joe90

I do, a digital BT telephone exchange system (after strowger). (See I am that old 🙄)

If the beads are external the glass usually has anti-removal brackets (so a burglar can’t remove the beads then the glass to gain access.)

Unless it’s not gone wrong, like my 21 year old zanussi.

Sorry outside my timeframe, I owe you one fir previous advice and I am more than willing 👍 i am sure you could find a wood shop near you that could knock this up, it’s not rocket science.

@Adsibob what is your time frame for this?, just re read the thread and I really like those brackets and think they will do an admiral job, (as long as it’s fixed to a solid brick/block wall 🤷‍♂️) as said above all I have to do is move and build my workshop!

Yes, all I need to do is move, build my new garage and set up the machines 🙄

But my workshop is all packed up at the moment, but could you get 2.5m in your car?

Just heard from the kit garage suppliers (very good at customer relations) and Tikkurila is what they found to be the best and can supply with the garage. However their colour choice is brown yellow or white 🤷‍♂️which is not great. Decision yet to be made!

Welcome, bring on the questions 👍

It’s a shame I am moving as I could knock these up for you in my workshop (that’s now stripped out ready to move) 🤷‍♂️

Well my oak conservatory was treated with that and it disappeared quite quickly so I was not impressed 🤷‍♂️

Now this is what is available from the garage supplier, yes expensive but I want a good job 👍

+1, I would not use MDF for shelves, ply is far better, just laminate it.

Can you give me a name please, want to look at all options.

I have been on the tinternet and Cuprinol garden shades gets very good reviews, no primer and 6 year life expected .

As some of you may know from my other thread I am thinking of building a wooden garage (because foundations etc will be difficult). It comes in kit form, log style 44mm thick, will look “pretty” as well. However it comes untreated (and I hate painting!). A lot of external wood/fence treatment is fir sawn wood (rough) but this is planed so will not absorb very well. So, any suggestion on what to use now that creosote is no longer allowed. ?

Only 25mm-50mm (depending on what you buy) and if the plastic is carried across the doorway no gap to the door and acts as a threshold to stop rain entering, most UPVC door frames have a plastic threshold like that.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/272103568671?var=0&mkevt=1&mkcid=1&mkrid=710-53481-19255-0&campid=5338268676&toolid=10044&customid=Cj0KCQiA6fafBhC1ARIsAIJjL8l-jFSG51HVxQh3AIiWJdQrRvTPrSGE2t8IgfdmxbLxmKkg7CyDiuoaAis9EALw_wcB Use for studding in damp conditions, or framing, or as a DPC at the foot of wood studding. The possibilities are endless, and this will never rot. Use it once and never think about it again. Maintenance free!

Perhaps I could set fire to it Japanese style , Shou Sugi Ban a lot of exterior wood treatment is for rough sawn timber and planed timber is different, shiny surface that does not “suck” treatment.

Thanks a bunch mate 🖕

That is my reservation, other “stick build” types (that look more agricultural) can come treated but they are over twice the price. Yes special paint/treatment is sold in various colours (I hate painting) but I could consider creosote (the old fashioned carcegenic stuff 😱). at my age it only has to last about 15 years till I am in my bath chair dribbling 🤣, masonry build with foundations difficult in my location and even more expensive and disruptive.

Ha, yes I will, especially for the garage door as my current one does leak in heavy rain. the T@G is duplicated as per pic below and like log builds the walls will shrink a little as the wood dries out, I think the corners will stop twisting . Any vertical timbers (door and window frame are fitted with slots to accommodate settlement.

I found the EA very helpful when applying fir my discharge from our STP.

Difficult to lay a slab with sloping sides 🤷‍♂️ Correct, plastic 25mm between slab and “logs” Just replacing the treated timber sole plate (25mm x 50mm) with plastic, mastic underneath to stop water ingress (DPC), mastic on top to stop water ingress in join from plastic to timber.

Garage specs say slab 200mm bigger than garage each side so a plastic bearer (on some form of “glue” will stop water ingress.) plus the bottom “log” sat on mastic of some sort. Not if the “plastic” continues across the doorway to stop water ingress as a threshold strip. (25mm).