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I want to put up some bookshelves - ones fixed to brackets screwed into the wall, as they are to go above a desk. All B&Q seem to have is melamine, which is cheap but sags badly. Does anyone know where I could get something more solid such as wood?

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I just use planks and brackets ,the more brackets the less sag

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Isn't there a timber/wood yard near you? One near me sells planks of varying sizes for less than half the price of stuff in Homebase.... I built a DVD cabinet capable of holding 250 DVD's for the princely sum of £30.

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Isn't there a timber/wood yard near you? One near me sells planks of varying sizes for less than half the price of stuff in Homebase.... I built a DVD cabinet capable of holding 250 DVD's for the princely sum of £30.

Blimey is it chippendale!

Believe NOTHING anyones says or writes unless you witness it yourself and even then your eyes can deceive you

None of this "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" crap it just means i have at least two enemies!

 

There is only one opinion i listen to ,its mine and its ALWAYS right even when its wrong

 

Its far easier to curse the darkness than light one candle

 

Mathew 4:19

Grangers law : anything i say will  turn out the opposite or not happen at all!

Life insurance? you wont enjoy a penny!

"To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical." Thomas Jefferson

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It's a good system, and easy to reposition the shelves when someone wants to steal some of your fishing tackle area for her Open University course books collection. :)

 

Sure it wasn't quite so expensive when we did it, though. That was about seven or eight years ago.

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Not glass......

Check out Ebay for hardwoods

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1284-MERANTI-HARDWOOD-TIMBER-JOBLOT-OFF-CUTS-/261477091021?pt=UK_BOI_Building_Materials_Supplies_Carpentry_Woodwork_ET&hash=item3ce13fc6cd

 

Look for a deadstock market and check out the timbers there. At my local one there is often pieces of hardwood thrown out by double glazing and boat building companies.

"Muddlin' along"

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