Home DIY

I wonder if a multi tool with an abrasive blade would do the job?

Exactly.
Why build safe cycling lanes, no one cycles anyway?
Maybe @tbc just wants some cute friends that eat his slugs?

Ah fuck off you lot. You know exactly what I mean.

Are there hedgehogs around and could they or were they, previously accessing through the burried chain link fence you've replaced?

Vs

an access route?

Are there hedgehogs around

Increasingly not. They need to roam fairly widely to find enough food and a mate. The only decent sized populations in London are apparently places like Hampstead Heath and The Regent's Park.

buried chain link fence

Does sound like an impenetrable barrier too but if it was old it might have had gaps somewhere.

I don't buy the food thing. My garden is full of slugs and snails. They must have got a lot picker.

Sadly I haven't seen one in our garden for ages. There was a year when you'd sometimes see one under our sandpit and water station, so we put food out for it.

These people think they need 10-20 hectares and the boys go wondering 3km in a single night when love is in the air

https://www.hedgehogstreet.org/about-hedgehogs/where-do-they-live/

Getting close to painting front of house again, top tips for neatening previous bad job? Talking paint over mortar, drips and splashes in places.

@tbc might it be easier just to dig a channel under the gravel board for them to crawl under?

Depending upon the quality of the abrasive blade, it could quite easily take off any rough edges. My concern, without some pre-drilled holes to limit crack propagation, the thin section inset concrete would crack randomly and easily beyond the target diameter.

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Did this over the nice weather bank holiday.

For my first go at woodworking I'm pretty happy with it.

Thanks to those that helped (general tips, recommendation of kreg accu cut, new blades, and joining help)

The sides, bottom and back are glued together and dowel covered screws. The top is just 4 dowels at the minute so it can be popped on and off to make it easier to attach to the wall.

Debating whether to give it a really solid sand and then an oil or just leave it. I was going to just leave it but the dowels don't match as well as hoped (should really have done a practice job).
I got a bit of scorching from the groove, not too sure why, probably pushing with the accu cut too much.

Going to keep an eye out for a cheap router to do the edges too.

Weighs 4.6kg so by the time a bike is on it will be pretty heavy so will need to find something sturdy to attach it to. None of the planned walls are painted yet though so will come to that much later

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Hey nice work

I think you might be right - I've already made a gap under one and might put a bit of pipe so it doesn't get buried when I put the bark chippings on the hedge.

Buried chain link fence was pretty impenetrable.

Luckily I'm not in London, so lots of green space for hedgehogs. Can't wait to get the little blighters into the garden.

This looks excellent for a first job.

Anyone made a French cleat storage system? How perfect does the interface(?) need to be?

I want a temporary outdoor surface to put seed propagators. Currently I use an ugly dismountable rack. I could spray it to make it less ugly, but I was wondering other solutions.

It occurred to me that some neat stained batons attached to the wall, might be discrete and not ugly. I could then store small shelves and get them out as necessary.

The shelves would only need to be <20cm deep. But being exposed to the elements means the wall cleat could get weathered and worn.

Have done in the past, perfect not needed.

Previously I split a 75mm board with a table saw on the preferred bias and that gave me matching angles, I went 50-60° by eyeball so quite a steep angle

Cheers.

Put some shelves up.

One of those absolute spiralling jobs. Originally they were meant to be in the kitchen, a smaller version to mirror existing ones in the dining room. Then they needed to be smaller. Then they looked shit in situ. Then we decided on the stairs. Which required borrowing a ladder.

Icing on the cake were getting the screws in with absolutely no room for a screwdriver. Luckily I had my tiny bhaco ratchet. However, it still takes a long time to screw a 40mm screw in with ¼ of a turn at a time. Also slotted screws are such a cunt. But they look nicer so 🤷

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If putting the shelves up required a ladder, how do you water the plant?

Just pull the fire alarm.

You can reach up there. You just can't hold a drill safely, heavy shelves level, read a spirit level, screw in certain screws, etc.

Although it wood have been hilarious if you couldn't 🤣

But they look nicer so

Pozi head screws and black screw covers next time

Good point. I've used them in the past, but always forget.

They are quite chunky though, and ultimately the larger twin ones downstairs are japaned slot heads.

Or Torx head

One of those outdoor jobs, cleaning and prep before painting was meh, two coats added, five hours working from a ladder.. one more coat required.

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