The doors are looking fantastic, even though I say it myself. All the boards have been cut and laid in position, but I do still have to do quite a bit of work before I can think about putting the doors up in their proper place. It was a time consuming job making sure the tongue-and-groove boards were cut accurately, but if you do things one at a time you eventually get there. The results are even better than I expected, and I'm not done yet!

Close to the end of the day I was just one board short for the final door, so yet another trip to Wickes was needed. While there I bought a huge vertical bolt to secure the second door in place (the one which will usually stay shut). The bolt will also support the door and take some of the weight off the hinges, and I now have to work out how to attach it to the door AND allow the other door to swing right open without hitting the bolt. I'll get back to you on that one!

With all the outer frame work done (you can see that it's still weighted down while the adhesive goes off), work started on adding the floorboards. For the corners I had to do both doors at once. Why? Well, the angles you cut off are 45° and with ordinary wood you cut just turn the board around and make another cut at the other end, until you used the whole board. However, because it's T&G you can't do that - all the tongues have to face one way. So I cut one piece for the left-hand door, then the next piece for the right-hand door, and so on.

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