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Thanks, I really appreciate the advice. Gives me more of an understanding of what to do for the best results.

My Christmas list is growing by the hour :lol: I suppose so I could go the extra mile and have a go at re-doing the tongue and groove??

So just to clarify, I've got parquet blocks tongue and groove on all sides, some worse than others and a thin layer of bitumen on the bottom. Scraping the bitumen off is time consuming but I also need to trim off the tongues where they've been broken. Ideally I'll end up with a load of...

It's a fair point. May be even a flap wheel on the end of a drill? It would be messy but like mentioned previously, I don't know how the bitumen would react to the friction generated and subsequent heat. This one could be trial and error I guess, I just don't want to make an expensive mistake by...

Yes and yes #-o I want to try and preserve the character of the top but yes, I was hoping to short cut the scraping off the back. May be I can look at a bandsaw then to do the donkey work and see how it goes. Otherwise I'll have many a winter's night in the garage :shock:

Hi... Ok thanks. That was one of my concerns that A) the pieces would be too small and wouldn't feed through properly and B) whether the pieces would damage the blades too much. May be a Band Saw of some description with a fence would sort out the edges and sizing and good old fashioned hard...

Hi there, hope you can help? I have a quantity of reclaimed (oak?) flooring, bags of small blocks taken up from a floor. My intention is to plane the timber to get all the blocks neat and tidy and the same size. Would a planer thicknesser be the way to go? I don't want to spend 100s but was...