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South London people - who are the best timber people for birch ply sheets? I'm assuming delivery from the online shops will be extortionate as i'm inly looking for x1 sheet...

Champion Timber are great but they're not stocking Birch due to the Russia situation as most of it comes from there. They have a good selection of maple faced ply though.

Those books are quite useful, use volume 1 but mainly for photography.
Printed in CMYK though so a lot of pigment paint colours are out of gamut.

Great, thank you!

Im going to stud and lower my ceiling and overboard. The long dimension of one is a tad over 4m. Could I join together a couple of 2400mm 2x3 (sistering them together) to make that span?

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Why not just get 4.8m 2x3 and cut it to length?

Sl hardwood used to do good ply. Birch and hardwood veneers. Been a while since I used them.

Where can you buy decent front doors from?

If half you bank balance is screaming to run away then you need a joinery and they may need to do the frame too.. going to need to give yourself a few parameters - best start is what matches the age of the property

You could consider:
https://www.orbitalfasteners.co.uk/products/addax-timco-15-piece-brad-point-wood-bit-set-b15set?queryID=da69b684eef8498b2aacbaec5071b2f0

What sorta money is everyone paying for birch ply sheets they have bought.

I paid 160 a sheet for 2 x 24mm from Shawfield Timber inc multiple cuts a few months back. It’s a lot, but I built two desks and a set of shelves and have a few bits left over so it went quite far IMO.

Any suggestions for a supplier for stripwood and mouldings in South East London / Kent? Champion Timber as recommended a few posts up don't seem to have the size I need.

I don't think this shape exists premade so I'll need to glue together a rectangle section (28mm x 9mm) and a half dowel (20mm x 10mm).

I feel like I should use hardwood (sapele?) for durability but I'd probably settle for pine if it was significantly more convenient to source.

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I had to source a similar P shaped profile to remake the skirting for here (added on top of 1x6 pine boards). I got it from B&Q of all places. Might be smaller than what you have but worth a wander round if there's one close. Or Wickes. It will be softwood though.

thanks, I'll scoot over to both of those an see what they have.

The tail of the P needs to match the existing as it plugs in to a slot in the frame - the round section isn't so critical.

Definitely nothing in builders depot?

I keep finding a minimum order of 5 for stuff that long annoyingly. Im going to stud out the walls later and get a proper measurement - maybe my measurements dont line up with real life.

Can't you router it to that shape using a 10mm radius bead router bit. then cut the straight edge down to size with a jigsaw =and tidy up with a chisel.

How many 2.4m timbers do you need? If it's >=8, just order 5 4.8m lengths and cut 4 in half?

I suppose I could, was hoping for an easy option.

30 or so 2400mm are needed, but 4800mm are 4 times the price of 2400mm at the moment. Kinda annoying

Where are you buying from? Even on Bradfords [who I avoid as they're more expensive than my friendly local builder's merchants] they're only twice for price @ £8.95.

FYI Unifi FINALLY updated the chime firmware, so you can now change the chime tone and upload your own, so until I get the Pro doorbell I have just recorded the 'Ding Dong' of ours, uploaded it and disable the mechanial chime - no more dropouts for us!

Where can you buy decent front doors from?

B&Q offer a well-priced selection described as 'Wooden White oak veneer' in standard sizes. They are not available in-store – they are supplied direct by Rohden. This firm describes its timber sources as Brazil and China, which may give you pause for thought.

Selco should be around £7 for 4800
They charge exactly twice the price of 2400 iirc