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Day 33 and Day 34 This weekend I had some tasks I wanted to complete to be able to call them finished so here is what I done Day 33 all the electric cables were run last weekend so this weekend I wanted to connect everything up and run the new wire into the house that will be used to power it...

Its the Ikea step stool premium BM101. A quality piece of kit for £4 going to have to spray some green stripes on it so people know the value of it.

Hi Graham, Yeah I have one coat of stain on it to give us a little bit of protection (better than nothing) Hoping the weekend is nice and can get the remainder on the outside and the inside. Cheers Mark

Day 31 and 32 Day 31 So today I was focused on getting the door finished. First job was to get the letter box installed, After some careful measuring out I went about cutting it. After cutting it I realised my jig saw bed was on a slight tilt so had to have a few more minutes to flatten out the...

lovely box and like the secret draw

Hi Robin, Yeah we went with out for the porch to enable a bit more space on the inside. I have a rebate on the 2 sides and the top. there is an optional extra the could be put on the bottom (as the frame is interchangeable in or out open) but I have left the bottom one of as it is more of a...

Hey Both, The door is an open out. The door sill is flat with and angle section facing out (standard sill arrangement I believe), I believe the drip edge would make the water fall on the angled section and allow the water to escape. I have a rubber weather strip up the sides and top of the...

Hi all, So I fitted my door on the porch as you may know if you are reading my WIP. However, we had a bit of a down poor last night and when I open the door the draft excluder brushes off the water that seemed to be sitting under the door and on the sill I felt under the door and it was very...

a lovely chair and set of steps at the end of that. Really nice work and a good WIP as well. Cheers Mark

Day 29 and 30 Day 29 So had a little time today and I wanted to get the ridge tiles on and mortared in place. So today's objective was to get that sorted I used a dry verged system to hook it all into place but the ridge tiles I used where not really the correct size for the dry ridge system as...

Think I am gonna go for the dry verge system to finish it off. Yeah she knows I took them. She actually reminded me where more were haha

Day 27 and 28 Well this weekend my task was the get the roof finished off and it almost happened. Day 27 I got up early this morning and went do the road to buy the ridge tiles and the battens that I needed. So with them bought I could get on with the rest of the roof. The first thing I done...

Day 25 and 26 So although I am saying it is 2 days work I really only got a couple of hours work done on the 25th day as the weather was total crap. Anyhow, on with the post. Day 25 Today I set out the battens for the first course of tiles. After getting the eaves setup and trying to put on...

Ah yeah that dam thing makes sense doh. Glad I only done one side bottom layer of tile now. Will take off and pull that over Yeah I have the breather membrane woody Cheers Mark

Thanks guys I done what billy said in the end and worked a treat. Much thanks bill

Cheers billy, ok i will take the eave tiles off that i got down already and have a try and see what happens. cheers Mark

So the two battens on the bottom of the eves tile so that tile rest on them at the bottom and hooks over the one at the top and is nailed to it as normal Cheers Mark

bit more info, so I tried turning the second batten up so it is the 38mm high and it makes the tile cover the eaves but then changing the battens back to the 19mm high the third row of tiles does not sit as it raises the front of the tile up (so basically what is happening now with the eaves...

Hi Woody, they are clay tiles acme written on them (made by Marley i believe). similar to this I have a fascia board fitted so are you saying to raise the fascia board so it lifts the eaves tiles up to meet the first layer of full tiles as one option? or another way is the batten behind the...

Hi all, started to tile the roof and running into a bit of an issue and not sure what to do. So I have put the eave tiles down on there batten (Im using 19mm battens). and then when I put the second row of tiles on to meet the bottom of the eaves tiles the notches on the back of the tiles do not...