Home DIY

I don't know if I'd use it enough. Most of my woodworking is hand tools for projects I don't need to rush.

This would be a "shit we've knocked down a wall and need a kitchen" arrangement.
At least till we were looking for something better once finances have recovered.

I did these with tyvek. Worked very well, though hard to tension, tendency to be a bit baggy.

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Nice pegged joints.

I had thought about Tyvek first.
I hadn’t considered how to tension it.

There was a weird cheap fibreglass sheet material we used to use in the States, slightly green rigid, but I can’t remember what it was called and I’ve never seen it here.

Decommissioned an old electric shower and bathroom heater circuit.

Get a call back this evening that the central heating hadn’t come on. Pop by to check and discover that the boiler man had spurred off the old circuit but made no note of it anywhere.

The circuit was left powering an old bathroom heater that I was there to remove, and the electric shower was long gone (and documented as such). So I disconnected the lot.

Fortunately it was easy enough to reinstate, and now there’s a 6mm cable supplying a boiler spur that probably needs about a watch battery’s worth of current. But hey ho.

Relieved that it was a quick fix, and ultimately my own fuck up. But for Christ sake, would it kill people to add “boiler” to the rest of the meticulously labelled fuse board.

/csb
/rant
Etc

Tyvek is a PITA to tension on large runs. I imagine it would just as fiddly for small runs. Amazed there is sojch logo-free space TBH.

What were those greenish panels used for? All I can recall was either corrugated roof panels or that slightly greenish dry wall for bathrooms/showers.

What about coroplast? Slightly different aesthetic, but easy to work.

What were those greenish panels used for?

I don’t know their intended purpose. We used them for building translucent walls with metal studs and fancy screws for arty interiors.
I got the impression it was a kind of old school niche material.

Would be cool.
Like the Laban centre in Deptford.

I think the boy has been inspired by watching samurai movies though.

If you can stretch to the Festool Domino it would be a great time to do it. Much easier than pocket holes

I love the Domino.
But I wouldn’t use one to build carcasses. I used to biscuit them but tbh I rarely bother now.
Glue and screw.
Pocket hole jigs are great - for the money.

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Greenhouse construction panels? Might be multilayer as well.

Or diffusion material as used by photographers, movie and TV industries.
Or panels for fluorescent lights.

Definitely onto something there.

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If you have a domino and you're not using it to build carcasses I'm not sure what to say.

If you don't have a domino and it's about the money then maybe a Kreg pocket hole jig would be a good alternative to the ebay version. However, I did point out that you can use and then sell a domino without losing too much money, if you buy second hand you maybe don't use any at all.

I do understand the op saying it's not a big fancy kitchen. I probably wouldn't even custom make cabinets for a small simple kitchen because of the time involved.

If you have a domino and you're not using it to build carcasses I'm not sure what to say.

I use a biscuit joiner for carcasses; quicker, easier, lighter, cheaper.
Less precision required.
I’ve been using 15mm melamine faced ply a lot recently
The workshop I use these days belongs to my friends’ firm, it’s fully equipped for cabinetmaking and joinery, the Domino has almost completely replaced the Morticer, the biscuit joiner (Lamello) is still used constantly.

Possibly. Stainless comes in different flavours, some magnetic, others less so depending on the lattice structure and proportion of alloy elements.
By way of illustration, try a magnet in your cutlery drawer - some items will be magnetic, others not, but all will be 'stainless'.

Melamine faced ply prices seem insane at the moment. I don't remember it being three figure prices for a sheet.

Brexit.
Innit.

Bulk price was around £80 last time I bought any.

Lumber prices have tripled out here in Canada too. I think the pandemic has closed a lot of mills either temporarily or permanently, plus supply chain issues.

Apparently a warm winter in Scandinavia has not helped. Add that to increased demand, and issues with global shipping then you have the perfect storm of inflationary pressure.

Govts. spraying money around nilly willy doesn't tend to help either with keeping prices sensible.

I watched a video on YT the other day about US lumber prices. Their analysis led to the fact that many smaller mills couldn't keep running during lockdowns, the 5 big mills could drive up prices. No more money is going to landowners or shops. The income increase in 2020 of those large mills that are public were pretty astounding.

I watched a few and read some reports. The galling thing is the price of the initial dropped tree is supposedly at an all time low.

Not that I am buying timber in any great quantity, but I watch the youtube videos of people who do and have heard about the price hikes. Is there likely to be a correction when more services/operations come back online?

Not that I am buying timber in any great quantity, but I watch the youtube videos of people who do

Everyone needs a hobby!