Questions tagged [wood]
For questions involving wood as a construction material, either as lumber or finished features of a home.
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How can I repair a puncture in a hollow-core wooden door?
Someone punched my wooden door. Now it has a giant dent in it.
The dent is similar to this one. Fortunately, it's a bit less severe than this. How can I "pop" the dent back out?
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rotten wood between concrete slabs of floor
When prepping the floor to tile, I came across what appears to be old wood siding between 2 solid concrete slabs in a doorway.It is about a half inch wide a d runs the width of the opening. A ...
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What type of wall is this?
I'm installing blinds that will mount in the ceiling (inside) of the window pane. I initially used wood screws but then thought I'd use drywall screws for greater strength. I tried drilling a hole to ...
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What type and size of wood should I use to make a form for concrete?
I am a complete beginner and need to lay a concrete slab for my new cabin (about 18 ft by 16 ft in size).
I'm planning to lay a slab 6in thick.
I'm wondering if there's any particular type of wood I ...
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Is my wood cabinet exposing asbestos?
My house was built in 1965. We are renters and The side of my wood kitchen cabinet had the top level veneer pulled off. Exposing what’s underneath and possible asbestos glue. We brush past this area ...
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How can I repair screws in furniture with stripped holes?
I'm trying to repair a piece of furniture from which several screws have pulled out, stripping the wood. It's a lift top coffee table, such as this. (This is NOT the model in question, this just ...
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How to drill into wood glue
I tried drilling wood glue because I want to fix the screw there but I couldn't do it. The drill was not drilling a hole in glue and the screw did not fix there. I just want to make a proper hole in ...
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How can I reduce the thickness of a board except in one narrow area?
Due to some trim work, I need to shave off several 1 in x 3 in x8 feet boards.
I need to shave off the 1 in thickness by 3/8 inches EXCEPT for a rectangular of 1 in x 7 feet, with one side shared with ...
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What is this insect that seems to hatch from OSB?
These insects are everywhere in the house and they seem to hatch inside. New construction, frame structure with Oriented Stand Boards. Country side located, lowland fields, temperate climate (Romania)....
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Is this real wood or veneer, on this table top?
I can't tell. Each plank looks like a near-mirror image of the previous one, which suggest veneer. But if I look under the table top, the planks seem to appear similar (just unfinished). Which is ...
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Replace rotten bottom plate
I have attached garage with room above it. It has three exterior facing wall. The wall sits on 3-4 ft concrete. I am seeing some water coming through one of the wall. On the other side of the wall ...
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Replacing a door's glass panel with a wood panel
I basically have the following type of back door:
The problem is that my girlfriend moved in with me. Well not, really, her dog did and we need to install a pet door. The problem is I need the first ...
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Used the wrong color wood stain on a Cypress post
I am looking for advice on a home DIY mistake. We have 4 cypress posts in the front of our house, and 2 cypress posts in the back. They are new and had never been finished. I stained the back two ...
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How to treat joist that has wet rot before sistering a new joist to it
I'm currently in the beginning stage of a bathroom remodel. All the flooring and subfloor has been removed, and I'm at the point where I am getting ready to replace some joists and sister one.
The ...
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Cause of white rot on floor joist
The structural floor system on the 4th and top floor of a house in Rotterdam that was built in 1906 consists of 20cm x 7.5cm wooden joists which are spaced at 67cm center to center. There is nothing ...
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How can I save my gunite pool that is in danger of cracking with freeze guard disabled by power outage?
We're in Texas and have 5 degree temps this week with rolling blackouts. Our swimming pool is full year round to keep it from being burped out of the ground. We have a freeze guard installed but with ...
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Pergola 13x15 floor space what is 2x6 WRC maximum span?
How far span can WRC 2x6 be placed as a pergola rafter/roof? Would be using 5 posts 6x6, 3 in front and 2 at back (connecting to an existing pergola), 4 beams 2x10x18, and need to know if the 2x6 can ...
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Resurface (or cover) damaged wood door?
I have an odd-sized wooden back door. The outer layers of wood on the lower half of the door are suffering water damage, but the core and inside of the door are fine.
Is there a good way either to ...
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How can i fix my wobbly table?
I have finally entered the world of DIY and built a desk based on the design of a coffee table we bought. Unfortunately it wobbles from front to back as you are sitting at it to the extent I can't ...
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Fitted Cupboard With Angles - How To Prevent Tops Of Doors Catching When Opening?
I designed a fitted cupboard to fit into my roof space and without any prior experience to building a cupboard with complex geometry (and not very square and level walls/floors) I've run into a major ...
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Hanging Punchbag in Cabin - Structural
I have a cabin at the bottom of my garden (photos attached) and am thinking about hanging a punchbag from the roof beams. I absolutely do not want the structural integrity of my cabin compromised but ...
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Filling gap beneath hardwood floor (between floorboard and foundation)
There's a sizeable gap between the edge of hardwood flooring and the foundation by this fireplace:
You can see that the wooden base the strip of floor was nailed too ends about inch early:
As a ...
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How to attach a new 2x4 wall frame's top plate to a concrete load bearing ceiling beam?
I have a concrete beam that extends throughout my apartment. The concrete beam comes down about 30cm from the ceiling. I would like to build a wall underneath the beam, running along the beam.
I plan ...
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Finishing technique for gaps between the wall and the live wood we installed that shrunk
We installed a large slab of wood and it has shrunk away from the wall.
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How long to wait between coats of polyurethane?
