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Aug 27, 2022 20:36:34 GMT
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Love your workshop, its certainly taking shape and those roof panels are exactly what I have been looking for but cant seem to find. would you mind telling me where you purchased them from? I got the tile effect sheets from Mighty Structural Products who are based in Walsall near to Bescot stadium. They also supplied the box profile sheets and all the steel flashing to my requested sizes and they deliver within 2 weeks of ordering. |
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philsford
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Aug 28, 2022 19:56:01 GMT
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Aug 28, 2022 20:42:33 GMT
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Looking very smart. Is that Cedral cladding? I think it’s the same as I’ve had put in the gable end of my house to resolve a penetrating damp issue.
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philsford
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Aug 28, 2022 21:43:10 GMT
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Looking very smart. Is that Cedral cladding? I think it’s the same as I’ve had put in the gable end of my house to resolve a penetrating damp issue. Coastline cladding supplied by eurocell. I did get some samples off coastline and cedral before I ordered and the cedral was like a cement board rather than composite and much heavier, it was the trims and finishing pieces that coastline do to go with their product that won it for me. They are both equally as expensive. |
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Oct 18, 2022 23:15:27 GMT
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Well I had a look at my house roof issue and changed a joint on the spouting along with re-pointing the affected brickwork and thought that was sorted so promptly ripped the patio up. However the issue I have is only apparent in a massive downpour which I am struggling to recreate with the hose. I still have the same problem of the mortar looking wet after a good downpour. I am going to have to take some tiles off above the area for a better look but to do that I need to finish the patio to give me a decent base for my little scaffold setup. So I dug out the area that will be patio and mini Philsford no1 even helped.   We concreted some edgers in to stop the new patio sliding away from the house like the old one. I am perhaps being a bit harsh on the old one as it's probably been down 40 years but I don't want to be doing it again so am trying to do it in a way that a jet wash and repoint will be as much as I will ever need to do in the future. The next job if get all the pavers in to give a visual/decorative edge.  I have not taken any photos but anywhere where there was no slabs before I have put 300-400mm of hardcore and whackered that down before the block pavers were done. Then today I have laid out a few slabs dry so I know the first one goes in the correct place to try and eliminate problems as I move along.  My father in-law has gone on his holibobs for the last month so progress has been slow on my own along with fixing the wife's car in preparation for the mot but he is back tomorrow and I have got to the point where the slabs can be laid permanently. I am laying them on a full bed of concrete the same as the first area we did between the garage and the shed. |
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That's going to look fantastic. Well it already does. Great work!
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Building looks great, that's going to be one strong patio, our 1930's house stands on less foundation!
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Davey
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Oct 19, 2022 15:07:33 GMT
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Workshop looks great.
Wish I had seen this before you bought the cladding, I work for one of the better composite decking and cladding suppliers and could've wangled some staff discount!
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philsford
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Oct 19, 2022 19:08:14 GMT
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Workshop looks great. Wish I had seen this before you bought the cladding, I work for one of the better composite decking and cladding suppliers and could've wangled some staff discount! I will keep that in mind as I have a plan with composite decking boards to make my little retaining wall a bit better on the eye. |
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philsford
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Oct 19, 2022 19:11:06 GMT
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Building looks great, that's going to be one strong patio, our 1930's house stands on less foundation! I have gone a little OTT but I don't want to do it again so hopefully this patio and shed will last long enough that I don't have to do either of them again. |
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teaboy
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That looks fantastic.
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Davey
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Nov 10, 2022 12:16:07 GMT
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Good job.
