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What's the piece of dowel for?
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A guide to run along the post and rail fencing
My back is still far from right 3.5 weeks on.... but today I finally managed to get back on my folks' outbuilding roof. Working solo, getting the membrane on and stapled in a light breeze without any help was a PITA, but I've managed to get the bottom run of membrane on, and the battens on & spaced to secure it.
If its calm (& my back doesn't rebel too much) I might be able to get another row of membrane & batten on solo tomorrow.
If its calm (& my back doesn't rebel too much) I might be able to get another row of membrane & batten on solo tomorrow.
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Better than Vauxhall Main Dealer standards !
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Better than most Main Dealer standards !
Iffy
. It's OK ish, not too bad when warmed up, but harder going as range of motion / stiffness intrudes. It's not as bad as it was for sure - the worst is as soon as you rest or stay in one position it stiffens up. As you can see - I didn't achieve a heck of a lot, but felt knackered by the time I finished & packed up.
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Roofing is much easier with a helper.Iffy
Did you use sarking felt where it drops into the gutter? You need lats at the bottom too, assume you know, but if you dont!
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Our fridge freezer keeps leaking water. I had a quick look at the evaporator in the bottom a few weeks ago and it had obviously not seen water for a long time. Simple, just clean out the drain in the back of the fridge, no not quite so simple, its a frost free dual humidity zone fridge and the drain isn't visible.
The missus decided to call out an engineer as I was distracted in the workshop
I kept an eye on him so I could find out how he got into the back of the fridge as access wasn't obvious. He used a hot air gun to defrost what I think is the condenser and unfreeze the drain. My knowledge of fridges tends to be limited to drinking the beer that it keeps cool.
He fixed it briefly but it happened again a few weeks later.
So my turn. I think this is the condenser thingamabob that keeps the fridge frost free. But its frozen up. This is behind a panel you access from inside the fridge.
As is the drain hole
And this bit of metal was hanging around.
I believe it hangs off the bottom pipe and should be in the drain, the bottom pipe being a bit warmer so it keeps the drain hole unfrozen.
Metal thingy now in t'hole, all defrosted, drain hole cleaned with a long flexible brush and all reassembled, let's see if I'm right.
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The missus decided to call out an engineer as I was distracted in the workshop
I kept an eye on him so I could find out how he got into the back of the fridge as access wasn't obvious. He used a hot air gun to defrost what I think is the condenser and unfreeze the drain. My knowledge of fridges tends to be limited to drinking the beer that it keeps cool.
He fixed it briefly but it happened again a few weeks later.
So my turn. I think this is the condenser thingamabob that keeps the fridge frost free. But its frozen up. This is behind a panel you access from inside the fridge.
As is the drain hole
And this bit of metal was hanging around.
I believe it hangs off the bottom pipe and should be in the drain, the bottom pipe being a bit warmer so it keeps the drain hole unfrozen.
Metal thingy now in t'hole, all defrosted, drain hole cleaned with a long flexible brush and all reassembled, let's see if I'm right.
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I wish I understood your post
!Does that answer your question
?I've never heard of Sarking Felt, nor know what you mean by Lats at the bottom.
(It is arranged so it has half-slates inverted at the bottom, which sit on the wall plate & overhang by 2" to allow for a fascia board & guttering if that helps? The fascia board sits proud of the rafters so with the battens on should let the slates sit properly).
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The felt is the bottom row of membrane that hangs into the gutter, as the membrane rots if its wet all the time. You put a second batton on at the bottom too carry the half slate, the full slate then sits over the top nailed to an adjacent lat.I wish I understood your post
Does that answer your question
I've never heard of Sarking Felt, nor know what you mean by Lats at the bottom.
(It is arranged so it has half-slates inverted at the bottom, which sit on the wall plate & overhang by 2" to allow for a fascia board & guttering if that helps? The fascia board sits proud of the rafters so with the battens on should let the slates sit properly).
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Thanks for confirming my assumption
I don't believe he did, but could be wrong. He wasn't there long, about 50 mins all in. Took me about 2 hours but that included emptying, refilling and cleaning.
I guess that testing it may be the next step if it continues to wee everywhere. Is thd heater a generic part or tend to be make/model specific?
Ah. No, I've only got the std membrane.
I have a batten to affix the half-slate in place, & another for the full slate to fly over the half-slate.
Maybe it's ok to assume that if it's creating puddles it must be melting the ice. I think the parts are make/model specific as there are lots of shapes/sizes - I replaced one about 5 years ago and had to order it via fridge model number.
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I bet you did!Iffy
Look after it, movement is usually key
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My little trusty 3/4" impact did die at the end of February maybe
Anyways it was months thrown in a corner waiting to be checked to understand what went wrong with it, after dieing during action, it just stopped working while disassembling a big excavator hammer loosening 55mm head bolts.
Having to replace the axles on my car I think I might need it to break free the 36mm nuts but since it was broken I've opened it up and as I've imagined a connector got loose due to the very high vibrations (it has a 2kg hammer spinning really fast), so I've reconnected tested and made sure it wouldn't get loose again easily I've glued it in place and reassembled.
It was an easy fix but I was little bit scared about something else just blew off.
That's because the eBay seller disappeared and other yofidra sellers don't have any replacement parts.
And Makita parts on AliExpress are extremely expensive and not even the exact right replacement component for my specific clone model.
Anyways it's now operational again so I can use it on my little Punto or to cause a little earthquake
Anyways it was months thrown in a corner waiting to be checked to understand what went wrong with it, after dieing during action, it just stopped working while disassembling a big excavator hammer loosening 55mm head bolts.
Having to replace the axles on my car I think I might need it to break free the 36mm nuts but since it was broken I've opened it up and as I've imagined a connector got loose due to the very high vibrations (it has a 2kg hammer spinning really fast), so I've reconnected tested and made sure it wouldn't get loose again easily I've glued it in place and reassembled.
It was an easy fix but I was little bit scared about something else just blew off.
That's because the eBay seller disappeared and other yofidra sellers don't have any replacement parts.
And Makita parts on AliExpress are extremely expensive and not even the exact right replacement component for my specific clone model.
Anyways it's now operational again so I can use it on my little Punto or to cause a little earthquake
What was broken, I have the 1/2" version.
