canalsiderenovation

I had to comment on here because the start of this gave us some inspiration for building our pallet woodstore.... for anyone who remembers the motorway barrier fence they will know we have a log store outside our bungalow back door but due to the huge amount of wood we had and 50 odd pallets from the block paving we built one at the rear of our garage as we have cut a lot of trees recently so have about 15 ton of wood all split. Lots of screws, brackets and bought the sheeting for the roof. Absolutely solid.... The 'container' next to it was our temp garge but now the garage is built it's not needed but it is stuck there so painted it and using it as additional storage. One day may replace with a greenhouse .... Progress of it is here https://www.instagram.com/reel/C-inkP7iC6L/?igsh=YmNwOXRwaDM0Z3k=

Is it ok to put loo roll etc in it still? Don't want to knacker it.

I believe it is the pump, we have turned it off for now. Builder guy knows someone and they are coming Tuesday. Just what we need 🙄

Help! Just come back off holiday and this thing is making a right old noise rather than the normal humming noise it makes. Can anyone advise if we should just turn it off til we can get someone to look at it or leave it running. VID-20240825-WA0002.mp4

It's a shame this company o longer exist, would have been a good way of testing. https://get.waterlilyturbine.com/paddling-charger/

Dam isn't an option as there is a lock the other side of that bridge. Sometimes the flow is more fierce in thr bywash especially when the locks are in operation...

Because the Canal and River Trust own the water! It's a canal....

That's why I wanted to try something cheap and cheerful, I'm just curious if such a thing can work!

It's on our property, accessed only by our garden. The water source heat pump needed CRT permission and all sorts of issues for an MCS install and they wouldn't give it but perhaps me trying a bit of DIY thing would be OK.... nothing permanent...

No, it's not deep at all. Not even knee deep, perhaps a little over ankle deep. I'll measure exactly later.

Ok, I know nothing about this but I'm curious to try. We have a small bywash in our garden (some of you may remember me at one time considering a water source heat pump but Canal and River Trust did not take kindly to that idea and we also discovered that when maintenance is done on the canal the bywash doesn't flow) so we couldn't rely on it all of the time. I'd like to see if it is possible to try and use this flow for something such as charging things. We don't have electric nearby (just a small shed) but I'm curious to see if there is any way of generating some kind of power we could use to charge things for example..... Other half who has the electrical knowledge has refused to get involved in such hairbrained ideas so I'm sure buildhubbers can point me into what sort of equipment I may need (and I don't want to spend much otherwise I risk divorce if it doesn't work or I mess something up)! Electrical stuff is not my strong point so you'll need to spell anything out to me in a non technical way..... Video of area (bywash is shallow despite looking quite deep). 20240715_112416.mp4 This is something I'd seen on Amazon not sure if its suitable and what else I'd need.

Motorway barriers...... we have 90 metres of them as a retaining wall.

Yep, us too but maybe in time we will replace..... also like the idea they do the dark grey polymeric sand too.

As a fan of Nancy Birtwhistle I have used soda crystals with some eco friendly washing up liquid and it works a treat on porcelain.... presume it would do a good job on block paving too https://www.instagram.com/reel/C7hAF8Zo4I9/?igsh=YW51eDlxN205cDBo

I'd be interested to see what sealer options there are. Any particular suggestions on brands of sealer? We have free ranging chickens and we haven't yet trained them to not go on the block paving! They are only just learning to avoid the porcelain patio/terrace/pergola and that's been through the use of a very powerful water pistol 🔫

We have just had close to 300m2 laid just close to being finished after some batch colour issues (see my previous post). We have an incline too and lots of trees and ruled our gravel as this is what we had before and it was always wet and slushy and just not practical. We looked at imprinted concrete and resin but were worried about the longevity of it (a family member had concrete and it looks OK 10 years on but has a fair bit of cracking). My parents have tarmac and it has heavy indents from parking in the same place and when someone damaged it, the patching looks terrible. Block paving was a logical choice as if anything goes wrong at least it's easy to replace a brick or two. Once is finally finished I'll upload pics. We will be looking at some kind of sealer for it but once our finances are a bit improved so be good to hear of some suggestions.

Thank you, much appreciated.

@nod this seems reasonable I think given your estimation?

Huws Grey Whitchurch, Shropshire (the builder said he spends a lot of money with them)! They probably want to keep him happy.

When they are wet they look the same!

There is none of the same batch... the whole lot is coming up and the builders merchant is sorting out another order of them all from one batch and taking the others back. I understand they are compensating the builder.....

How does this sound? Garage 2.1x2 = 4.2 2.1x2= 4.2 6.7x2.1= 14.07 2.3x6.7= 15.41 6.7x2.1= 14.07 Total = 51.95m2 Base with mesh, secondary base, prime and thin top coat with 1.5mm silicone in white. £60 x 52 = £3120 Plus Vat

I'm pleased to report it's not oil and most of the marks have gone! It must just have been water or bricks taking longer to dry. I think we just got ourselves a bit worked up! So just the batch issues to resolve and a chipped edging brick and hopefully we are on the way to getting complete!

We messaged the builder and said having thought about it we aren't happy and he said isn't happy with it either and said he is going to sort it. We are both on the same page! In fairness, I think he would have come back on Tuesday, seen it again and not been happy but I'm glad we raised it! Thank you everyone. Yes, we were just trying to be helpful. We like the guy but he did reply and say no its not our job! Maybe, I'm probably now just obsessing and getting all stressed about it. Thanks everyone for your advice I really do appreciate it.

Maybe, I don't know they are in different places and even on some areas close to the front door which have been down a good couple of weeks. We have messaged the builder tonight, telling him not to lay anymore and we have said we are more than happy to lift the ones he laid that are the different shade. One idea we had is just as you come in the gates where the corner is (where the bricks are stacked) he could do a pattern line of some in the very light colour he used on the edging. Similar to this pattern on the bottom.... The pale bit would be a divide and the new darker batch could be laid from the gate to the patterned line but beyond the pattered line and abutting the old batch would absolutely need to match because the we can't have two different batch numbers directly next to one another it's just too noticeable. Thoughts?