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Well you are most fortunate to be able to buy it at that price a sheet of 2500 x 1220 22mm MDF here is €42 , I then have to be able to get into my car :) by the time I add the fixings and so on I would rather spend the €49 to be honest. Don't get me wrong I get your drift and I am sure it would...

I don't have a brilliant router but it is well up to any task I will be asking of it, it is a Bosch POF 1400 ACE . It is actually meant for freehand work but I will be using it for both fixed and free.The table insert is definitely the way to go. They are not too expensive, cost me £45, but...

I think you have to think about using the Ikea item purely as a stand only. In other words I have made a router top which I will fix to the top of the Ikea unit after having cut an aperture for the router to fit through. The top of the Ikea unit is 600x500 and my top is 760x600 with the Kreg...

I have been making a router table top from a piece of work top and a Kreig insert and was swithering about how to go about the stand. I have seen a few online and thought to buy the lumber but I also thought about a cheap cabinet BUT the wife says why not use a Ikea kitchen work station...

Hi looking for advice. I have a Bosch POF 1400 router and was thinking about making a cheap table for it. I have a piece of 40mm worktop would this be OK for making the table top? I thought if I cut it to size and fix a hardwood trim around it I could buy an insert, Kreg probably, and route out...

I run two wood burners down here in France one a Godin cooker the other a Harmony III both have un-insulated stainless flues running up through a large chimney. I also know someone who burns a harmony III who has terrible problems with black filth running down the stainless flue. The reason this...

Hi I am about to fit a suspended WC in my house in France. It comes as a kit and the instructions seem straight forward however the fixing to the floor and the wall are the tricky bit. The floor is a 25 mm thick hand made quarry tile... I have no idea what is underneath them! And the wall could...

Hi big-all I was going to use a drill and countersink combo to make the screw pilot holes would that be ok for securing through the tongue and the screw size and length ? Thanks for the advice!

Hi big-all Its an old French house so nothing is exact but the measurement is near as damn 500mm centres. The boards are 2.05M x 135mm x 20mm

Hi I am relaying a floor and want to use screws to hold the floor boards rather than nail them. The floor boards I am using are 20 mm white pine and tongued on two sides and grooved on the other two, The boards are being layed onto 100mm x 100mm Oak joists which are about 500mm centres and I...

Not disagreeing with anyone .. but if you buy the correct Desvres adhesive (CERMIPLUS XL FLEX) which should be available in the UK they say there is no need to use a bonding agent on old PVC tiles provided they are well adhered to the floor. REMEMBER though if using a porcelain tile you must...

Just finished doing the same thing. The tiles on my floor were PVC and well adhered. I think you are best to use a good quality flexible quick setting adhesive, then grout with a flexible grout. I used French manufactured products from Desvres they are top quality but you will be able to get...

Hi just a quick question about drilling into concrete. I am building a wood shed and the posts are going into holders which will be fixed to a concrete block in the ground. My question is would it be better to drill the holes for the fixings before the concrete is fully hardened and then let the...

Thanks for the reply. I think you could be right I may need to increase the angle of my trowel I have been trying to make it 45 degrees, there seems to be plenty of adhesive on the tile I had a job prising a just laid one off! The notch size is 9mm.

Hi wierd thing happening when I am tiling my floor. The adhesive manufacturers say I should get about 5.5-6 m2 per bag I am getting nearer 7m2 what am I doing wrong?? I am using the notch size recommended by the manufacturer and have mixed the adhesive as they say. I am an amature so I could be...