Owning your own home

The scribing will be the most challenging part for me, I've not done it before. Not even sure yet how I'm going to secure the scribed infill bits so welcome any tips for that.

The experience of ordering from Fittingly was beyond expectations. The above set up with double doors on each unit, no drawers and single doors that lift upwards on gas struts was just over £5k (with a 30% discount that wasn't hard to get, basically get your design ready and ask what they can do for you if you order that day).

During the design process, it was super simple when working on Chrome. Firefox didn't seem to support some of the features. You can see the design on mobile but it's not great for making changes. At any point, they reacted on chat really quickly and made tweaks to the design I was working in in real time.

When you place the order, they send the design to you to sign off. All the while offering a call with a design specialist. For mine, they spotted the chimney breast cutout and sent through some extra information on how to work around a chimney breast.

When it is delivered (only took a couple of weeks), they use hardly any packaging. The only packaging I had was around the doors as they have a paintable vinyl finish, the infill pieces and the boxes with the hardware. All the panels were naked. Which meant for a lot of pieces that needed to be sorted and arranged before I could get started. I suppose if I was there I could have placed them as they came in.

I was actually away when it was delivered, but the guy who delivered it brought it all up to the first floor. Took him well over an hour but he didn't grumble once. I left £20 with our lodger to give him as a tip. In hindsight, I would have left more for that job. But he was very appreciative and tried to refuse (I saw the interaction on the security camera).

All bits are well labelled, referencing the design.

They will also build it for you. This design would have been about a grand for them to build.

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You seem to have fairly regular gaps to scribe. Not sure if you have a table saw but that's where I would start. I cut strips that are as wide as the widest part of the gap. I like to put a little angle getting smaller away from the face on the wall side of the piece then it's a little easier to plane where you need to make it smaller.

If you then hold your piece upo against the inside edge of the cabinet and take a block of wood the same width as the cabinet, run that block down the wall marking any movement in the wall onto your scrim piece and use a plane to trim it to that mark. You can fill any small imperfections with filler.

Lots of different ways to fix it in place, none of which I want to describe in public! Just get away with whatever works. Glue on the edges and tapped into place will often do.

You can even tap some pine strips into the gap and plant some plasterboard on top, it's easier to scribe.

I do not have a table saw. I have one technique in mind for marking and cutting that I will try first. If I fuck it up, I have plenty of MDF to bust out.

It'll be the last thing I do as I want the doors on so the full weight is in place and everything has settled. Not sure if that is the proper way but it makes sense to me.

You can cut strips off a big enough sheet of mdf with a track saw.

Yeah, that's the plan if the first attempt doesn't work out.

fill any small imperfections

What filler would you use in this case?

What filler would you use in this case?

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You would hopefully be looking at very small gaps so decorators caulk would be the quickest option. Larger gaps kind of depends on whether you're likely to get movement between the materials. Something flexible is probably ideal.

I have decorators caulk and fibracyl in tubes.

This is good advise for sure!

With scribing, would practice on some offcuts first of your process, then, stick to the process!
Recently did the worlds most wonky room, floor, walls, everything all over the shop and managed to get the skirting all lined up nice on top and a very consistent 1-2mm gap all around over top of engineered wood floor. Nerve racking though if your using expensive materials!

Hey, anyone got any recommendations for a quick movers job in Tottenham/Hackney? Need a large van and two people to clear out some boxes/furniture/bikes from storage. Cheers

Nerve racking though if your using expensive materials!

I'll move to the DIY thread after this. While they only provide just enough trim material, it should be wide enough that I get two cracks at it (my gaps are smaller than expected). Even if that does fuck up, it will be painted so I can just switch to MDF.

Never used them myself but my downstairs neighbour is http://www.bigredremovals.com/

This is looking amazing.

Probably a needless expense to the skilled woodworker, but I found one of those £20 tend scribing tools very handy when doing the skirting in my wonky lounge.

Another bonus point for Fittingly. I hadn't even noticed that one of the doors for the top units is missing, until they just emailed to say it would be here tomorrow. Apparently the original didn't pass QC so they sent everything bar that and have now followed up with the replacement.

I'm going to start with this method

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qM8LYwfpu1c

cheers!

Impressive. What will you use the deep and low shelves for?

Two units each on either side. Hanging rail above and shelves for t-shirts, pants, socks, jumpers etc. Would have had drawers but they add ££££. So instead they will have trays/baskets to pull out.

Central unit will be like an airing cupboard. Towels and bedding etc (whatever doesn't go under the ottoman bed).

Top units will be longer term storage like suitcases, airbeds etc.

Nice video, very thorough and the bit about jigsaw blades is worthwhile knowing.

Aye, bought some after watching it

What the fuck has happened to the price of flooring?

It's tracking the price of everything?