Recent content by Eifers

Awesome! Thanks fellas..i'll try and find something to paint the ends.. might use some waxoyle ive got left over. Dont have a chainsaw yet so will have to leave the bigger pieces. Would be at it all day trying to cut them with a bowsaw. Will try splitting a few and see how i get on. Thanks for...

Hi folks Have just had a sycamore trimmed of some fairly hefty branches..from about 35cm accross and smaller..just wondering whats worth keeping for woodturning, as am a total novice? Much thanks in advance

here's all the insulation... started on the floor, using the 70mm thick board, isnt the easiest process to fit. Any small gaps I've tried to fill with expanding foam The floor was finished last weekend, with moisture resistant 18mm flooring chipboard from wickes. next stage is...

Thanks for the info Decas! the stove site looks like it will come in very handy..I have a woodburner I want to put in at a later stage :) Sorry for the break in updates...I have been sourcing the insulation board. After a long wait and scouring ebay and gumtree I eventually found a guy...

They are about 14 inches / 40cm lengths of pipe.....I looked into that but a builder I talked to said not to worry about it as we don't get such extreme low temperatures here, especially by the coast, and I'm building on top of a hill, so groundwater isn't an issue. I just dug down to the...

here it is with the joists fixed in, and noggins between down the centre to stop any twisting. these I screwed in as they arent weight bearing as such, and pull the joists together.. all the timber was tanalised, and pre treated to two coats of Creocote (other preservatives are...

I braced the frame up with some steel brackets in the corners and at the piles to help prevent any movement/spread in the timbers these were bolted in / coach screwed.

so here's the frame for the floor, sitting on the pilings, I used 7x2 for the long rails, with 2x2 lengths fixed to the inside bottom edge to give a ledge for the 5x2 joists and end rails to sit on... I nailed it all together with some big 4 1/2 inch (I think) galvanised nails. Apparently it's...

Hadn't seen the dekposts before, they look ideal! and would have saved some bother... but looking at prices it would have cost me about £115 plus delivery.... as I'll do anything to save a few quid, i think the pipe and concrete for the piles cost about £40 Strangely enough I'm just now...

Cheers buddy!...I will try and get more pics up tonight...the 225mm twin wall drain would be better, I would go with the perforated one as had some issues with the concrete being slow to set in mine which i put down to either adding too much water to the mix (used postcrete so hard to judge) or...

here are the pilings being laid out and measured up, I did borrow a laser level as suggested by RobinBHM above, worked a treat thanks!... you may notice the path to the right of the picture attached, which I had to dig up and relay before starting the pilings, it looked like it must have been...

for the pilings, i wanted to use cardboard 'sonotube' which is apparently common practice in the states....but unheard of here. So after a bit of headscratching decided on the biggest waste pipe i could find in Selco's (160mm x 3m) not ideal but needs must. luckily when I dug down to the...

and here are the cunning plans for my shed....as dimensions were dictated by space, it is 6m x 2.4m ... As I wanted to keep costs and labour to a minimum, rather than making a concrete slab and all that entails, I opted for building the structural timber base, set on 8 concrete piers, four...