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StMarks wrote:Very smart solution.
You must use your mastic quite a lot; I tend to find that mine has usually gone off when I retrieve it from my "mastic draw".

It must be an older generation thing same thing happens in my workshop. You don’t know fun till you’ve cleared a nozzle of cured sealant with a blunt screwdriver

kiwikrasher wrote:You don’t know fun till you’ve cleared a nozzle of cured sealant with a blunt screwdriver

I use an electrical screwdriver or sometimes a screw and an impact driver!

When you have resins that have dried you just throw away the nozzle and fit a spare as they dry harder than concrete. In fact I have used it where I've killed wall plugs. Fill the hole with resin, push in a screw, wipe excess. The screw will break before the resin gives way.

Wall anchor installed. LED ceiling panel lights installed.

Also fitted guttering to the workshop and channeled it downhill from it to avoid future flooding.

I realise that I always seem to be "glass half empty" comments Cav, but will the (sensibly diverted) rainwater water not potentially give you very icy path entrance at wintertime.?

To be fair, it has a relatively good amount of drainage there and we do use that access way much. The garden drainage is about 2m away in that corner of the garden.

I'd be more concerned about our porcelain slabs anyway, they're horrific.

Cav wrote:To be fair, it has a relatively good amount of drainage there and we do use that access way much. The garden drainage is about 2m away in that corner of the garden.

I'd be more concerned about our porcelain slabs anyway, they're horrific.

We only had a porcelain kitchen floor once. Look great, but never again.

It's great in the summer, it never gets too hot for barefoot, unlike the astroturf

Cav wrote:It's great in the summer, it never gets too hot for barefoot, unlike the astroturf

Because hot ground surfaces vs wet ground surfaces is your main concern in the UK

I’m just teasing mate, it all looks fantastic

The felt roof I installed failed... so we did it properly.

Reinforced the sagging joists with 5050 steel box.
Replaced the plywood with 18mm exterior ply.
Installed a 50 year guaranteed rubber EPDM roof.

Job looks good Cav

Why is it in the UK there seems not to be a great use of metal roofing?? Flashed up right it’s just building paper over the timber and sheets of steel screwed on and she’s done!

Not come across any over timber (I presume you mean laying the ply first?).

The only stuff I've experience with is loud and hot AF! It also isn't very secure against thieves which is why it's commonly only used on warehouse roofs which are 3+ stories high.

Cav wrote:Not come across any over timber (I presume you mean laying the ply first?).

The only stuff I've experience with is loud and hot AF! It also isn't very secure against thieves which is why it's commonly only used on warehouse roofs which are 3+ stories high.

By timber I mean the framing, we don't lay ply at all for roofing... a picture is a 1000 words so...



As for hot, we use insulation, and it get's a damn sight hotter here! My home has this as roofing. Security against thieves is a different point altogether, and something that is not actually a huge consideration for us compared to you guys it seems.

This is pretty a standard roofing system here in Aussie and NZ, the next most common option is tiles, which is known to be more vulnerable to break in's (as they are easily lifted) but do cause less heat build up.

Ah I see. Isn't that noisy when it rains?

Cav wrote:Ah I see. Isn't that noisy when it rains?

Rain? What’s that?

Heavy rain it can be, but you still have the ceiling and insulation so it’s dampened somewhat. Normal to light rain is barely audible.

Hail is fooking deafening!

Rain? It's the thing that appears 361 days of every year. There's often 4 days of sunshine in April.