ToughButterCup

Sooner rather than later, eh? You know it makes sense.....?

Welcome Leslie Do tell us.... which door and window issues do you face? I could bore you with my issues, but they wouldn't be anything like as interesting as yours.

Excellentel Tennente! General quick-fixit stuff. Vice, light, extension, base for a worksite saw, storage for the Bosch beat box, somewhere to hit summat on Got me thinking....

I would like to make myself a nice little easily moveable (draggable) workbench. One which will cope with the rough loose smallish stones that lie everywhere outside. The design of the workbench isn't my concern I need some casters (wheels?) that'll cope the loose bits of MoT1. Ideas?

Here's chapter and verse; Approved Document H You also need to follow the General Binding Rules. - and all for free (That'll please @ProDave ) Normal soil pipe parts are widely available. (Just imagine if they weren't!)

Meanwhile, back on topic...... Thanks @Ian for a thoughtful, well-evidenced set of posts. I might by accident have a batten on top of an overlap, but the felt isn't part of my airtightness strategy. I'm guessing now that local roofers never use Kloeber Permo as part of the airtightness program for the houses on which they normally work. I am assuming that @PeterW thought that I was using KP for airtightness. Frankly, I'd be surprised (and delighted) if local roofers were involved in any work on airtightness.

Massive Declan. Like seriously massive. Cost to survey it @ProDave

A casual glance at a beautiful oak tree that we have caused me to stop dead in my tracks. I could see daylight in the middle of the trunk at eye level (6 feet). Tree surgeon called. Teeth sucked. Head scratched. Arse disappears into tree. Now I'm sucking my teeth at that. Get a proper survey, mate. That trees at least 200 years old. And it'll cost an arm and a leg to drop it. Several quotes all in the £600 range for one friggin tree. Is it me?

@lizzie, he played in our garden when he was a nipper. The garden that is now a building site. He's just gone out on his own.... as a roofer ?. Never once fell out with our kids.... Knows nowt about Nulok, so he wants the job. @Bitpipe, he loathes fitba, and is teetotall, been treated badly by wimmin in the recent past, so spends his time with his Staffie. Funny old game bildin' innit?

Welcome. Fancy a job fitting my roof? ? My lad has just cried off for tomorrow - heat stroke.

Batts ? (sheets of insulation)

You , me, and many others on BH. The way women are patronised or ignored or both by some male builders is an added level of insult. Even the MD of a large company managed to patronised Debbie when he visited the site. The local (male) rep squirmed with embarrassment. I wish this morning when I went to buy some sealing tape, I'd had the confidence and presence of mind to ask why roofers don't seal between the layers of felt .

inside? In Germany, they just wouldn't get away with it. (well, when I was there..... might be different now... bleedin' Socialists)

Loathe football, but wish I didn't.

No, @Redoctober, it isn't objectionable. It grates sorely on my set of open-wounds and various chips on both my shoulders that the building sector seems to have a large number of people who are doing a poor job and expect to get paid as if they were doing the opposite. I came to loathe German ways of doing things when I worked there: the rigidity, the lack of imagination, the lack of sparkle, the guidelines, always the effing guidelines. And yet, there's an apprenticeship system which delivers high quality staff in every sector: trained (gelernter) chimney sweeps, trained production line staff, street sweepers, plumbers, roofers and so on and this is the important bit ---- who have parity of esteem --- with their classically educated counterparts. Self building feels like pissing against the wind almost all the friggin time.

Thanks. Intrigued by.... That's their core job innit? Wha's goin' on?

