Home DIY

Bedec Barn paint, talk to me. I heard good things about it and renounced my Sadolin Superdec habit to use it to paint our building's picket fence. Bit by bit, because I am having to remove the pickets because they weren't fully painted before first assembly and the wood between pickets and rails is starting to rot and needs treatment.

It says I don't need a primer, but 20 pickets and two coats in, it looks like it does. Superdec certainly doesn't. I am regretting my urge to explore rather than exploit.

You could do the halfway house and look at Oakwood garden Rooms on YouTube/the gram who bed 25mm threaded rod in short concrete piers. I've heard groundscrews take a fair amount of getting into the ground, and theey aren't cheap. Not got round to actually doing anything myself yet. I need to renovate the house and build some garage doors.

Piers were the other option, but I don't trust myself to get them level

2nd year tech class.

If you bed some 25mm threaded rod then you use the nuts to get level. It seems pretty easy. Search Oakwood garden rooms on YouTube some of his videos are really comprehensive.

I need an EICR, ball park wise how much for a standard two bed house these days?

Electrical Installation Condition Report..

I've not used this exact one but have used similar.

Works well if the post-holes are dug with a ground auger.

If you make the posts too long you can then build your floor on top and cut off the excess before putting boards down.

I used cardboard tube concrete forms, with high strength concrete and 10mm rebar reinforcement.

Levelling was done with plastic support pads, each of which can take >500kg

Given the amount of pre-existing rubble that I uncovered, groundscrews could well have taken just as much digging.

You pay for what you get. Anything from £70 all in to £150 + £20 per circuit.

What is your intention for it?

Maybe the above is all bollocks

Largely yes. You don't threaten me at all. I am literally laughing at you.

If you don't like my opinion, other opinions are available.

You don't like me, no problem, I'm not a contestant in a popularity contest.

You've talked the talk, now walk the walk.

'knives out', pathetic.

Has this been resolved yet?

Well, that’s one way of looking at it. I thought I was doing you a favour looking for an explanation for your over-reaction.

If there’s nothing driving it then we end up at “Airhead was a massive prick about the doors because he’s a massive prick”, which is circular and ultimately unsatisfying.

Doesn’t really move anything on, is my point.

Anyway, if it’s not something you want to consider it’s not as if anyone else can help you with it.

So! I’ll make the doors, you carry your burning sense of inadequacy, the circus continues.

What about now?

Just had a look at the spec for the Bedec Barn paint. Looks like it's designed to cover anything including creosote. Suggests that it's useful for large weathered buildings where you don't want to deal with individual patches of pre existing coatings and the overall finish is more functional than decorative.

I don't really trust a paint that says self priming. Primer or undercoat or both is almost always going to be better at gripping the wood or old coating and providing a stable grippy opaque background for the top coat.

Except I have no burning inadequacy, you're just telling yourself that because you have an ego writing cheques you will struggle to cash.

If it helps you, I'm thinning a bit on the top.

Always wished I was a couple of cm taller.

You've wished a lot of things out loud in this forum for many years. Very few that actually materialise in their initial form. You are always going to buy something that ends up being too difficult or expensive to achieve before you settle for something similar but not quite the same but all the same achievable. I think there's a good chance 2022 will see you do the same with these doors.

It's actually pretty mad that you think I don't know much about you considering how much of your life and decisions you've shared on here.

You've wished a lot of things out loud in this forum for many years. Very few that actually materialise in their initial form. You are always going to buy something that ends up being too difficult or expensive to achieve before you settle for something similar but not quite the same but all the same achievable. I think there's a good chance 2022 will see you do the same with these doors.

That's the spirit! You'll be able to look in the mirror again any day now if you can keep up this focus.

The prospect of digging 30+ holes for forms doesn't give me a warm glow, despite how warm it would make me in the process.

I may buy a few screws and see how they go into the ground in what I assume will be the worst spots. And if that goes swimmingly, get the rest.

Either way, I still have a bit more clearing and leveling to do. I have grown weary of the constant weed and bramble pulling so have ordered a weed sprayer for A short term thermonuclear approach. Probably undoing the ecological benefits of screws over concrete.

Entertaining as this all is, I'm thoroughly confused about why @Dammit is making garage doors at his current gaff when he's moving to Scotland in order to become a citizen of the EU again :)

You are joking. I am laughing.

at you.

Because like all his plans, that's all they are. In this case there aren't even any real plans despite weeks having passed.