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Hi everyone, I'm unsure if this is possible (or even exactly wise), which is why I wanted to ask for your advice. I had the idea of building a second-floor deck where the top window is. As you can see, there used to be a fire escape there, so this window opens wide. This is one of the...

Hi, Tackling a fairly large living room floor - going to hire a sander and also an extractor, but I'm having some trouble figuring out what to do about the latter. I remember discussing extractors a few years ago here on the forum, but I still haven't gotten round to investing in one yet. I...

I’m currently making a TV cabinet which I plan to finish with a concrete top. Loads of people seem to get great results with the stuff, and it’s very versatile so far as colours and stains. From what I gather the process is also relatively simple: If you’re building a 2 inch top, you’d build a...

Images attached. I’ve put new boards down in a room once, but this seems more complicated. In the image looking down the hallway, on the right, the boards go under the skirting. Now I’m replacing the skirting anyway, but the boards go underneath it and possibly under the wall (as you can see...

Hi, Bit concerned about some doors I’ve just taken off in my home. House is 1930s but was an old people’s home in the 70s and 80s. I know they sometimes used asbestos in fire doors. There’s no indication these are fire doors from what I can tell, but they were pretty damn heavy. All the...

Hi everyone, When I first got into woodworking, I couldn’t really afford decent wood to practice with and often used pallet wood. I didn’t initially pay attention as to whether the wood I was using was treated or untreated. I built a wine rack, a little jewellery box for my girlfriend and a...

Having realized thanks to this forum that a band saw would be a great aid to me considering I don't own a table saw, I decided to dig out an old one I have but haven't been using. It's a Black & Decker table top that I got for free, so nothing particularly heavy duty or powerful. Below are...

I don’t own a table saw. I own a circular saw, but precise cuts with it are laborious and quite difficult. So for most of my projects so far, I’ve just had the wood ripped for me at the shop, and chopped it with my mitre saw to dimension. The ripping issue is quite a thorn in my side. Even...

I don’t have a table saw and I don’t have a router table. Cutting with the circular saw I find for the most part very cumbersome when trying to rip narrow pieces especially, and even my trusty mof97 router can be a pain and awkward to use when handheld. Having recently built myself a work...

I’d love to get a table saw (I do all my ripping by hand) but can’t afford a decent one. I don’t think Elu made any table saws but they did make a couple of flip saws, where the table rotates and you can use it as a chip saw or a table saw. They go for suspiciously cheap on eBay compared to...

I've been in the market for a planer thicknesser for a while now. My specification is good quality, performs both thicknessing and planing functions and is reasonably priced; which means essentially I'm after a second hand machine likely from the 90s. I barely have any money to put into...

Hi everyone. I came to the realisation a while ago that a planer thicknesser would aid me a great deal. I started looking around and after some confussion between the differences between a planer, a thicknesser and a machine that does both, I learned of how much a decent machine would set me...

It’s become a thing now that every year for her birthday, I make my girlfriend something. Up until now it’s been mostly various types of personalised jewellery boxes and trinkets. I want to do something different this time but I don’t know what. Has anyone any ideas for something nice I can...

Here’s the floor: https://imgur.com/a/TjsGAvV With the colours of the walls, I’m worried about bringing out orange in the pine. Was thinking maybe some sort of oak stain/wax? Another alternative might be to white wash? Maybe paint? Dark stain? What do you think would work well? Cheers!

Hi everyone, My problem: Anyway, as you can see from the pictures, there’s a significant in the area not yet boarded over. In fact, as you can also tell the last board I laid has some cupping, so that’ll need to be taken off so this issue can be sorted. It seems to cup in a V shaped...

So, I’m fitting some new softwood flooring and found a huge stone slab on a bed of gravle underneath the old boards. Any ideas why? To give some background information; 1930s house, room is a bedroom that previously had a shower in the corner that the stone slab is in. Looks as though...

After a rather enlightening and ongoing discussion regarding Elu's history in a thread I put up yesterday, The reliability and quality of an old DW1150 I've been eying up that is for sale in my area for £150 (also put a thread up about that) has come into question. Upon learning more of the...

I was always under the impression they we bought by black and decker and rebranded under the DeWalt brand. What I don't really understand, though, is that there's a website for 'Elumatec', which Is what Elu was until they changed their name in 1984. They're still going, selling what looks to be...

I'm making some raised panel internal doors for the house. I'm far from an experienced woodworker, so with this being a raised panel door I'm in need of a bit of assistance. I've knocked up the frame easy enough - mortice and tenons, the only joint I'm capable of doing well so far! :lol: and...

Dewalt DW1150. Have a chance to pick one up locally for £160. I know dewalt is generally trustworthy gear though I've never owned any. This model is pretty old, and I guess it'll depend on the condition and amount of work that may need to go into setting it up because of that. I know thoughts...