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Ha! Actually blacknose sheepie was defo giving me the eye there tbh.

Hi J. Good idea.. but would it still be a pig to get it level like this, fixing it one each end to start with I wonder. Hence if I had a perch, I could easily shim it level. Then drill my two ( thinking as i type) end ones & continue the rest like your idea. Or drill just one end stud in, slip my board on, pivot it up to a predone perch, shim it level etc. hmm.

Hi chaps. Right it's zoot-liftoff time. I've plotted my ledger 7 mount positions, avoiding my perpendicular joist positions, & marked these 7 on the wall. But just thought is it best to mark my 7 upon my ledger > drill holes > offer timber up > drill thru to mark the walls? Maybe two sturdy rawl-plugged (temporary) screws into wall, to sit the timber upon.. get level > drill thru holes etc? I've done this plotted mount hole positions. Missing (9 total) joists @400mm centres. Mounts are 30mm down/ up, from btm/ top of timber edge. Comments welcome. 3220mm W. [I need to clear some furry guests away 1st mind you!].

@PeterW I pm'd you few days ago. Thx Zoot

@Onoff Im just digging into it now.. splendid stuff.

@Onoff parcel delivered by spotty evri herbert 4pm. Thanks so much. Will dive into it/ box tmrw. Zoot.

@Onoff mine's fine as is for now: bit bought from toolstn today ( good find saves £2!) & fits. Amazing breadth of engineering knowledge you have, & it's going in my noggin too. As much as it can cope with. Thx zooter.

Close. Its a Jacobs. And numbers.. 3/64 - 3/8. Then 1.0 - 10mm. Then 3/8 x 24 -s2. All over my head bar the mm's. Your depth of knowledge is never short of impressive- do you have an engineering degree Onoff?

Will bear this in mind. A few of these swiss drills for £25, total bargain might get a spare.

Ah yes you did say this before didn't you/ memory's crap. I think maybe the bosch for a few squids more. Great help tho- zoot.

Hi Tony, I'd have snapped that one up if I had a wickes here. Alas not. Thanks though. Zoot.

Yup indeed it will according to bosch themselves. Great. Thats an "extra £6" on this bosch one well spent I just know. I'm gonna need every scrap of help doing this solo. Thanks chaps.

No it's a 10mm in fact. Never noticed this info on it before!

Everytime I use my 5.5 to 8mm set of these, I'm sure it was you who recommended them, it's a pleasure to use.. great brand. Will do if.. But can I get this into my drill tho is the Q. And is my drill ok to use, if I can?

I don't think mine is an SDS drill is it. It's something to do with the chuck area. Mine's a std Chuck key type. I did drill into the concrete cabin pads with it, though I used 8mm stud ( so would you have suggested a 10mm hole? Seems logical).. not 12mm.

Fab Onoff what can I say- very kind indeed. £6 evri, plus hardware costs? PM me. SDS drill.. is a hammer type, or one with a hammer setting? Mine does have/ switch on top. Precious this swiss made I sacrificed my smaller bosch on the porch/ burnt it out, don't want to with this. Thanks, zoot.

Just checked my cabin pads had 8mm studs. Crikey this job's gonna put hairs on me chest with m12! thx Zoot

Excellent. I'll keep this info with me for the job. Understand the 200mm figure, makes sense. I used some similar stuff into my concrete cabin pads.. I think 10mm. So have a brush thingy to poke in/ important I can see, & a bellows too.. should be fine. I think safer going 80mm than possibly breaching thru the back. Fingers crossed will be ok. Thanks alot Onoff.

Hi Onoff.. what a gent you are. I wish I could help someone in return, but a donation to BH will have to suffice for now. Can you fling them out via hermes/ evri I wonder? cheapest possibly. Splendid stuff, all understood. I've just got to not drill through the back of the block.. or Im rogered. Gratefully, Zoot.

Hi again Ferdinand, yes I think I can perhaps just put this down to naivity, & thankfully not the £360 they invoiced me for (!).. but £120. Still irks me if I didn't need it doing, but hey I must crack on. Actually my insurance Co, Admiral, didn't ask for it/ my family friend persuaded me.. & he's invariably correct on anything financial. He is 93 though! Sharp as ever, tho, but perhaps an 'old school' redundant way now. Thanks chaps, spurs me on to shop around again. If my brain can bear it. Zoot.

Well I'm confused as to why I have had to have this done then. Or if I had to do it. Does it imply that if mine was ruined by fire ( something I am worried about tbh, arson by nasty locals) that I could have mine rebuilt under insurance, whereby you couldn't? A rhetorical Q/ god only knows.

I assume that sort of thing is what I have. Admiral but no idea of 'up to £?' figure.. But mine's £280 p.a. And 2 beds, albeit detached. It just gets paid by dd. I haven't a clue if it's very good or very bad. Less I interact with anything financial.. the better, in my naiive world (IE, dd is heaven-sent to me). I seem to recall I did 'shop about' online settling on one, in a kind of "Ive no fkn idea, but seems ok" sort of mindset. It could be very bad. Why I have to do this additional survey thing, I can't possibly know. Zoot

Hi there Ferdinand. To be honest, I haven't got a clue about any of this. All I had was this: a very intelligent retired accountant family friend whose been like a financial advisor who knows a myriad about everything to do with money, advised me very specifically, to go to a Chartered Surveyor & ask for a "rebuild survey, fire related, insurance purposes" (something along those lines, even if the 6 words are round the wrong way). I called my surveyor, gave these 6 words. He understood. Quoted me £100. The survey done, & as a result, I have a document, to give to my insurance company. I think maybe my friend was advising me to have this survey done, after adding an extention 2 years ago now, which I hadn't yet even mentioned to my insurance Co. 50% Laziness & 50% actually I wasn't even aware I needed to have my insurance thing changed, so I've been blissfully unaware. Or naiively unnaware. Or stupidly. Tbh I don't even know what to do with this document. Just email it to them? Explain I need something extra? Or ammended? Anything financial to me, I just do not understand 95% of it ( eg a credit card I cannot understand even have it explained by family or even a bank person. but I don't get it. So I just don't have one!). Insurance as a basic thing, yes I can understand. But if it splits into different guises.. I'm lost. Thanks for reading my spiel, zoot.

Thanks y'all. That clarifies things alot. One concern I had, with the 530k figure being so high, was that some fresher came to do it (albeit for a RICS approved, & experienced Ch. Surveyor Co, whom I got to survey house at time of purchase). Looked about 30. Then the fact that the invoice I got today from him, was 3x the quote (rectified thankfully.. but a " fresher" mistake it seemed).. & then led me to question this high 530k figure. But if it doesn't seem of concern to you guys, then I can put my concerns to bed. And fwd the survey to my insurance Co; you see the bottomline being, surely, that the higher this 530 figure, the higher my insurance will be. Unless there are 'bands' like tax bands. Anyway thanks, Zoot.

Hi chaps, after getting a 'rebuild cost' survey done, I was amazed at the figure. I'd roughly estimate it to be -twice- the value of the property ( in turn a figure -twice- the purchase cost, 6years ago, an extention & work done etc). I can't wrap my head around the rebuild cost, @ £530,000. I would -guesstimate- my property to be worth £250k. It could be more, unlikely less I'd think. So how does this figure come to be? The bottomline, perhaps being my thinking, that the higher this figure.. the higher my insurance premium will be. I don't know. Any help appreciated, zoot.