Learn about working with glue in your home construction projects with Bob Vila, including information about cabinet construction, door building, fixing splits, and more.
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Rough Surface Gluing If you find irregular surfaces at the glue line in wood projects, the problem can be moisture levels. This can happen, for ...
Sizing Dowels For a good joint, a fluted or spiraled dowel must fit snugly enough in the hole to allow the glue to come up around it. The ...
Splining For added strength when you're butting two boards together, use the carpenter's trick of splining. Using a router, cut a ...
Straight Wood Before you glue up wood for a project, examine the parts. If at all possible, start out with cleanly cut, perfectly straight ...
Subfloor Glue When installing subfloor plywood it is a good idea to glue it down with a construction adhesive to prevent floor squeaks.
Top Gun You can extend the the time it takes hot-melt glue to set by slightly pre-warming both the surfaces to be joined with a heat ...
Triangle Trick When dry-fitting boards to be glued up later, here's a trick to help you make sure you will be able to get them back together ...
Using Adhesives Selecting and using the appropriate adhesives makes fixing things easier.
Wide Clamping Need to hold extra-wide work for gluing up or driving screws? You can hook one jaw of a pipe clamp over your work, then turn ...
Window Trim and Scalloped Shingles Bob meets Ryley at the Martha’s Vineyard Victorian to discuss the trim. They start by talking about how to trim a rounded edge ...
