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    We are just about to 'fit' ours. @Dudda's advice is exactly in line with what we have found out (but took years to do so ? ) Our flat roof build up is 'normal' : but you can bet your life I will be all over the nitty gritty detail. Not sure yet whether to have a GRP or EPDM top surface: there are horror stories and hymns of praise in equal measure for each . So, that makes me almost certain it's all about attention to detail. What's new?
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    Even I, working on my own, can do better than that. And that's saying something..... Have you paid for it yet? Hope not.
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    Thanks very much. Re and re-read time.
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    Could you give us a little more detail about that please? We won't be able to afford batteries for a little while, but I can foresee a time when we might we'll do so. In which case - rather like provision for a spare this-or-that elsewhere in the house - it would be good to make provision for the time when we can fit some battery capacity.
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    I'd patent that if I were you. Now the only problem that needs to be solved is the foam that dries in the threaded part ; especially where the can nozzle mates with the gun.
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    .... shouldn't be too hard - I know now, because I've done it before ? This time I want to keep the threaded bar (inserted horizontally into the hole) perfectly level while the chemical anchor dries. I'm thinking I need some of jig (or thingamajig even) to keep the threaded bar perfectly horizontal while the chemical dries. Anyone done summat like this before? I have 40 to insert.....
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    Bang on. That's why procrastination is actually useful , and sometimes very useful. I mean, we aren't talking undergraduate essay procrastination, we're talking about stuff that matters: hits us in the bank balance when we get it wrong. And thats why I agree so strongly with your last sentence
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    Really? I suppose 'taint what ya do , it's the way that ya do it.... that's what its all about Any public guidance for cladding anywhere?
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    Thats the one. Good enough for you, it's good enough for me.
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    That's enough for me, then. I'll refer the planners to your secretary then..... what was the phone number again?
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    Here's a screen grab of our architect's design: look at the orientation of the cladding...... If I want to change the orientation (of the cladding) on any face , do I have to ask anyone? The reason I want to change the orientation is to help make the East face ( image rhs above the green flat roof) more resistant to driving rain. I want to change it from vertical to horizontal. As some will have read, the east face is sometimes subjected to turbulent gales
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    You need to be reaaaallly wary of those. They fall out of the sky on their own. Regularly.
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    Internal.... wood only ?
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    If - once more - I have to go to the BM to buy just 200 screws, I'll go mad. But before I buy 2000 of the wrong size, which sizes will I use most?
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    Roofers are here until Saturday Gary. Do you need some help on Sunday? Ian
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    Knowing him, Nick, he'll want something more subtle - 'arty' (not to say farty)
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    No Nonsense cleaner works perfectly with Nonsense foam. Always
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    Welcome. If ever you are coming North on the M6, drop in. We are within sight of the Lake District. Anyone is always welcome. Ian
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    Well, I see you lot do not in fact have an answer to the question of what to do if you lose the little red widget at the end of the can...... So, I've had a brainwave. Yes indeed. But another gun and leave it permanently attached to the pressurised can of cleaning fluid. That way I always have the wherewithal to clean out my other dirty gun screw couplings! Simples! ( as NFW would say)
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    @Nickfromwales says he only needs his nails done once every other month....?
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    You'll know of my adventures with foam. ? And so you can imagine how careful I now am about using the stuff. Got more foam gun cleaner cans than cans of foam. Imagine then how I feel when the little spray attachment is as detachable as Trump's wig. It threatens to fall off as soon as you look at it. And when three fall off when on the top of the scaffolding to disappear into the maw of the mess that accumulates under the scaffolding. The little lanyard is about as thick as Donald Trump's skin : the spray attachment falls off at the slightest excuse. Who has solved this annoying little issue?
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    From the roof ridge I can see Black Coombe , Walney Island, the South Lakes , Clougha, Ward Stone, and the edges of the Howgills. From the ground, the nearest hedge.
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    We both have a wife. Taking as long as I wanted was a luxury which ended on the day I stopped being a bachelor.
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    Working for yourself, procrastination isn't. Procrastination becomes a problem only when others are involved in (in this context) our builds. And since we cannot avoid that, then, perhaps, procrastination needs to be renamed : scheduling or rescheduling. Being daily, and boringly predictably dog-tired, working on my own, I am eying the safety aspect of procrastination. Maybe procrastination has a good side to it.
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    Sometimes it's essential. Especially when you are working on your own. I'm just too tired to do what I need to within the time ' ... allowed ...' Do we set ourselves unrealistic ' ... targets ... ' as self-builders ? Just imagine if we were entirely realistic and accurate in target setting : there'd be no need for procrastination
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