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Single Pine Daybed - Slat modifications for support [closed]
I have purchased a single daybed made of 35 year old radiata pine, stained in teak.
The slats are length 910mm, width 67mm, height 22mm.
There are 100mm gaps between each slat.
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What size Lag Screws on Beam Hangers?
I'm extending the second floor of my log cabin home and need to use a certain size of lag screw to hold it up in two places with beam hangers, the "upper" end of joist "A" and the &...
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How do I stabilise a delaminating pine floor?
We bought a flat with softwood pine floors in the living room. The area of the flooring that receives the most traffic is beginning to delaminate/flake/splinter (I'm not sure of the correct term!)
I'm ...
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Fixing blotches in stained pine
I installed Anderson double-hung, divided-light windows with a pine-clad interior. The rest of the wood trim in that dining room is fir, which stains fairly nicely. A little blotching on the fir doors ...
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New home owner in the north east US. Love this tree but wondering if it needs cut down or how to maintain
Here are some pictures https://imgur.com/a/kZmD1ng
Thanks for any thoughts or advice!
(the deck is on the to do list)
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Is particle board suitable as a subfloor patch?
I'd like to confirm that these missing bits of floorboard should have been replaced with some new sections of pine planks with the same thickness and grade.
In my new flat whoever installed the new ...
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White Pine load bearing capacity
How much load can a 4 x 6 solid white pine support on an 8ft span (anchored a both ends)
The normal snow load in this area is 125psf.
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What are the standards for acceptable installation of *prefinished* solid wood pine flooring? [closed]
We are building a home. We selected a solid pine floor which comes prefinished. It has tongue-and-groove on the sides, but not the ends. The builder & installer did NOT cut the ends of the ...
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Should cedar furring strips be used behind cedar siding in a sauna?
I'm converting a larger closet into a sauna. Cedar is the most commonly used wood for saunas due to longevity. Something like pine wouldn't last as long from what I've read.
Shouldn't the furring ...
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How to fix blotchy deck
2 year old pine deck was originally weathered for 6 weeks then 2x coats of Calbots Silver Beech Water Based Deck and Exterior Stain applied.
We did it ourselves and overall did a pretty bad job, my ...
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Urethane or not rough pine walls
Converting a garage into a living space using sawn pine walls for battan board look. Want to leave the natural look but not sure what will happen to the wood. Do I have to use a water based urethane ...
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How do I treat a recently sanded pine staircase?
I want to restore our Victorian staircase, going from a drabby flattened 1960s beige carpet, to a fully sanded, restored looking staircase, with painted risers, stained treads and a runner down the ...
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Untreated pine wood - do I really need to treat it? (indoor usage)
I have a piece of furniture which is made from raw pine wood. It has relatively fine
sanded surface and I like that it is not sealed or stained.
What if I just leave it so, i.e. do not apply any seal ...
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What species of wood floor do I have?
We are refinishing our wood floor and want to make sure that we make the right choices. Initially, multiple people suggested that it's pine wood but now after sanding our flooring guy thinks it's ...
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What did my hardwood installer do wrong here?
Long story short, my installer didn't rack my beautiful reclaimed wood floor. He had tons of light pieces grouped together. I asked him to remove the light pieces and patch in the darker pieces I ...
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Finishing old pine floors in a bathroom?
So my dad and I have this house built in 1880. Floors are 1" pine tongue and groove with no subfloor. My dad really wants to finish the pine floor in the bathroom, and while I'm not convinced this is ...
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Which Pine to Use? [closed]
I was told pine is the way to go for portions of my project but I'm also told framing pine is not the way to go because it's not square and is not dried. Can I just go to a big box store and get pine ...
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Oscillating or Drum Floor Sander
I'm refinishing the floors in a 4 bedroom house, built circa 2003. The house is roughly 1800 sqft total. The 4 bedrooms have pine floors, while the living room and the hallway are some sort of ...
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Are expansion gaps required in between pine flooring for a shed?
I'm planning to make a timber frame and flooring for a 3 x 2.3m (10 x 8ft) prefabricated garden shed. The construction method I had in mind is similar to the following image from Flickr:
For the floor ...
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Should additional coats of polyurethane be applied after removing roughness?
Why did polyurethane make wood feel coarse?
In reference to the above thread...
If the first suggested solution seems to work to solve the coarseness issue, i.e. "polishing" the rough areas with ...
