This is the results of a friends project.  They have a lovely stylish home with unique addition on the back.  One of its features was an open reclaimed wood staircase.  It looks great but with a new member of the family (and a toddler too) they needed to temporarily childproof the gaps and railings.  

They came to me with detailed drawings and sizes and we cut them all to size.  Then they drilled the mounting holes when at home to make sure they worked and secured it all with screws or zip ties.  I think it looks awesome, or rather it looks like nothing (It took me about half an hour before I noticed it - and I am much more sensitive to clear plastic than most!).

We do similar less elaborate projects all the time for builders that need to meet code on custom railings (no more than a 4" gap) but where the owners may want to remove it later for aesthetics (nudge nudge wink wink).

We did a similar thing at our last house, unfortunately this is the only picture I can find.  We did this style of doors and some bookshelves.  The acrylic goes up about halfway and it is just held in by some little nails on the edges.

So in this project we got a used greenhouse from a neighbour and friend that had just moved and did not need it..  It was old, slimy and with lots of broken glass....

But of course the glass was not an issue as we used new acrylic (plexiglas) panels where needed.  In the end it took some elbow grease and over a sheet of new material but we have a lovely little greenhouse!

Now it just needs a little work on the door rail, but if you see the shower post below you already know how I'll deal with that one.

Opps, I thought the greenhouse would be next but I forgot about some other projects I've done.  

This one is a spice rack that my wife designed.  She wanted to be able to see all of her spices on the counter so she would use them more often. 

Something like this would be about $60-70 retail. 

At Plasticworks, we do a lot of sub contracting to the sign industry.   We CNC cut, polish, trim and do lots of jobs for sign contractors.  Generally we do not do a sign from start to finish or for direct customers.  The rule of thumb is if you know what you need and have all the artwork done, we can help. 

The exception is our own signs.  We generally do that so we can 1) get some experience and see jobs through our customers eyes 2) we're kind of do it yourselfer's 3) when you deal with dozens of sign companies who would you chose?

So this is our Abbotsford sign.  Its 1/4" yellow acrylic with pockets routed into the face that matched up to black trim and letters.  The black letters are then slightly raised.   The whole thing was then mounted with screws and some standoffs on the wall (it is 2 pieces).  

What can we do for you?

Well it seems I lost the before and after pictures for this one but here is a great solution for those messy deep cupboards above fridges.  We made this one for our new house after making a similar one for our old house (which we left behind).  It works great for rack and pans though it would have been nice if the cupboard itself was a bit higher to fit the cookie sheets but otherwide it worked great.  

Also in this post is a custom draw 'organizer' - really its still messy but things get less tangled and at least point all in the same direction.  Should have used a bit thicker acrylic though as 1 divider did break after about a year.

This is a summary shot of a large order we did at the Abby shop.  5000pcs for a customer of the piece in the foreground which is the 2 pallets in the background.  Took about 10days, custom packed per the customers spec's.

So yes we do large custom fab orders at very competitive prices.  What can we do for you?

Another few house projects on the go.  In this one I took some old pine shelves that had never been painted in a bathroom nook (for lack of a better word) and changed them to all acrylic.  

The nook was pretty dim so I thought a shelf that would let some light through (if it wasn't full) would help and of course the look is much more appealing than old dirty pine.

Next up is some pictures of the greenhouse renovation/restoration!

Ok, it was time for a new website since we’ve moved away from the online store for sheet plastics. We hope you like the new site and please let us know if you see any errors or need any information that was on our previous site.

So, I’ve been busy in the last year. We moved into a new shop in Surrey and I moved into a new house around the same time.

Anyone that has moved into a new house knows there is always something that needs fixing. In our case one of those things was the simple shower door slider clip (or that’s what I’ll call it for lack of a proper term).

It was the little block at the bottom of the shower door that guides the glass and holds it in place. It was Ok when we moved in but then my son decided that the glass was great to lean against and it broke (or broke again – it had been glued but as it was polyethylene it is virtually un-glueable).

Luckily I have full service plastic shop at my disposal but all I really needed was a table saw.

I took a small chunk of what I had lying around (and we always have these small chunks) and simply cut some grooves, notched out the bottom on a slight angle to match the shower sill and viola – a new, stronger, guide that looks better than the original.

Well this weekend I am taking time off from the deck (still working on the railing) to do the MS Bike tour.  So if these posts helped at all, please consider taking a moment to pledge me at https://msofs.mssociety.ca/2009bike/Sponsor.aspx?PID=1129530&L=2.

Thanks!  Graham Facer