Home DIY

I want to fit some timber reveals to a window and sliding door I've just had installed. Does anyone have a good source for PAR 10mm white oak?

10mm is an unusual thickness. You could try a local joinery shop, they could maybe plane some from 19mm floorboard stock if it's wide enough for your needs. By that I mean you could supply them with the boards, which you can get from floorboard suppliers.

Also worth noting that oak is pretty fuken expensive these days.

We'll be going back to the days when joiners are buying old church pews.

Tell me about it.

Client asked me for a quote to replace the bottom 2 curtail steps of his staircase with oak. It had been a while since I had to order seasoned oak for a job so I priced properly before submitting the quote. Material cost is £630 for enough timber for 2 steps.

G&S will do 12mm for ye

Yeah I had thought of floorboards but I need 180mm wide for the window and 160mm for the door.
And yes, well aware how much the price of timber has gone up!
I'm not set on white oak. Larch could be a good alternative.

Just picking my jaw up from the floor here. Some of the scraps I have will have to go in the safe.

I need to fill some floorboard gaps and skirting board gaps. Neighbour is using some kind of scent diffuser and it's coming through the gaps. I can feel the draft and it stinks, it's unfortunately under my desk so I spend most of every day sitting there being frustrated by it!

I'm guessing Bona gap master for the floorboards, and something else (intumescent mastic?) for under the skirting.. between the boards can be black as it will match the old previous filler.

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There's this incredible material called carpet, teamed with hardboard and underlay it solves all these problems and stops you annoying your neighbours with your footsteps.

Just google 'carpet', you'll see what I mean.

Foam strips have been suggested previously.

intumescent mastic is fireproof, at least it expands when it's exposed to the heat of a fire. Mostly useful around fire doors etc.

There are lots of normal mastic/sealants you can use but they tend to discolour over time so they mostly need painting. Hard but flexible fillers like elafib are great and very durable but they shrink in these applications so it requires multiple applications and still needs painting.

Fossa caulk savers can be pushed into the gap under the skirting to save using tons of mastic. They also mean a normal decorators mastic can be used but decorators mastic really needs to be primed and painted.

It's about 10% of the room area and I don't want to carpet the whole thing, albeit I did consider it or a rug.

@rj foam strips are a good point, thank you for the reminder.

Draughtex is designed for what you want. It's easy to install and is pretty much invisible once done. I linked to it upthread earlier today.

It's a combination of needing odd sizes and very well seasoned timber, but it was a surprise for me too.

Thanks @Airhead sounds like I'm on the right track. Forgot to mention I'll also be making sure any loose floorboards are fixed down.

It's not going to be visible (at least the skirting gap isn't) so aesthetics are not the main concern. In an old building like this, if you start trying to get everything looking perfect it's a recipe for disappointment or at the very least takes an awful long time...

Cheers. Sorry to re-cover old ground. I'm a couple of pages out of date.

No worries.

Getting it looking perfect is my day job!

I've used cork in the past as I had lots around.

Cannot believe that prices have got so high.

Heh, I wish the trades that have worked here in the past had the same attitude as you :)

£60 for the single length of oak cushion bead to go around my fireplace. And I had to cut half of it away. I have a 3m length of I think 45x7mm PAR oak than I bought before deciding on the cushion bead. That's already listed in my will.

I have no more tears left.

We have a porch (no, stay with me please)

It has at some point been vandalised and converted to a flat roof thing.

It is now leaking where the flat roof joins the face of the house.

I want to bodge-fix it with CT1 but access will be difficult / dangerous with just a ladder. Other than a picker, is there something else I could use that would be safer than a ladder that's easy to acquire or hire? Scaffold will be massive overkill I think.

How high is it? Maybe a decorating platform?