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Hi,
I'm wanting to knock together some French cleats for my garage.

Does anyone know of any national diy/joinery type store that would sell me the wood and do the angled cuts required?

Cheers,


 
Posted : 27/01/2015 8:18 pm
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No ideas then?


 
Posted : 28/01/2015 7:10 pm
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Any number of places will sell you the wood...

Some timber supply places will machine wood for you, but there's usually a set-up charge, and / or a 'per m' charge.

Huws-Gray did ~60 metres of architrave for me to match an existing pattern a few years ago (Llandudno Jn, but they have branches throughout the NW). IIRC, the set-up charge was £60, then they would run as much as you wanted for the cost of the wood. There will be similar elsewhere.

I can't believe it would be cheaper than buying a circular saw or a plane (or even a handsaw) and knocking the corner off some PAR yourself unless you have an enormous garage.

What are you going to hang off them?


 
Posted : 28/01/2015 9:36 pm
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Stand on pedals, shrug shoulders to clip-in?


 
Posted : 29/01/2015 7:30 am
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Does it need to be a national chain? That'd be more of a job for a local timber yard or DIY store.


 
Posted : 29/01/2015 8:19 am
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could you do it with some chamfer edge skirting in 25mm thickness. Go to a timber merchants and explain what you want to do, they should try to help, it's a sale to them if they get it right.


 
Posted : 29/01/2015 8:27 am
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Another option is aluminium split batten extrusion.


 
Posted : 29/01/2015 8:28 am
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I thought this was a euphemism!


 
Posted : 29/01/2015 10:07 am
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Any local joiner with a table saw big enough for full sheets could rip it easily. Take a few minutes - £30?
If you can't get the sheets to them, then you could get them cut down to double width at the timber merchant, then do the angled cut at the joiners.

I was going to use 18mm birch ply, but it doesn't necessarily have to be as posh as that.


 
Posted : 29/01/2015 10:24 am

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