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If it’s that low to the floor, you don’t need the perimeter at all and climbing over things often makes for a more dangerous condition (like stair gates at the top) than not having them. But if you like the look of that, go for it. The entanglement opportunities all round are a really bad plan...

…and when you’re done being infallible at making pergolas, pick the winning lottery numbers and retire. Occasionally things go wrong, that’s what insurance is for, one could reasonably foresee that, as someone once said.

Lift slabs Insert footing Put slabs back down

Run a full length loose tongue down the edge of each piece, outdoor glue, you’ll be fine.

Drill and tap the centre of the vice screw and add a thumbscrew as grub screw, (whilst I hate grub screws this is one occasion where I’ve had to live with it). Then you can set the bar in the middle for everyday use but loosen off for extra torque if needed

Goretex with magnets in the corners

Saves the manufacturers from having to make a board flat enough to sit on a countertop, a bit of an indicator of an inferior product in my view

If it’s teak, you don’t really need to protect it, so long as it’s not sat in water it’ll last years

Osmo UV protection oil works well, but not on the horizontal surfaces, like the bit you sit on (how very helpful) Teak oil doesn’t last that long, if you want it pristine then it’s at least once a year. A pressure washer makes short work of cleaning outside wood

The irony of Trago suffering from Brexit is hilarious, their MD was an ardent proponent for it whilst employing Polish workers

Hire vans don’t come with ratchet straps, so buy some ahead. All heavy stuff behind the cab only, watch left/right balance. Mind the load limit and also check the suspension, leaf springs should never load beyond flat. Many people load up vehicles and cars with all sorts and get away with it...

Buy a second hand Tripp Trapp, whilst they are a huge price new, you can get one for £30 that will clean up like new in an hour or so and they are awfully good, last many years which most other set designs don’t

Unless you’re using foam board you need a large gap to get enough insulation in to be effective, the weight of timber to counter batten will be significant and the existing truss structure may not be designed for it. Loft legs are crude but work, chipboard over the top is quick to do. We have a...

I’m guessing Jacobs on his usual rant… he’s had it explained a few times over the last decade or so, he’s not getting it. stiffness of the torsion box is the square of the distance between the faces, so deeper is “better”, but worse for clearance, but compared with an apron it’ll be much less...

You can do all the technical file and certification yourself, it’s not hard, but you have to know how to do it and if you don’t, that’s where getting some help can be worth it. I’d expect to pay £500-£1000 for that and it would give you what you’d need to then modify and update for every other...

Veneer could give you fabulous grain, you might run out of budget again though. If it was me I would too veneer a box about 100mm deep or a laminated section of 3x18mm with an apron or support of some nature.

That’s an interesting theory, but Japan has suffered from one of the most protracted economic stagnations of any developed economy. They grew fantastically before that, like many do, thanks in part to the people who helped rebuild them for a global future from their shattered past. British...

And that’s why Wadkin own the market and all other manufacturers have gone bust… or is it the opposite? The desire to resort to name calling and denouncing everyone as ignorant is a sad state of affairs, so I’ll leave you to it.

But has it got a rounded bevel or a straight one? I think that’s an important point and worth another few hundred bickering posts be people who can’t listen but can talk

Based on your explanation of splayed legs, no. The centre of mass remains the same, the pivot line remains the same and you increase the bending moment on the joints for no benefit… That’s not really why you splay legs for stability, you do it to move the pivot line out, which does increase...