flooring timber
Ash versus Elm
16 July 2022
One of these beautiful timbers is robust and tough and one is too sweet and gentle for it’s own good. Guess which is which?
We have a homegrown hunch about Douglas Fir
18 February 2022
We have a hunch that homegrown Douglas Fir has yet to come into it’s own for bespoke wide board floors and interior joinery
Super Prime Boules
17 February 2022
Tom is trying them out to for some kitchen makers & joiners who want continuous / repeat grain across long runs of solid wood drawer fronts and cupboard doors for …
Oak – Beyond Prime there is Super Prime
20 February 2019
Super Prime is a term that indicates a grade ‘above’ Prime. In truth, technically Super Prime hasn’t been documented or normalised as a timber grade in the UK and isn’t a …
WYSIWYG or ‘Meet the Rack’
11 December 2014
If you haven’t met The Rack yet you haven’t lived! We know it sounds ominous to the layperson or non wood-geek… ‘The Rack’… but it really isn’t. It’s not for torture, it’s …
The Great Pancake Day TIMBER SALE!!!
30 January 2014
21.02.2014 Here it is Folks… and all is revealed! You’re looking at the TIMBER SALE PRICE LIST as it stands today (we’re not promising we won’t add more stock between …
Douglas Fir for Breakfast
8 January 2013
Or “How to Embarrass Your Husband in Front of a Room Full of Belgians” So the story starts on a gloomy November evening with Gus and I rolling down the …
Hi Honey, I’m Home!
7 August 2012
Here I stand before a freshly painted door (goodbye forever evil dark red stain – hello nice neutral Farrow and Ball Estate Eggshell)… rested after two lovely weeks away, to find …
Design + Make for the TTJ
18 July 2012
Deadline day dawned for students entering the competition to design and make the awards for the Timber Trades Journal Annual award ceremony and look what we have here… impressive design …
Throw nothing away
16 July 2012
I oiled the new floor at the weekend ‘she says nonchalantly’… the new floor?! The glorious new CHESTNUT FLOOR!!!! You better believe it..! I mean we’re having a hard …
Peep behind the curtain
11 July 2012
Sometimes in our yard you need to know where to look to find something special. I frequent the machine shop where I know Philip can be relied upon to hike …
Blanket opinion
25 May 2012
Look, I have to show you this… I’ve got butterflies! They just flew in … just this minute! This is mid project… a blanket box being made by a lovely man named …