Breadboard on table tops

[Brian]

I'm reading and listening to dozens of reports that attaching a breadboard to the ends of a tabletop using pocket holes is going to lead to disaster (cracked boards, warping) do to expansion and shrinking throughout the year.  Is there a workaround or a tip to avoid this?  Is there a way to still use pocket holes joinery that allows for this expansion?  Or am I stuck having to build mortise and tenon joints?

[michael evans]

Hi Brian have you tried biscuits always worked for me.

[Brian]

I don't have the biscuit joiner.

I was thinking dowels, but somebody mentioned that if you drilled a slightly larger pilot hole in the board you are joining to, that this might create the room needed for it to shift.  I guess with dowels you would make them slightly deeper than the actual dowel to create a gap for expansion?  I'm not sure.  I was just hoping to make this quickly due to my tools being in storage until we get a shed built for my wood-shop tools.  Thanks

[michael evans]

Hi Brian you can always use a router with a biscuit cutting bit . Plus biscuit cutters not that expensive mine was the equivalent of $50 three years on still going strong and it's another useful tool in your arsenal .