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Inspection chamber. ( formerly known as a man hole until being PC became compulsory)

if the drain company is advising against it, then probably best to take their advice, assuming you have the depth available for pipe +falls, I would run the downpipe into a 4" pipe with an IC at the other end....

Sorry I’m late. But this is the detail we use from our SE

May be of use, at least it showed some dates, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staffordshire_blue_brick assuming that is what you meant by grey engineering bricks?

Def no to the marine ply. What BM’s have you got about. 15mm standard ply is fairly common around here. I assume it would be the replacement for old 5/8. Or if you really had to you could go 11mm OSB followed by 3.6mm ply which I’m sure would be close enough for tiling.

Very interesting idea. I can’t see why it would be an issue but I’ll be interested to hear the outcome.

watching herself was a good learning block...... I honestly didn't leave it in just to be mean...... she still hates driving it, but she will if you ask her to which is a huge advantage to me

too late to edit the other post but I really should have included this one

sorry to disappoint but it turns out this evening is a right off, iv been labouring on the best bricklayer I know to lay one of my garden walls all day(not technically part of the house so its ok) its Sunday, he had to go shopping at 3 and iv been in the pub ever since......... we'll pick this up tomorrow

Brilliant.......i tried to make something similar before I started my roof but I couldn't get the saw blade to fit in the lathe unless I try cutting and sharpening it while it is in the table saw....... ?

as promised, here are a few of the videos leading up to this stage, (there are quite a few so ill just list the opening ones..)

Fully glued in or just security tape? I can’t imagine the surround it with glue, security tape is a pain but you can get it off once the glass is broken.

You’ll be fine, Iv broken loads of glass, it’s relatively cheap to replace just be careful removing the beads

Well the first jig is ready to be transferred to its final bit of ply. The slot at the bottom is so I can slide a bit of wood through into the last routed tread which should hopefully set my gauge. I cut a slot so i can use both sides of the jig and the bit of wood stays out of the routers way. Also I didn’t rout all the way through at the right hand end. I decided it would be too flimsy so for the long cut on the kite winder I will have to do it in situ. but it’s 7:00 on a Saturday so I’m going to the pub, so that’s it until tomorrow evening. Grr the pic is upside down.

Obviously I will rout the actual stairs with a 1/2 inch router but I am loving this little cordless makita for the making the jigs.

Well that’s it all on the ply. Now i I need to make it 8mm bigger so I can use a 30mm guide bush. Then I’m going to rout it out. I’ll do the tread first. Then transfer that to another jig with a guided cutter. Then go back and take out for the wedges and risers, thats the plan at least.

Last time I did this was college and that was only putting the bits together, not actually machining all the parts. Your only as bad as you allow yourself to be. Speed and problem solving only come from experience, but quality of work is your own choice no matter what level you are. Edit: it does help that I’m storing all this machinery for a friend ?

I could have a stairbox set fitted easily before the wedding..... luckily Faye is a very patient woman and likes the story behind this project. I might get them done In 2 weeks, depends how much time I spend procrastinating,

I was going to add this to the stage 1 thread but I feel it deserves its own thread. I am finally starting to make my staircase , all those years that the piles of rough sawn trees have been getting in the way are coming to an end. Yay. I should think some of you already know I started this project a good couple of years ago by cutting down a dead oak tree in the meadow. If not I will provide links to the beginning of the story when I get inside. But either way check out all the progress. The oak is starting out in roughly 55x600x3400mm planks that I slabbed with the chainsaw mill, From that they get laid onto some trestles and cut to useable widths with my skill saw and 3 rails connected together. i found these here little rollers very helpful when trying to get the full slabs into the rights place. Then I put under the little batten to stop it moving while I cut it. so we now have reasonable width 55mm oak planks. Most are over 300mm all have 1 straight side but otherwise they are very rough from the chainsaw. thats is how I left all but 2 lengths because I wanted to get my head around the newel posts. The 2 I put over the planer have come up very nicely so far, The strings treads and risers will be made from the oak if I can get enough out of it but it is looking promising so far. The newels and spindles will be ash. The ash started as roughly 120x600x3900 slabs so I am having to cut them from both sides with the saw but with the rails they are coming out rather well. as for converting the timber i have gone gone a little further with the ash. First job is to cut them to usable length. Then they get pushed over this overhand planer bow up until I get a consistent cut. Then I repeat the process on an adjacent side while making sure my new flat face is hard against the guard so I end up with 2 straight sides and one square corner. from there i take it and put it through the thicknesser useing those faces as references, this give a nice straight even thickness post. now I know what final thicknesses I can achieve with the wood I have I have started making the first jig for housing the treads in the strings. I say first because I will probably end up with at least 2-3 as the lower flight will have draws as risers. After the landing there will be a standard flight finishing with 3 winders at the top. I modeled it all on cad first to optimise the width so it finishes nicely after the winders. its all just lines on ply at the moment but I’ll be getting the router out soon, and thats about as far as I have got. I’d better get back to work

According to the links Ian has provided, no, i read them all and it looks like we all have the wrong idea on what a “moderator” should do. From what I have read and keeping it brief the mods should primarily assist learning. The people that keep the peace fall under a different title.

Put a switch on it and flick it a few times just to make sure. It could be the lead from the big red button.

I think this all stems back to something @recoveringacademic mentioned a LONG time ago in the management forum, and I think it really could happen if people with the right mentality are willing to contribute to the task. We need moderators. Not like most people consider moderators (which would be more accurately described as forum police), but people that are willing to help summarise/collate the valuable parts of what can sometimes be very “diluted” threads @ultramods mentiones that he may be willing to help with this in the Op, perhaps this is the time to open it up to a wider audience and see if there are people willing to in part collate the masses of information on this forum?

Hmm maybe I should have read it a little more. As soon as they start with legal jargon I quickly loose interest. Luckily I rang them this morning and they said to just pop in. All done now and they didn’t charge me, ? it helped that their office was only a few doors down from where I was eating breakfast.

lifes savings and an endowment, £25k for the barn (full market value at the time) iv now got a 20k personal loan which might get it finished but that also might go up a bit before the end, it helps that Faye is fantastic with money, me..... not so fantastic

that's what I'm hoping, ill see if i can find it and see if it looks similar