Onoff Posted September 17, 2021 Author Posted September 17, 2021 Want to put some slip pins in between old and new slabs. Cut some 200mm long st/st rod and made some indents over half the length with a 3mm disc to key the resin. Other, smooth half will get a wrap of Denso tape to protect from the concrete.
Onoff Posted September 17, 2021 Author Posted September 17, 2021 Holes drilled and ready for resin. Quite impressed with my cheapo Hammer drill, bought when other drills had died drilling through the garage slab. Was a time you'd be looked down on for having a Titan, don't you have one @pocster? 1
SteamyTea Posted September 17, 2021 Posted September 17, 2021 1 hour ago, Onoff said: Well I've just tested negative So that is the chlamydia sorted, how is the COVID-19
Onoff Posted September 17, 2021 Author Posted September 17, 2021 5 minutes ago, SteamyTea said: So that is the chlamydia sorted, how is the COVID-19 ? Just a residual cough really now, worse at night.
SteamyTea Posted September 17, 2021 Posted September 17, 2021 1 minute ago, Onoff said: Just a residual cough really now, worse at night Shows that vaccination helps reduce symptoms. Still take it easy though.
ProDave Posted September 17, 2021 Posted September 17, 2021 I have a Titan mains powered SDS drill. Nearly 20 years old now, battered and well used but still going. On it's third set of motor brushes, and second (much longer) mains lead. I guess most people would have binned it and called it rubbish when the first brushes wore out?
Onoff Posted September 17, 2021 Author Posted September 17, 2021 B@ll@cks! I spoke too soon. Looks like I looked at my test stick too soon earlier today. Faint second line but it's there: I was surprised as still a little chesty.
dpmiller Posted September 17, 2021 Posted September 17, 2021 3 hours ago, Onoff said: B@ll@cks! I spoke too soon. Looks like I looked at my test stick too soon earlier today. Faint second line but it's there: I was surprised as still a little chesty. And that's why "proper" lateral flow tests use a reader...
Onoff Posted September 17, 2021 Author Posted September 17, 2021 55 minutes ago, dpmiller said: And that's why "proper" lateral flow tests use a reader... So the app says based on start of symptoms I can stop self isolating tomorrow, the 18th. Great, back to work, pub etc. However if I'm still testing positive with a bit of a cough then surely I'm still infectious? I might not cough, sneeze all day but it only takes one surely? Even when my cough has all but gone... This arbitrary 10 days self isolation seems more like a way of getting the country back to work with an underlying risk of still infected people spreading it.
Onoff Posted September 17, 2021 Author Posted September 17, 2021 I've just scored 8+, 4x4, reclaimed pine posts, each about 8 - 10': long. That's hopefully the frame and roof sorted.
Pocster Posted September 18, 2021 Posted September 18, 2021 9 hours ago, Onoff said: I've just scored 8+, 4x4, reclaimed pine posts, each about 8 - 10': long. That's hopefully the frame and roof sorted. To box the boiler in with ?
Onoff Posted September 18, 2021 Author Posted September 18, 2021 1 hour ago, pocster said: To box the boiler in with ? No, I've a metal staircase kit so thought I might make a temporary one from the. 4x4s whilst I dick about selecting fixings... ? 1
Onoff Posted September 20, 2021 Author Posted September 20, 2021 (edited) This is where I get bored and it starts to go slow. Doing the hardcore, got bloody great lumps I'm breaking up with a club hammer to get sort of level before the sand blind. Boring as Hell. It'd be much easier if smaller bits to start with. I've about 7 or 8 jumbo bags of assorted rubbly crap. Debating hiring a crusher one weekend to turn into a nice pile or ready to use Type 1, 2 esque. Would be handy when I do my drive. Blinded it with some all in one. Went over with the little Evolution electric whacker (the 5kN one). I'll round up a load of small sand, ballast etc plastic bags to lay down before the DPM as a bit of protection against some of the sharper stones: Still debating casting the dwarf wall... Edited September 20, 2021 by Onoff
Pocster Posted September 20, 2021 Posted September 20, 2021 36 minutes ago, Onoff said: Still debating casting the dwarf wall... What film is he in ? 1
Onoff Posted September 20, 2021 Author Posted September 20, 2021 25 minutes ago, pocster said: What film is he in ? I see what you did there! Needs work.
Onoff Posted September 26, 2021 Author Posted September 26, 2021 Bit more done. Forgot to take a pic with the A142 mesh down and bit of 4" soil pipe set level (filled with EPS), in one corner for future electrics. Just glad the mixer wasn't petrol/diesel: 1
Onoff Posted September 26, 2021 Author Posted September 26, 2021 F***ING crow / pigeon decided to run across the slab! ?
Onoff Posted September 28, 2021 Author Posted September 28, 2021 Found a good few 100mm Celcon blocks lying around, more than I thought I had. A bit of greenery on them, a few cuts and corners knocked off a couple where the faces have spalled. Some stock bricks too. I reckon I've enough to do a 3 sided dwarf wall similar to what I did for the original shed. Two things I'm concerned about though: 1) How to stop damp coming through them? Angle the dirt away, a bit of membrane tacked to the walls, French drain, gabions filled with flints etc? 2) The return corner where the pipe for (possible future) electrics is, that'll only be like a foot or so long then a doorway. Worried about an opening door cracking up that brick / block work corner...put the hinges the existing shed side? Hope that makes sense I'm on the 5.5% St Austell IPA!
Big Jimbo Posted September 28, 2021 Posted September 28, 2021 I don't know, but you have to do something now because you have splashed up the side of your existing shed you messy sod
Onoff Posted September 28, 2021 Author Posted September 28, 2021 8 minutes ago, Big Jimbo said: I don't know, but you have to do something now because you have splashed up the side of your existing shed you messy sod Wasn't me, @pocster visited! 1
Pocster Posted September 28, 2021 Posted September 28, 2021 33 minutes ago, Onoff said: Wasn't me, @pocster visited! Sorry ; couldn’t hold it in
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