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Should rename you Roy Castle!

Decided I need a longer than average trash picker befitting someone of my stature. This after a spot of civic duty earlier. I took it upon myself to collect the recyclables along the 1/2 mile stretch outside my house. AONB my arse! ? There were plenty of cans just out of reach in the hedgerows. Found a business end, claw thing on Yeggi that uses a 10 or 15mm dia tube as the main shaft. Printed both options but it'll be based around 15mm copper pipe: There was no design for a handle though so I came up with this. Just a render here, being printed at the moment. My lad did the chequering on the model I did:

Being pedantic... With a relay coil shouldn't R be substituted by Z?

Once you've felted that and got the slates on you won't even see them! ?

Or get the T-shirt / mug.

I just looked at various ideas on YouTube and did my own take. Just old collected angle, channel, box and tube, a bit of conduit. The hinges turned from 8.8 bolts. I knew all this tat would come in handy one day! ?

I ran a stack of 4x2 packing timbers (radiata pine from NZ) through a table saw to get nom 2x1s. No issue at all really.

Thought you'd finished?

Came out amazingly well. He wrapped the pallet shed in a breathable felt part roll bought cheap. Then screwed the cladding onto battens (made from the same mill off cuts) with cheapo silver screws from SF. Paid no real attention to getting the screws in line etc. Hasn't particularly cracked or warped. It was pretty green when it went on too. Crecote over the top since. Tiles were freebies on the back. Someone's old front door, scrap windows. St/st hinges from me. Inside, more pallets:

Not mine but the nephew's pallet shed I helped with: Cladding, fascia etc is scrap from a log mill:

I meant turning a 4x2 into two 4x1s.

Ooh I do like a bit of scrap and skip diving! Rolling draw for steel offcuts: Sheet metal folder: Pallet buster: Tote from a cut down oil can: Pipe de-coiler: Solar thermal panel: Then there's the unfinished ones... Mini scissor lift: Electric wacker plate: Rotary converter:

...so if the original roof trusses were 2" thick did you cut them down to 1" or something?

The crusher is really noisy. You might drop a few bottles round to the neighbours beforehand! ? @Gone West on here pretty much dismantled his bungalow on his own and Freegled etc loads of stuff and people took it! He also hired a crusher. Can't remember how much but he produced a bloody great pile to spread around. You might salvage timbers for a later workshop build etc.

They're building half a dozen detached mansions on the old golf course club house site near me. Had a huge crusher in and all the old brickwork, tiles and concrete went through it to be used as over site I believe. Tidy job. I thought such re-use ticked a box?

@paul evenden have a look at this thread:

If the bricks come out clean stack them and advertise on Freegle or similar. Lose the mortar in the over site. Why not keen on using recycled stuff? It's eco friendly for a start. If you forget the diesel for the crusher, the lorry taking it away etc ?

It's a big "thing" on here. Absolutely magic. Forget any pretenders. The rubber or whatever they're made off will take wet silicone of a tile cleanly. I've got this basic kit. Picked at random: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Cramer-Grouting-Silicone-Profiling-Applicator/dp/B07H8K5W8D/ref=asc_df_B07H8K5W8D/?

Fugi Cramer tool for me. Makes glass cleaner unnecessary.

Edit: Double post, I'm not well.

The pc term I believe is porg now. (Tom Sharpe rip).

Imho... Tiles should come down to the bath. Even if it meant bringing the wall where there's a gap out, with an extra layer of Aqua Panel etc. Before that last tile, bath gets half filled with water to simulate a person in it. Clear CT1 around the bath wall joint. Let it set...like 36hrs. Drain the water. Tiles come down to the bath with a 1mm gap. Pull out the 1mm shims and more CT1 in the gap. Wipe off the excess with baby wipes. Let it set. Then a silicone of your choice that's relatively easily removed and renewed in the future. Good luck when the bath trim goes yellow and manky. The trim adds another (unnecessary) component. Tbh though not many "professionals" will want to spend that much time on the job.

That's too much a black and white view. It may be wise to spend the £1000s now and be done with it. The £10s you're saving will only increase with time. You're insulating against more than heat loss, but energy price increases, shortages etc.

I came across details of this masonary heater in Finland that gets built into the core of the house. Comes in kit form, special stone. The heat seems to take a convoluted path to warm the big stone mass. Might interest @scottishjohn. Wonder if you could make one from granite, that'd be cool (no pun intended). A couple of pictures taken from the link: There's a whole load on the history of them the guy has put up on the link below: https://www.mig-welding.co.uk/forum/threads/a-look-at-my-masonry-heater.117942/#post-1973086

When I was playing with my solar thermal heater from soda cans I burnt my hand on the output. That works I thought. ? see ? do here.