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This is the first layer, I've used this varnish a few times (it's nononsense marine varnish) and it's been very good. Last night I did put a layer on about 2am and this morning this is what it looks like. It's on pine which was sanded down to 240 grit yesterday and bushed off so there was no...

On pine, varnish is white and cracking, coated about 5 hours ago.

bits that might have worked or not

It's also probably worth noting that according to residential status and taxes paid, our richest person according to the Sunday Times is an Indian plus members or his family also figure prominently, and that he made his money in one the areas of expertise that UK was brilliant at, Steel, until...

Culturally 52% would be economically inactive because they'd be raising children or being children, the main question would be how many of them are on benefits as a proportion compared to white people living in Basingstoke who are dealing drugs on the side ? I'd say that they were "here"...

I'm married to an Indian brought up and raised in a ****hole she's the one who worked in Great Ormond Street saving the kids lives with cancer, or her former speciality, researching the reduction of HIE in premature babies by inducing hyperthermia. And don't talk about money, what you read in...

This is probably old movement, I'd prefer to keep as much of the wood as possible although it would almost certainly be cheaper to buy another door, plus it's a bit odd having an exterior outhouse door in the the house with garden T hinges on it. In an ideal world I'd like to strip it to bare...

I've got a bit of a problem putting pictures of this door up at the moment, so I've put them in a hidden page on the website. http://www.bodgedhouse.com/content/warped-toilet-door The door is tongued and grooved planks with a frame on the front to keep it flat and two very large/ thick...

I'm not against the idea, I I just wondered if there is a specific reason why the furniture is not varnished over once stained. Something like a UK resistant tough marine varnish ? The feet must be end grain and more absorbent and so I would think they would rot eventually and from having...

Yes I did, and had a full survey down too, which states "this is a beautiful house, but...." and in two years time when every job has been unbodged I will be proud to say i did that I also think it's a good series of lessons as to how a lack of basic common sense like "sweep a gulley out"...

So you think brackets first one at a time, but then I have to get the bracket level parallel to the wall, whereas with the brackets on the shelf at least that's one issue out of the way. I think accuracy may be a problem, I just followed the instructions for using Spit RivaDriva Plasterboard...

This may seem idiotic and simplistic but I'd like to know people's opinion's on the best way to to put up a shelf. This would be a normal shelf on a normal wall I've tried two ways. a) putting up one bracket using a level across the predicted gap as I find sometimes my original level line...

I've had a website up for two years at least, detailing how a company was/ is "installing" my open source software for £75 and misleading people into believing the software is not freely available. It's a five minute job only being done because they are misrepresenting the software and the task...

I'd like the moderators to approve this post and the URL *********** ****NOPE**** mainly because the topic of DIY disasters is too great to repeat for every story. Three months ago we moved into an Edwardian house, and every since then I have been having to take apart virtually everything. We...

Well I want to start this as a hobby, and I like the zig zag look of the join from the side, I also thought it would be relatively simple to use a bit like that, e.g. go down one side, turn over a piece or wood of equal thickness and go down the opposite, and then glue them together, as opposed...

Yes that would be the one, the one that allows wood to be joined at 180 degrees and is commonly used for joining blocks together.

Can anyone recommend one, it's something I've always wanted to try out, yet I find that looking around the router kits don't include them and the ones sold singly are the same price as a kit one. I understand they work almost purely on the end grain but surely there can't be that much of a...