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Thanks all Not measured the opening yet but if there is room I will put some packers in and get some foam behind to try and secure it a but more. Cheers all, thanks for the advice, i'll pick some of them screws up. Why are even the simple jobs never bloody simple lol

How can I get the CLS in without destroying the plastered walls?

Thanks for your reply The uprights are there, they have done it properly. It has a metal lining in the opening. Guessing that there only thin pieces of metal so will need some sort of self tapping screws, but same as you never used it once. Don't want to fit the casings & doors only to find...

Hi all Long story short. Friend got someone to divide 1 room into 2 and he did it with metal studwork. It's all done and plastered. She now wants me to fit a couple of door casings and doors. I have never worked with metal studwork. What is the best way to fix the wooden 4" door casing to the...

Hi all. A question for fellow joiners. Normally I would estimate how long it will take me to fit skirting boards and charge accordingly. I've just been to price up a job and there are several hundred metres of skirking to be fitted and I was wondering what the average price was per metre...

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Hi all hope you are all well. I currently fit laminate, solid and engineered flooring for a flooring company. The company also sell karndean flooring. At present there are 3 of us who get the work passed on to us, but they don't have any karndean fitters. I was hoping to find a course in...

Good idea. Didn't even think of tackling it that way. Doing it this way i could use metal or even a plywood sheet. Bolt the bracket to the plywood/metal then screw this into the studwork so the weight is spread across as many studs as possible. Cheers mate. Knew someone would give me a different...

Hi all. A question for my fellow joiners. I have recently being asked by a customer to fix a bracket to a stud partition wall for a plasma which is a monstrous 5ft wide 35 inch high and 70kg's in weight. The only way I can think is to strip the plasterboard off one side of the wall. Fix more...

I like this picture, it makes me feel like a world champion tradesman. Seriously get him back in and get him to replace it. I wouldn't even accept a repair, its not like it's a little chip. Hope you mange to get it sorted.

Hi all Probably a simple answer for you tilers. I want to tile the wall surrounding a gas fire. It's an old house and the wall is very uneven. Was thinking of fixing some pink plasterboard and then tiling onto that. Do I prime the pink plasterboard with something or can i tile straight onto...

Hi! Normally these oak doors are chipboard inside and only oak veneered. The only reason why i tell you this is that if the joiner needs to shave it down to size he/she will only have a certain amount they can take off a side before the chipboard shows. I have found LPD doors have a max of 14mm...

I always call the lining the straight piece of wood and the casing the rebated one. Sorry on my computer it looked like it was just plasterboarded. In that case yeah do what woody says and attach another piece e.g 2"x1" to form the rebate

Hi my name is Mike You will need to fix a door casing. Door cases have a rebate/recess in the wood in which the door will sit in when closed. This gives the door something to shut to, preventing it from being ripped off its hinges and also to prevent light traveling from one room to another...

Hi I have recently fitted a solid russian oak flooring grade A&B onto a sleeper system. Visqueen then 3"x2" framework at 200mm centres then the solid wood running perpendicular fixed with tongue tite screws. The next day when i went back to do another room the floor was making cracking noises...

Cheers WoodYouLike I am still open to options. But i have done a few on concrete subfloors using the floating method and they have all moved. (Gaps appearing in the middle of a row of flooring etc and expanding more on one side of the room from the other creating it to twist. Maybe i was doing...

Thank you WoodYouLike for your time and advise. sorry to bother you again, do my stages seem alright or would you do it differently?

Hi mupps1 to help you on your enquiry I have used tongue tite screws and secret nailed floor loads of time and had no problems with them. But i only use these on solid wood laying on a wooden floor. What i would do is lay plywood and screw that to the floorboards and the tongue tite the solid...

Hi all Hope you are all well. Im just after some advise and helpful tips. I am going to be laying a solid wood flooring onto a concrete slab. I am doing around 100sqm running into 4 rooms. I have decided to do this using the sleeper method using 2"x1" batons. I was thinking of doing it in...

any 3x2 version will be good enough. Like you said it's only to support the plasterboard. If you feel more confortable with the wider 2" side so you can get a better fix to your plasterboards then go for that. I wasn't expecting u to remove loft joists but thought you might be using new ceiling...