Methylethylaldehyde posted:

poo poo, now I kinda want a bulkhead door leading to some kind of random drawing room/pantry.

NotJustANumber99 posted:

also separately what the gently caress have i been left with here? from a brickie that is now refusing to come back...

NotJustANumber99 posted:

I think I didn't explain very well before the strategy that we have fallen upon (maybe ill chosen terminology) for erecting the trusses.



So I've got this scaffolding arrayed outside the building and similar inside. We drive the digger up with a few trusses on the forks. Then my brother and I walk them sideways off the forks, across the scaffolding and into position. Fix with some temporary bits of wood and shuffle down one and repeat. I'm sure this isn't the way to do it but lol I dunno its the best way we've got to do it.

Making OK progress



Lol so you can sort of see why they left me the brick mario fresco, with the other end of the vaulted room similarly unfinished waiting for the oak purlins to eventually be installed. But that isnt what we agreed and it isn't even to the right height.

Further lol as I'm looking back through my photos at this point Ocado left me a magazine for a student style meal which I just had to make. Potato waffle bean bake.





The trusses are going up pretty quick. I haven't shown you, hmm, need a photo of it but the outer leaf of blockwork is actually too high so I'm having to machine out a little groove for each truss to sit down in. More block layer woes.



So we have a day away to excel for a home build show thing, first one really that I've seen since covid. Its rubbish nothing there, windy day too so pub meal outside is called off.



get back and ah





yeah been windy

Builder absolutely won't come back now.

Jaded Burnout posted:

The top of the block wall opposite the mario wall fell off. You can see it in the drone photo.

Depends on where in the structure it is, but not as a matter of course (lol). Once it's all together they're not required to freestand like that against the wind.

NotJustANumber99 posted:

Lost all the car batteries and a compressor. Neighbours lawn mower. A day faffing around. My sense of security. My faith in humanity.

SpeedFreek posted:

In the end when all that is left are the cockroaches and your foundation there should be a record left behind.

tangy yet delightful posted:

NotJustANumber99 posted:

Biscuits are very stale now. Tea bags covered in cobwebs.

Foxfire_ posted:

Plan Exuberant Elk (buy heat pump stuff in Sweden, import it yourself via ferry) seems at least vaguely practical, especially if you're willing to accept the simplified (more expensive) tariff schedule and pre-declare + pre-pay everything so you have parts, a bill of sale, and completed customs paperwork that all match when you show up at the border. It would also be a new entertaining boondoggle for the thread, possibly with exciting pictures of scenic scandinavia!

Nice piece of fish posted:

I'm curious about that too, actually. What if you get a strong wind up there (that slatwork is for ventilation, right?). Won't it just make crazy fart noises in winter?

Ratjaculation posted:

NotJustANumber99 posted:

eurgh. ratty is such a shitbag.

Anyway.

So the whole vehicle thing is a real pain in the arse. Part of being a self builder is being able to disappear off on ebay money savings. But I need a vehicle, and roofrack and towbar and such to do that.

So... given the saab failing its MOT so heavily, I've instead spent that money on...



A pickup truck. I am now loving cool.



Yeah so...



driving it home from some incredibly dodgy wonk eyed yokel. Its blown up.

the AA are, completely out of alphabetic order, total C words about it.

Accuse me of driving without tax and insurance and stuff. gently caress you I just bought it heres all the codes, come pick me up you fuckers.



Which they do... after quite a while. its a sunday so the guy explains he has to take me to like a motorway service area.

This is further from my house than where I broke down? He says someone will come to check on it, hes just removing me from the dangerous hard shoulder location.

This is like 3 o'clock in the afternoon.

theres an app. but my job keeps disappearing off it. my phone is now dying.

pushing midnight...



after midnight.



so yeah I dropped 4k on a truck that instantly blew up and then spent all sunday with the aa subcontractors lying to me and dragging me around to different motorway service areas so they dont need to deal with me.

so again. here I am monday morning with my works vehicle

NotJustANumber99 posted:

guess

Bobby Deluxe posted:

I met a traveller from an antique land,
Who said—“A vast and L-shaped house of stone
Stands in the village... Near it, on the sand,
Not sunk, a great foundation lies, whose floor,
And heating track, and aerate bricks out fanned,
Tell that its builder well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The thread that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal, these words appear:
My name is not just a number, ninety nine;
Look on my house, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The surprisingly level foundations stretch far away.”

WhatEvil posted:

If you'd seen his posting in other threads you probably wouldn't think it's an undue amount.

sebzilla posted:

This is how to stress test a door

https://youtu.be/9v34zHuW_uQ

goatface posted:

Big metal gate to secure all your gas canisters and highly volatile liquids.

Leperflesh posted:

ummmm
so with those two wood corner brace things there I'm assuming this won't be an overhead/roll-down door? And now with the floor sloping from both sides of the drain I'm wondering how you'll have swing open doors without having to cut them really high and leave a gap at the bottom?

have you considered the door situation is what I'm asking I guess

LloydDobler posted:

Also might be time for a locking gas cap given the site history.

Foxfire_ posted:

OSHA thread found some of your brickie's other work:
https://i.imgur.com/snp3VSj.gifv

NotJustANumber99 posted:

I forgot to include my new idea for tidying and separating cables in trunking to aid with cooling and meeting grouping requirements.

Need a squishy rubber divider you put in every metre or so but has to be removeable, as in not have wires passing through actual holes.

I couldnt find anything online so invented my own to 3d print in some squishy rubber and become a millionaire this time next year rodney.

The trunktopus:

NotJustANumber99 posted:

spent today penetrating

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Coupled with the inability to actually source a store tank since the one i wanted went out of business. I had a glimmer of hope on ebay, finding a much bigger and higher spec carbon fibre pressure vessel than I actually needed. It wasnt intended for this use and would have required some modification but the seller has gone weirdly silent in the last 36 hours or so?

Splode posted:

I'm imagining a thief knocking off the doorbell, plugging in a laptop and hacking the front door smart lock.

Meanwhile, his colleague breaks a window.

El Pollo Blanco posted:

Been waiting for this the entire thread

goatface posted:

Use it for your hottub.

Gasmask posted:

Stop whining about your blocks. This is what they look liked when they're proper hosed:

https://twitter.com/ProfPaulDunlop/status/1686869987183501312

NotJustANumber99 posted:

NotJustANumber99 posted:

So I have trodden in poo poo today.

Round the back, right by the plant room door. Stunk. No way it's a deer or anything.

Like dog? But where from? So is this a human poo poo?

I took a photo. Do we want to see it for analysis?

NotJustANumber99 posted:

Hmmm.

everdave posted:

Will he be making GBS threads in the bushes along the way?