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I was looking over the plywood i have for my desk build earlier.

have the 18mm sheet i got this week and... wait a minute... two sheets of 12mm.

go and check my order and i fucking ordered the wrong thickness when i first got in most of my office materials.

annoyingly it was because they fucked up my delivery so i cancelled and reordered so i could pick some of the items up separately while i was in the store finding out why they didn't deliver my stuff. must have put the wrong size in my basket.

didn't notice as i had a ton of stuff arrive at the same time so i assumed it was right.

i can reuse it for some of the other stuff i have planned but now i have to find the money for more 18mm for the desk and i'm fucking skint.

yeah like a normal bbq you need to let the charcoal turn to embers.

for a low and slow i fill the basket as much as possible that it's not going to interfere with the deflector but has plenty of fuel i then put 3x woodies fire lighters tucked into a grapefruit sized area in the middle, light them and leave it with the vent open and the lid up to light and then settle down to glowing embers in the centre, you don't want a raging inferno at this point just a decent burn in the middle. I also scatter my wood smoking chips among the charcoal when filling but soak them in water for a bit before i start to delay them catching too quickly. requires some trial and error to get it right.

once the charcoal is ready i set the lid down and sort the vents, then the billows takes over to get it to the target temp. obviously with the lid opening and closing it jumps around a little at the start but so long as you don't overshoot it with a massive charcoal fire at the start you should have less problems for the rest of the cook.

finally the last thing to watch is the colour of the smoke, when it goes from opaque white to a thin blue/clearish colour is when it's ready to get the food on.

edit: @inchpincher

mine on a pork shoulder cook is usually done with the leaf shaped holes closed up and the entire top disc hinged slightly to about 1-2cm max in a very thin crescent shape hole. it needs to be nicely settled after lighting before you close it right up like that though. but the billows does the temp stabilisation not the top vent.

productive day doing all the final tweaks with skirting/trim. just some caulking to do once grab adhesive is fully cured and decorating is done. any stuff that's not covered up yet will be hidden by cable trunking or stuff i have planned for lighting.

just 2 of the 90x90cm ooni tables side by side. have a joining kit to tie them together but not done it as i need to move them when our gazeebo is setup.

skirting board arrived right at the end of the day so feel like i've wasted today but i did get some stair edge nosing trim for the step into the office installed and it's looking reet sexy and finished now and safe to step on. will clean the kickboard properly when tidying up the doorframe after construction stuff is all done.

find a powerbank that does 12v on the usb output (they're out there) and it'll run forever.

after many coats of paint to get the desired consistency all the painting is done in my home office build.

and I got as far as the final piece installing the laminate this afternoon when the heavens opened up and had to pack up for the day so have an infuriatingly close to finished floor to finish off tomorrow if the weather clears.

Though i'm proud of myself for unlocking the new skill of being able to rip stuff down with my circular saw, guide rail and a sheet of leftover insulation to cut the final row to size having never done it before.

at some point i may even work up enough courage and actually fire up my jobsite table saw (though i feel like i'd rather get a proper outfeed table setup sorted in my finished workshop before using it for anything big).

I think it's really come a long way since i started. getting the skirting and the little bits of trim in place over the weekend is gonna make it look nice and polished as a room hopefully. then i can start thinking about building the desk, which is less daunting now i can rip stuff with my circ. saw as plywood is all i can budget for at the moment.

I have a new MHW-3bomber R3 hand grinder I don't really need. has been unboxed but not used.

https://mhw3bomber.com/collections/manual-grinder-1/products/mhw-3bomber-blade-r3-manual-coffee-grinder-1

cheapest price i saw was £68 on aliexpress (£82ish on their own site with code, £109 on amazon) so £50 shipped?

bit of a newer/emerging brand but there's a fair bit of discussion about the grinder on various forums if you google it.

it's very nicely engineered.

yeah am loving it. strawberry milkshake as a tasting note is a must-buy for me. had some absolute bangers over the years from that.

i hadn't but did it earlier and a quick test seemed better.

it's fun but playing on the gog version mine crashes constantly.

was just playing a cheeky game minutes ago as can't sleep and it lasted about 4 minutes before it quit to desktop yet again so now i'm not playing it anymore.

