yetchh Posted August 21, 2021 Author Share Posted August 21, 2021 OK, so now it really is 100% done, but. Rosie pointed out to me that I'd forgotten a bit of cladding, so I filled it with a fillet. This is the only example of why I went with the bigger corners. The reason I haven't done this one is I ran out of mac, well I thought I ordered 5.4 lengths of 150x40 but when I came to do them I realised they'd sent me 4.8s. Was a bit pissed. Have about 7 offcuts of 2.2m 150x40. Anyway, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post yetchh Posted August 21, 2021 Author Popular Post Share Posted August 21, 2021 Spent a really long time fucking around with the hole repair in the deck, lucky its lockdown and I have some time to burn. Hole, Made a fake end to go in there, Cut out for the picture framing, Was bit of a cunt to get some nogs under there, got them in tho. Luckily l found some old bits of decking lying around that matched what was there otherwise there would clearly be a repair there. Missus oiled it while I had a cuppa. Cladding back on and finished. Gonna have a massive cleanup outside tomorrow and sort some heights for the driveway.. Edit* fuck.. Just realised I've got to do the gate for the gas bottles, surround for the califont and extend the back door threshold.. Just when you think your out, it pulls you back. If lockdown gets extended again I'm gonna sort the back deck which I could just leave, but if I have extra time why not waste it doing that rather than spinning spanners? Edit2*. Also have bring the taps through the timber at the bottom, luckily have all the gear to do this. 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yetchh Posted August 23, 2021 Author Share Posted August 23, 2021 Yesterday I made the gas bottle gate, spent to long extending the back door threshold and making a surround for the gas califont.. Gate, just sitting there as in my Haste last Tues I forgot to get hinges. Offending threshold, discovered it was actually rimu and not cedar which makes it easier. Rummaged around in my wood stock and found this mystery block from a ship in the early 1800s (came from an 1830s cottage in lyttelton we restored a few years back. Bloke who built it made all the windows and framing from timber he ganked from the ship repair Dock. Cleaned it up, pretty sure its rimu. Make it work, Epoxy the bitch in. Still gotta sand it as I forgot today. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yetchh Posted August 23, 2021 Author Share Posted August 23, 2021 Made the surround for the califont yesterday and finished it today, has a 25mm gap all the way around so hopefully it's ok. Doesn't seem to get particularly hot anyway, even when it's been cranking for 10mins. Dowelled and lightly glued the sides on, Just 11fc'd the top on, also routed some slots on with side for the bottom cover. Then discovered I couldn't slide it in because the cap below was in the way..... Sanded some off so it just slides in. Oiled. Finally did the taps as well, wanted a brass plate against the timber but couldn't find one so used a brass nut instead. 100%? Yeah almost.. Just got to finish the threshold.. and... Put two bits of timber over the joins in the soffit above the front door (something else I forgot) pretty simple. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yetchh Posted August 23, 2021 Author Share Posted August 23, 2021 Also got up and had a look at the roof.. Not sure what to do if anything. Needs a paint tho. Also got to clean up this mess, but now have an extra 7 days.. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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yetchh Posted August 24, 2021 Author Share Posted August 24, 2021 Finished up the threshold, can see the addition but you always would.. Might stain the whole lot a bit darker.. Also put the trims up to hide the soffit joins.. Soffit before, they don't lol bad in the photo but there's some height differences and gap variation.. The photo has a wack bracing setup cos I didn't want to waste any timber on it.. Typical idiot I was getting a wedge out of a bucket by the front door and totally smacked my head on the cross bar knocking the entire lot down on my head.. Knob.. Luckily the trim stayed up glued by the 11fc, my initial thought was I had and I was spewing as once 11fc goes everywhere its a cunt to get off.. Makes exceptionally good glue tho. Tomorrow I'm gonna take all the spare timber down to store at my old lady's place, then make a start on the back deck.. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoeddynz Posted August 24, 2021 Share Posted August 24, 2021 Is 11fc a bit like gorilla glue? Sticky sticky stuff that ya dont want on your fingers eh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yetchh Posted August 24, 2021 Author Share Posted August 24, 2021 Shit to a blanket.. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yetchh Posted August 31, 2021 Author Share Posted August 31, 2021 So... Spent a good 4 days redoing the back deck. I guess it's because I always like to fuck things up for my future self.. This was another of my just throw it up and not really think about what I was doing jobs.. Old setup, Easy part was stripping it, took all of 30min. So as to make the underside dry and useable I decided to put some plastic with fall into a gutter between the house and deck, This is the last of the capping that goes under the deck, just extended it with treated ply which I then oiled. Gutter should pop out here, can see the ply which I also put fall on away from the corner. Main reason for this is its where we put our bikes. My seat sits where this junction is and my cracked seat gets wet which then wets my ass. Decided I should prob add these bits in here.