2.8mm. Do I...

I have just built my first Shooting board but I am lacking one important component. A plane. I assume I need a low angle plane for taking off thin shavings from the end grain of various woods. I am only a beginner so Price is crucial. What can you advise? Mark

Hi All I am trying to make a shooting board as per the plans on fine woodworking website. Excuse me for the the seemingly obvious question but I assume you make a shooting board to make accurate cuts on timber ends more accurate. My problem is that if the Shooting board angles are not accurate...

Just installed a extractor which says its earthed. I have two sections of 3 m Flexible duct, a Y splitter in plastic and various fittings. Do I need to earth them and how do I do it? Thanks Mees

I know this sounds naive but i have prices for timber 125mm wide by 32mm thick and 1000mm long for £8 and I am wanting to convert this to the price Metre cubed. Can anyone help with a formulae to put in to Excel. I hate it when suppliers swap and change between prices per board and metre...