Old joinery books and woodworking plans
Old Joinery books and woodworking plans
I love books and I love making all manner of things out of timber, so what could possibly be be...
Posts by Jon C
My oak has gone black
My Oak has gone black! How do I remove the staining?Ever since I wrote the guide to painting or staining gates and doors, I've been ...
Build this Nesting Box to Bring Birds To Your Home
How To Make a Bird Box: Build this Nesting Box to Bring Birds To Your Home
A nesting box is more than likely the easiest thing you c...
How to fit a long throw gate lock
How to fit a long throw gate lock
Long throw gate locks are becoming more popular, they are in truth fairly easy to fit your most diffi...
Gate Locks for Wooden Gates & Garage Doors: a guide.
Gate Locks for Wooden Gates & Garage Doors: A Guide
There's quite a choice of locks for wooden gates and side hinged wooden garage ...
New ironmongery shop open for business
New ironmongery shop is open for business!
On and off over the years (probably more on than off!), we've been asked, either via email o...
Garage Doors For Sale – A Buying Guide
There is a vast array of timber garage doors on the market, from different timbers to different methods of operation; this guide is s...
Introducing the Wood Durability Guide
Introducing the Wood Durability Guide: A Database & Infographics about Timber Durability
We've put together a handy little resource...
removing dents from wood
Removing small dents from wood
It's all too easy when working with timber to damage it, for example, missing with your hammer and leavi...
How to fit a padbolt to a wooden gate
How to fit a padbolt to a wooden gate
Unless you're fitting a mortice deadlock to your timber gates, then you will probably chose to fi...
Timber Durability
We make wooden garage doors and wooden gates that are built to last – we care about the wood that we use and we choose it carefully.
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Free timber to hawarden High School
Free timber to Hawarden High School
If you've been reading our blog, or following us on social media, then you're probably aware that f...
Choosing The Right Wooden Gate
There are a wide range of different types of wooden gates on the market: hardwood or softwood gates, ledged gates, morticed and tenon...
Who knows what goes on behind (new) closed (garage) doors?
Who knows what goes on behind (new) closed (garage) doors?
Their eyes met across a crowded (glazing) bar, 'Can I get you a drink?' he s...
how to fit a ring gate latch
How to Fit a Ring-Gate Latch.
The gate ring latch is used, as the name implies, to securely close the gates when not in use; it's a sim...
Trying our best with free timber for schools
Free timber for schools? Well, we're trying our best!
As the school terms across the Country start once again I thought I'd do a brief ...
Free timber to Denbigh High School
Free timber to Denbigh High School
If you've read any of our Facebook posts, Tweets or bits of our blog recently you'll have seen us me...
Free timber for schools update
We've created a bit of a stir
Since we offered local schools free timber for their woodworking departments we've created a bit of a sti...