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Up to now I've only used a roundover bit to soften edges and that's been fine for bedroom furniture which gets touched etc. But I'm now in the market for a chamfer bit as think it gives a slightly more formal finish (for bookcases). However, I would appreciate some guidance on dimensionally...

After I cut my teeth making built-ins for 3 bedrooms and a dressing room last year, I'm now ready for the big one, the home library. I am possibly doing this so that I have a great excuse to buy a Festool domino but the wife doesn't need to know that :) The bookcases will wrap around three...

About to start my 4th room of panelling and up to now have made up the 4 sides of the panel rectangle, attached to each other with mitre fast, then fit the whole thing as one unit to the wall. However, I've seen a handful of videos where the panel is assembled on the wall, ie bottom piece put...

In a nutshell, skirting is my nemesis. I'm learning but I'm sure there is an easier way and looking for any useful YouTube/guides you recommend on getting the angles right. Most out there deals with the perfectly flat wall and the perfectly plumb walls, leading to "just set your mitre saw to...

Hello Last year I spent a lot of time doing bedroom renovations, mostly built-in wardrobes and dressing rooms along with the more general flooring/skirting/architrave etc. This year I've got a significant amount of cabinetry to build: a home library as well as several living room display cases...

Looks like I may be paying them a visit this weekend, anyone have a friend referral code I could use?

Moved in 2 years ago and on move in day my daughter's foot went through a corner of the decking. 2 years later and it's definitely knackered, clear previous owners didn't treat it each year and just gave it a lick of paint pre-sale. With so many other projects on my hand I'm looking to...

Have a c15mm expansion gap for new herringbone flooring going around a fireplace and curious to know how these are dealt with. Obviously for the rest of the room, the skirting covers the gap, so how is it covered in these situations? Was wondering if I filled the gap with a flexible (oak...

It's been so long since I laid the last herringbone engineered oak floor that I've gone well past the shelf life of the extra adhesive I had bought and now in the market for a replacement. Previous used Sikabond MS Wood Floor. It's absolutely fine other than fact it was relatively firm when new...

Building my very first set of drawers (well, first from scratch ie not IKEA) and all is going surprisingly well despite many occasions of confusion with the Blum instructions and exact measurements required for the runners. However I've got one odd issue. One of the runners isn't fully...

Have an extension and noticed the vertical beam (that I assume supports structural horizontal beams) has got some very large cracks in it. Is this something I should be concerned about and if so, is there a "fix"?

Seems up and down the country there is quite a range on internal door fitting costs, £50 the norm in some places, £100 in others. But what about the hardware side of things, how much more would you charge if it's a bathroom latch for example instead of standard tubular?

I've been encouraged by the Mrs to get doors fitted to help control the dust I'm creating during the renovation. We like the idea of solid oak for durability/longevity and as it will be more forgiving/adjustable for the old frames. A few questions if I may: 1) Where to people source their...

Getting dizzy with the amount of options. My research points me to Blum if budget allows or Hafele is also quite decent. I need inset as opposed to overlay hinges and I know for some wardrobe doors given their height I will need 4 hinges per door whereas the smaller ones 3 will suffice. I also...

Hello I'm brand new to this part of woodworking and babe recently acquired a router table and will be making some wardrobe doors shortly. When it comes to rail/stile router bits they seem to all come with a 1/4” (6.35mm) groove for the panel. I will be using 9mm panels. Do they make these bits...

Made a perfectly level plinth yday. Made a basic wardrobe carcass, put on said plinth and noticed the carcass wasn't level. A few shims later and it was ok, didn't think much about it. Today, made another perfectly level plinth. Made a drawer carcass and again noticed it wasn't level. The...

It's pretty rubbish when all the parts are working and a month ago the rubber flap on the dust tube tore meaning it folds in on itself and does an even worse job of extracting (well in theory, was bad to begin with so hard to really tell the difference). Anyway... Today I tried to go too...

Hello I am starting to do more work with the router and am making my way through a "Woodworking with the Router" book by Bill Hylton. I've got a DeWalt palm router which is absolutely fine (and useful) but I've decided to purchase a table top router. I only do carpentry for myself, part of a...

I've put this purchase off as I've felt dust extraction didn't directly contribute to what I was making and there were always other tools that took precedence etc ... But after covering a room in sanding dust and having a whole house to renovate I've decided to address the issue. On the dust...

Renovating an Edwardian property where the plaster has blown. Used three different plasterers (recommended by people on local FB groups) and found all three to be pretty poor. The ones that did the bedrooms applied thin stripwood to the existing casing as they had made the replacement plaster...