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thanks for the response James, good to get another perspective. I was thinking something similar to be honest. I'm thinking probably 600mm deep on the ring foundation and 150mm deep on the raft but I could do with getting hold of a SE to bring in on the project, I thought perhaps people may have...

Hi All, I need to build a cartlodge, 7m x 5.5m, Oak frame at front, 6 courses of brickwork and CLS framing for walls, dual pitch (45 degree) tiled roof (probably composite tiles), and Cedral cement board cladding. I would like to get some structural engineer guidance to design adequate...

Hi Any idea on the model number? Any idea on the age, making the assumption you didn't get it new...

Oh I think I understand what you are doing now 👍

So is it a warm roof design or not?

When you say warm roof is it an actual 'warm roof' or just an insulated roof? Assuming you are not going through planning and hence have the 2.5m height restriction, I would be interested in seeing how you will achieve a warm roof design and still have headroom inside. Martin

Well I've started gluing up some Canadian maple into end grain strips so that's the plan now.

Alright I'll stick with end grain then. I just cut a slice of that utile I bought and it's super similar to the strips I already have that I thought were mahogany or walnut.

I've mentioned on here before that I am working on a cutting board for a friend and yesterday I went out and bought some timber for it: -Large chunk of Maple -Medium chunk of Beech -Small chunk of Utile My question is, can I mix end grain/face grain/edge grain together in a cutting board? The...

It's not a great response from them. An expensive deck like that needs to last and I wouldn't be using wooden posts into the ground, even if they haunch it it will still decay. Same goes for the tape, I can't believe they were planning on leaving it unprotected. You as a customer shouldn't need...

Hiya, The two main options for posts are concrete (lintels or fence posts), and composite. The frame should be bolted to the posts, not screwed. The frame should, like you say, have either protective tape on top or strips of DPM/DPC. You could even paint the sides in barn paint or roof paint...

Nothing wrong with those prices for composite if they are doing it right. The way I build decking, 70% of the labour is on the frame, 30% on fitting the boards. On material costs it's more like 80% boards 20% frame/foundations. I would ask about the sub frame and foundations and see if they...

I haven't tried the parallel guides yet but my concern is it running out of square with repeat small cuts across a board. Let's say your top guide is set at 100mm and your bottom one is set at 100.5mm. If you do 10 cuts the board will then be 5mm out of square. That's quite a bit. It also means...

1. I did mention that, bit it will no doubt have got lost in the ludicrous account of detail - this is always my problem 😃 2. That is utterly brilliant, why didn't I think of it. Thanks, I love it! 3. I did mention parallel guides, see point one 😅😅😅 Martin

Hi, I've looked into SIPS quite a bit. I will build in SIPS in future, not sure exactly when yet, I just need to find the right time to switch over. Nice build by the way 👍 Martin

Haha yeah, but it's only on the base you can do the 400mm gaps because you can use tongue and groove boards and PU glue meaning you don't need to land the joins on a joist. With the walls and ceiling you do need to land the joins on the timbers because you will have normal sheet goods on...

I decided to do the post about the PIR jig in the end, here it is. Martin

yeah cheers James, got one at last 😅 that soffit turned out really nice, I spent a long time trying to figure out how to vent it and not look horrid, I couldn't use my normal cedar battens strategy because the cladding is Cedral cement board so anything natural timber wouldn't go, and I didn't...

Hi No updates really, sorry, it's been a bit slow, life got in the way a bit 😅 I'll put up a recent picture, I don't think it's changed much or at all. I've adde a wooden plane that I bought from Phil on here... that might be the only change 😅 Martin

Hopefully 👍🙂