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The Owning Your Own Home thread perhaps?

Owning your own home thread

Ever added glitter to emulsion to get that glitter look? Well fucking don't, as it is fucking pain. what makes the situation worse is paint that is so thick that I ended up having to use a mixing paddle to mix the glitter and some water to thin the paint a bit.

Then add cheap shitty rollers as the OH doesn't clean rollers, and then she doesn't do any prep like may be sugar soaping the walls or roughing the wall up a little so the paint can actually stick to something. Touch dry in 30 mins and repaintable in 4 hours my arse.

Cheap rollers and brushes are shite.

I found my local building contralto be really helpful when I called them up!

I wouldn't try to cut it with a saw. Sometimes (I've never not managed it!) you can get the joint back apart by steaming it and gently easing it apart. That will depend on how many other joints are holding it in tension.

Would have thought you would do better to fill it if it's stable.

Would have thought you would do better to fill it if it's stable.

+1

Looking good.

Me and a mate smashed this out over the last 6 days. Far from perfect but did as much as we could in the time. Never again.

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Nice! How did you go about repairing the cracked sills?

I miss Fife :( thought I'd never say that...

NE Fife is pretty nice. I like it.

Packed with mortar to a few mm just beneath, then filled the remainder with Touprelith once set.

Some cunt stole my cement mixer!

What's even more galling is that i) I didn't notice someone walking off with a cement mixer, and ii) I realised this morning that it was probably stolen over a week ago.

Cunts though.

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Where was it? How'd they get it?

Madness.

I'd second Quincy's advice that building control have been good when I spoke to them (I spoke to Assent who cover quite a large area). I also spoke to the council's planning department informally and they were pretty helpful too.

It was in the front garden, not locked to anything.

Obvs I'm a bit of an idiot in just leaving it there.

It'll probably be up for sale at vauxhall market once it's going again.

Cladding. Seriously. WTF!

Rant over. Back on track.

From the looks of this site. I need T&G cladding....
not shiplap...
....and the relevant size is 95mm X 12mm.

I assume the -5mm has just been lost in shrinkage.

Fucked if I can find the stuff though.

EDIT: NB. it may be "16mm x100mm" pre-finishing

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I think the lower of the two in your post would be rebated shiplap. What you have on your shed does just look like the general profile of the Wickes normal shiplap.

https://www.wickes.co.uk/Wickes-Softwood-Shiplap-Cladding-12x121x2400mm/p/9000033779

Although, taller boards than you need

The profile of Wickes 9000033762 looks close to the one in the diagram. It's not treated though.

Saying that, the terminology does not seem consistent.

Do you have access to a router table or table saw? Get the taller Wickes board and trim down and re-profile the cut bottom edge?

I'm genuinely shocked about how complicated this is.

My shed looks standard as fuck.

(other than the mishmash colours obvs).

https://www.withamtimber.co.uk/cladding-and-framing/cladding/shiplap.html

https://www.edecks.co.uk/products/5727/128/471/0/green---treated-shiplap/cladding-(12mm-x-120mm)