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Sir, may I interest you in the Apple/IPad thread...

Whilst we’re on the subject of Fanboism, I bought a couple of plain old Sonos Play 1s (bargain) at Xmas (Alexa can frank bough). They have been an absolute revelation. I admit I had failed to fully grasp the concept before. Using a Bluetooth speaker had been acceptable but I found my phone often interrupted, alerts etc. The Sonos speaker is an internet radio/streamer that I control with my phone so it sorts itself out I just pick what I want.

We don’t get snow down here. Too warm with all the Chelsea tractor fumes. theres really not much to see till the shed goes on. By the sixth bag of postcrete I’d worked out how to do it, I.e. just leave it alone. It is a far more accurate construction than some studwork I had to do in the house...

@Ferdinand will be able to help as the EPC rating of a rental will need to meet as those regulations tighten. Wall insulation may be required in the future anyway. @Temp beat me to it. Worth considering the future impacts before rushing into hasty decisions now that require (expensive) re-work later

I am making Onoff magnitude increments of progression here. I had a 8’x6’ picture frame concreted into the ground at the start of the weekend and I now have a floor structure with joists and noggins and the scaffold board flooring sized ready for screwing down. TRADA tells me that 4”x2” is ok for a 6’ span. Well, maybe if I was using proper joist hangers... but once fully ’nogged’ it’s fine. Will be solid with the boards on top. Only fly in the ointment is that this nominal 8’x6’ shed is bigger than that so I need an extra 2-3” of floor width than the anticipated 8 board widths. So I’m going have a fashion some sort of fence arrangement to trim slices off another board for filling one or more gaps. so far this has cost about £50 for wood (10 x 2.5m C16 green treated 4x2 + 2.4m of 4x4 fence post), 6 bags of postcrete, approx £27 and small heavy duty brackets, £12 and some landscape fabric, £15. I have rooted round for fasteners from my stash, some 100mm screws I won’t use elsewhere and a box of clearance SS wood screws which helps a little. Saves money but also means 0.00032m2 less stuff to store in the shed when it’s finally built. A new new roof will be the budget buster but I’d don’t think I’ll be doing that for a bit. The galvanised ridges salvaged off the old garage will cover the gap in the roof for a few months.

I just don’t think a low watt tube heater would do the job as this need drying effort not keeping a chill off. Dehumidifier would be more appropriate but £££

Some of the boards have rotten sections that I won’t be using but think there’s enough meat in the others to work over 400mm centres on a timber frame base once they’re dried out a bit.

How to dry out a shed? My shed components are damp/wet and the floor - old scaffold boards - have been in the garden uncovered for years. Fair to say they’re soaked. I anticipate the shed will be watertight but nowhere near airtight. It’s needs a new roof covering which will be EPDM when the weather improves. without a purpose built shed heating device, I am tempted to light the bbq and leave it is the shed overnight for several nights to kickstart the drying process before using it. Of course I won’t burn it down, it’s far too wet to burn... any obvious ideas I’m missing?

^ This. Bought 3 matching bulbs for a set of 3 pendants, no cheap (BEL from Edwardes?) and one blew after a short period. Replacements are both a different shape/size and different colour.

Just ask them to put a functioning drill in your pristine box and send the broken drill and a broken box to landfill/Ebay job lot.

Just append "re-visited" to the thread title...

whaddaya mean? I re-homed the playhouse and re-felted the roof in the rain over Chrimbo* in preparation for the shed build. I was going to do it this weekend but its probably too cold for concrete posting and the wife is working. need the shed so I can clear the utility room and we can fit that out and maybe sort the remains of the heating.

This is how my ensuite bathroom will be done - in 20 years. Still, it will be finished before @Onoff

I am certain it is the inappropriate use and inadequate maintenance that have killed it. I am tempted to get it repaired. I have never heard a vacuum cleaner blowing like a misfiring car nor see it shoot sparks. It is lucky I was stood next to her at the time as she would have continued until the smoke alarm went off and probably longer.

Well, the wife blew up the dyson last night... a DC29 approaching 7 years old

I think rich tea are the wrong biscuit to be looking at. What’s their aspect ratio? 10:1? Would need a massive house for that to work. For pleb houses you’d be looking at something with the proportions of an Oreo and that does not have the same elegance. Spot the difference?

I was thinking its just the same principle as decking. Maybe I should use some decking boards for the floor too instead of a double layer of thin OSB2. spent the day re-assembling the kids playhouse which meant also re-felting the roof. and we’ve shifted 2 FIBCs off cheap bark that we’re sat where the shed needs to go.

Having decided that I’d rather do this in the middle of winter than the summer... the ground isnt level, it gently slopes toward the brook at the bottom of the garden and I don’t really have anywhere for the spoil at the moment. I wonder whether its reasonable to create a timber base frame, 8’x6’ (400mm ctrs) and then raise it off the ground with 6 short 100mmx100mm posts, post-creted in? 6 holes dug, drop the frame on, prop it level just off the ground, then fill the holes with post Crete. how does that sound? question, how do you stop wildlife getting under the frame?

Things that didn’t work in 2017: my work ethic. roll on 2018

2 things from a novice. BCO advised that insulation was not required in stud walls with a doorway but I did anyway (slab type) and very unscientifically think it makes a difference. Ditto ceiling areas where the builder put limited amounts of fluff (10kg/m3) do not seem to be as effective as parts where I put slab (30+kg/m3). (Although in reality there is unlikely to be a 100mm fill in the builder's fluff parts. The ceiling needs to come down to resolve but I do not have the heart for it.)

Will have to be later

I may have to speak to my children over Christmas but at least I won’t deliberately deprive them of secure, affordable housing...

I need one of these stickers for the telegraph pole on my street. Some Phuquit in a van yesterday has connected my phone number to my neighbour and we’ve lost our internet which is no much good when you stream your entertainment. Chances if getting that resolved before Xmas? Slim...

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