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Totally great boxes, I get all my shopping in these, they then come home and get used for all sorts and eventually get flat packed and when there is a 100 or so they get used for mulching in the garden.

Well my “ Discount offer of the week” has been my best score yet, as some of you will know I am doing my build on a rock bottom, empty barrel budget, it’s just the way things are and I’m ok with it, but it has made me develop lots of contacts for getting materials as cheap as possible and recycling / up-cycling wherever I can. One of my local builders merchants has undergone a radical management and staff changeover and cutting a long story short after introducing myself and showing them photos of my project the new management have offered me a substantial amount of materials for my project for free.... today I have started the long job of collecting pallets of paving bricks, they have just gifted me a minimum of 15 full pallets of brand new but old stock pavers in a variety of colours. It’s an unbelievably generous offer and I am over the moon, though I am not ready just yet to go crazy with my paving it will in the future make my property look totally amazing. Really overjoyed that there are still some incredibly friendly and generous people out there who are happy to help out a stranger doing a budget build. Living in my remote location with a small ferry ride and two miles of steep dirt track and restricted to only being able to carry 2.5 tons means I am going to be very busy next week hauling all my plunder back !

@Adrian Walker I think what they are saying is it’s a bad idea.......

What a bloody shame, yes living in an area where you are “watched” limits what fun you can have. It looks like a great project but only great if it’s possible. Well that’s option two, option one is to exhaust all other options...... I hope someone on here has some good advise for you.

Is that depth !!!! Have you got somewhere to burry the old building ? The usual way up here is to just demolish it with a big digger and dump the whole lot in a big depression and re landscape over the top with soil...... not saying it’s the correct way but Round these parts..... about two days work max. (Obviously not if it has dangerous materials) then it’s done at nighttime and that costs more...... any pics ?

Back on topic, I purchased this item without research a good few years ago.... what a compleat waste of money..... devastated !!!!!!

I used this stuff a lot.... busy sealing doors and windows, as stated above if you get good quality stuff and prepare the surface well it should last a good few years.

Feeling for you @Jilly I live in a 100+ year old house with no footings and soil under the floorboards ! The building will be here long after I have departed this mortal plain. I do hope you can find a solution to your problem and hopefully someone will be along with some good advise. It seems like they are trying to fit a square peg in a round hole......

+1 there will be wet wood behind that up stand and it will all be gathering crud between it and the wall then leaching out, that’s what I think you are seeing. The only good solution will be some sort of flashing.

“Tap in” as required ! Welcome....

Just paint the cut faces with a wood preservative

I remember the other thread just.... I have a lean to on the back of my house (north side) with a back door going into it from the kitchen. In there I have my wooden veggie boxed and other storage cupboards. Works fine but could definitely be improved upon. I really like the idea of and outside / inside larder as in the future I want to preserve my own veg on a larger scale. When I was a kid we had a storage shed for our home grown produce, made of thick stone and heavy tile roof. It was located in a cold dark corner of the garden under the shade of a big old tree. My parents stored all manner of fruit and vegetables in there that they had grown for many months after the growing season had finished.

As described above, once set up it’s pretty quick. I was also doing 50mm cover strips and also cutting a 45 degree cut of the bottom of all my face boards. If your going with board on board then I personally don’t think it’s that important as the chances of anything but a tiny amount of water seeping in is all your going to get and ventilation should keep that sorted. I was only putting 50mm cover strips over the main boards as that’s the design I like, I live in a very windy location so you will get some water being driven behind but it will also dry quick as soon as it stops raining as it’s always bloody windy ! My main roof on the other house is 100 years old and made with untreated softwood sarking, it gets wet every gale as water blows up under the slates but it also dries just as quick, so this is my thinking about not being to worried in my situation. Location dependent as always. Totally agree for me it was only based on cost, I could buy 22mm x 150mm treated sarking much cheaper than I could buy the equivalent amount of timber in 50mmx22mm or 75mmx22mm (could not get 75mm size anyway) so for me my time is cheap as it’s just forfun and is my forever home plus I am coin poor so cutting it up with a volunteer and painting the cut faces was the way to go.

I made my own battens by cutting down 150mm sarking ran them through the table saw and put the an angle on them at this point, slapped some extra wood treatment on them and put them up. Not that I was trying to comply to anything it just seemed logical. I expect it’s overkill as it’s a ventilated area and will soon dry out, i angled mine to shed water forwards away from the membrane.

Looking like solid progress so far, long may it continue!

Working on it.......

Haha, I found these in the Homebase at Inverness when it was closing for less than £1 could not resist it as it reminded me of the rings at the ferry slip where we tie up to, just another bit of fun, makes me smile when I look at it. The wood handle is made from a whiskey barrel stave. The door knob was another Homebase giveaway. As always I do it for my own personal fun and if others find it nice then that’s great.

As always, STUNNING. Great tidy site, lovely house, fantastic location, congrats.

Well done, looks fine. I also would have used the slate flashing, can’t think of any reason not to..... the skirt on your flashing is designed for a tin roof to be bent over the contours.

It’s an ever increasing collection for a an art installation I want to do..... the idea is to build a bridge between two rocky outcrops just behind and to the left of the building, a track leads under the - to be built bridge - and out of the property, another track goes over the bridge and through another aspect of the garden. I have the girders....320x320mmx 20mm steel at >6m and am gathering a collection of old cart axles for the main uprights.... it will be a VERY solid installation but will also be dripping with rust and slowly falling apart (not the structure), always to be added to as new and exciting bits are found ! Just a bit of fun really. Bad photo of where the bridge will go across... sun is setting.

I remember starting a post on the doors I am building from scratch but it was along time ago and I can’t seem to find it.....anyway I have now finished all three and am very happy with the result. All three are stable doors and all three are in the original placement. The building is a very old threshing shed. With two doors opposite each other (front and back) for separating the wheat from the chaff as the wind blew through, the other door at the front on the left is probably where the animals were kept. Still got a lot of work to do on the building but it’s one step closer. I will post some close up of the details tomorrow when the bits are not in shade. They all have at least two sets of weather seals and are incredibly solid. They face directly south west into the oncoming storms that roll in of the sea that is only 200 meters away. They took far to long to build but it was great fun and I have learnt a lot. Just another two to build on the other house now.......

Aye your right there, you see these places abandoned and you wonder what went so wrong that they were just abandoned forever, I understand why so many were abandoned up here in Scotland but the example I was showing is in prime English agricultural land, makes me weep to see them slowly disappearing.

I think @Crofter may have used a good one, or @Russell griffiths has done the research if I remember correctly

Totally agree, I have a busy household, mum x2 kids, me and additional “live in friends” who do there own cooking so there is a constant pile of dishes waiting to go through the dishwasher, drives me bloody mad when I come in in the morning and the stuff I need for cooking breakfast is sitting on the counter crusting up !!!!!!! I never thought of two dishwashers.... now I am thinking hard.