Pig heavy shower tray

[Pocster]

Many years ago ( before the build ) I slipped my disc . Since then twisting / bending have been limited and painful if I push . Strength is fine if I protect my back - I can bench press 100kg . But if standing up I try and put 20kg above my head my lower back has an issue .

So - extra caution with heavy things .... ????

[joe90]

8 minutes ago, pocster said:

Many years ago ( before the build ) I slipped my disc . Since then twisting / bending have been limited and painful if I push . Strength is fine if I protect my back - I can bench press 100kg . But if standing up I try and put 20kg above my head my lower back has an issue .

So - extra caution with heavy things .... ????

fair comment!

[Pocster]

1 minute ago, joe90 said:

fair comment!

If I was just doing a bathroom I’d struggle and strain to get the tray in with no winch . Building an entire underground house on your own is hard work - I do *try* and make it easier ?? ; I just have the knack of making it look even harder ?

[joe90]

When I worked fir a major comms company I was pissed off with all the “acronyms” being used, however the one I liked and continue to use is “ work smarter not harder”. 

[Mr Punter]

49 minutes ago, pocster said:

I had to move one of my walk on glazing units at 150kg on my own

 

Oh well, congratulations on selling it at last!

[Mr Punter]

I have been looking forward to this thread coming alive again.  Please post pictures - good, bad or ugly.

[Ferdinand]

33 minutes ago, pocster said:

If I was just doing a bathroom I’d struggle and strain to get the tray in with no winch . Building an entire underground house on your own is hard work - I do *try* and make it easier ?? ; I just have the knack of making it look even harder ?

 

Badgers and rabbits don't seem to have these problems...

[Ferdinand]

11 minutes ago, Mr Punter said:

 

Oh well, congratulations on selling it at last!

 

What ?

 

?

[Onoff]

36 minutes ago, pocster said:

I just have the knack of making it look even harder ?

 

You set up 'em up lad! ?

[Pocster]

1 hour ago, Onoff said:

 

You set up 'em up lad! ?

I am just a man doing the impossible...

[Pocster]

Preliminary test !

 

Need more straps !

Also - problem how to hook potentially 4 strap ends around the hook .

 

Suggestions welcome !  

[Onoff]

D shackles or karibiners onto the single hook. 

[Pocster]

48 minutes ago, Onoff said:

D shackles or karibiners onto the single hook. 

Ordered 

 

Also I ordered a 1 metre strap . Plan being I can then thread the other 2 straps ( 4 ends ) all onto the 1 metre one - then that to the hook 

Edited September 30, 2020 by pocster

[Gav_P]

Is that a black shower tray?? I have a feeling you will be able to rent the space out for ‘specialist’ movies to be filmed in there! 

bow chicka wow wow! ?

[Pocster]

53 minutes ago, Gav_P said:

Is that a black shower tray?? I have a feeling you will be able to rent the space out for ‘specialist’ movies to be filmed in there! 

bow chicka wow wow! ?

? Black with SPARKLES! - just wait until the bubble wrap is all off ( and my winch doesn't fail and smash it )

[Onoff]

5 minutes ago, pocster said:

Black with SPARKLES!

 

He likes his shower trays like his men!

[Pocster]

1 minute ago, Onoff said:

 

He likes his shower trays like his men!

I must relocate that camera!

[Pocster]

1 hour ago, pocster said:

I must relocate that camera!

@Onoff has seen too much already ! . 

[Onoff]

2 hours ago, pocster said:

@Onoff has seen too much already ! . 

 

Like Sam Neill in Event Horizon me! 

[Pocster]

Hmmmmmmmmm 

[Mr Punter]

How are you going to remove the straps and the bubblewrap after this is on the ground?  Surely this can't be so heavy that you can't lift one end or a couple of people to help move it into final position?  It is not Stonehenge you big jessie.

[Ferdinand]

33 minutes ago, Mr Punter said:

How are you going to remove the straps and the bubblewrap after this is on the ground?  Surely this can't be so heavy that you can't lift one end or a couple of people to help move it into final position?  It is not Stonehenge you big jessie.

 

You have not got this at all.

 

He will be leaving them there so he has something to tie things down with.

[Temp]

Last one I did I could barely move on my own. After mortaring the floor I put two battens down at 1/3 and 2/3 of the width like  |  | .  Then stood tray on edge on the battens and got it so it was leaning up against far wall. Lowered it down onto the battens. Then put a crowbar under a corner and raised it enough to pull a batten out. Repeated for other corner and battern. Worked a treat. The battens werent much thicker than the mortar.

[Pocster]

2 hours ago, Mr Punter said:

How are you going to remove the straps and the bubblewrap after this is on the ground?  Surely this can't be so heavy that you can't lift one end or a couple of people to help move it into final position?  It is not Stonehenge you big jessie.

It's a dog to move. As a LL I obviously have no friends to start with .

Batons was my approach once I'm ready to lay it down in it's final position.

[Pocster]

Well !

Thanks to @Onoff ‘s suggestion of those clamps . Got the tray up . Don’t trust the winch 1 inch as it grinds , spurts , stalls like it’s dying - a quality eBay purchase .

Cut a hole in the opposite wall so I could get a length of timber under . Winch now taking zero of the strain . Bit low - but I couldn’t easily go higher . At least I can get under it now ?