Picture as promised

With a leap of DIY imagination the unit to house the TV, the Freesat, the DVD player and the sound system amp is finished and installed. With only several DIY bodgings needed the deed is done and in place. We went down the route of buying a couple of pine 30cm planks and cut then to size ourselves. This would prove to be a smallish DIY problem down the track. We got a supply of plastic right angle joints and a couple of bags of screws. These proved hard to find as we did not go to Leroy Merlin but a local and much smaller Briomarche in NsM. However SOR spotted what we thought we needed.

9.00 am this morning work commenced on cutting up the planks, marking up the shelves, drilling the starter holes for the screws and then assembly. That is when I noticed that the screws had a peculiar "star" head and not the cross-head I thought I had bought. Hmmmm no screwdriver to fit. About to give up and through toys out of pram when I remembered seeing a small set of Screw head bits in a boxset of drills I have and low and behold there was the much needed T20 head, perfect fit for the power screwdriver.

The top goes on fine, as does the first shelf, but the second shelf not...I had not cut it square - much grunting and groaning and planing and it sort of fits, but it does represent the major bodge of the job. The power screwdriver went flat before the job was finished so I had a break while i recharged. Total cost about 20euro and another cut on my thumb!

All this took most of the morning and so we went of to visit Pat and only installed the unit when we got back. As I worked on this SOR applied some varnish (two coats) to the new tongue and grove and in a dim light, with a drink on board, you cannot see the difference. Picture of this will follow.