Recent content by Glenbirnie

To be clear this is simply a flat space for the boys to leave a jigsaw, lego, farm etc set up for the following weekend. There is no way they will ever sleep up there. It will be used on weekends and parents will always be in the house. It has a smoke alarm and carbon monoxide detector and a...

Freddy Mercury Forums are funny you get two types of people, those who offer the advice and recomendations and those who say you cant do that at every opportunity! You actually havent offered any decent advice at all. Youve just said youve not gone through building control so you cant do...

No im not doing it through building control. A stair would ruin the room it would come off and the attic is not tall enough to warrant a full time room conversion. So your saying from a technical point of view no stair = no play room? Ive had a keen interest in houses in my short life (40) and...

Can I make a play space in the attic for the kids, is load an issue? I have a traditional built stone house 85 years old with a steep pitch welsh slate over sarking board roof at 50 degrees. The trusses were built on site, rough sawn 5” x 2” for both rafters and joists. The loft space is 10...

Can I make a play space in the attic for the kids, is load an issue? I have a traditional built stone house 85 years old with a steep pitch welsh slate over sarking board roof at 50 degrees. The trusses were built on site, rough sawn 5” x 2” for both rafters and joists. The loft space is 10...

I bought 12 x 10L pots of Dulux Trade Weathershield masonry paint last year in a super duper B&Q offer. Ive tried a bit and we think it is too bright. I want to add 10%-20% black of the exact same paint type to produce an off white or subtle grey. The colour I will obviously have to try...

Were doing up a 100 year old stone house slate roof etc and have been decorating in keeping with the house age. Come to buy sofas. I know a sofa for £500 with a free carpet isnt going to be of great quality so we opted for a Lazeboy from Costco for £1450 for a 3 seat chesterfield. The...

Absolutely not wanting it to sound posher! Just have a real amateur interest in timber and love refinishing and reusing proper timber. Don't do MDF etc. Thanks for everyone's comments. Cheers

Field Maple, so it is a sort of Maple you think then. Ive just looked up pics and grain, workability etc and end grain and it all ties in. Thanks for that. The oak frame then? Probably English oak? I thought a lot of timber was shipped in to the UK from the States and Canada. My...

We got given this Victorian wind out table from older friends of ours that were downsizing. By design it must be around 120-150 years old. I am bringing an old house out of the 1970's and putting it back into the Victorian era and have worked with a lot of timber species along the way so I know...

I have never needed a rebate plane until the weekend past so at least have an excuse for a new tool! But why dont standard sized general purpose planes have a blade that goes right to the edge? Whats the pros n cons? Cheers

I have built a timber partition between lounge and dining room, two fixed doors and two sliding with overlight. I had planned the sliding doors to be hung on a Kings low profile commercial track which was going to be powder coated but they have let me down and provided some pretty poor...