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How to repair separated rails and stiles on solid wood doors
I'm refinishing solid pine wood doors in my home, the doors are original from 1940 when the home was built. After stripping multiple layers of paint, I found a few panels separated on some doors (just ...
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Can water based polyurethane be used to prevent knots in pine wood from bleeding through white paint?
I am renovating an old house and, long story short, we have some very knotty solid pine wood planks. They're the economy - or "cottage grade" as menards calls it - tongue-and-groove, beadboard 0.5x4 ...
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Do fence pickets need to be totally dry before installing?
I want to purchase all the wood for my 6' privacy fence project but it will take me longer than a day to install. Also I'll be leaving all of the wood in my backyard which means it will probably get ...
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Help getting a consistent stain across different types of wood
I'm working on a project with a few different types of wood and I'm struggling to get a consistent stain across them. They're all pine, but the troublesome piece is plywood.
I'm using minwax pre-...
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Would pine or MDF baseboard better handle humidity fluctuation?
I am in the market for baseboard in my son's room. I am now trying to decide between pine or MDF. In New York we get humid summers and cold winters. Since one of the walls will need two pieces, I ...
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Should I add a plywood subfloor below my damaged hardwood floors when I reinstall?
We have lifted our original floorboards in our property, we now plan on insulating between the joists and relaying the original boards.
Unfortunately, the floorboards were old and brittle and ...
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How to clean pine wood floor (kitchen)?
I bought an older apartment with wooden floor, so I have no idea what kind of wood is it, what protection was used for it and what actually is that dirt. I was trying to clean it with soap water.
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Attach piece of wood to wall, with need to be removed often
I need to attach some timber (pine) to a wall. It is for decoration. The straightforward way is to use screws and wall plugs.
However, once a month, the timber will need to be removed, some ...
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painting rotted sashes
I am trying to fix discolored and rotting lower sashes on my natural pine windows. The wood has turned green. I am using a wood petrifier to firm up the wood. How do I paint/varnish that lower sash ...
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Should I wax or polyurethane an old pine floor?
I found another question that sort of asks this, but the answers don't provide any detail.
We bought a 1918 house in somewhat rough shape. The second floor (with two bedrooms and a nursery when we'...
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Is there a way to fix a polyurethane mistake?
I had a unfinished pine table custom built. I loved the natural color so much that I didn't want it to change, but knew I had to protect it. I got the clear satin finish Miniwax polyurethane. I did ...
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Wooden bed sidebar to headboard screws loose, wobbly joints
What can I do to fix my bed? The screws go through the headboard and footboard into the side bars, but the whole thing is loose. When I get into bed it's all fine as I have pushed the headboard up ...
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Is it really such a terrible idea to have original pine floorboards in a bathroom?
we have just pulled up some awful old carpet in our bathroom and found that, underneath a layer of particle board, there are lovely old (original?) pitch pine floorboards in lovely condition - I'm so ...
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How can I avoid blotches when staining pine?
I am refinishing a 1940's pine miracle door and am having issues with splotching of the dark stain on the inner panel. I am using minwax dark walnut for stain. Applying the stain with a stain sponge ...
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Is it a bad idea to use pine for painted exterior siding if prepared properly?
My house is about 95 years old, and currently has wood clapboard siding that is in pretty rough shape and needs to be replaced. My local lumber yard has 1/2" x 6" for $0.53/linear foot. Since vinyl ...
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Can white pine be stained to match yellow pine that has been sanded and sealed?
We live in a log home that has yellow pine on the interior which has been sanded and sealed. After many years, it is now a beautiful warm honey color. We just replaced all the windows. They are ...
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What is the 'orangey' colour on this pine and how do I remove it?
I've recently bought some pine furniture which is well built and solid but needs a bit of TLC.
It is also finished with something that gives it a kind of 'orangey' colour. It has some scratches and I ...
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Uneven ACQ on Treated Pine Post Caps [duplicate]
I bought some "pineapple" post caps made of treated pine. When they arrived, I was taken aback to see, rather than an overall greenish tinge, splotches and patches of green. I tried to attach a photo ...
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How do I finish a pine wood floor so that it can be waxed?
My house has pine floors in the kitchen and upstairs, and its finish has almost entirely rubbed off, and is now showing bare wood. I'm interested in applying a wax (or maybe oil?) finish on it (mostly ...
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What type of primer is required for pine?
I bought a gallon of Zinsser, low-odor, stain-and-odor-blocking, oil-based, primer. We bought it primarily for the subfloor we found after tearing out the carpet and seeing some various pet stains.
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