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Fence between my and my delightful neighbour is rotten, and as I've been stuck home feeling grotty with Covid, I've started to build a new fence between my block-built store shed & the house wall (3.8 metres).
I already had the uprights and cross-pieces, so I've built the frame ready for the palings.
Thinking of trying to route an overlap lip into the palings, so I can have a "solid" fence with no gaps, but the overlaps able to "float" over each other to allow for expansion/contraction without buckling/distorting???? Will that work OK I wonder.
Also planning to "cap" the fence with palings to protect the timber ends from water ingress & rot.
I already had the uprights and cross-pieces, so I've built the frame ready for the palings.
Thinking of trying to route an overlap lip into the palings, so I can have a "solid" fence with no gaps, but the overlaps able to "float" over each other to allow for expansion/contraction without buckling/distorting???? Will that work OK I wonder.
Also planning to "cap" the fence with palings to protect the timber ends from water ingress & rot.
pedrobedro
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Neither of you will be able to get to the back side of your fence to paint or whatever you finish it with.
Correct. A deeply unpleasant old bat who seems to get a perverse enjoyment out of being as bad & Inconsiderate a neighbour and individual as she can manage.
She's that obnoxious that her of her 2 sons and their families that live nearby - only 1 son (on his own) ever (rarely) visits, and the rest won't have anything to do with her.
You could easily fit a small child with a paintbrush down that gap.
The rotten fence is only just holding together, and won't be there on after mines finished.
I screwed it back together temporarily (to keep next-doors yapping mutt in) to enable me to have time to build my new one.
It's also tanalised timber, and I've slathered it in Creocote during assembly, & am capping it.... so it might see me out (& it's a racing cert it'll see the neighbour out) - then hopefully any new neighbour will be half-decent.
No. Her son built the old fence years ago.... and built it well inside the boundary (where it was easy to fix and put up I think).
It's made it convenient in that I'm able to build the new one snack on the boundary line.
(She's that obnoxious that I'm careful to give her no excuse to b1tch. There's an old concrete fence post from when the houses were built... & rather than remove it I've used it as a mount for the corner as a proof that the fence is smack on the boundary. My paling/cladding will fly over the concrete thing on my side to cover it for aesthetics).
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A mess all over the cave floor. Several plastic boxes of drill bits, taps, dies and various other stuff decided to do a lemming from a high shelf above the lathe. 
Got a lot of sorting out to do now.....
. Good job there's nothing else more urgent on the cards 
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Got a lot of sorting out to do now.....
. Good job there's nothing else more urgent on the cards .
Arc Tourist
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Could be worse, like dropping a box full of various size roll pins among swarf.A mess all over the cave floor. Several plastic boxes of drill bits, taps, dies and various other stuff decided to do a lemming from a high shelf above the lathe.
Got a lot of sorting out to do now.....
slim_boy_fat
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Could be worse, like dropping a box full of various size roll pins among swarf.
Trouble is, I've now got to find fresh containers as the weight of the contents falling at 9.806 65 m s-2 burst them all
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MattF
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Got a lot of sorting out to do now.....
At least you're not going to be bored today.
MattF
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Do you have a B&M nearish? I found their organiser cases when I was looking and they’re quite good. For the price.
Not as good as Lidl but I needed light weight (they live in truck), and accessibilityifwhen I bust them
Quite like their organisers too. I believe @bigegg also has a good few of them.
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My issue is that the Lidl ones are better but as I made a rack system to hold them in the truck I needed something I can get as and when I need and stays the same. Lidl ones only come round twice a year and they’re alway different.
The better organisers - dewalt, Stanley, festool- are too heavy when they’re empty
The better organisers - dewalt, Stanley, festool- are too heavy when they’re empty
Onoff
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Yep, I went to get 3 stainless wood screws in the garage just now and knocked 3 different boxes of screws off a shelf above.
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Been there, done that. On the plus side, during the sorting process I rediscovered a number of useful items that I'd forgotten I had.A mess all over the cave floor. Several plastic boxes of drill bits, taps, dies and various other stuff decided to do a lemming from a high shelf above the lathe.
Got a lot of sorting out to do now.....
