Home DIY

We had sandblasters in when we moved in - was literally like our house had been filled with sand. No way would I do that in a house I was living in, you'll be cleaning the whole house.
Mind you if anyone does want a sandblaster, the guys we used were totally brilliant guys and did an amazing clean up job (there was still sand errrrywhere)

18mm T&G moisture resistant chipboard a terrible idea for a bathroom floor if 6m ply and vinyl going on top? I would use 18mm T&G ply but it doesn't actually seem that widely available.

Was about to mention these. Our electrician said he now won't use anything else

Can anyone offer any shed insulation tips? I was thinking I'd use some 50mm PIR boards in between the framework and then 9mm ply over the top but now I'm unsure if that's going to be right (maybe 12mm is better) and if I need a vapour barrier anywhere.

Also electrics. Seems a shame to not 1st fix them and bring them out the walls properly later, if I'm going to insulate. Rather than just whacking a them in conduit on the face of the wall. But maybe I don't fancy having the spark come twice.

Can someone tell me what to do please?

PIR and tape forms its own vapour barrier.

Are you insulating the roof too?

Probably.

There was a lot of belly scratching from the stone mason at the time saying none of it would come out and they should plasterboard. But in the end most if it came clean and the bits that didn't just looked characterful.

I was using it in the general layman's term, rather than the specific method. You're best off speaking to a pro who can properly weigh up all the relevant factors.

But 100% what Tenderloin said about mess.

Yeah was planning to.
I’ve also got a load of left over junckers from my lounge which I was planning to put down on the floor. I guess I could put a little tape under that too.

electrics...conduit

It's a shed. If you want it looking smarter get galvanised conduit.

I guess there's a case for it getting in the way of storage. But also with thin insulation you'd be impacting that.

Have you had a look at those Ali Dymock videos on YT?

P5 chipboard? Should be fine - it’s what it’s for. Seal the ply as well and you’ve got three water-resistant layers there.

They’ll still need to have the chargers PAT tested, so not sure there are many gains there!

Yeah was planning to.

You'll need to include adequate ventilation in that case

Test 2 - 3 chargers Vs off the top of my head:

1. Chop saw
   
2. Table saw
   
3. Multiple skillsaws
   
4. Recip
   
5. Jigsaw
   
6. Small medium and large breaker
   
7. Medium and large sds
   
8. Dust extraction
   
9. Floor saw
   
10. Collated drywall screwgun
    
11. Compressor
    
    

I could go on but that is what I will likely have starting on a large commercial site (not that I do that much these days) and ALL of the tools listed above would be kept current in terms of PAT testing. Plus you lose the headache of maintaining a register of those items (potentially duplicate as you could have 110v and 240v for all those tools). Also if the principle contractors health and safety person is REALLY anal they can ask you to prove that the serial #s of all the tools on your register match those you are bringing on site - good luck arguing you should get paid for this.

So yeah having 3max chargers to get PAT tested every 6 months is a piece of piss.

Galvanised conduit will be an expensive install. Nothing wrong with PVC. That’s what I put into the in-laws cabin. It’s single skin walls so no cavity to hide cables in. Looks neat if you put it in properly.

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Ta. We agreed to shift it's line so it'd be away from mortar but it's like there's a few inches thick up at that height, although one spot gave brick first but no others on that line. The wall will look like a sieve soon.

V.frustrating as I always mark the batten first then drill holes in that, to then line up & mark the wall holes. I'd bought a single 2.5m length to do this now will need to get more and no certainty that new hole positions I choose will be brick.

How'd tradespeople do it when fitting cupboards that all need to be at same alignment? Bodging the fitting with extra plugs or dowels surely won't be well received when someone's Royal Doulton Tea Set becomes their next Jigsaw Puzzle.

I guess I'm overthinking it, and another day passes without any significant progress which doesn't put me in anyone's good books here.

You’ll have to cut the insulation so there’s an air gap around the cables, or have to pay out extra for thicker cable (insulation surrounding cable decreases the current it is rated for).

Waist of a good back ruining it by needlessly lugging a 110v step down tranny about to drill a few holes to put up shelves.

It's not even a legal requirement; on all sites you CAN use a tested RCD with a 240v supply. Most big sites will switch off the 240v supply until handover though as it's too much of a headache to check that the usual crowd of muck savages aren't getting "creative" to bypass an RCD that keeps tripping.

Does it run in on rails? I've drilled a hole through one of the rails, (right up by the door) and put a padlock through it when we go away.
For a more temp solution, I've used a G clamp on each rail which is pretty secure I reckon.

In other news, my neighbour returned my track saw.

But not the track.

Which they have, apparently, sawn through.

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The ten minute walk is from a couple of nightmare jobs I was on airside at Heathrow. That was a fucking nightmare as I had to go through airport security with my tools every time I went to work. One time I was taking a powder actuated nail gun through security and was selected for a random swab screen. Many bells and whistles went off and I spent a large portion of my shift sat in a small windowless room praying I wasn't going to be asked to bend over and grab my ankles.......

Fucking hell. I shouldn’t, but lol.

Also, this is precisely the reason everyone I know owns a track saw - because no one likes to lend them to anyone as the tracks always get shagged when you lend them to people.

The old catch 22 that you don’t want to lend tools to people that don’t own tools, but people that have tools, don’t tend to need to borrow stuff!

You can run all that off 3 chargers worth of batteries?! I guess you're not using all of them at once so can rotate.
I get the utility of battery stuff but if you're PAT testing 1 thing you might as well do 20. Then again we do in-house PAT testing so it's not big deal or cost to maintain the list and add new stuff. Plus the focus is on process rather than occupational safety so 'good working order' is specified on RAMS/etc rather than PAT testing, especially as it's no longer a a legal requirement.

Yeah thats why I dont loan out stuff now.

You can run all that off 3 chargers worth of batteries

Obviously some of those tools can't be run off a battery. Large breaker and large sds being the obvious ones you can get a battery operated compressor but the tank is tiny and much beyond 3/4 charge on the battery the compressor itself can't keep up with really heavy continuous use.

But yeah if you're talking some of the big modern batteries (DeWalt flexvolt is the only one I've had any personal experience with). You can - your battery outlay is huge.