James H

They look like they are made of Iroko, when new they probably had a coat of oil based varnish on. To bring them back to what they were tahes alot of work to compleat and maintain some sort of work needing every year and may be more often. First it would all need sanding down to bring back the colour, or you paint it dark colour. You would still have the problem of water peneration under metal parts and in the t&g joints which would then lift the finish off and lead to rotting. I am sorry to sound so down it could look lovely but it is alot of work. My advise is to let it grow old gracefully.

I will reply to you tomorrow. When I have time.

Shed felt really only lasts 5 years, and if you are only trying to bogge it up to last a couple of years you can use anything. Give it a little fall so that there is not a puddle and just use good external ply. Seal the ply down with a MS Polymer sealant adhesive, most will stick to damp Wood, or glue down with a PU glue then put your felt on. But you will have to do it properly one day!

I read it as needing safety glass (toughened/lamanated), need in certain areas. Home and public places have diferant regs. In a house the reason to have lamanated glass is for surcurty, or some specal units which needs it. But in my under standing toughend is with in regs. and is still being manufactured.

All these figures make my brain hurt. There is one biomass power sation in Yorkshire that imports its woodchips from south American so I am told. They are brought in by ship to Tyneside kept dry and trucked down to Yorkshire. That one plant consumes more than the total of timber felled in the Uk in one year. Which is why it has to be imported. Apparently this makes sense. It raining and I am trying to draw a design for a treehouse.

We often find this when there is a small movement in the tray when stood on, which breaks the joint. Solution is to have no movement in the tray and the joints wide enough to take movement.

If I was buying now I would consider this https://www.toolstop.co.uk/hitachi-nr1890dbcl-jp-18v-cordless-first-fix-framing-nailer-2-x-5.0ah-batteries-p79906 No gas and no air line, they are quit new to the market. Good revues. and the batteries can be used in other Hitachi tools.

I have both types of nail gun (as I need for my work) I would surgest Paslode if you want to resell after the other makes are not regarded so well in the trade. Have a gun that will take the cheaper makes of nailes, when useing the nails always keep them dry especially the cheaper ones. If they get damp you can get 2 nails fired at once and jam the gun. As the paper and glue holding them gets soft. Buy a new one and that way you know it will work and you can learn how to maintain it very important and not difficult to do. I find that when nailing up side down they need cleaning more offten (quick clean in side takes about 10 minutes on a clean beanch). During the cold weather I keep it in the house day before needed, and if necessary with a hot water bottle in an old duvet when not being used. I find the gas type better when framing as there is no cable/pipe atached as one is offten changing sides and posotions whch would get the pipe tangled up. For finishing nailer I have Dewalt battery and air nailer they have diferant uses for me. The nails for the air nailer are cheaper and I find better when useing all day. The Dewalt if I only have a couple of mouldings to do. There are now alot of types of nails out there which were not so easy to get a few years ago do your research. PS. I love tools.

What a long narrow house. I wish you all the best with your project and hope it goes well for you. Only one thought your uility room seems a bit small as I would think you will need to fit alot in there. All the best.

The council want an address so that they can close the account on that house and refund you if necessary. You could give any address you want, I wanted to be legal and we were just moving down the hil so it made sense to me.

When you are moving out of area they are no longer concerned as it is no longer there problem. (Hope you get your heating sorted.)

When you are moving out of area they are no longer concerned as it is no longer there problem. (Hope you get your heating sorted.)

What I mean is that when we moved out I had to tell the local council and they ask where I was moving to. As it was only 1/2 a mile away it is in the same area and village etc. So there was no need to change many details. Only wait for the valuation. The old houses was band D.

We moved in and our council tax moved with us from our rented house, band A now. All had to have all out in the open as my workshop next to the house had to be on business rates luckily not to much and we get 100% relief on it. We had to, as all of this was in the planning permission which was hard enough to get.

We live in ours. When the local BC came around last I told him that were moving in he was not concern only asked if we would have internal doors fitted. Since then I have talked to him several times since for other jobs for my work (joiner) he has only ask how we are getting on. We won't be finished for several months mostly out side work.