Barking Mat
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2% slope will do it s surely?
nice hills, nice view.
nice hills, nice view.
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South Wales, Maesteg, when the weather is good I love the area, it quite pretty and picturesque, but as we live in a valley surrounded by hills we seem to have our own weather system! It can be drizzling and I can ride 10 miles in any direction for glorious sunshine!
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What on earth were they thinking when they cut those trees?
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Leylandii, a curse of a tree/ hedge!
If left untended and they get too big they basically die inside so any trimming of them after that exposes the brown inner and it looks awful.
They really need to just pull those out once and for all.
When I bought my house my rear garden was bordered on 3 sides with a 30ft overgrown mess of leylandii. I tried trimming back but was met with a mess of dead branches so in the end I just took it down.
Got quoted £2,600 for a tree surgeon to come in and do it
So between my uncle, myself and my da we hired a chipper (great fun) and took them down. Filled 17nr tonne bags with chippings which my uncle took and used as cow bedding and I have a mountain of a log pile for burning.
@Exuptoy garage is coming along well
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Leylandii, a curse of a tree/ hedge!
If left untended and they get too big they basically die inside so any trimming of them after that exposes the brown inner and it looks awful.
They really need to just pull those out once and for all.
When I bought my house my rear garden was bordered on 3 sides with a 30ft overgrown mess of leylandii. I tried trimming back but was met with a mess of dead branches so in the end I just took it down.
Got quoted £2,600 for a tree surgeon to come in and do it
So between my uncle, myself and my da we hired a chipper (great fun) and took them down. Filled 17nr tonne bags with chippings which my uncle took and used as cow bedding and I have a mountain of a log pile for burning.
@Exuptoy garage is coming along well
It's not that they die inside, it's just that they only have foliage on the ends of the branches. Some conifers will re-shoot from old growth, Leylandii isn't one of them. I don't know why they became so popular (well I do, it's because you can form a hedge in no time) and as you say they are often a bit of a curse in a garden.
I probably should have said that they look dead inside lol
When kept in check they can look very well as a hedge and they are almost impenetrable for anyone up to no good, so I can see why they are popular.
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Today’s work doesn’t look much different to last weeks effort, I had to fix a 4x3 along top of the lintel to allow the top fix of the roller shutter as I feared if I stuck another course through this close to fitment that it would disturb the top course. I couldn’t source a 4x3 so I fixed down a pair of 3x2’s screwed together. I also removed my trial timber and joist and fitted 2 off 9x2 wall bearers and fixed my 5 off 75x250 joist hangers ready to accept my joists. I got 2 of them hung but I still need a course of concrete commons under the other end to get the correct fall.
I also fixed a ripped down 8x1 to the end of the old roof and I think I’ll fix another layer of 8x1 on top of this so my upstand is there for my Z-flashing once the roof is fitted.
Some cement tomorrow and hopefully get the remainder of the blocking completed.
I also fixed a ripped down 8x1 to the end of the old roof and I think I’ll fix another layer of 8x1 on top of this so my upstand is there for my Z-flashing once the roof is fitted.
Some cement tomorrow and hopefully get the remainder of the blocking completed.
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@gaz1 , the fall is more than it looks on camera, basically the bottom of the joist on the left is roughly 150mm (6") lower than the right hand side and that will also be with a 70mm concrete common under it! I don't want the water overshooting the gutter once fitted. The fall is roughly the same as my old roof and that has been fine for 15 years. I appreciate the advice though as it makes me think about what I'm doing instead of just throwing it in. There will be maybe 3 or 4 4x2's rafters running perpendicular over the joists before the insulated roof is fitted so that will be my wall plate level.
I've had news that my door isn't ready just yet either. as the powder coaters are backed up, maybe Monday? I bloody well hope so as I go back offshore on Monday evening and I'd prefer if it was buttoned up. The gates can stay til the roof is on anyway. No rush now I'm almost there. Don't see the point of rushing the finish, I've waited 3 years for this since I started digging out the base!!!!
Your wasted off shore mate, the building industry needs guys like you
I appreciate the kind words matey, if it weren't for guys like you lot on here I'd still probably muddle through but it's always good to hear of any techniques or improvements that one can apply when learning a new skill. All advice is taken on board. Cheers all.
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Got my blockwork in the side wall finished, placed a row of concrete commons along the top and sat the timbers on (still need to cut them in at the hoist hangers and trim them to length so I’ll sort that tomorrow), was surprised how much variance there was with the CC’s, many of them were wider than the others which made it fun trying to get a nice straight edge!
I did try the joists without the CC’s but I couldn’t leave them out as the roller door would interfere with the roof as it’s going to be 2.4m tall to the top of the box.
Fall was measured at 5 inches or 125mm which is 1:24 which is still way more than 50mm firrings on level timbers would give me.
Got my 4x2’s coming tomorrow morning so I might get my ends blocked in ready for them.
I did try the joists without the CC’s but I couldn’t leave them out as the roller door would interfere with the roof as it’s going to be 2.4m tall to the top of the box.
Fall was measured at 5 inches or 125mm which is 1:24 which is still way more than 50mm firrings on level timbers would give me.
Got my 4x2’s coming tomorrow morning so I might get my ends blocked in ready for them.
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