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    Here's the experiment; the aim is to reduce the risk of the threaded bar being stuck in the concrete - and thus eliminate the cold bridges that would have been formed by the bar being stuck. This is how I set the experiment up As simple box with a few threaded bars, each exposed to the same size gap as the one in the Durisol blocks Each bar except one was coated with a 'release agent' illustrated; except one (as a control) I used a standard 1:3:3 concrete mix and after mixing appropriately, filled the box After 4 hours (when back from the pub) it was easy with @JSHarris set up (see earlier post) to withdraw (unscrew) the bars: the one with no release agent was noticeably more 'sticky' And the same effect was obvious just now (0920 the following day) This isn't anything like a scientific test: more a 'quick and dirty indication' I'm encouraged that there is at least the likelihood of being able to withdraw the bars, and so to eliminate the cold bridges. The job now is to get the release agent into the bars that have already been fitted. A job for tomorrow. Today's our wedding anniversary, so we're off to St Annes Kite Festival, and fish and chips on the sea front. I know how to treat a girl right!
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    Stuff it Bonnie, you do it. I did the last lot.
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    All will become clear when I post some piccies later tonight, or maybe tomorrow, (in the pub at the moment), and just a teeny weeny bit drunkish......
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    Like "Take this rubbish down and rebuild it: and while you are at it you can forget that invoice you've just submitted."
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    Aha! That's the idea which sells them to me.....
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    What's the feeling about trainers, boots or shoes which have composites as protection ? (i.e. What my dad would have called Tupperware) Or is footware containing composite protection too new for a consensus to emerge? I'm thinking that anything that saves weight, while providing proper protection, is a good idea.
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    My Stihl work boots (used every day) have given up the ghost: the heel assembly has parted company with the sole. German manufactured. Their MD has got a fairly shirty email from me. 2 years old. German quality indeed. So I'm in the process of buying other safety footwear while those boots are sent back to Germany. Boots, shoes, or trainers? All can be had with composite protection - and so significantly lighter than their steel predecessors. It strikes me as a problem analogous to the one I faced while fell running up here. We'd sometimes get people pointing out that we weren't wearing boots (like good feel walkers should). I have run on the fells since I was eight, always worn fell shoes, and twisted an ankle just once in 50 years. No need for boots. Will, for our purposes, self-building, composite protected trainers or shoes do for us?
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    Nightmare.... for a variety of reasons.
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    @Pete, I admire your technique. I used the same one today. Debbie hoisted a couple of tonnes of blocks by hand up 30 feet to our top scaffolding . And will do the same again tomorrow. Guess what I want for Christmas?
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    @MikeSharp01, you should know better than to come on BH and ask stoooooopid questions like that. I mean, who is going to say, "Naaah mate, just struggle on with a teaspoon, that'll do: I used a bent one, it was free cos I found it in the gutter: I sharpened it by rubbing it on a mermaid's thigh for 6 weeks." Instead you get: Bingo.... "Look Darling, Jeremy says we should get one, so I'm off down the BM...... OK?
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    OK, ok, ok, I'm the first official braille welder.... Who can say that they are an official braille welder eh? You? Nahhhh, See.
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    I'd be ashamed if I put that up. I'll post it to you though as an official BH trophy IF you can show me (on BH) that you can weld any better. Stick welder, any old bit of angle iron.... Weld the words Welding God, you may within the rules use any stick welding kit, any welding rod any angle iron grind off any black bits Prize? Recognition of The Honour and the Glory of welding something well. And @PeterW will buy you a pie.
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    Harumph..... If proof were needed here it is @Russell griffiths I am indeed a welding God after all! So there. Let that be a lesson to ya! (We all gotta start somewhere)
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    There are some things that you really should not tell people like me. And arc cutting rods is one of those things. The sheer magnitude of the damage I could do with that doesn't bear thinking about. It will fuel part of my fantasy life for a long time. And after that, well....
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    For those of us who, like me, have no idea what a counter batten might be, have a look at this
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    A few photos would help, or a Google Maps reference....
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    Blistering up nicely now. Never mind. @Russell griffiths will get his comeuppance; revenge best served cold eh?
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    Exactly . 's war I'm gonna do baby.... What an excellent idea
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    The old iron pipe acts as the slide hammer, yes?
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    No you're not, not in the least bit sorry. Just wait until you need some welding doing, then you'll be sorry
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    Declan, behave yourself , this is serious.... And you Pete...
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    Ha! This problem is almost fun now. Its kind of you all to pitch in....
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    Quite a bit of the job is left to finish. It's 12mm threaded bar, @ProDave. I'd need approximately 14mm (o/d) conduit inserted in 16mm hole : my SDS+ is 16mm. Is it possible to get 14mm o/d conduit? I've looked, and can't find any.... yet How about Heat Shrink .... 13mm. That should do it.
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    Thanks J. Pouring at 2.30 is, so Sparrow's Hiccup next morning, then. And, in relation to our pour, the hole size is small - so the stone would block the hole pretty quickly. Anyway, looks like a very early rise the following morning. Excellent. I really am so grateful for all the help. Ian
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    Hi @Russell griffiths: that was going to be my fall-back strategy. There's no need to (normally) cover Durisol (u0.15)....
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