The House Projects Thread

[GG.]

Looks awesome!

[Gavster]

Looks cool Duncs!

The posters could be that they were framed indoors at room temp/humidity and when they were put into the garage temp/humidty changed it caused the paper to wrinkle. Poster paper is really sensitive to the environmental changes like that. The best solution would be for the framers to mount them onto a substrate such as 2mm mount board or foamex before framing.

[Marv]

Wish my garage was that tidy

That's come together really nicely Duncs, very nice place for your Elise

[IanF]

Looks very nice Duncs

[Jobbo]

Like Marv, I wish my garage was that tidy.

Did you see Petrol Ped’s video at the weekend about his garage flooring? Worth watching if only to put you off; yours is far nicer. I think ours is slightly polished concrete which I’m perfectly happy with; it must have been sealed. Definitely better than the dusty concrete floors I’ve been used to.

[duncs500]

Like Marv, I wish my garage was that tidy.

Did you see Petrol Ped’s video at the weekend about his garage flooring? Worth watching if only to put you off; yours is far nicer. I think ours is slightly polished concrete which I’m perfectly happy with; it must have been sealed. Definitely better than the dusty concrete floors I’ve been used to.

I have boarded the shed a bit and put up various brackets and shelves in there so that the garage is solely car stuff, which I hope will help to keep it tidy.

No, not seen that vid. That powerfloated concrete (I assume that's what you've got) is good though, very hard wearing (or at least I assume so as it tends to be the finish used for warehouses), doesn't get dusty. That should be the standard finish for garages, I can't imagine the dusty concrete I had would do one's respiratory system any good at all if you spent a lot of time in there.

[Ascender]

That is proper nice @duncs500, well done

[V8Granite]

It will make it a lovely place to do tinkering, nicely done

Dave!

[Ascender]

A momentous day in the new house, I've just ordered some heating oil in anticipation of having central heating installed next week. Praise the lord

[KiwiDave]

That looks really fucking cool Duncs.

[Mito Man]

Looks really good Duncs.

[Simon]

Simple but hugely effective. Wish I had the time to do something similar!

[Ascender]

We now have central heating.

Not before time. Was getting pretty baltic in the morning and not helping with the overall damp feeling about the place.

Onwards and upwards, next stop is a new kitchen. Which is currently in the byre... Which is getting its roof removed any day now. Doh.... If only someone around here was a project manager.

[Jobbo]

Are we all visiting for Christmas lunch Mike? Need to get on with the kitchen!

[KiwiDave]

95% of our project was completed a few weeks ago. For various reasons, the remaining 5% is proving difficult to get over the line. I'm starting to get shitty about it.

We did however figure out what the HWC was tripping the breaker on the circuit board randomly. 3.6KW element in but a wire big enough for a 3KW, but the wire itself was in insulation thick enough to make you think (without stripping it apart) it was big enough for the job. We've been faced with ripping two walls and a ceiling apart to re-run a new wire or downgrade the element. Seeing as its only two of us in here, we've gone down the less powerful element route and if the next owners don't like it they can sort it themselves.

[Ascender]

Are we all visiting for Christmas lunch Mike? Need to get on with the kitchen!

If anyone is ever up doing the nc500 they're more than welcome

Wife has started at the hospital so being last one in, is working Christmas and Boxing Day again so might just be me and some whisky.

[Ascender]

BTW, tree stumps and their roots are the devil's work. Can't believe how tough they are. Finally got this f*cker out.

[ZedLeg]

Better to just get a stump grinder and dig it out that way imo.

Not particularly useful advice at this point though

[Jobbo]

I could do with some more trees - if you've got any more mature ones I'll pop up and have them off you!

[duncs500]

Are we all visiting for Christmas lunch Mike? Need to get on with the kitchen!

If anyone is ever up doing the nc500 they're more than welcome

Wonderful, put the oven on.