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I bought 4 pine doors which cutting limit on vertical axis is 3 cm. Filling is pine panels. I need to cut 5 cm so they can fit. Is it a problem in the short term? If damaged after cutting, can the bottom part be fixed or filled in with a foam to recover the door resistance? Doors: -...

Hi, we're prepping the main wooden stairs in a 1930s semi for painting as the finish. There are cracks and gouges in the wood, some shallow, some perhaps 5mm deep. Please can anyone recommend a suitable filler that won't fall out and that we can paint over. Thank you

Putting a lock on the wood gate and the instructions are minimal. I need to drill a 32mm hole for the barrel through 45mm thickness. Any recommendations for the best type of drill bit to use? I would have thought a wood bit but when looking at descriptions they say only good for thin materials...

Hi all, I am looking into a whole exchange/refit (not just covering) of my 29 yr old wooden soffits and fascia boards. Detached house built 1995. One company has quoted me for use of ("thicker") 18mm PVC board. A builder friend has said that good practice would be to add wooden pieces/battens...

Hi all I have 5 internal doors in my house, which have likely been there since the 70s. They appear to be constructed of a chipboard frame, and covered with a horrible orange wood veneer (some pics attached). As far as I can tell, the veneer is real wood (rather than anything plastic), and...

I need to redo the putty around the windows in my concrete shed. The last lot (not sure if it was done by my dad or the house's previous owner) was not painted and has started to crack and fall out. I've read it needs overpainting but needs to be an oil based paint. But so many of the paints...

Hi knowledgeable people I am looking to repaint my dark brown stained stairs. I am struggling to work out what brand of paint to choose. They all claim to be hard wearing but are they really! I need something that truly is as hard as nails. Needs to be hoovered and mopped most days. Any...

My parents house has had new external wall insulation put up, and afterwards on beginning to paint the soffit and fascia boards the work people have discovered that the vertical part is rotten in parts, and when pulling some away it has expose the horizontal part to which they are attached which...

Hi all, I have always wanted a Dremel. Recently, I have got into whittling..... just farting around carving (terribly) bits of wood. I thought I could do some really cool things if I had a Dremel with some attachments suitable for wood. Does anyone have any advice? There are lots of 'fake'...

Hi all, I intend to divide my integral garage into two seperate spaces by erecting a stud partition wall. One side will be storage space, the other will be a home office. The room is 2.6m wide, and i'll need a doorway in it. As the partition wall will be in a cold, drafty, garage space will...

I have some old decorative posts which are well worn and moss covered. I'm looking to retain their look exactly without any cleaning up but protecting them from rotting further. Any ideas on a suitable way to treat/cover them without losing their character? They are completely non-structural...

Hello, Absolute newbie to anything here and probably shouldn’t be on the forum, but reckon I’d have a go at asking anyways. I have a reclaimed scaffold board desk top from Etsy (attached) and I want to shorten the length of it (currently 80cm). I’ve noticed is the desk top is made of 5...

I am installing wooden cladding vertically on my summer house. Read that best practice is to do an angled cut at the bottom of each board to provide a drip point. Any idea what the angle of the cut should be?

We have moved into a 70s house and need to replace some skirting boards. The upstairs is done in this wood and I am wondering what it is so we could get board of the same material downstairs to match it, to save replacing skirting across the house. The floors and wood on the stairs and...

Hello, I'm looking for some help from more experienced builders for my project. I have a balcony floor which has to be elevated around 5cm. Concrete is not an option because of weight and drying time. The floor is covered with a bituminous felt which I intend to keep and also sloped to 2 drain...

Hi, What is recommended for long term heavy duty exterior sealing aluminium /steel / wood to cotswold stone (brick) walls. Eg door frames, wall brackets etc. Planned on using Screwfix Builders silicone but ideally want something tougher. Also noticed on new build frames they use a thicker...

The original woodwork plus some plain pine and varnish tests for comparison. A lot of woodwork in our house was done in a tinted varnish by the previous owners: doors, skirting and banisters. Hallway stripped floorboards look similar and could be the same product. A couple of plain pine...

I'm building a cold frame, to cover tender plants ,from 5cm square wooden battens with acrylic windows. The dimensions are L=2M , W=1.5M , H=40cm. It is a winter only ,temporary structure which will sit on 25cm wooden railway sleepers. I need to attach it to the sleepers to stop it blowing away...

Hi All, I really struggle with any carpentry works it seems so looking for some help! In my ensuite i will be boarding over the bulkhead, and at the bottom of the slope i need to create a square boxing to run a waste around to the stack. I’d also like to ideally create a ‘shelf’ on the top...

I'm getting slipped slates fixed on a roof but there has been minor rain damage to a truss section under the slate in the loft. As a preventative measure if I seal all the timber in the loft with wood sealant this reduces the risk of water damage. I can use a hand pump sprayer. What type of wood...