badabec
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Go on, what is it?
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addjunkie
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A van like that was caught with stolen cars being stripped down on the road and shells push out back in the 80s in the toon.
But I too am interested in what going inside.
Trying to fix...
Spent yesterday replacing some soft vertical rafters on the outbuilding roof, only to find that the outer two for the overhang & weather board... were hiding rotted purlin ends where the run through the wall.
So I've got to try & faff about now splicing in some new purlin ends before I can replace the rafters, slap some Creosote over the lot, & try to get some membrane tacked on.
It's due to rain this afternoon as well.
Idiot question.... does it matter which way up breathable membrane goes?
Spent yesterday replacing some soft vertical rafters on the outbuilding roof, only to find that the outer two for the overhang & weather board... were hiding rotted purlin ends where the run through the wall.
So I've got to try & faff about now splicing in some new purlin ends before I can replace the rafters, slap some Creosote over the lot, & try to get some membrane tacked on.
It's due to rain this afternoon as well.
Idiot question.... does it matter which way up breathable membrane goes?
The_Yellow_Ardvark
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what are you using to treat the woodworm/rest of the wood?
a mate swears by this stuff https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/133240063739
I've used some myself, looks like it worked well - but I was lucky, stripped out the infected stuff and the rest looked ok, was more treating as a precaution than anything else
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What was the excuse, practicing Pit Stops?
addjunkie
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Dunno, they were nicking XR2s and 3s, stripping them, and shell out the back, plod caught them with door open and shells push half out. Twas a copper told me about it, after my RG500 was nicked.
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It's in my avatar.
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I'm sloshing ye older original Coal Tar Creosote over it all (outbuilding so the smell isn't an issue.
As I understand it, no creepy-crawlies can tolerate the stuff.
(I've been cutting into the timber today to replace rotten Purlin ends & roof ridge - and while there are woodworm larvae exit holes all over the place - no sign of any critters).
I'm useless at identifying wood, I haven't a clue tbh - but I suspect the rafters are Oak.... as despite woodworm and some obvious surface rot - the majority of the purlins where I've cut into them (& the roof ridge) is chuffing hard, dense timber....which is good!
The Purlins are 90mm x 80mm (3.5" x 3" ish) - so I went to the local timber merchants first thing & got 2 x 2.4M 100mm x 100mm Tanalised Fence Posts ripped down to 80x90 to remake the ends where they exit the wall.
I've cut "L" shaped overlaps halfway through the stone wall onto sound wood, and added new sections today using the aforementioned ripped fence posts.
Tomorrow's task if the weather is OK- is to replace the 2 vertical rafters (with some more timber bridging my joints for belt & braces overkill, replace the stonework round the purlins with some cement, run a new section of Purlin out under the hip roof & replace another rafter
That just leaves
- replace the entire wallplate
- Membrane the elevation
- batten & slate
(And the other side needs the same after that - but I think I'll have had enough for a bit by then
).
The fun will start when I get to battening & re-slating - as I've never laid a roof before
.A bit of Google & YouTube & "give it a go" is the vague plan!
(The way they were laid isn't how they tell you to currently either I think? The old slates were nailed not only near the centre of the slate on a batten.... but also nailed through the top of the slate to the batten above as well. So - while keeping the same batten gauge keeps the slates looking the same as the rest of the roof - I admit I'm not quite sure how it's all going to work out and work atm?
If I alter the gauge to lay slates by the method I've seen while researching.... then I think my slates won't be aligned with the ones this hip roof goes into... & that might make it look wrong.
Right now I'm not quite sure how to go about it
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Not sure if this is fixed, but as part of the goods wagon conversion I wanted to move an old oak water barrel. It has a leak and so I decided to try to fix it using a Lidl plug and dowel set, and some old old oak off cuts. I'll let this set and see if its cured the leak.
