It's as much effort if not worse to try and steam it. Sanding was a 60grit RO with headphones on so slightly more bearable...
Not very manly of me but I've got someone coming over to finish off some work I startedhopefully he does a semi-reasonable job, 'good' is probably too much to ask for these days isn't it?
What base is that on? Is this just a shed?Thought i'd add some pics of what i've been doing this week.
Front batterns and cladding still to go on, and then the polycarbonate roof (10mm opal) and guttering. 25mm polystyrene with OSB over for flooring being delivered later in the week. Then I can get the doors and window sorted and start on the internal insulation and boarding which will likely be SF6 multifoil and OSB to stiffen everything up.
Been quite a good project so far, I have trouble with lifting heavy items so this choice of materials has really helped move things along and up my confidence in doing things again.
Yes it's a shed/workshop for furniture restoration. The base is decking which has a 4x4 c24 frame and centre beam.
I just can't find the time to do it, although I do seemingly spend a lot of time on here...I had someone over to fitting some skirting and architrave... honestly I should have done it myself. Will definitely do the downstairs myself when I reach that point. One of the corners has about an inch gap! They just put a load of caulking in it
The base will rot out eventually, why not just go whole hog?
When you say "the whole hog" what do you mean/anticipate?
Yeah I guess that's my point. It will rot...and given the investment to build on top of it, why not make it permanent?
I guess that was for me? I've binged watched pretty much every oakwood video so rods, ground screw or concrete. Each of which will last forever, versus a base whichll not last forever (in my simple man maths).
The cost of these structures though, you need to be getting over short term pain e.g. concrete pads. Liam posted a video the other day of a palet ot cedar and it was like 5 grand. Materials alone for a good size one are 6k.
Had a trim of the hedge, used to use a battery one but invested in a Stihl.
I see a lot of posts on here where people pay for basic gardening, I don't get it, the Stihl is amazing especially with the Stihl pre mix (that can be left over winter in the cutter)
The lawn mower is battery though, awesome thing, had it years
Holy post revival batman! After having so many hedge trimmers failing, I've been hiring Stihl long reach cutters, but the price keeps going up so I'm considering shelling out £700 on my own. At least then I can do all my hedges bit by bit rather than killing myself doing them all in one weekend
Do you have to get them serviced, and how long have you been running them? I do worry buying petrol cutters and only using them 3 times a year. I like the idea keeping the pre-mix in the cutters, is that an official Stihl recommendation
