2023-08-08 02:50
Storing your wooden gates and garage doors
If you do not intend to fit your wooden gates, doors or garage doors straight away, and let’s face it, it’s not always possible… Read More
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2020-10-23 11:43
We just wanted to give a brief update about our current working practices, as the majority of phone calls and emails at present (and since March) usually start with ‘Are you still work… Read More
2017-10-27 14:04
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 better than old joinery books? I say old joinery books, a… Read More
2017-06-19 09:54
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 emailed or phoned hundreds of times about a problem… Read More
2017-05-19 11:10
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 could hope to make out of timber; it’s basically just… Read More
2016-04-22 09:04
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 difficult task is marking he hole for the cylinder of the lo… Read More
2015-04-28 15:15
Gate Locks for Wooden Gates & Garage Doors: A Guide
There’s quite a choice of locks for wooden gates and side hinged wooden garage doors, ranging from the simple-to-fit to locks th… Read More
2014-07-25 08:56
Removing small dents from wood It’s all too easy when working with timber to damage it, for example, missing with your hammer and leaving hammer rash all over your nicely planed timber… Read More
2014-07-04 15:28
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 fit a padbolt (also known as a Brenton bolt).
The a… Read More
2014-05-12 08:16
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 for the last few months, we’ve been gi… Read More
2013-09-02 10:11
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 update on the timber for schools thing we h… Read More
2013-06-25 10:16
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 mentioning that we’re giving away free… Read More
2013-06-06 10:02
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 stir, so thought I’d share a few of the… Read More
2013-06-03 13:57
Thank you for getting in touch with us
Thanks for getting in touch with us regarding the free timber for schools, someone will be in touch shortly.
Spread the word
If you like to help spread… Read More
2013-06-02 16:29
Free wood for North Wales schools
We have a list of schools, more our welcome to sign up – what we are really in need of now is for other North Wales woodworkers to sign up.
Calling No… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
The ultimate guide to buying a wooden gate that lasts! There are a wide range of different types of wooden gates on the market: hardwood or softwood gates, ledged gates, morticed and tenon j… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Bespoke wooden gates with raised panels From time to time, as we are making a bespoke gate, (by bespoke I mean a gate made to our customer’s own design, rather than a made to measure g… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Bespoke wooden Victorian gates As well as our range of standard designs of wooden gates which we make to measure, we also manufacture bespoke gates, i.e. gates made to your own designs. Usua… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
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 said. ‘I’ll have a gin and slim… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Gate locks for wooden gates and garage doors; a guide. You’ve quite a choice of gate locks for wooden gates and garage doors, ranging from the simple to fit, to the more secure but har… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
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 or over the telephone, whether we could possibly s… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
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 specifically… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Introducing the Wood Durability Guide: A Database & Infographics about Timber Durability We’ve put together a handy little resource about Wood Durability, including a database with… Read More
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