Home DIY

My parents have one of these in their back garden, a slightly larger model (4 windows on the front). They're very happy with it, my dad does bookbinding/paper conservation which uses temperature-sensitive materials (and is temperature-sensitive himself) and hasn't found it too bad. Important to situate it so the plate glass windows don't face full sun/sunset though.

Don't remember the exact price but it definitely was less than £14k a few years ago. I reckon with inflation/extra demand of covid times it could have gone up...

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Gets good reviews

Could glue a dog to the wall with this stuff. Proper sticky like

DIY weekend... this is an odd one. My house has some original walls which are no more than planks of wood, yep, planks of wood, one plank thick, with a horizontal beam for some sort of support.
I'm thinking of replicating the planks of wood on the other side.

Plan is to put in vertical studs and horizontal joining ones, whatever its all called, than bang these on...
https://www.diy.com/departments/planed-spruce-tongue-groove-cladding-w-119mm-t-14-5mm/1013949_BQ.prd?rrec=true

Crazy plan?

Getting there...

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Bastard radiators.

I’ve got one upstairs refusing to get properly hot. The feed pipe is hot. I’ve bled it. Knackered return valve?

I’m inclined to put UFH in through the whole house once the extension is done.

Have you balanced it and the other rads?

Every year the conversation about balancing the rads comes up. It's a really big part of some systems, some plumbers are brilliant at it. I've not learnt to do it but I've seen it done.

Don't underestimate the possibility that this is the cause of your problem.

If it’s just for access, I’d expect ~£1k depending on how many lifts required. If you want the roof handrailed, significantly more.
My site is complicated though, it’s probably cheaper for residential but you’ll pay VAT.
A cherry picker would be significantly cheaper if there is access.

Thanks.

It looks like an absolute faff.

Yikes, it's a mid terrace and no cherry picker as no driveways or parking outside...

Came to moan about lots of painting got a awesome raven story....

I thought the rules on ladders were based on the duration of the job.

A portable aluminium tower (if high enough) would be cheaper but sounds like you’ll have an issue with space/surface for that too.

There's a front garden that a tower should fit in, might look into DIY inspection.

Weird thing is it hasn't leaked since last weekend...

Do you know the height of the roof in metres? If it’s a self-erection (oo-er), make sure you’ve got space for the outriggers and don’t have it up in high winds. Obvious stuff but I’ve seen normal scaffold come down when it’s squashed up against a house and not braced properly.

Don’t underestimate the power of a good plumber and not too much money!

Yeah, I'm pretty risk averse for heights, it's a standard three stories , so about 10m?

That's not unusual. Lots of leaks until materials swell and close the gaps. Then you get another spate around Christmas when the wind really picks up and you get some heavy rain and icy mornings taking out mortar.

https://www.hirestation.co.uk/tool-hire/Access/Scaffold-Tower-Hire/P112NW18/

Something like that, although I’d probably ask the roofer to supply and assemble (assuming they don’t just run up a ladder). It’ll cost you a bit more but takes all risk for you away.

Socket spare for the three bar electric fire.

Draft coming through the gap between the skirting board and vinyl click tile flooring.
Do I stuff some foam strip in the gap and perhaps clear caulk it?
As you're supposed to leave an expansion gap, any problem with adding caulk?

Is the skirting on top of the flooring or is the flooring up to the skirting?

The expansion gap is for lateral movement so if the flooring is laid up to the skirting, you probably need to be careful.

The flooring was on before the skirting boards, so continues under the skirting.

I think the draught is coming through from the cavity wall closer so it’s finding it’s way through whatever gap it can find.

Finally managed to have a few days with some clear time and no rain.

Not finished finished, but functionally finished.

Requires some tidying up and trimming here and there, some sanding, another coat of paint, Danish oil on the uprights.

Still deciding on whether to use dowels to glue and peg the front cross pieces in, or screw with fake dowel caps. The bottom screws holing the top to the step have very long screws for security that will be capped with fake dowels - so I'm not worried about honesty or anything. TBH it's a bit of a design fail as I should have put the crossbracing on the inside so the occupant would be pushing them in tighter rather than out.

Overall it feels like a bit of GCSE DT project, not properly square on one side and some pretty shoddy clearances in places. But I wanted to try out a couple of things like halflap joints, so it is what it is. Definitely gives a renewed appreciation for the skill required to use hand tools well.

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Finished the next stage of my shed build, just got to build one more bay on the back and create a polycarbonate light window where the trailer meets the shed, then can start building stuff inside.

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