Just look at the fucking sass on this one... giving smug croissant guy a run for his money.

you're right i then need to run conduit and fit the lights and sockets when i can afford it so we can just get an electrician in create the ring mains and wire stuff up.

then there's a much bigger project to get my workshop on the other side of the new partition wall sorted. standard of finish is obviously going to be way lower in there though.

thankfully all that's left is painting, laying laminate, sorting out the edge trim around the window and door frames and building a quick and dirty floating desk from cls studs and cheap plywood (no budget for anything better at the moment but also easiest thing to replace later on).

Walls are looking pretty mint though after first base coat

i'm currently suffering from a really sore throat and swollen lymph nodes down one side of my neck because of all the plaster dust hanging around even though i wore a mask while sanding the last couple of days. having a beard doesn't help i think.

The stuff on the floor? Nah its the old underlay. I sliced it to bits cutting the insulation to size but will keep it until the painting is done. Got some new underlay and laminate ready to go down when the walls are done.

Busy few days. got the ceiling insulated and sealed and then got all the plasterboard up barring a couple of trim pieces i just did not have the energy to finish off today.

got a couple of days of filling and sanding ahead of me then i can start priming stuff.

feeling really proud of the progress i'm making so far.

if anyone knows of a good source for affordable (cheap) lengths of trim there are areas around the window and entry door that will need some kind of trim to finish the edges off as they're all a bit mad looking because the bloke who built the summerhouse never met a corner he wouldn't cut apparently.

finished my wall. noggins aplenty. took fucking ages but plan is for electric rad on lower half on this side and a tool wall on the other so would rather it was solid as fuck.

also took delivery of plasterboard, more timber, some plywood, underlay, laminate flooring, acoustic insulation and a cheap door that is fine to fuck up trying to get it to fit in the stupidly low frame.

next up is plasterboarding the inside of the wall to help contain mess from getting in among all the mountains of shite in the bit behind. then have a crack at insulating the ceiling voids and giving it a good old college try to plasterboard the ceiling by myself using screwed in supports on the walls and a couple of plasterboard jacks. i have spare boards for when i inevitably drop one.

made a rough sketch in fusion to help me figure out probable layout so i have a pretty solid plan to work to now.

you can swap out the face plate in a couple of minutes for a more curvy one. only way to reduce depth is probably a low profile back box and not sure theres enough clearance in those.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/DAVOX-Openreach-master-socket-Faceplate/dp/B09ZZQJJLV

that looks lovely.

the wanktorium is still there. I'm getting all my diy materials delivered today to build its final form out in the summerhouse finally though.

if i lived in the place that spawned hippy i'd bar my windows too.

uncle was visiting today so he gave me a hand making a start on the partitioning for my garden office. annoyingly the cityshittylink driver who picked up my wickes order of all the timber and door from a store less than a mile from my house apparently was incapable of delivering it that far and lied about attempting it before returning it back yesterday so i had to walk to wickes myself to sort it and then carry enough timber and a door lining kit back on foot balanced on my shoulder just so we could get as far as we did. (4 weeks of stronglifts paying off already).

got two more studs to put in and then add noggins as appropriate when more wood arrives. then i get to try and hang my first door ever.

also got the old ceiling with all the records welded to the plastic cladding down and glad i did it as there was fuck all insulation up there so will do it properly and not freeze to death in the winter now.

got a few decisions to make on how i want to finish the walls, ceiling and floor now. then i need to sort out where power and lights will go, prep them and get to work building the room out.

I only watch england in the euros and world cup so curious to know when did football as a sport chose to collectively replace all adjectives with the word 'quality'?