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NikB
28-10-2002, 15:26
Just moved into my new house and the fitted wardobe looks like it was builf by Stevie Wonder with an axe! Anyway, I need to build a new frame and doors so I can skip the horrible Melamine stuff and I want to do it in Beech. Any body got any tips?

Nik
Actual_Ben_Taylor
28-10-2002, 15:39
Watch a few episodes of The New Yankie Workshop on Discovery Home and Leisure...

That Norm really knows his stuff...
NikB
28-10-2002, 15:43
OK, just one problem though....

Does anybody know how to install satellite?:D
Jezz_S13
28-10-2002, 15:46
LOL, yeah norm has about a million squids worth of kit and a workshop the size of an aircraft hangar!!

I'm about to (as soon as the cars finished for the winter) attempt a similar project, gonna make it up as I go along I reckon.
Get an idoits guide to joinery, a mitre saw and a router and I'm sure it'll be okay. Ignorance is bliss.


Yeah I installed satellite once, just looked at roughly where everyone elses pointed nad jiggled it with the tv in the back yard until the picture was clear. :)

Never did it again though, left it to the professionals.
NikB
28-10-2002, 15:51
Got the Mitre saw, oh and the idiot :p already:D

I suppose it's a good oppertunity to purchase some more power toolage:cool:

The only thing I need to work out is where I get wood:eek: from. I tried a timber yard and he said 'do it in MDF mate'. I don't really want it to look like Handy Shandy Andy has been let lose on it.

Nik
Dave_S
28-10-2002, 16:49
Man, Norm and his tools rule, I love that show :)

Dave
Billy
28-10-2002, 19:13
Originally posted by NikB
I need to build a new frame and doors so I can skip the horrible Melamine stuff and I want to do it in Beech. Any body got any tips?

Yeah, buy a lottery ticket!

Have you any idea what it'll cost to buy a wardrobe door's worth of beech?:eek:

You can get MDF or chipboard faced with pretty much anything you want, and if you REALLY don't want to use that, then plywood, laminboard and blockboard are available with nice outer finishes including beech IIRC.

The other major problem with solid wood doors is that they'll almost certainly warp in six months, which non of the above alternatives will do.


Chippy Minton at your service.:)