Soldato
What "man jobs" have you done today?
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Haha I was too after all the effort of clearing all the space. I just woke up one day and saw it was spotless.I know, I know but I'm cynical and impatient
Is it any good? Reason I ask, I need to build some basic shoe pigeon hole shelf and I'm thinking ply might be the way forward.
That garage storage turns me onI finally finished the full garage storage install, plus applied Wet & Forget rapid application (it's a bottle that clips onto the end of your garden hose). That was on Monday, no signs of improvement yet.
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I must admit, it's making me a bit moist as well.
Where did you get it from?
Where did you get it from?
Soldato
It's made by Draper and I bought it from FFXs eBay store, they usually have deals and voucher codes. It cost me £807 in the end.
I'm using 12mm Beech Plywood simply because I have a load left over from my Marshall amp cabinet build. On the corner joints I would use a 100mm interlocking joint for a little extra strength.
I'm just gluing together a couple of offcuts to make the shelf. I'll use a router to make the edges curved. The shelf will end up making the structure stronger too.
Hmm I find the edges a bit delicate on this kind of ply. Maybe I didn't have birch before. Can you varnish this?I'm using 12mm Beech Plywood simply because I have a load left over from my Marshall amp cabinet build. On the corner joints I would use a 100mm interlocking joint for a little extra strength.
I'm just gluing together a couple of offcuts to make the shelf. I'll use a router to make the edges curved. The shelf will end up making the structure stronger too.
Ok finding baltic birch is not going to be easy (it's about 5x the cost it was before Russia was sanctioned as the only place is now in Sweden etc). Instead Beech is an option - it's as harder on average than birch. You can do others but that's what I use.
It's only 12mm, but you can get thicker ply. and on the amp I will simply tolex it. For this - I will leave it to the Mrs to paint etc however I would suggest something to bond/seal the edges and wood for long stability.
Usual precautions with ply - face mask etc as you don't want to be breathing in the glue.
I use an old jigsaw to rough cut to length, with a shop vac on it. Then switch to a no4 plane to bring it to the line. For routing I just use a 1/4" bit on a makita trim router for rounding the edges. I just use tight bond because that's what I got (either green or red is good enough for this).
The main issue with ply is getting voidless. The baltic birch was really good for that, the beech was good but I had to hand select pieces for the amp. These were the leftovers hence have some voiding on the edges.
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Hmm thanks. Feels a bit hit and miss. Makes me wonder if I should just go to MDF!
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Had a simple job today...to fit the blackout blind. I was meant to fit out the remaining shelves but got distracted playing lego with my 4y/o. Turns out the blind came at the lowest end of their tolerance, and I had given my smallest measurement, so it was very unforgiving. I had to shim out the right hand wall which blew some plaster; so it has created 3 or 4 other steps for me...annoying. But these blinds do work extremely well, and feel very solid.
Screwed and pinned the top back as it was under compression even after taking off a saws width on the mitre.
It works great tho... just need to finish off the wardrobe and a few other minor snags and it is done forever... thank god.
Soldato
Ouch! Have you got one in the street maybe?
Caporegime
Screwfix normally shuts at 4pm. Hth.
It's 5pm if you hadn't noticed
There is one yeah but in typical fashion it's a weird one.
It's a 6-sided nut, can't seem to find a tool for it
will ask around.
Tried to squeeze 5 mins of DIY in today... it was all going so well (soffit lights):
Forgot I had doubled up the roof joists....FFS.
(just going to notch it with the multitool).
Just realised as well, my cladding will probably come out a decent amount. Oops. All in all, a fail of a day
Forgot I had doubled up the roof joists....FFS.
(just going to notch it with the multitool).
Just realised as well, my cladding will probably come out a decent amount. Oops. All in all, a fail of a day