ToughButterCup

I dare you.....

You can request anything. I asked for a set of files from our architect that I put into Sketchup : but in pdf format so that I could look at stuff like this.... and if you ask for a pdf with the layers still accessible - and editable - then you can alter the image really quickly and easily (by hiding and showing layers at will ) . like this

I wonder if prayer works?

Run the boards through a thicknesser ? Excuse to buy another tool 🤐

Siberian Larch : starting to fade nicely. No treatment : 8mm shadow gaps (now often 10 or 12mm in some cases) @ProDave's detestation (above) is our preferred ' look ' Nowt so queer as folk eh? @Conor - your post above has just solved a problem for me. Thanks!

After you've salved your conscience by trying to get the marks off ( and failed) , there's one infallible technique. Absolutely infallible. But - for a self builder - really hard. It works best after about 5 years. Forget about it.

Dependant on cannibalism I'm afraid. Rats will look at a dead stable mate and - in my experience within 24 hours - eat their dead Bessy Friend. Mostly I gather and dispose of all the rats shot in one session. But I sometimes leave one or two rats I have shot as bait for others (saves my time). Rats are amazingly clean.

Ours: 77 sq m = £10K claim for us . Hmmm? Not sure whether that means much, but I can't see you missing a trick Gary...... 🤔

Come on baby, it must be wet by now......

Six months from now you'll be itching to build an estate never mind a house, and you'll be making poor Helen roof all of them 🤭

Here's all of Gary's posts { @nod ) https://forum.buildhub.org.uk/profile/176-nod/ For reference click on his screen-name and you'll be taken to anyone's profile- and content

So @Mulberry View there you have it. Between us @Jenki, @JohnMo (and @Russell griffiths ghost) your three options. Mine? Red Lead, yearly. 😑

I wuz justabout to say that @Jenki or @Russell griffiths will tell you to get it anodised or whatever it's called. Cos I asked the same question yurs ago. Hmmm. I ignored their sage responses cuz I was broke (still am) 5 years later, less broke, I wish I'd taken their advice. Got myself a proper Forth Bridge now. Still, keeps me out of HerIndoors hair innit. 😔

Pressure test, pressure test, pressure test.

I submitted mine and, beyond receipt for the documentation, heard nothing (2022) . A good while later ( 6 months?) during a random quick look at my Octopus account I found that I'm on Flexible Octopus. I expect I missed an email