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Hi all ive not been on the forum for a while As you know we broke ground in November The two double garages went up pretty quick the help of a labourer I soon had them roofed in Somewhere dry for storage at last Christmas so us up to chamber Myself and my wife spent most of Christmas putting the I joists in and the 8x2 joists for the orangery We just managed to get floored out in time for the brickys return from holiday The brickys offered to help us man handle the twelve mtr trusses up The following day a friend and I and the brickys labourer set the roof out I went in the following day to make the valleys up and finish the gable restraints Next my wife and I spent two days felting and battening Then the 4000 slates We had intended getting someone in But the quotes were ridiculous All wanted me to get the slates up there prior to there arrival So we decided to do the slating a lead work ourselves All went well apart from rain virtually every day Myself and my son made fast work of fitting most of the windows Then last weekend the scaffold was dropped and rebuilt on Monday The forecast was good for last week So my son and myself made a start on the K rend Three days so us complete one side and all of the front Ive prepped the chimney and remaining gable and should get them complete tomorrow and rubbed up on Tuesday Well that's about were we are up to Ive lots of photos Perhaps should have posted as we went along But with working full time and working on the at nights and weekends I tend to nod off when I eventually arrive home regards Gary

Not furniture per se but it's a doddle. I cut it on an Evolution chop saw and spray the cut ends with zinc spray. Also grease the grub screws. I use Tubeclamp btw which is compatible with the Kee stuff. Last used some offcuts and leftovers on the tree house balustrade and spiral stairs: http://www.tubeclamps.co.uk

My better half unrecognisable as her day job a hospital theatre manager

I hope you've got a treat lined up for your missus . I doubt chocs and flowers would put a dent in it though Hats off to you both, great effort. And +1 to child labour.

That's a lot of work between now and November, well done! And do post more pics?

Hmmm.....having a quantity of empty (biodegradable) hydraulic oil containers..... A couple of minutes works on each with the multitool: one for hammers and bolsters, another for saws. One for clamps, one for the resin kit etc. Even one to keep all the Geberit cistern bits together. Dead easy to move 'cos of the handle and stack: Going to make one a bit different maybe for silicon guns & tubes, another for "cleaners".

Let me try it first, Nick, to see if the resistor trick works. I have a 2.1A cigarette lighter USB adapter around somewhere, that I know doesn't charge the iPad either, so if I try with that and it works I'll risk taking the built-in USB charging socket in the car out and trying to modify it. The car has two USB sockets, one for low power charging and connecting a USB stick for playing music or updating the sat nav, the other for high current charging. The latter is supposed to charge an iPad, but from reading that article it looks like Apple changed the charger design after the car was designed.

In reality if MBC are doing your slab and frame, you sit back grab a cold one and watch your house go up. you then have a rush to roof, windows and any services such as MHVR you want hidden or need to go through the walls. They have asked i put all the service points through the walls before they come back so they can seal them

I trimmed all the terminal connections before skimming, so they didn't get in the way. Having them sat back a few mm didn't matter, as the push fit terminal stubs were plenty long enough to engage in the connections.

We might make it look easy but I can assure you NOBODY wants to be doing it.

Roof is now finished, ready for slating.

I have 5 Hikvision POE network cameras on a Synology NAS and hub that provides the POE. Works well. Issues to think about: If you want to view video from the cameras while away from home you may need to have a reasonably good broadband connection (good upload speeds). However some cameras/systems can support two video streams at different resolution. That allows you to record the hi-definition on the server and watch the low-def on your phone from the beach. Spiders are an issue. They are attracted by the IR LEDs in the camera. Their webs cause IR light to bounce back into the camera spoiling the good night vision the cameras have. Make sure you can easily clean the area around the cameras. So called spider repellants don't last long if at all. Another option would be to have separate IR LED illuminators and turn off those in the camera? It can be difficult to set up motion detection to trigger recording. I have issues with sunlight and moving shadows due to wind/trees and the bloody spiders webs. I get 100's of recordings a day but if I turn down the sensitivity it fails to detect a person. I've tried loads of things and have come to the conclusion that motion detection in the camera or the server is not the best approach. The best solution would be to use a camera with a separate Alarm input and connect it to a good quality PIR sensor. This would give you far fewer false alarm recordings. Unfortunately my cams don't have an alarm input or I'd switch to using it. Meanwhile if we got robbed while on a two week holiday I would probably have to wade through a few thousand recordings if I can't narrow it down. I got some cameras from China at a bargain price. They arrived with Chinese firmware but rather than send them back I able to flash them with latest English firmware. If you order from abroad check what you are getting. Some camera recording programs require browser plug-ins not supported by MS Edge.

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I hope you appreciate JUST how spoiled you are today! We have handballed 250 sheets from the drive up to the hill, including a pallet of Wallboard 10 and 15mm boards...

How I wish I had kept the sports bag straps I threw away. Bit of MDPE slipped over the handle?