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Just suggested to my brother we get Dad one. Brother informs me he alreay has one. The worry is I've made him tea up there!

Think I’ll go and glue some coping stones incorrectly. Anyone want to buy crazy paving ? Ffs .

Do have a link for that?

Nah, got to be The Goodies and the Beanstalk for me.

I tell you what, I reckon this gardening lark is good for mental health. I read somewhere about doctors prescribing it for such. Must admit after a day of filling the trench, sorting stones, breathing in "dirt" etc I felt quite chipper yesterday. I want to "ring fence" the veg plot. I need it defined by a boundary to give me something to focus on. 8"x4" sleepers would be the ideal but that's out on cost. I wonder if treated scaffold boards, on edge would work? I need something anyway to clip my twin wire, electric snail deterrent to and the eventual frame that's going to go over the whole area.

As I'm filling the trench / clearing the ground I'm pulling up this ground ivy. There's masses of it. Usually you grab a bit and a 6' long tendril comes up. However bits of it are breaking off and a good number of bits I'm sure have gone into the trench. I'm worried these will re-seed and grow in my new veg patch. Am I right to worry?

Personally I'd only bed them on a full mortar bed. Heavily laden with SBR. I'd then pipe the joints with the same stuff. Do it properly or water will get under them, freeze, expand and loosen them over not too long a time.

You look different without your flat cap on! 😂

I've done exactly what you're advocating, that is got the packers level and CT1'd in place. Then slopped the mortar on. Put the "stones" on and they will only bed as far as the packers. Just can't recall where I used the technique. Not sure if shrinkage will be an issue as mortar/ concrete shrinks back a bit I believe.

Flints anyone? Got miles of ground ivy that's migrated from next door to clear then some conifer cuttings to burn. Must make that 50 gal drum incinerator.

Raked the wood ash across the base of the trench, started backfilling, removing the big flints as I went . Chucked a 100 litres of bagged compost in, more soil, more raking. Cut the lawn, chucked the cuttings in, raked, more soil. Got bored. Stopped. More tomorrow. Got a couple of compost bins can go in. Will hopefully get my Czar runner beans in pots tomorrow. I have no idea what I'm doing. Am making frame connectors in green PETG. This to make a bfo netted frame o/of the miles of 25mm steel box section I have.

Disclean.

As there's a skin the other side i.e the non cut side of the foam I'm hoping that will provide the airtightness. Primer at the ready, got some battens ready too for bracing.

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I rest my case, you must be beating them off with a sh!tty stick! 😂

Is that your back alley on the right? Looks quite tight for getting anything up there.

Bet you're a proper fanny magnet! 😂

That seems good. Is that including the VAT? From Fixings Warehouse where I got mine it'd be £133.20 delivered. Watch for the use by date on the can. All December 2023 on the 4 I bought here.

OK I concede. Illbruck FM330 is whole different can of foam! To trim the excess I struggled to cut it with my normal fine toothed hand saw or the couple of old bread knives that are my usual goto. Resorted to the 18V Fakita multi tool. It's weird. Not like the crunchy run of the mill expanding foam. This stuff is like rubberised merengue...but in a good way. Not sure if when you cut into the shiny top skin you bugger the airtightness properties? I suspect not. It's bloody tough stuff!

No sh!t... 😂 Aren't there 3rd party outfits whereby you can get around this?

Wet, tacky or dry?

Schneider board wasn't it?

@Nickfromwales, what's the score then with using this Illbruck FM330 to stick the Marmox boards on? I was thinking: - Dry fit the boards and masking tape the upvc frame. - Measure and cut some batten cross braces to wedge the boards into position - Water spray both surfaces Then the main one: - Foam the 4 edges of each board will meet the wall and some lines in between at say 300mm centres? Aiming to go soffit, sill then sides. I'll shim the battens as required to tweak things plumb. When done, sharp blade to cut through any foam and the masking tape. On the assumption this foam is airtight I won't need a membrane around the reveal I'm thinking?

You'll be going all rcbo I trust?

Not wet, wet, just where I'd foamed a layer and let set then sprayed with water and foamed again I think.