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Crane: top hamper - trees Plasma cutter - 🫢getting that past Debbie is, ermmmm ... Drag it out - there are several locals who would have a field day with that one. Its looking like scrap value 🤨

Access..... We could just build the new workshop but doing that would prevent us removing the old container. Bummer Putting all my stuff in store would pretty soon rack up charges in excess of the monetary value of the container (1K ?) I think we might be saying - build the new workshop and take a chop saw to the old container - scrap value. 😐

Ten years after we started, we're now at the stage of contemplating the unthinkable. I say 'we' - actually she is. And what does that mean? Getting rid of our site shipping container (20 foot TEU) . I nearly died when she broached the issue. Its my kingdom - I know where everything is - its got all my tools in it, a workbench, electricity, water, a dart board, secret stash of pickled eggs and crisps, an old dentists chair in which I can contemplate my navel, all those tools that I've used once and then never again. There's a tool box for everything. The smell is a heady mix of paraffin, D4, meths and rat shit. What's not to like? But, but, but. She's right. As usual, though, where wimmin are concerned, there's a plan. "You need a proper workshop dear" "And how are we going to do that, exactly? I mean while one is being built, how do I store my tools?" "Well I would have thought that was obvious" (And when a woman says that, it always means she hasn't got a clue.) Hence this post. I need to store about half a TEU's worth of valuable tools safely for a few months - And in a manner which would not get a hollow laugh from an Insurance Loss Adjuster. A trip to the local ShiteSheds-R-us won't cut it, I'm afraid. I'm hoping someone here has solved this problem ..... please, if you have, tell us about it.

@SteamyTea , in the context of the posts to date, would you explain your post please? For those of us who are hard-of-thinking about Dew points and RH stuff please Thanks very much

Dear Santa. The grand-children say that this year I have been very well behaved. I haven't made them pick up spilled screws, - (I let them use a magnet) or sweep the sawdust off the floor. (I let them use the blower instead) : that was fun because they learned the value of safety goggles and a face mask. And learned the difference between steel and stainless steel. And every time they have wanted to play on the digger, I let them. I even allowed them to dig a hole so deep they couldn't get out without a ladder. I had my first glimpse of the extent of their brotherly love - one chose to take the ladder away and leave his bro stuck in the hole. I also let them use the digger to fill their Tonka lorry with sand. Ahhhh.... Since I've been a thoroughly good grandad , I'm submitting the following list for family perusal and retention A BM which automatically applies decent discounts to genuine self-builders An automated lost tool finder A digger which cannot throw a track (even when it's cross with the way I drive it) Delivery drivers who read the delivery instructions A self-propelled self-cleaning cement mixer that doesn't let mortar set in the drum Pain killers that work instantly A parrot that sits on my shoulder that warns me just before I make a mistake Tool batteries that recharge themselves A laser level that remains visible in bright sunlight Better stop there, don't want to appear greedy ....😑

No, there isn't. How I wish there were. Just broken yet another drill bit a few minutes ago. 😐 The Independent variable (nail, screw) is too 'variable' for manufacturers to claim that their product can ... 'hack' through nails and screws without snagging. If there were, the whole world would know. And I would have bought several hundred of those mythical bits.

What a lovely design you have there.... This what we have done. The 'louvres' are just 4 by 2 bits of Siberian Larch - now contraband - bolted to the roof at the top and RSJ at the bottom . The photo was taken in the late afternoon and shows the amount of shadow cast by the slats ( thats what I call them - most people call them louvres) They make a significant difference. As you can see we sit outside in front of our kitchen window : the slats enable the corner to fill with light and provide some shade too. They also shade that corner of the house a little from the rain. Our dog chooses to lie out there in almost any weather. The plan is for SWMBO to fill that area with apprpriate plants to provide what Kevin WhatsHisface calls a Breeze Corridor. Yes, the area does overheat a bit , but we're hopeful that appropriate planting will smoothe out the temperature variation and provide some degree of air conditioning too. Looking at your design, my suggestion would be to consider moving the louvre assembly forward a little (more) to create a bigger buffer between the window and the glazing. Before i forget - window cleaning ... if the space between the house and the louvers is tight .......

Yes, well it would have done fine, until a mate comes round, looks at the 'repair' and asks .... "Whassat ? " and pulls the CT1 plug out with his finger nail. "With mates like you who needs enemies? " So he repaired my repair with his repair . Roofing screw + CT 1 At least the CT1 is the same colour as the water butt.

So is our puppy. There's piddle everywhere 🤨

Well since @Pocster has been brave enough to show me (us all) his : I feel brave enough to return the favour I installed a water butt - ostensibly for the wife, but actually for the Brownie Points. And its hacking it down this morning. She came in from outside giving me one of this wifely looks, and merely gestured at the water butt As yer man would say FFS

There you have it in nutshell. One phrase - pure poetry @Pocster - and totally suitable for the pub after several pints. Wish I'd thought of that. 😑

Good to know that we're both fekkin' eejits. Debbie always ( and gently ) says .... "Nothing to be done about it tonight even if there was a leak" It's all the fault of that cracked tile we had years ago, let in a drop or two. Of to the quack tomorra to get treatment for my PTSD.

In the pub - picture the scene - a few pints in and my best mate is talking about our build to another of his mates - I'm listening. He turns to me and says.... "Well you tell him what it's like to self build , errmmmm in one sentence " (how well he knows me) That shut me up good and proper. What's your one sentence answer ? What did I say? Told them to read Buildhub, especially @Onoff and then at the other end of the scale @Pocster See, yer man was wanting to start a self-build . Oh FFS.

Every single non-professional self builder is somewhere on the paranoid scale. Don't care what they might say in public .... Some hide their problem well, others not. I don't. It's wet innit. Small wet patch in our hallway. I see it and immediately look up at the ceiling above the wet patch. SWMBO looks at me more in sorrow than anything and says... "Our puppy can't pee from up there can she ... ya dickhead.... "

This case appears to me to be simple. IF the work is Permitted development - IF- and nobody in authority (other than those working on your behalf) has written to you formally to require a bat survey then one is not required. Without that formal requirement, all discussion about the issue is mere chit chat - including the hearsay related by your architect. For all you know he (she) misunderstood the context in which the ecologist referred to 'requirements' If it's not on an official piece of paper in your hands, it isn't an issue.