Klober Permo Forte: German. Klober Permo HD, German. Klober TR Plus, German. Me German. Thus I read instructions, I follow guidelines I lack imagination and flair (I'm shit at football too) I do as I'm told, usually, without too much fuss So imagine my incomprehension during the following conversation at our otherwise excellent roofing suppliers. My Good Man, may I buy some of your finest Permo HD, or Permo TR Plus as it says on these instructions ( for the roles of Permo Forte NG I have bought) Ya wot, mert? Some Permo HD, or Permo TR Plus as it says on these instructions, please. Dunt sell it. Rewfers round yur dunt use it laaak. But the instructions say I need some. Tha dunt need any mert.... 'less that's right by 't seaside laaaak. Ah, the difference between theory and practice. The bright-eyed-bushy-tailed neophite walks happily, blindly into yet another minefield, waltzing hesitantly between encultured practice and text-book rote learning. I've only just taught myself (painfully) to use a hammer tacker.? Help me out here please. Do I need to seal the overlap (150mm - proud of the fact that I worked that out for myself) between the layers of Permo Forte? Or can I let the wind blow under my skirts as it were? (And if anyone says I'm overthinking this, they're gonna get a slap.)

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Will 9mm / 11mm do do you think? Rafters are at 400 centers.... I'm thinking OSB3 would do as well

because that would suffer from the same problem: being lifted UP by the hooley caused by the Wind Trap underneath it . That's what I have renamed the Winter Garden - time spent standing talking to people in the Winter Garden area - I've noticed it's a bit more drafty there than elsewhere.

Part of our roof is outside the heated envelope: open to the fresh air in other words. Have a look at this image. The Durisol wraps the heated envelope: the steels the Winter Garden. Here's a different route view of the same thing. The area on the left is the winter garden. And while there is a window on the plan, we are now not going to have that window: just a plain roof. (Too much solar gain and too much of a Right Royal pain in the Botticelli.) The strange hatching on the roof indicates solar PV -being fitted tomorrow. Woohoo Hoo. Now that we have decided to fit tiles the left hand area of the roof, it occurs to me that the underneath of the tiles will need to be boarded. otherwise the tiles will just be blown off their battens because the wind catches that corner of the house quite a lot. Question. What with? OSB3? Marine ply? WBP? Plasterboard, Caba Board? Any ideas ?

Pleb? We'll I'm not an aristo, so that makes me a plebeian self builder too. What makes it easier? It goes click. Watch the threads about Nulok: I'll be adding to them by the weekend. As I say above, betcha can't wait, eh? Ian

Jesus, Ed....He'd be a walking safety nightmare. ? Couldn't work it this time...... not like the Haldane Fisher driver. After 10:30 here, the sea breeze kicks in, so it could be a lot worse.

Monday morning 0900 sharp it arrived. Superb shipping company: they range me twice to confirm they were arriving. A cheerful Brummie driver (well .... Halesowen is that Brum?) told me that he hadn't had a site H+S briefing for many years. How long did that take? 30 seconds tops. I write this post as a DIYer and a self-builder. I'm in the middle of the full-on DIY experience, and that's why I chose Nulok. I dunno about where you are , but round here, ya jus' can't get the staff guv. It looks as if I might be able to manage it on my own . But then again..... The Delivery Note shows that the all up weight if the delivery was 2.7 tonnes. Imagine my delight then to have to handball it all off the side of the road myself. DIY can be a bit of a bastard sometimes. I have a trailer onto which we should have been able to simply slide the load off the wagon . But I was so exhausted on Sunday night, I didn't unload the last load from the trailer . That'll learn me, wunnit? 5.4 tonnes later (once onto the trailer, once off, 2 lots of 2.7) Can't take a joke? Shouldn'a started this self build should I? A decent Poldark-sweat later (Demelza would have swooned), I had both earned a sherbet, and the further hearty dislike of neighbours who had to slow down to drive past the load sitting in the road. Funny how the bin lorry could get past nay borra Jimmie ( he's Welsh) Up yours too pal. So, unvarnished here's some piccies. I'll be tekin' it slow (back hurts a bit) and posting my Laurel and Hardy-esque progress . Well just Laurel..... That's half the load(ish) for 88 square meters Here's the battens which are metal One pack of tiles is about 1 square meter. Each tile is 400 by 400. The tiles are supported by metal channels which sit either side of it. I hope to have recruited a young lad (lad was previously autocorrected to lady: I can wish) to give me a hand. But more of this later. Bettcha can't wait can ya?

Welcome. Here is what you need. Ian