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Great job!

looks great, nice on

ProDec Advance

Ordered, ta. Just being able to get it off the roll will be a good improvement.

Looks great, nice work.

it looks gresg now

Well, I don't know why you want your chairs to look gresg, but that may just be me.

What did you treat them with? Mind are getting shabby.

After a bit of measurement and discussion we're not going to go the whole length which makes everything simpler.

This removes a lot of the headaches. Now I'm more worried about keeping it within nice looking proportions.

Also I've finally found the key word for the insert thingybob - it's an over stairs bulkhead.

Ply, with birch being mega bucks, will Okaume be okay for some cupboards? anyone used it?

Looks like what's known as "far eastern" - general hardwood ply, will be fine for cupboards. Might get lucky with nice veneer faces.

You painting or clear oil? There may be some voids in the cut edge that would need filling before paint, probably wouldn't notice them if just oiling.

Thanks!

Planned to just oil, finish depending.

We used it to make basic shelves in the living room. Stained it with some dark tinted Osmo oil that was lying around, looks good.

Does anyone know anything about Ecolite Duct Access Chambers?

Would they be strong enough for a planter?

I'm still looking for planter ideas for my bay and saw a mumsnet suggestion for using concrete ones. Turns out there are plastic ones in a fuckton of size configurations. I'm guessing the design is to resist downwards pressure with the assumption of a hard core type surround. The blurb says;

Tests to BSEN124 B125 and D400 loadings for both footway and carriage use

I'd how much the bay tree weighs, but it's fucking heavy without soil - not the sort of thing I can deadlift myself (not that I'm very strong anymore).

What are peoples thoughts?

My most realistic alt designs are wood frame with either vertical decking boards or painted corrugated iron. But Idk if they'll look shit.

My experience of access pits is they deform quite easily if installed incorrectly, usually surrounded by a concrete pour.

I'd be hesitant to use one as a planter. Not sure on their UV resistance either.

They look pretty beefy. How would you seal the bottom? I would imagine you would need to find a good way to connect the different sections so they don't separate if roots are trying to push through.

Not sure about the plastic ones but I made a table base from a concrete number. Fucking heavy, like 50kg+

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Some good points.

• filling the hole - the ground is sloped so I'd still have to make a base of some form so these would be the sides.
  
• joining - I was thinking of bolting box section steel, would also reinforce
  
• weight - that's why I immediately dismissed concrete ones
  

As in you have experience of this style?

These would be above ground with no external support.

My other thought is if I could make a smaller internal ply box, then add rear and fill with concrete/similar.

However, that doesn't deal with the UV issue, or possibly that I'm reinforcing the wrong side their design intends.

I should probably just make one out of decking boards then leave whoever buys our house to deal with the collapsing structure.

I used to work with contractors installing these for highways equipment.

They were renowned for collapsing and causing problems. Yes it was usually an installation cock up but they weren't very robust.

Cheers that answers a lot of my questions

Anyone got a quick recommend for a self levelling laser ? For hanging pictures / shelves / mirrors etc - cheapest that’s decent ?

Typical weight of concrete around an access chamber is probably a lot more than the weight of soil likely to be on the inside, in a planter application.

UV resistance would be my concern, I agree on that. :)

I’m afraid they aren’t going to float. They are designed to not collapse inwards, not to take internal forces pushing outward.

We got a letter from Anglia Water about our leak. It asked if we had fixed it as our water usage was back to normal. I rang them to confirm I’d fixed it and they said they would refund our payments for the wasted water. Cool cool…it could take 7 working days…
This morning I checked our account and they have refunded over £350! It was only leaking for 14 days or so. Fuck me that could have been a huge fuck off bill and who knows how much damage if we hadn’t had a smart water meter.
In other news I’m still digging the trench :(