Earlier this year I was visiting B&Q's Watford store and noticed that
they held 97mm and 114mm width white-faced furniture boards. I didn't
remember seeing them when I placed a large order several weeks before
that.

I was annoyed at the time because I had had to slice a 200mm board
with my track saw using my "bench" - two pallets!

I am now looking to build another piece of furniture.

When I checked their website, there were no narrow boards.

I cannot see a way to contact them and ask if they intend to stock
them again.

Can anyone suggest an alternative source within a reasonable distance
of NW London?

Oh! And thank you for the tremendous help so many of you have been this
year and I wish you all a healthy happy 2023.

Alan

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running on an AMD Phenom II X4 Black edition processor with 16GB of
DRAM.

In article <20221231233310.1fe157dd0d7ecaf76c38ded3@gmail.com>,
pinnerite <pinnerite@gmail.com> wrote:
> Earlier this year I was visiting B&Q's Watford store and noticed that
> they held 97mm and 114mm width white-faced furniture boards. I didn't
> remember seeing them when I placed a large order several weeks before
> that.

> I was annoyed at the time because I had had to slice a 200mm board
> with my track saw using my "bench" - two pallets!

> I am now looking to build another piece of furniture.

> When I checked their website, there were no narrow boards.

> I cannot see a way to contact them and ask if they intend to stock
> them again.

> Can anyone suggest an alternative source within a reasonable distance
> of NW London?

wickes?

> Oh! And thank you for the tremendous help so many of you have been this
> year and I wish you all a healthy happy 2023.

> Alan

--
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"I'd rather die of exhaustion than die of boredom" Thomas Carlyle

> Oh! And thank you for the tremendous help so many of you have been this
> year and I wish you all a healthy happy 2023.
>
> Alan
>
it was nothing

pinnerite <pinnerite@gmail.com> wrote:
> Earlier this year I was visiting B&Q's Watford store and noticed that
> they held 97mm and 114mm width white-faced furniture boards. I didn't
> remember seeing them when I placed a large order several weeks before
> that.
>
> I was annoyed at the time because I had had to slice a 200mm board
> with my track saw using my "bench" - two pallets!
>
> I am now looking to build another piece of furniture.
>
> When I checked their website, there were no narrow boards.
>
> I cannot see a way to contact them and ask if they intend to stock
> them again.
>
> Can anyone suggest an alternative source within a reasonable distance
> of NW London?

You can get melamine faced MDF in sheet form:
https://www.ajferguson.co.uk/sheet-materials/mdf/melamine/white-melamine-faced-mdf-2440mm-x-1220mm-x-15mm
and they will cut to size and edge band for you.

(that yard is in Shepherd's Bush - no experience myself, but it's the one
Peter Millard uses for timber in his Youtube videos)

If you want timber in quantity, maybe it's better to go to a yard than
a retail shed?

Theo

On 31/12/2022 23:33, pinnerite wrote:
> Earlier this year I was visiting B&Q's Watford store and noticed that
> they held 97mm and 114mm width white-faced furniture boards. I didn't
> remember seeing them when I placed a large order several weeks before
> that.
>
> I was annoyed at the time because I had had to slice a 200mm board
> with my track saw using my "bench" - two pallets!
>
> I am now looking to build another piece of furniture.
>
> When I checked their website, there were no narrow boards.
>
> I cannot see a way to contact them and ask if they intend to stock
> them again.
>
> Can anyone suggest an alternative source within a reasonable distance
> of NW London?
>

FWIW I used to buy such boards from office fitters[1] near me for
folding money. They'd also cut to size for me if I waited till they
weren't pressed for time. Might be worth you looking for similar near you.

[1] both long gone far away when their premises were needed to make way
for yet more blocks of flats like so many other such firms. Sodding
London Olympics.
--
Robin
reply-to address is (intended to be) valid

On 01/01/2023 10:18, Theo wrote:
> pinnerite <pinnerite@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Earlier this year I was visiting B&Q's Watford store and noticed that
>> they held 97mm and 114mm width white-faced furniture boards. I didn't
>> remember seeing them when I placed a large order several weeks before
>> that.
>>
>> I was annoyed at the time because I had had to slice a 200mm board
>> with my track saw using my "bench" - two pallets!
>>
>> I am now looking to build another piece of furniture.
>>
>> When I checked their website, there were no narrow boards.
>>
>> I cannot see a way to contact them and ask if they intend to stock
>> them again.
>>
>> Can anyone suggest an alternative source within a reasonable distance
>> of NW London?
>
> You can get melamine faced MDF in sheet form:
> https://www.ajferguson.co.uk/sheet-materials/mdf/melamine/white-melamine-faced-mdf-2440mm-x-1220mm-x-15mm
> and they will cut to size and edge band for you.
>
> (that yard is in Shepherd's Bush - no experience myself, but it's the one
> Peter Millard uses for timber in his Youtube videos)
>
> If you want timber in quantity, maybe it's better to go to a yard than
> a retail shed?
>
> Theo

for some reason a sheet 12mm thick costs slightly more
than one that is 15mm thick. Wierd.