Home DIY

Shed is coming along. Spent all day faffing around with trim pieces working out what goes on top of what. Hopefully today I'll get the roof shingled up and start with the shiplap cladding the side and front.

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Needs some poo though...

Edit: too slow...

bottom right of the igloo ?

I'd hoped my drill would cope (it's a hammer drill, but cordless). Has anyone se got a corded hammer drill for lends? Will pay in coffee beans/craft beer/cash.

I haz, is SDS.

Whereabouts are you?

I haz 2 sds

I'm in se26.
Doubt I can get it today, I was in the sun to long yesterday. Spewed at 3am and at 9am. I'm just about ok on the sofa.

I'll arrange something from tmrw onwards?

I am due to go to the gym later near you, I can drop off my big SDS drill

Woah; that would be teh awesomeness.

Igloo? I suspect you didn't spend your formative years down a hole in the ground, otherwise you'd have immediately recognized an accurate representation of the Thurcroft SO4 working section (Swallow Wood seam), circa 1986.
I've increased the annotation for the benefit of any non-colliers on here.

tl;dr epoxy should work.

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Possibly more relevant for the garden thread, but I'm looking for ways of changing up our garden's look and had a few Qs:

Has anyone painted / stained their shed or fence panels?

There are a few companies that make nice but pricy colours and I was wondering how feasible it would be to tint the ronseal stuff? Say their dark green with a bit of white to get more of a sage colour? ALL. THE. THINGS. in our garden are that orangey brown and I wanted to mix it up.

We have some brick troughs and I wanted to paint them a slate grey. Would they need a pcv + white primer first to seal them?

I used cuprinol to spruce up the fence and gate of our last house when we put it up for sale. It looked good for the agents photos but by the time the sale had gone through, about 6 months later, it looked shit. Do not use.

Cheers that's good to know as it was one of the brands I was thinking for the shed - which being smaller and more visible I'm prepared to spend a bit more £ on.

Not doubting your skills, but for reference would you say you did a proper job / follow instruction etc?

Yep, I did all the prep work and waited for a dry spell to do it.

Even the best quality fence panels I can find in outer north west London are pretty poor in reality. Made from quick grown UK timber the featheredge planks have a very open grain and no lumber is rejected; resin-rich zones reject any coating, knots fall out and the standard 'finish' is the (cheaper) dark brown low hazard wood preserver. The panels are assembled with the wood unseasoned. Even just a weeks storage after purchase, (from a fresh delivery from the manufacturer, the place I use gets 2 deliveries a week), the panels lose some weight and develop splits where the machined-in nails have strayed too close to edges. Fence paints themselves have little opacity, have scant UV resistance and are generally on the murky scale, but what can you expect at £2/litre?

A decent shed, clad with planed shiplap might be a different story.

Serious question, what do you do if you need to poo when you're down in the pit?

Bear in mind that the nearest w.c. might be a mile above you and an hour's travel away, and going there will be a disciplinary offence costing the rest of the shift's pay and possibly all the week's productivity bonus.

Serious answers in order of preference:

1. Plan in advance and don't.
   
2. Conveyor belts take everything out of the mine. Care is needed, or someone else's shovel when they're not looking.
   
3. Find somewhere quiet and out of the way. The rats (or mice, but never both) will deal with it eventually. However, there is a good chance that a fellow worker will unintentionally find that spot as well - this can lead to ill feeling.
   
   

There are many reasons why I stopped coal mining and went into teaching. Being able to wash my hands before eating is one of them.

I've got to say, Cuprinol garden shades stuff is pretty good when two coats are applied.....I've used it extensively in my garden and on jobs for punters.....my pergola was last done around 8-10 years back and I'm only just thinking of doing it again (the light grey stuff). The shed needs doing every 3-4 years.. And it goes on lovely with a brush or roller!

8-10 years ago.
Pergola
Light grey.

Which unit of the gentrifying shocktroops were you in?
Were you in the first wave of the kingsland road invasion of 2008-9?

i need to fix a gap in my wood fence. where do i get a single fence slat from?

What kind of slat is it? I have loads of left over feather edge board you are welcome to have one. Wickes / Selco sell them for a few quid each. I'm sure b&q probably does too.

Whereabouts are you?
A decent fencing supplier should have individual lengths of featheredge.

How do I tell? Its overlapping planks. There's a gap appearing next to the post and the nearest slat.

Bromley north