Hi folks,
I can just imagine the scene, ‘he’s an old git, I wonder if he has popped his clogs. Dare we ask, or will it give offence to the new owner of an unfinished workshop’ :smile: :smile:
You can’t get rid of me that easily :wink:
We have been doing what we do best.....SKI..ing. We decided some time back that the current HiFi had to go. It hummed so loud sometimes that it became irritating, and placing the rear speakers was problematic in the ‘new’ house. The power amp weighs in at 50kg and in a flood, we wouldn’t get it out in time. After that we forgot about it until we went to SMC in Shrewsbury to have a look at a Sonos for the dining room. Whilst there I noticed that they stocked valve amps, so I asked if I could have a listen, as I have never heard one....bad move. We staggered out several hours later, having been blown away by the quality of sound - and our kit is good...we thought. So, we have been trialling an Icon Audio integrated valve amp, and even more bizarre, a valve CD player with some Made For Valves speakers. Oh dear, the kids will be disappointed on our demise :shock:
To add to their troubles, we needed to join some bargeboard parts to cover the kickouts; you guessed it, we didn’t buy a biscuit jointer.......
We had fitted the bargeboards on one end, only to find that they didn’t quite cover the soffit boxes at the inner corner, and worse, they looked disproportionate. So they were ripped off and deeper ones were fitted. Ok, so how to cut the top angle. We duly used the dangle finder, halved the result, cut and fitted the top section. Did it fit..did it .... And don’t forget, it doesn’t stop there. we have another angle to cut as well, and that went just as badly ...grrr.
The annoying thing is that I had no idea why. So, start again with wider stock. This time we clamped up the first piece then used a level to mark the vertical, and the result was better. But how to do the lower angle? We left the upper board clamped in place, having cut the angle using the angle finder, what else could we do? Having cut the lower board to the same angle we held it up in position and of course it didn’t fit. So we adjusted the angle until it fitted. The difference wasn’t wildly out, just a small annoying gap. By now we had realised that the problem was that if we fitted the board to the theoretical angle, the roof tiles didn’t have the right amount of wood overlap. Any normal person would have fitted the roof tiles over the bargeboards, not this chump. My reasoning was that the head on winds that we get, and currently have, could get under the front edge of the tiles and possibly rip them off. So I thought that if I fitted the boards high up above the tiles, they would be protected. It seems to have worked so far but what a lot of extra work. As a result, I also had to mastic down the gap between the wood and the roof, what a fun job in high winds.
The next job was to ‘fill in’ the underskirt of the overhang as it looked a bit ‘thin.’ I fitted 50 x 50 down the long sides, and three cross pieces. This was covered in 9mm ply and has had one coat of paint; it now being below the required temp. for the paint application.
This left me with time on my hands, so we made a door frame for the bathroom...errr using the Domino
what a lovely piece of kit, and so easy to use.
Having done that I decided that we really ought to grasp the nettle and start on the round windows, as we can't fix any more cladding 'till we know the position of the window.
I started by kerfing some ply using the tracksaw; what a tedious job. Having made 70 cuts I tried flexing it and decided to cut every 12mm...really tedious, but it bent much better, but, it is really fragile. It seems that MDF works far better but as the end will be exposed to the elements, I doubt its longevity, even though heavily painted.
So I set out to make a former, rather in the manner of guitar construction.....see below.
First make two chariot wheels :smile: using a trammel bar..cough, ok, a lump of ply.
Not forgetting to join both the donor ply to the substrate it sits on, and the inside of the circle as well. Next the frame was constructed...see below.
All was fine until I stood it up; strewth that sucker is big....botty pouting time.
And that is as far as I have got; I’m now waiting on a delivery of some ply to make the actual window surrounds......it may be some time, as delivering two sheets of ply 12 miles is not exactly cost effective for a company. I haven’t even finished the workshop and already I have run out of storage room........err....I need another workshop :shock:
So this means that I am back on my even less favourite job than painting...cutting and fitting insulation...oh joy.
Stand by for the next thrilling episode of ‘How not to build a workshop’ by A R Dunce.
Regards...Dick.
PS. What can I use to fill the kerfs, to make the circle stronger?
