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Thanks. I'll have a look at that. OK, thanks I will give it a go. Looks like I will be switching to scaffold boards which might be a bit cheaper to practice on. Thanks. I had looked at scaffold boards as an alternative, and I quite like the idea, so I think I will give it a go. Looks like a...

Yes, it is quite large, and high, for a coffee table. It is designed to sit in an area with sofas on three sides, to be used as a coffee table, but also a table for the kids to work and play on, and is 600mm high (to the underside of the table top). Perhaps from a proportion point of view I...

Thanks. I do have an electric hand plane, which I intended to use, along with a sander to level the top, if needed, but my concern is getting the edges of the boards perfectly parallel for joining. Everybody I see doing it online seems to either use a surface planer or a table saw. I did find a...

Hi, I am in the process of building a coffee table and now need to make the top (1500mm x 1300mm, with a 100mm overhang). I intend to us three pieces of 18mm pine board, and am hoping that I can get away without using a surface planer or table saw. My plan is to use a track saw, putting the...

Thanks, I will go ahead with them and plane as you suggest. I'm not planning to chew them, but I can't vouch for the kids :D

Hi, I am looking to build a workbench and am trying to find some 4x4s for the legs (and using 2x4s for the frame). Given the current restrictions, my easiest source of timber is Wickes, but the only similar sized timber they have is these 100mm x 100mm fence posts...

Having looked at the joists more closely, I have realised that another issue is that the joists have been mortared into the top row of bricks on the external and internals walls (so forming part of the top row of bricks rather than just sat on top of them). I'm not sure if this is perhaps...

Hi, I have an outbuilding which I would like to line with battens and plasterboard, and add additional insulation behind the plasterboard. One of the walls is a single brick external wall, and the rest are all cavity walls, some external and some internal. The single brick external wall is...

Hi, My loft has joists which are approximately 6m long and are only 2x4 In some parts of the loft I have stacked new 2x4s on top, and then T&G laminate on top. However, there are a number of cross beams, so I have not spanned the whole 6m in one, but have stacked either side. I am now doing a...

Thanks foxhole. I will be using an impact driver so can try with longer screws. What would be the minimum depth that I would need to get the screws into the joists? (I'll switch to 12mm plasterboard as you suggest)

Hi, I need to batten out an existing plasterboard ceiling so that I can drop it just over 90mm and put new 9mm plasterboard on the battens (encapsulating the original plasterboard and coving for now). I plan to use 45mmx95mm battens, 90 degrees to the joist, at 400mm centres, with the 45mm side...

Thanks for all the input. Very much appreciated. I was originally going to go for a much cheaper socket, but all the reviews I read, including for the BG ones had complaints about build quality and short lifespan (sections snapping off etc), so I decided to go for that oen. EFLImpudence...

Hi, I would like to add an external socket as a spur from an existing internal socket. I was planning to run 2.5mm cable to one of these sockets mounted on an external wall. Total cable length of the spur will be approx 2 metres...

Hi, I would like to add insulation on top of an existing flat roof, without removing the existing roof cover. I started looking at this article, which seems to have a picture of somebody sticking down a panel to an existing roof surface...

Hi, I have a couple of aluminium doors, one single rear door and a double porch door. I have been trying to find replacement locks and John D has provided me with some very useful links, but I could not find anything that will fit. So, I'd like to ask for some guidance on adding locks to old...

Hi, I was hoping to make some changes to my front wall, including 1) Adding a new gate that its the same height as the pillars (1.3 metres) 2) Putting railings along the top of the lower section of wall to raise it to the same height as the pillars 3) Replace the 700mm wooden fence that runs...

Thanks John. I did look for locks before but I could not find anything that seemed to match the centres on the existing lock. I wasn't quite sure where the centre is on an oval cylinder, but it would seem to be at least 70-80mm. I may have found some with those centres but not with the other...

Hi John. Thanks for the response. They are both hinged doors, the front one is a double glazed aluminium porch door and the rear is also double glazed aluminium. I took the rear door mechanism apart recently to see if I could find a match with a replacement mechanism but couldn't find a size...

Hi, I am looking to replace UK Oval Cylinders on two old aluminium doors. I am, however, struggling to find cylinders with the same range of security features as many euro cylinders, especially anti-bump features (which I believe is a common attack). To exactly match the current doors, I need...

I've also just realised that, because the locks are UK Oval, rather than Euro Cylinder I can't get anti-snap cylinder anyway. Should I just replace the whole lock? Can anybody suggest a good replacement, please? If I am replacing the whole lock, do I need to stay with a cylinder or can I...