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I don't think it's feasible to re-drill. There's not the meat plus when I trim to lower it, I'll end up with the slot open at the bottom. More likely a cut and shut job something like this:

It's sitting on a rafter. Can't see the point of the noggin idea. It's not done like that.

To show how far off the tile the bracket is.

Picked up the 14 stainless brackets earlier. At a fiver each, new old stock, I had to. I'll need to cut and shut to get them to sit down on the bottom tile: 18mm at the top, 16mm at the bottom: Rough plan is something like this and lop off the top L bit:

Garlic water may be the future! 😂 No signs this morning. Rinsed out an old de-icer spray last night, sprayed the plants and the ground around them. Only worry is whether the garlic mist will burn the leaves of the beans?

Belt and braces! I ordered some stainless brackets today to cut and shut as required. Collecting tomorrow all being well. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/224993609728

I would get a piece of the same size black flex, slit along it's length, remove the cores and use the resultant outer sheath to go over your exposed cores. Then wrap the whole lot in a decent self amalgamating tape.

Bit of a microclimate down here in this valley. Total sun trap in Summer when the Sun is high. A damp, frost pit in the winter when the Sun is low. Get a Northerly wind and it rips up it because of the orientation and can be horrendous.

The above photo with the red flowers, was taking late last night whilst out slugging. This of the potted runners. There were 3 or 4 snails of various sizes in the pot. 2 on the soil, one climbing a cane and one munching on a leaf. No slugs oddly. Saying that they seem fairly healthy. This morning I noted one runner has grown so long it would likely be up near 2m had the canes been long enough. It's grown like the proverbial bean stalk and doubled back on itself. SWMBO has just culled some bamboo so I might attempt to swap out the short sticks in the pot for these longer ones or transplant the whole lot into the ground and make a wigwam. As for the trenched beans. I've been lining the inside of the sleeper frame with 300mm dpc. To keep moisture in what is in effect a raised bed and protect the sleepers which aren't in the best condition rot wise anyway. Yesterday I started digging over and levelling. Plan is to de-stone and sieve that chalky pile on the right. Both to fill the enclosure up and clear the ground to the right. This ready to maybe extend the veg patch. With that dug over, moist soil last night I had maybe 4 slugs in the enclosure but none on the beans. There may be a reason for that. For the past couple of nights I've been applying "garlic water". A couple of cloves chopped & crushed, a litre of boiling water in a jug then left to steep and cool. You're supposed to strain and use a plant sprayer. I just strained and used this watering can ended bottle as SWMBO didn't want her plant sprayer stinking of garlic. I just doused the rough periphery of the bean patch. It's possibly working, time will tell. Last night the lawns looked like something from Tremors meets Riddick with the amount of slugs but the bean patch was pretty much devoid. The 3D printed, PETG connectors are not fairing well, delaying the netting going on. The whole frame is leaning and I've had one corner connector break twice. ABS might have been better but we haven't cracked printing that yet. I'm thus now using scrap steel sheet, zintec where possible, to reinforce all the junctions.

That's not Windolene...

Stops "them" listening in too 👍

Thanks for reminding me I need to go slugging tonight.

That's it, constructive criticism at it's best. Your technical insights are always welcome...

Could you not build another house with AC from the off?

"Shrink N Repair" if you can get it. Various tape round / heat up / shrink options: https://hilltop-products.co.uk/heat-shrink/heat-shrink-cable-repair-sleeves-tape.html

Again local, I can get these brackets and quite a few too, for reasonable £5 each. I'm thinking might give me more cutting and shutting options. Says they're for plain tiles though?

Thanks. I've just watched it. Would 6 brackets be ok to support 2 rails and 3 panels d'you think?

I can't see how the integrity of the tiles interlocking is kept if you don't. You almost want a concrete "router" bit to do a neat job.

You're all hart.

Thanks but it wasn't what I was getting at / concerned about 😂 I'm not fussed about the brackets lining up with the frame edges. Appreciate it's the rails the frames go on. My biggest worry / misunderstanding, is how the bracket section that comes from the the angle (that screws to the joist) goes under the tile above. Surely, unless you grind a groove in one or both tiles it'll keep the tile above "up", then be a route in for weather, insects, even vermin? 1 is how I see it without modding the tiles, 2 being the ideal:

Started looking at getting the 3 thermal panels on the roof at last. I went to get brackets a while back and they had sold out. A couple of photos and questions then. Just been out and took a tile off: It's nom 55mm to the peak: & 25mm to the recess: This typical bracket drawing shows adjustment from 44 to 54mm. I presume that bit sits down on the tile? In my case it wants to be more like 25mm though. Do you groove the tile so this bit of the bracket sits flush and doesn't lift the tile? I can get 6 of these brackets local, could they be made to fit?

The first pint of British Bulldog was no good, switched to Spirit Of Kent . @ProDave, any of these take your fancy: https://www.printables.com/search/all?q=Impeller

Can print the D shape hole with the ready tapped hole in the side...

Hope that makes sense, I have been to the: