Find out how to plane a door using a hand planer or sand paper and discover how to get the best results. Video tutorials included.
Wrap Up Your Home: Winterproofing and Cosying Up for the UK Chill
As the days shorten and the air turns crisp, it’s time to prepare your home for the colder months. Here in the UK, winter can bring its fair share of wind, rain, and frosty mornings. But with by taking inspiration from top lifestyle content creators and following our simple steps, you can ensure your home (and your doors) are ready for it all.
A Beautifully British Home: Top Tips for Enhancing Kerb Appeal
Kerb appeal, the attractiveness of your home’s exterior, is crucial in the UK, both for increasing value and creating a welcoming atmosphere. Whether you’re planning to sell or simply want to spruce up your place, discover how to add kerb appeal to a property.
Hanging, Painting and Staining Unfinished Doors
Unfinished doors offer a lot of options when it comes to interior design: they’re like a blank canvas. But we all know how intimidating one of those can be! Well fear not, because whether you’re interested in how to finish unfinished oak doors, or how to paint unfinished veneers, we’re here to demystify the process […]
All About Door Lintels
If you have a door, a window or an opening of any kind in the property you live in, you’ll also have a lintel. In today’s post we’re going to be looking at this key structural element of building and the process of installing and replace one. But let’s start off by looking at the […]
All About Door Lites
Whether they are bound for doors or frames, when it comes to windows there’s a lot of talk about light. But you might also have noticed on occasion the word ‘lite’ thrown around as well. You would be forgiven for thinking this was a spelling mistake, but prepare to forgive whoever wrote it, because it […]
Door Jamb: Your How To Guide
‘Door jamb’ sounds like the worst jam ever made. But, of course, it isn’t. Instead it is a key part of the simplest, most elegant, design for hanging doors, used the world over. So take that bread out of the toaster and read on for our top tips on how to remove, install and replace […]
How To Fit A Door Architrave: A Step By Step Guide
If you’re in the midst of redeveloping your house or you’re having new internal doors fitted, there’s a good chance that you’ll be having new architraves to compliment your doors. What are architraves? Not everyone will be familiar with the term but even if you haven’t heard of them, it’s highly likely that you’ve been […]
Door Handle Troubleshooting: We answer your questions and problems
The modern British home is filled with items that we don’t spend much of our time thinking about – that is, until the day that they malfunction. And there are few pieces of equipment that fit this description more closely than a internal door handle. When they’re working, they largely get taken for granted. When […]
