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our friends asked me if I could do anything with their front door one time when we were over having drinks, I was like yes no problem, never having renovated a door before but i had this vision of what I wanted it to look like or should I say what It looked like previously. got the door to the...

I refurbishing a victorian exterior door and have renewed the mouldings, what advice would you give to seal/attach them onto the door so that water cant penetrate behind the moulding and so I can stain it without it being noticeable?

Hello there, looking for a bit of advice on refurbishing an exterior door with lots and lots of paint on it. its an old door from a sandstone victorian type building. my plan is to replace the panel mouldings as some are rotting, any ideas on where I can get my hands on a hardwood 2.5inch...

As my workshop is a converted garage in a residential area I have been looking for ways to cut the noise down so as not to be annoying to neighbours. I am thinking of purchasing an axminster QUIET slide mitre saw. http://www.axminster.co.uk/axminster-ax ... prod32404/ try looking for noise...

I am trying to join together some 20mm x 95mm redwood, 6 abreast, I have them on a flat surface and all lined up touching each other side by side, I then have thinner strips of timber of which there are 3 and have these running accross the boards one in the middle and one almost at each end, all...

I am wondering how you all do your straight edges, I am looking to purchase a straight edge made of metal so that I can draw straight lines on my timber and also if I need to attach it to the timber to run through the router with a bearing guide i can use it for that. I used a piece of timber as...

just wondering why plans for things are so difficult to come by? see lots of good items on the web but never any plans. same with this forum, no plans free or otherwise. any ideas? would love to make some of the things i see from a plan instead of trying to guess

as title says, I am looking to make beading to go around the skirting board as laminate flooring has just been fitted. my thoughts are set up router with bit, run through a piece of timber and then cut off in the bandsaw, is that the easiest way? thanks in advance

I have to say that I am getting really angry with products that are brought to the market promising this that and the next thing and fail to deliver on any. I am not talking about hugely expensive things for instance I bought a range of different sized silverline quick clamps, verdict is...

was wondering if anyone has purchased and worked with the plans available to buy from taunton store 19.95 each? are they any good, was it worth it, are there other books with plans available other than just the single one that you could recommend? thanks