Floating desk and shelf for an episode of George Clarke’s ‘Old House New Home’

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Floating desk and shelf for an episode of George Clarke’s ‘Old House New Home’

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Alastair Johnson - Freebird

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@ilposto7489 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks from Italy 🇮🇹🤗

@Alastair_Freebird 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

@cjsmith 3 жыл бұрын

Excellent Design / Ascetic 👌

@EzzenzDK 3 жыл бұрын

Great work !!!

@adriandotsmall 7 ай бұрын

👍

@NenzelMUSIC 5 жыл бұрын

Awesome seeing your channel grow. Remember when first watched some of your videos and they had very little views. That wasn't even long ago and your getting almost 2000 views now! Keep it going and your going to have an awesome channel one day in the not to distant future.

@Alastair_Freebird 5 жыл бұрын

NenzelMUSIC yeah you were one of the first Neil! Haven’t seen you around here for a while welcome back 😁 and thanks for the encouragement, I needed it, been a bit stretched in too many directions last couple of weeks and lost my focus.

@NenzelMUSIC 5 жыл бұрын

@@Alastair_Freebird I've been watching don't worry. I just don't always get around to commenting! I watched channel 4 live to watch out for your work when it was on. Good job. I'm also going to get around to trying to work along with your sketch up videos rather than just watching them and not actually being on sketch up whilst watching. 🙄 Life is getting in the way at the minute.

@kevinsteer7920 5 жыл бұрын

Lovely, just watched it on tv. 👍👏👏👏

@brianneedham1699 5 жыл бұрын

That came out great! Nice work mate!

@olrenison 5 жыл бұрын

No way. You were in the Spa. That's my 'hood' 😊 Lovely job. Looks brilliant.

@Alastair_Freebird 5 жыл бұрын

Oh shame, we could have met up!

@anirishwoodworkersdiary2137 5 жыл бұрын

Nice work guys 👍

@Alastair_Freebird 5 жыл бұрын

An Irish Woodworker's diary thanks!

@7isthe1uckynumber 3 жыл бұрын

Lovey job!

@Alastair_Freebird 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@barryoneill9231 4 жыл бұрын

this is epic. i want this in my home

@MrBishbashbosh2012 5 жыл бұрын

I’m not far from lemington, I need to go on to catchup to watch the show. Looks really good.

@Alastair_Freebird 5 жыл бұрын

MrBishbashbosh2012 nice area and I imagine there’s plenty of work to be found round there; in reach of a few nice built up areas.

@MrBishbashbosh2012 5 жыл бұрын

Freebird Interiors I was watching a whole load of your videos the other day including the one around your workshop and where you talk about how to price per hour/half day, both of which were really good.

@Alastair_Freebird 5 жыл бұрын

MrBishbashbosh2012 glad you liked them!

@elroy8138 4 жыл бұрын

Great work thanks

@Alastair_Freebird 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the comment, glad you liked it!

@HS-ru9ee 3 жыл бұрын

Since I want to DIY a floating desk, I give up after seeing this. So many tools required😓😓

@Alastair_Freebird 3 жыл бұрын

😄 yes... there are different ways of going about it but more specialist tools often means a better result!

@steveNCB7754 4 жыл бұрын

Hi Alastair. I'm an 'amateur', rather than a professional, whose been 'binge-watching' many of your videos for ideas and techniques. Having lived most of my life in a 1960's bungalow (with plaster-covered brick or 'gnarly' concrete block walls), I have retired to a converted stone-built property which has (largely) been dry-lined inside. How would you approach the fixing of such 'floating' shelves (or desk for that matter) in such circumstances? Obviously, I would need to get myself a 'stud-finder' first and presumably position any angle brackets on those studs, where possible, but what about fixings into the dry-lining board itself? Great videos by the way, I am learning a great deal from them.

@FrankParkin 3 жыл бұрын

Hello Alastair, great work! You have responded below that the desk top was custom made. Can you recall the thickness of MDF you used? I am about to start a similar project and looking at 2x 18mm.

@Alastair_Freebird 3 жыл бұрын

Hi Frank thanks, I think I probably used 22mm, plus the tall lip which was a strip maybe 70mm wide, I don’t remember .

@FrankParkin 3 жыл бұрын

@@Alastair_Freebird Thanks for the swift response Alastair. Appreciated.

