Recent content by brightsparkey

Depends how fussy you are. Making cabinets from scratch is a lot of hassle, especially drawer units. You may be better off using standard chipboard or mdf carcasses and fashioning a front for them in nicer materials. Many 'bespoke' kitchens are done this way. The front is often made with...

O have also done a two storey victorian staircase and its just time consuming. Eventually we found the most effective was Nitromorhs (sp??). Its horrible stuff but is good at moving stubborn old paint. The other tip is to use a cabinet scraper plane on flat bits. This will allow you to...

stain only changes the colour, and generally to a darker one. wax is usually used as a final finish and wont protect the wood from cup rings/water marks etc. If you want to bring out the natural grain then an oil finish is excellent, and then if you want a shine to it, add wax as a polish...

I am constructing a shed and plan to use feather edge boards as exterior cladding. I would like to know how best to finish the corners (external corners) to keep the weather out and give a neat looking corner. Any experienced advice most welcome as I've not used horizontal boards before -...

Bought 22mm 1m drill - did job perfectly - 20mm conduit sheath is snug but slides easily enough to go through cavity and thick internal wall. '8 Job done ! Many thanks for the advice. :D Kevin.

Nice idea Bernardgreen, but unfortunately I only have access from one side. I had a look and £15 ones are available from screwfix - thanks for the hint. I can't imagine even cheap stuff having trouble with breeze. I'll go for the 22mm then unless anyone knows that won't work. Cheers...

thanks for the help. USID might be misleading :) I normally work on smaller more complicated things electrical/electronic... I'd really like to buy only one 1m long bit at circa £30 - I've always managed up 'till now with my 450mm 'real mans' drill...

I am using 20mm conduit as a sleeve. The wall it is going through is 600mm thick, so before I buy a pricey 1m long sds bit, I wanted to check what diameter to buy to make life easy. Will a 20mm drill be too tight or should I go for 22mm ?? If I go 22 mm will the conduit be too loose and slide...