I sanded down a 2 inch old Maple butcher block bowling alley and stained 48 hours ago. I then applied 2/3 poly to 1/3 mineral spirits and let sit in direct 80 degree sun from 10-4 pm. It was ...
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Need help identifying materials needed to replace rotted and damaged wood
Need the names of materials or any suggestions as to what I should do.
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Where do I install my hairpin legs on this 8 foot long butcher block for my new workstation desk?
So this is my first DYI wood project for my new workstation desk. I purchased this Baltic birch butcher block and finished it myself. Not bad for my first go! It's 8 feet wide, 25" deep and 1.75 (...
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How to seal oiled wooden bathroom floor?
I am buying a house which has a pine floor in the bathroom, treated with Osmo oil.
Having the boards themselves well-oiled will make them waterproof, but there will also be cracks and gaps which ...
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How to cover old stair risers?
I recently had my 100-year old hardwood floors and stair treads refinished. No local contractors would do the risers due to the adhesives from the carpet that was removed. The risers are uneven due to ...
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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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Wood rot fix for siding and framing base?
Wood rot fix for siding and frame base?
Some water is seeping into my garage when it rains. Called a concrete guy because I thought patio was too sloped, but he said sloping was by design and he ...
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What exactly is doorskin?
I've used it in a boat-building workshop, but I'm not clear on what "doorskin" is. Is it just plywood made of a single ply? What is its intended purpose? Is it sold at building supply stores that have ...
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Edge-to-endgrain butt joint
I need to make this out of 2x4 lumber.
It's not load-bearing but needs to be somewhat stiff against skew (L-to-R in the image above). The part I'm not sure about is the end-grain to edge butt joints ...
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Best way to repair cracked attic post?
There's a post (layman's term) in the middle of my attic that is cracking and bent. It wasn't like that the last time I checked maybe 2 months ago. This is in a 30 year-old house.
Now that I think of ...
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How can I cut 4x4 posts that are already mounted?
I'm in the process of installing a handrail here and the former owner put these pressure-treated 4x4 posts without cutting them first. They're in the ground already and need to be cut at the correct ...
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Care for solid oak desk [closed]
I'm looking to make a desk from some solid oak, and want something that will last me a long time. I was wondering if such a piece of wood can be 'renewed' over time by say sanding to strip the stain ...
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Refinishing wood: Should I use wood conditioner after light sanding before staining an old desk?
I bought an old desk at a garage sale, and I want to restain it. I've already sanded the whole desk and am ready to clean it up with tack cloth and restain. Should I use wood conditioner on it?
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How can I fill a hole in wood so that it can be redrilled? [duplicate]
The original strike plate for the deadbolt is mounted with 2 screws on top and 2 screws on bottom. I'm replacing the whole deadbolt and the new strike plate only has 1 screw on top and 1 screw on ...
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How to seal an OSB shed floor against pest, weather, and temperature?
This question follows from my previous question about leveling my OSB shed floor. I didn't realize until I received several comments and suggestions that said question actually has two focuses:
How ...
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What is this English wardrobe cabinet fitting?
I'd like to find out what these fittings were used for to decide whether to remove them.
They are installed horizontally and vertically.
My first guess was that they were swing out basket hinges, but ...
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What's the right size of gravel for fence posts?
I am going to put up a compost bay system with 125 x 125mm (5"x5") square posts. The plan is to not use concrete, but backfill the post hole with gravel. What's the best size gravel for the ...
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How to repair a bulged exterior door threshold?
A newly installed door has become very sticky at the bottom. Inspection shows the bottom portion of frame is bulging up. My guess is that the wood used to prop up the door threshold has swollen due to ...
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Spot repair wood surface of dresser
We had a sock with those little rubber/sticky grips sitting on this dresser for a while now.
This evening after a doing a whole house cleaning I happened to notice a small spot on the dresser and ...
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Separate laminate from chipboard
I am trying to separate the thin layer of laminate that is glued to the chipboard.
I have so far managed to cut the piece across the width, and after soaking it in water for several days the chipboard ...
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How to get a flat-head nail out of a piece of wood?
I have a 1/4” (~6 mm) nail that someone put in a wooden bed frame that is 1/2” (12 mm) thick.
The wood is hard (not soft) and the nail is flush with the wood in some parts, actually digging into the ...
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Color matching: repaired white oak flooring turned out pink
I had someone replace a row and half of my white oak flooring. The original flooring was Owens white oak with bona natural finish. My repairer ordered the same wood, installed it, then did a natural ...
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What is this orange yellow substance on my wooden studs inside walls?
There's some kind of orange yellowish looking substance that forms into tiny bubbles (it looks sticky, but I haven't touched it). It seems to be on my floor joists and wall studs. The house is from ...
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Fixing very old, very undersized ceiling joists
I own a 24x60' uninsulated building that's about 100 years old. The roof is matched 2x4 rafters (no ridge board) with 2x4 ceiling joist (technically rafter ties I guess). As you can imagine, the ...
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How should I fill gaps in wooden skirting board etc?
I got this product to fill deep holes. It is a general purpose filler which states:
This is a non-shrink, ready mixed mortar made with natural hydraulic lime, siliceous and calcareous sand (0-0.6mm) ...
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Identifying wood type of broken stair treads and installing new risers
We have wooden basement stairs that are probably 20+ years old and several of the treads are starting to split down the middle (underneath) lengthwise.
I'm debating replacing the cracked ones or just ...
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