@VogVoggy 3 жыл бұрын

Very well done - what were those brackets called - couldn't quite hear you.

@Alastair_Freebird 3 жыл бұрын

Hi they are the strangely named ‘Hegbo’ brackets from Hafele: www.hafele.co.uk/en/product/fixed-bracket-for-tables-and-bench-seats-load-bearing-capacity-150-kg-per-pair-hegbo/28744470/?MasterSKU=000000000000500e00010023#SearchParameter=&@QueryTerm=Hegbo&@P.FF.followSearch=9885&PageNumber=1&OriginalPageSize=12&PageSize=12&Position=1&OrigPos=1&ProductListSize=2&PDP=true

@nicharvey7211 5 жыл бұрын

Nice build, do you like that new scribing tool? Looked pretty smooth!

@Alastair_Freebird 5 жыл бұрын

Nic Harvey I do like it, I was sick of the limitations of the trend multiscribe. I realise now that every tool has its limitations and whilst the Profiler + can scribe a wider distance it can’t scribe a small distance! And in different situations when space is limited only one or the other of the scribing tools will fit.

@davegreen1866 5 жыл бұрын

Sharp looking job there Alistair, well done! Just watched the program, I like the ‘Amazing’ George Clark 😀 Out of curiosity was it your design or GC’s team? Hope you get some work out of it 👍

@Alastair_Freebird 5 жыл бұрын

dave green the way it seems to work is GC comes in with the initial ideas then it’s handed over to designers. Sarah Hubacher was the main designer on this makeover, and it was her design for this project, in so far as she specified a floating desk and shelf in approximately these proportions. Figuring out how to build it was entirely up to me and my team. As usual the preparation of parts in the workshop was Brady’s work, I just get to install it and take the credit, a bit like how GC turns up again at the end on camera after all Sarah and her team’s hard work behind the scenes!

@davegreen1866 5 жыл бұрын

Interesting to hear how it works. You old glory hunter 😉 Thanks for your reply

@JmackL 2 жыл бұрын

Hi the piece you added at the front to disguise the brackets, is it screwed down from the top? Also could a diy wooden bracket work just as well? Thank you love the videos you produce

@Alastair_Freebird 2 жыл бұрын

Hi sorry for the delayed reply, I used kreg pocket hole screws to secure that piece, so they are out of sight and didn’t need filling

@Alastair_Freebird 2 жыл бұрын

II don’t think a wooden bracket could work as well as the metal one projecting straight out from the wall without more of a diagonal brace down to a lower point at the rear wall

@Victorias4mom 3 жыл бұрын

What material is this? I need one long piece of table top like this but I'm unsure what to look for at the hardware store.

@Alastair_Freebird 3 жыл бұрын

Moisture resistant MDF assembled and painted, you can’t get it ready made like this!

@haruki3298 4 жыл бұрын

What did you finish the desk with? Lacquer?

@markcarter1118 5 жыл бұрын

The walls will be made from Celcon / Thermalite blocks then. Nightmare to fix anything too.

@Alastair_Freebird 5 жыл бұрын

Mark Carter is that right? Are those products still in use? I think it was an 80s extension. Really strange building material the consistency seemed like... Parmesan cheese is the closest thing I can think of 😂

@ashyclaret 5 жыл бұрын

@@Alastair_Freebird Also known as Thermashite!

@Alastair_Freebird 5 жыл бұрын

@ash Wednesday when that comment alert came up I though I had my first troll or something but now I realise you’re talking about the blocks 😆

@ashyclaret 5 жыл бұрын

@@Alastair_Freebird Lol.That would be a good nickname.

@raychambers3646 3 жыл бұрын

My house something called cinder block really hard ,but when I cut a hole for a door ,I looked like I had been down a mine!

@kir3dempsey 5 жыл бұрын

Nice job but sharpen your scribe pencil.

@Alastair_Freebird 5 жыл бұрын

Richard Dempsey I thought someone might mention that!!

@KennethTanFotografie 3 жыл бұрын

Unfortunately for me this is not an instructional video, but a discussion of 1 person with himself.

@Alastair_Freebird 3 жыл бұрын

What would have made it more instructional for you? Critical feedback is often the most useful. Perhaps one day I will have time to make instructional videos purely for KZfaq but for now I mostly just film the work I’m already doing as I do it. Some people still seem to find this helpful.