Tools For Fitting Door Furniture

Fit Door Furniture Professionally With The Correct Tools

All different types and styles of door furniture can be fitted with the use of the correct tools.

A simple swap over of door handles or hinges can be accomplished with nothing more than the use of one or more screwdrivers and perhaps a hinge punch.

Modern door furniture is usually relatively simple to fit and most reputable brands normally supply full fitting instructions to carry this out. Budget brands and supplies intended for bulk trade use usually are packaged in the most basic form, without fitting instructions enclosed.

To keep costs down they are omitted and it is left to the consumer or tradesman to establish how to fit or install them.  For the professional tradesman or joiner this is of course not a problem as they will see this task as routine. For the home diy’er the exclusion of assembly and fitting instructions could pose a major problem.  The solution is often to only purchase reputable brands which provide guidance and clear instructions on how to complete the work.    

Popular tools chosen to fit door furniture include a selection of different screwdrivers, both flat bladed and with Phillips cross heads. A hammer and hinge punch. A medium sized bradawl,  tape measure, and joiners square. A selection of popular sized wood chisels, and a hand or powered drill fitted with appropriate sized wood drill bits.

The professional joiner may choose additional tools depending on their usage. Electric woodworking routers are popular for milling out of lock apertures and hinge locations, whilst an electric planer can be a godsend for trimming doors to size to suit existing openings.

Property used for commercial use or which is to be let for residential use usually requires internal doors that are fitted with fire retardant strips. These fire strips are recessed into the edge of the door itself and expand in the event of a fire, preventing smoke and fumes passing from room to room.

Accuracy is the key to the installation of this type of door furniture. The best method for fitting being by use of a purposely designed jig in conjunction with an electric router.  Held in place on the door by locating pegs and clamps the jig allows the routers cutter to follow a precise path milling out the wood or plastic the correct depth and width.

The intumescent fire strip is then pressed into place in this recess.

Heavy duty door furniture such as fitted to doors on public entrances to shopping malls, supermarkets, cinemas, and the like, may need more specialist fixing methods. This is especially the case if the doors are manufactured in glass. It is common for glass doors to use furniture that utilises several different methods of fixing, with threaded fixings and resin glues being most common.

Garden Maintenance Tools

Garden Machinery

A wide range of garden tools are available to hire or buy which allows affordable and effective maintenance of allotments and gardens, no matter how large or small in size.

The maintenance of a garden is time consuming and can benefit by the use of purposely designed tools and equipment such as a garden leaf blower.

In the autumn in the Uk it is an annual time when trees shed their leaves in preparation for the harsh winter season. When the trees drop their leaves it causes problems for both the home owners who are proud of their gardens as well as local authorities and councils that need to keep paths, pavements, and highways clear. 

A tool of choice to solve this issue has to be the garden leaf blower. 

Relatively new to the Uk, a garden leaf blower can be either electric or petrol driven (two or four stroke in the case of petrol engined models).

A garden leaf blower can be in the form of many different configurations. The most popular being held held blower – shredder models or backpack commercial type blowers.

Hand held leaf blowers typically are powerful electric or petrol driven models designed for small to medium leaf blowing and clearing work.

Back pack type units are high powered models such as the Stihl BR380, Br500, BR600, and Br600. These modern and up to date pieces of garden machinery are designed with several purposes in mind but with one main task – effective high volume clearing of leaves and garden debris.

Metal Fabrication Tools

Tools And Equipment Suitable For Metal Fabrication

There is a wide choice of tools and equipment available for effective metal fabrication work. 

Depending on the job in question, hand tools, power tools, or heavy machinery can all be used as appropriate.

For simple cutting of mild steel strips and sheet even the most basic of hand tools can be used. A hacksaw, shear, or even a pair of snips may be all that is required for simple metal cutting tasks.

For larger jobs and thicker gauge metals a power tool has to be the machine of choice. This could be a small electric motor driven jigsaw, an air or electric cutsaw, or similar machine fitted with the correct specification metal cutting blade.

This type of machine however is limited in capabilities when it comes to prolonged cutting periods or when working on slightly thicker gauge steel and metals.

For this type of fabrication work the choice has to be either a portable cutting saw such as a stihl ts410 (if petrol driven) or hitachi cm12y (an electric alternative), or a stationary piece of metal fabrication equipment like an electric bandsaw or possibly an abrasive wheel type chop saw.

Disc cutters and abrasive wheel saws are best suited to cutting small sections of metal and in particular box sections used for fabricating structures, gantries, and similar projects.

Larger components and in particular machinery components often require specialist machinery such as lathes, punches, welding equipment, and equipment such as metal folders and presses.

At some point a necessary task with metal fabrication work is the drilling of holes in metal sheets, or pieces of heavy duty steel. Depending on the gauge (thickness) of metal concerned several different tools could be used.

If the item to be worked on is in a workshop hand held power tools could be the machine of choice, or possibly a pillar drill press.  If the metal work piece however is situated in building or factory environment it would be far easier to take the tool to the work piece in question instead.

In this environment an option would be the choice of possibly using a powerbore pb32 magnetic drill. This particular tool is a portable electric drill configured as a pillar drill press but is portable and fitted with an electromagnetic base. This allows the PB32 to be attached to metal rsj’s, girders, sections, and plate steel on site, saving time and ultimately money.

Renowned for it’s high build quality and accurate fast drilling performance, the PB32 magnetic drill accepts “rotabroach” type drill bits and milling cutters giving it a versatile range of applications in the workplace for engineering repair and fabrication work.

Fastening sections of metal together requires a totally different approach. Light gauge metals may be joined using nothing more complicated than basic fixings such as bolts or rivets. Medium and heavy gauge metals will need something far more robust and strong.

A proven method of joining metal together is by welding. Gas, electric, tig, mig, arc, are all methods of welding which can be used on and off site when it comes to repair, service, and fabrication work on all types of metals, structures, and assemblies.

The range of welding gear available is vast and without any doubt there is an item of welding equipment available to suit nearly every application when it comes to metal fabrication work.