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Nov 10, 2022 13:03:27 GMT
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Very, very nice,
Brilliant work there,
Little more to say, (other than bookmarked,)
Nigel
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philsford
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Nov 27, 2022 18:27:41 GMT
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Well the weather is getting worse so I am on inside jobs now. First up today was finish the inside walls off. I got 4 sheets of 18mm plywood dropped off in the week so I trimmed it up and screwed it on.  I had previously spent the odd hour doing some fiddly bits round the garage door with the offcuts from the original 18mm plywood.    Last one is from the summer when the shell moved over to its new home.  |
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No updates for a few weeks but I have not been sitting idle. First up I got some blinds up in the shed. Nothing fancy at approximately £25 for both and a little trimming later, it makes it look properly finished from outside and takes your eye of all the junk through the windows.  Next up a couple of weeks before Xmas on a Saturday I had been out early for reasons I cannot remember but came home about 1pm and went to the downstairs w/c and it sounded like a tap was running which I put down to someone being in the shower or the upstairs toilet filling. I felt a bit rough and sat watching TV all afternoon. I went to the downstairs w/c about 6pm and thought to myself "what the hell is that noise" which now sounded like the fire brigade was running a hose off my supply. I dashed into the garage to find a cold water supply pipe to the outside tap must have frozen and split the pipe! Perfect! The inside of the garage was now like a disaster scene with everything sobbing wet after god knows how many gallons of water had been dumped all over my cars, bike and tools. I isolated the leaking pipe and spent a couple of hours mopping up but it was that weekend where the temp changed and everyone had condensation in the garage, which made drying it out even harder.  So I dug the bike out and put it in the nice dry shed.  This made me remember that the fork seals on the fireblade needed doing before summer as I had parked it last May due to these leaking and never getting round to it because of shed building antics. Now if I left it until the weather was better I would be back on outside jobs and no fireblade all summer again, so I made a start.        Genuine seals in stock but I last did them about 9 years ago so I had a read of the manual which dried out after a couple of days once I took it out the box it had been in during the leak.  It has cost me £130 for fork seals and fork oil plus I changed the engine oil & filter while I was messing with it. I am currently waiting for a polishing wheel to show up from China. I had little incident a few years back now with a fresh tyre that resulted in the bike being on its side which marked the generator cover which is polished. I have dressed this out and worked my way up the grades of sand paper but I need to polish it back up to put the fairings back on which should mean it is ready for the MOT. A side project running in between this was to put a few boards down in the loft to try and get a bit more storage, this section of the loft was unused and had no boards at all.  It took longer to get that finished than I thought and I am still yet to put anything in there. I hope to create a bit of space in the rest of the loft. The rest of the boarding up there is not great and everytime I open the hatch I hear "YeeHaa". So with a bit of space created I hope to work my way round to make a better job of the rest of the space up there. There is very little height up there which means I am on my knees working which makes it hard work. |
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Last Edit: Feb 1, 2023 22:30:36 GMT by philsford
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Mar 15, 2023 21:51:46 GMT
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Trying to plan on getting some actual work done on the mini I though let's have a tidy up.   The aim being to have the mini empty and as you can see the main issue is a load of insulation. Not a job I fancied doing but if I don't do nobody else is going to, so the ceiling in the shed needed to be done which in turn would remove 90% of what is cluttering the mini up.  I opted for soffit type upvc as a fit and forget type of finish, I may need to add some vents in yet.  So that left me with a much more work ready mini.  I had a few packs of those soft foam floor tiles which have been sat in the wrapper for about 15 years. They were stored in the mini as well. I was going to bin them but I put them on the boards in the loft just to get them out the way.  You can see how restricted it is in height now the bikes are in there. |
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Last Edit: Mar 15, 2023 21:57:37 GMT by philsford
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Mar 16, 2023 11:56:39 GMT
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What did you use to hold the insulation up before boarding? I’ve got to do the same in my garage before I plasterboard it. I’m looking forward to progress on the Mini.
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philsford
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Mar 16, 2023 18:42:49 GMT
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What did you use to hold the insulation up before boarding? I’ve got to do the same in my garage before I plasterboard it. I’m looking forward to progress on the Mini. String stapled across in a zigzag kid of fashion about 150mm apart. |
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Well after a few months of no mini updates you would think that mini would be moving along wouldn't you. However a couple of months ago my neighbour asked me about when I was going to clad the front of the house as I had previously mentioned this after I had finished the shed. In response to his question I looked around at the 2 houses and said "oh about 12 months ago" such is my to do list. He went on to explain that he was thinking of updating the front of his house and did I think that the 2 houses clad the same would be better? As we are joined (semi-detached) I had a little think about it and thought I would rather have the cladding the same than something similar from a curb appeal point of view. So ordered enough cladding for both houses and then set about my house. We had new windows and doors during covid19 and the cladding was on the to do list from then on. Picture of the house as we bought it 4 years ago.  With a pile of cladding blocking my path through the garage I made it a priority to crack on. My farther in law managed to borrow me an aluminium scaffold tower to attempt the main section which I had for a week and I had booked a few days off to coincide with this. The result was.  This left the set back section by the garage looking rather tatty so fixed that using what I had in stock where possible as I have a future plan for the front of the garage so didn't want to spend alot to do this section.  So with the front looking a little more up to date I had some mini time. I hope your sitting down.  I had to go over the engine bay again due to light surface rust as it had sat bare for about 3 years and I have got the wing back to metal. Hoping to get a few hours in on it now it has rose up the to do list slightly. |
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