Cutting Down Large Panels - When the Lumberyard Didn't...

[wcndave]

Having finished the kitchen, started on cloakroom. Going to be a bit of a cheaper job, so ordered 7 white laminated chipboard panels and a plain chipboard panel.

Thing is here, they don't come in 4x8, they come 3m x 2m and the plain ones 4x2m.

The lumberyard delivered them, and I found they had forgotten to cut them down, despite me sending very specific cut instructions, to get them to manageable sizes.

Had to get a friend round on day 1 and cut on the floor, then had the kids helping to cut down the resulting half sheets to rough sizes the next day.

Took a stop motion video of it, only 2 minutes ;-)
https://youtu.be/m0gJTnzYJ2A


I am using cutlist plus for optimising layout, which on the main works really nicely, and allows me to build an order list for the lumber yard, along with the necessary ignored cut instructions.

It also has a "print labels" feature, which given i have 91 parts seemed a good idea. It's actually really nice, you get a sheet of labels with the part number, description, material, rough cut size, final size and sub assembly name. Using the cutlist plus plan to cut the boards, and then immediately putting the stickers on means I should stay pretty organised, and know the final dimensions of each piece just by looking at the board.

Now the 110m of edge banding I am about to apply, I am not so looking forward to that!

 

[davin]

Not sure what I am more envious of, the space you have or the view out of the doors !

 

[wcndave]

Thanks! That's the garage which I commandeer for cutting down large panels. I have a home office and therefore went over the 110m2 standard house size when building it, so they insisted I built a garage to take four cars as technically the house could be split into two apartments. Was not happy with the extra cost, however at times like this it's very useful.

That was on top of me building in an 8*8m workshop which was not allowed to count for two spaces for some reason!

The view's nice. We're up at 1,360m here. Proper mountains. Snow's coming soon though and that's not so much fun.

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[Mike.S]

Loved the stop motion video - it's the speed that I imagine mailee (Alan Willey) of this forum works at in real life

Like the sound of 'cutlist plus' - on one of my projects (more modest) i was forever mixing up the different timber parts; this package may have helped.