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What Keeps Me Out of the Workshop
awemawson:
Thanks Zadig & Norman - I must admit to thinking occasionally about Lord Emsworth while I'm tickling the sows ear at feeding time :lol:
So another week end and a bit more progress - Brian could only put in 3 hours on Saturday but made up for it on Sunday working a straigt 10 hours.
The wall plates are now ready for the trusses, but all the pillars need filling with concrete before that happens, and two of them are not up to height yet
awemawson:
My eldest son came to visit today, so I took the opportunity to get him to help fitting the trusses. I'd thought that they'd obstruct the pillar tops thus preventing me filling them with concrete, but in practice they don't. Construction is rather unconventional, in that I've laid a 'ceiling' of 20 mm shuttering ply from wall plate to wall plate, then set the trusses on top of the ply, as fixing a ceiling after the trusses are in would be very difficult in such a cramped place.
It was while measuring up to cut the ply we realised that Brian the Brickie had set the lintel in the wrong place - it was 4 1/2" too far forwards. So I chopped it out, and there is still access to re-set it even with ceiling and trusses in place. He's back this evening to finish the pillars, so he can re-set it then.
RotarySMP:
Those photos have been photoshopped. I have been to england a few times, and there has never been weather like that.
Nice job on the pig sty. You do realise that this will be put under historic place trust protection in about 12 years, and turned into a trendie pub sometime in the 2070s
Mark
vtsteam:
They really look nice Andrew. An asset to the property. :thumbup: :clap: :clap:
awemawson:
--- Quote from: RotarySMP on April 21, 2015, 09:56:59 AM ---Those photos have been photoshopped. I have been to england a few times, and there has never been weather like that.
Nice job on the pig sty. You do realise that this will be put under historic place trust protection in about 12 years, and turned into a trendie pub sometime in the 2070s
Mark
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Thanks Mark - no photoshopping here :lol:
We've been having an unseasonably dry few weeks - good in that the building work can proceed unhindered, but bad in that we are getting desperately short of grass for the sheep. Now it's warmed up a bit it should be growing rampantly, but as it's so dry it isn't :(
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