On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 10:16:34 +0000, KD wrote:

Hi all,
I'm about to buy some flat packed dining room furniture from Homebase.
No doubt it'll come with a bucket load of dowels and adhesive sachets. Is
there such a thing as a 'better class of dowel' ? Are plastic dowels better
? Basically, I want to take little bit more time and make the joints as
strong as possible. Is the adhesive provided with these units up to the job
or can/should everything be upgraded ? If so, can someone recommend a
supplier of upgraded little bits ?

Cheers,
Keith

P.S. I know I could spend a bit more and get pre-built furniture but money
is a bit tight (like me).

Hi

Much of the flat pack stuff I've has had either too little glue in
sachets, or none at all, using the dowels to lock the pieces laterally and
using screws or custom metal joint thingies too hold the pieces together.

The dowels themselves I find are fine. I would recommend having some PVA
wood glue handy in a bottle. All the sachets I ever had were just bog
standard PVA. Fine, but seldom enough supplied.

HTH

Tim