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Started planning the layout. Starting with an central island workbench. I don’t find it as easy working on a workbench placed against a wall. I positioned the larger tools, bandsaw, pillar drill and lathe. Then taped the floor to see where the side benches would go. I think I have a very...

Thanks Westwood. Dropped off for courier, will PM tracking.

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You shouldn’t need a straight edge to measure the eaves slates. Your first one will be on the extreme left or right. Put a tile on the opposite end in the correct position. Run a string line half inch up from the finished edge (on the edge line if you wish, but I found half inch up easier) and...

Get your slates close enough along the sides to start loading the roof when you get the scaffold. keep them well back, 5-6 feet as they'll be in your way as you work up the roof. Ask me how I know!!

sent mail direct as well. Phil

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Have a pair of Ghecko clamp gauges for Hardie Plank or similar cement board sidings. Have been used for one job to install 100 lengths of Hardie plank on my new workshop. Totally invaluable, I would have broken several lengths without them. Super condition, work perfect, there’s really...

Finally, the last of the cladding is on, the exterior is now finished, barring the main door. I managed to clear all the dross accumulated from the build and do a tip run, the garden looks less like a building site now, Mrs S is happier. (Secretly I think she can see her summer house getting...

I know where your coming from, a whole day of useful bits that had to be done for the next large jobs. and it looks as though you’d had another day off. Looks the business.

Looks to be laid out perfect. The line looks flat between three battens and the fascia. Slates look a few mm low, but I guess you’re lining the fascia up here, not tile finish line. Definitely need scaffold tower. I hired a 2.4 metre one for a fortnight, cost £120 though. Couldn’t have got the...

And added to mine at the same time :D :D He’d only been there a year before I descended upon him. Never mentioned moving in the conversations we had before this. £8000 in stamp duty he won’t get back. Probably a coincidence. On to the last bit of cladding at the back today, first dry day...

Not saying it was either wholly or partly to do with the build, but the neighbour who has alsways been unhappy with the project, and raised ‘concerns’ to planning has now put his house on the market :shock: :shock: :shock: Never in 45 years of moving have I driven away a neighbour in six months.

Planning enforcement came and measured my shed last month :o :( ‘concern’ raised by neighbour.

:) :) Lucky there’s no windows, Mrs S would be making curtains. :shock: May happen yet when I make the door in the next couple of weeks, that will be a four pane split stable door. Air line now in around the dirty room, poking out into the workshop, will run the air circuit this week...

A good fun day. All the hard, dirty, heavy work is well behind me, everything now is so much smaller, lighter, cleaner and more satisfying to complete. The sink unit base is in, and framed to fit the compressor. A pair of Louvre doors on here will keep it tidy. Then the worktop cut and...

Excellent so far, going to enjoy this one as well. Is it not worth getting planning permission to enable you to have extra height if you want it?

That’s where I’d be going as well, small patch of self stick flashing on the inside, maybe a small patch outside as well, then fix with four screws as old system. If you want some flashing to do it, I have lots I can send you more than enough to patch those holes. You’d never see it either.

Forgot the electrics, they were £680 to add on inc test, connection and certify.

Superb find. I originally bought one, but when I went to collect said ‘shame you haven’t got any more’. Big mistake, there were four more in the Luton van, a clear out from an office block. I went back twice more and now have three, two here and one for the garage to store nasty gardening sharp...