Pub Sign

[Anguz]

Not sure paint will stuck to creosote?

 

[Onoff]

Not sure paint will stuck to creosote?

Gold oil paint in the recessed letters did.

Inside the trough I just creosoted it and stapled on DPC. Didn't attempt to paint the inside with black bitumen in the end.

Geraniums and labelia going in once the frosts have finished apparently.

 

[DAPPH]

Where do I get solid brass / copper tacks or panel pins...tomorrow and local?

Ask a roofer where he gets his roofing nails from ..... copper headed pins approx. 19 mm flat head with a 2.5 mm pin 20 mm long .

Sadly I no longer have any to send to you .

 

[Onoff]

The planter sits on two piers the old boy must have built. A stack of random flints mortared together. Then a cube of bricks on top that. The lhs brick stack needs attention sometime.

 

[Onoff]

Well the planter has gotten lots of nice comments. Today's little job was a ceiling that had bowed and come through during recent heavy rain. Due to a blocked roof gulley (which I unblocked).

Rigged up a tarp screen, laid another small tarp on that then got busy with the crow bar.

https://flic.kr/p/2pDHHay

https://flic.kr/p/2pDFqDn

https://flic.kr/p/2pDGur7

No noggins!

https://flic.kr/p/2pDHHp1

https://flic.kr/p/2pDFqVe

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Video, you can see where I added noggins:

https://flic.kr/p/2pDJTa5

 

[addjunkie]

You'll be doing those windows next?

I know, they're crying out for some attention. I wonder if they're too far gone?

According to our listed building people at the council all windows are repairable, and you have to use their approved people, one of which I spoke too when looking at a listed project house! He said sometimes we turn up in our big van with machinery / workshop inside ( furniture type van), remove them to repair and end up just making a new one! All for 5 times the price of a upvc one!

 

[Onoff]

The place isn't listed. Listing, yes.

 

[Onoff]

Using the router jig tonight that my lad designed & printed to insert the square galvanised washers in the fence slats. Do the narrow boards first, cut a stop off and do the wide boards:

https://flic.kr/p/2pEuhsw

https://flic.kr/p/2pEo7gV

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Next the letters and to tongue and groove it.

It's RUSTIC!

 

[Onoff]

I need to tongue & groove these fence slats. When I did my gate I used 6mm marine ply, glued into the scaffold board edges with D4 glue. Came out great. Allows the boards to expand / contract with no gaps the scrotes can peer through:

https://flic.kr/p/nkYRvr

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For the pub fence then cheap / free is the key. If I just slice strips off of another scaffold board does it matter if I do A or B? Thinking A might be weaker grain wise. @DAPPH ?

 

[Seadog]

"B" for me,

 

[Onoff]

"B" for me,

Why? I'm struggling to figure it out.

 

[Seadog]

Because with the grain as at "A" it has very low shear strength.

 

[OJCar]

Why not Lap joint the lengths ?

Allows the wood to move a bit without "scrote gaps" but a loss less work and waste.

 

[Pete.]

To say it was wet was an understatement but it's in!

Before:

https://flic.kr/p/2pCCHf3

After:

https://flic.kr/p/2pCwFmo

https://flic.kr/p/2pCDk6s

Fixed that sign for you mate:

 

[Onoff]

Fixed that sign for you mate:

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Tbh the pub garden is a renowned sun trap. I reckon though it'll be raining by the time I get there this afternoon. First grass cut of the season just now and I need hydrating

 

[DAPPH]

Because with the grain as at "A" it has very low shear strength.

It depends which way the log has been cut , do a trial and see which splits down the length easiest then go for the hardest to split . Usually a harder wood such as beech or oak strips are used for the tongues in such circumstances .

I'd go for T&G with only the separately made tongues glue in one board , as you can saw bench cut the groves in the edges, Remove the riving knife off the bench ,set the blade height and the saw fence to just over half thickness of the boards
Cut the first tongue groove in rotate , the board 180 degrees and put the other cut alongside to make quick & easy channels for the tongues . If you have a lot to do make a safety hand held " shoe " to allow you to push the boards down & over the blade in complete safety. It's a lot quicker , safer & easier on your back than routing out as you are not hunched over for any length of time whilst putting the groves in . Wider grooves can be had by putting two blades side by side

Only glue in one side edge of a boards strip so that as th the wood expands or contracts there is a little bit of free movement to adjust to the change in the woods dimensions as it absorbs or loses moisture ..
IIRC Soft wood expands 2 to 5 % along the grain and 3 to 7 across the grain / Old carefully taken apart unpainted pine wood pallets properly de nailed , dried & checked then belt sanded or run through a planer thicknesser is a very cheap way of getting loads of fence slats . Hit the pallets to be dismantled with a pressure washer for a few seconds to get water penetration deep in the support blocks to get the wood less gripping on the nails Then use a proper pallet buster tool ( Magnussen ? ) to take them apart . I borrowed one to dismantle ten Euro pallets I was given ,

 

[DAPPH]

Why not Lap joint the lengths ?

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Allows the wood to move a bit without "scrote gaps" but a loss less work and waste.

You'd have to be careful in wood choice to make wide boards without expansion gaps as soft wood expands or contracts across its width considerably , thin soft wood will bend /bow across the width often tearing out at the fixing holes in very wet or prolonged dry weather .

Seen to recall that larch is a good wood for vertical fencing as it has long drainage fibres

 

[Onoff]

You'd have to be careful in wood choice to make wide boards without expansion gaps as soft wood expands or contracts across its width considerably , thin soft wood will bend /bow across the width often tearing out at the fixing holes in very wet or prolonged dry weather .

Seen to recall that larch is a good wood for vertical fencing as it has long drainage fibres

Probably why the marine ply has worked do well, it's not softwood per say.

The main boards will be affixed with M10 bolts and 40x40 washers.

 

[Onoff]

Anything I do can only look better:

https://flic.kr/p/2pFd7Mt

https://flic.kr/p/2pFeB5d

 

[slim_boy_fat]

^^ Isn't that The Regulars' shortcut, to save them a longer route in/out the front/along the road and back the way to get home?

Block that off and you'll not be popular.....