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yetchh Posted August 31, 2021 Author Share Posted August 31, 2021 Oiled and in, Then I put some heavy polythene I had left over from the foundations all those years ago one the frame falling into where the gutter will be, also the some nailing on for decking around the outside. Cut some drainage pipe in half for the gutter. Can see the the capping and ply falling into the "gutter ". Outlet, hopefully it works. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yetchh Posted August 31, 2021 Author Share Posted August 31, 2021 With that finished I got onto the balustrade and finished decking. Decided that I should make an effort to copy what I did at the front door. This pile, Recut, Trimmed somewhat.. Turned into this. Had some rough sawn 100x50 which I used for the handrail which, surprisingly after a sand with 40 grit comes up nicer than the planner gauge 90x45. Feels softer on the hand and also had less splintery bits. At this point I also ran out of copper nails (sigh*) so had to order some through miter10 delivery which was 3 to 5 days... Def looks better anyway. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RUNAMUCK Posted August 31, 2021 Share Posted August 31, 2021 On 24/08/2021 at 19:27, yoeddynz said: Is 11fc a bit like gorilla glue? Sticky sticky stuff that ya dont want on your fingers eh. On 24/08/2021 at 20:52, yetchh said: Shit to a blanket.. Shit to a blanket is understating how well 11fc holds. Quite some years ago we used some to glue some steel plated to 80mpa precast concrete panels. They had to be removed due to a fuck up. (Monster sharn that story, that could have ended VERY badly/front page bad news) I ripped the plates off the panel with a cold chisel, and a club hammer. When I finally got it off, there were bits of concrete stuck to the 11FC, that had been ripped out of the panel. Its fucking amazing shit. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yetchh Posted August 31, 2021 Author Share Posted August 31, 2021 Then it rained.. So I spent some time inside cutting things off the list.. Finally did the panels above and below the oven Also the finger handle on the door just to the right of the oven. As I mounted all the handles horizontal this would have looked wack with one handle vertical. Took me 4 years to put one on. Routed a slot, Finger pull.. Moved a light that has irked me the entire time we've been here. For some reason originally we weren't gonna put in a kitchen extractor so set the lights out for that, but to get code we had to have one which made one light redundant.. Extended the led cable as its low voltage. Then spent a good part of an hour trying to get a piece of wire from one hole to the next, had about 4 photos I could look at to see what was in the way.. Still couldn't get one across. In the end I could just get my arm in the hole to feel where the wire was going and then from the other side with a bread knife and my arm in the other hole I could touch the wire. So made a hook, feed that through then a hook with another bit of wire and somehow managed contact... It was a total cunt, at one point had me wondering why I fucken started.. Lights better anyway and my ocd is satisfied. Also filled a gap at the edge of the bench that I fucked up when I installed it.. Cut a fillet, Epoxied it in. Can still see it but hopefully once I silicone around there it won't be so noticeable. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yetchh Posted August 31, 2021 Author Share Posted August 31, 2021 19 minutes ago, RUNAMUCK said: Shit to a blanket is understating how well 11fc holds. Quite some years ago we used some to glue some steel plated to 80mpa precast concrete panels. They had to be removed due to a fuck up. (Monster sharn that story, that could have ended VERY badly/front page bad news) I ripped the plates off the panel with a cold chisel, and a club hammer. When I finally got it off, there were bits of concrete stuck to the 11FC, that had been ripped out of the panel. Its fucking amazing shit. Yeah it's really good stuff, well worth the price. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yetchh Posted August 31, 2021 Author Share Posted August 31, 2021 Got some things on the last day of lockdown.. So got onto nailing. Had to do the gaps at 4mm which was double what I would normally do but that fit all the boards without me having to rip one down.. Missus started oiling Finished it this arvo.. Fuck it was cold, my last favourite kind of weather. Only problem now in the steps look shit and old.. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoeddynz Posted August 31, 2021 Share Posted August 31, 2021 Keep moving man. You'll be here soon... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yetchh Posted January 22, 2022 Author Share Posted January 22, 2022 The end is in sight!! But for now I'll carry on what I left off. The last 3 months of last year disappeared pretty quick but three weekends of that were spent moving shit across country which counts for most of a month I guess. Anyway, after lockdown 2.0 we did a trip to Musgrove's here in chch to see what they had in the way of hardwood posts for the front gate, ended up coming away with a 200x300x5400 rimu post which I cut in half there with the trusty xl12 and threw them in the back of the hire van. Rimu is known for being pretty shit in the ground untreated. The hardwood posts of a similar size were in the thousands and this was only $350. So I set about giving it the best chance of survival by liberally soaking it in castrol 15w40 for a week reapplying it every day. Then I gave the buried parts a few coats of black seal, And then after marking it all out stated digging holes, as per usual I struck concrete on the second chop.. The gift that keeps on giving. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yetchh Posted January 22, 2022 Author Share Posted January 22, 2022 Kids were pretty keen to help out/get in the way as per usual. Holes for the posts had to be about 700 deep, Dug the other side and a 200x300 beam to link the two together. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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