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Mistress Rose

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Posted: Sun May 02, 21 7:55 am Post subject:
Sleepers vary. The best ones are hardwood, sometimes oak, some are softwood.

dpack

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Posted: Sun May 02, 21 9:23 am Post subject:
from what i recall of them they are not knarly so whichever should be fine it would be unusual to import iron wood or lignum vitae as a bulk industrial material i have not studied them but they usually look to be a balk of a decent size trunk whatever, if it is big wood a chainsaw is your pal

Ty Gwyn

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Posted: Sun May 02, 21 11:04 am Post subject:
Railway sleepers are made from a variety of woods,depending on their initial use,oak,,jarah and kiri are the best hardwoods,the latter 2 Aussie imports,the softwoods can be,larch,spruce and Douglas fir.

jema
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Posted: Sun May 02, 21 1:18 pm Post subject:

We were disturbing the pigeon which has started hatching

But step underway, joist and a couple of coach screws in. Enough board to finish the job.
The marsh image was taken from a standing position on the deck and you can no longer as a rule see down into the pit of rubble.
So getting the IBC tank installed may be the last bit done down here this year.
The cowboy constructed top deck will become the new horror show.

dpack

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Posted: Sun May 02, 21 3:52 pm Post subject:
tis looking good apart from rip out, reclaim and re fix the top deck might be more straight forward than expected as the lower bits are far more stable imho fixing a historic cowboy job is usually fairly obvious once the carp are gone

jema
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Posted: Sun May 02, 21 4:39 pm Post subject:

dpack wrote:

tis looking good

apart from rip out, reclaim and re fix the top deck might be more straight forward than expected as the lower bits are far more stable

imho fixing a historic cowboy job is usually fairly obvious once the carp are gone

It's complicated by both a Summer house and a conservatory being on top of the compromised structure.

jema
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Posted: Tue May 04, 21 5:56 am Post subject:
Well the greenhouse has come through a wind weather warning unscathed apart from some of the insulation being blown into the greenhouse. It's still a mid mad out there gale wise.

Mistress Rose

Joined: 21 Jul 2011
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Posted: Tue May 04, 21 7:25 am Post subject:
Yes, it was pretty bad here during the night. They are threatening more wind for this morning, but doesn't seem so bad at the moment, so lets hope they are wrong.

dpack

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Posted: Tue May 04, 21 8:27 am Post subject:

jema wrote:

dpack wrote:

It's complicated by both a Summer house and a conservatory being on top of the compromised structure.

are they robust enough to move/take to bits and move?

on top they are a bit in the way unless you can work under them which has its own issues

with some levers, wedges, planks and bits of scaff tube or similar as rollers large heavy things can go sideways with minimum fuss intact, if they are robust enough to take a bit of wiggling

jema
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Posted: Tue May 04, 21 12:50 pm Post subject:

We rolled the greenhouse when repairing one end of the deck a few years back.
the conservatory can't be moved, but it's just decking and wood, I don't see it being too painful.
The summer house adjoins my "mid deck" lower than the top deck. It would be really hard to move.
I think planting some serious posts each side and putting additional joists in will be feasible as in place key hole surgery.
Time and excavation will tell.

jema
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Posted: Wed May 05, 21 1:09 pm Post subject:
Iv'e not even bothered to level the tank as I don't know exactly what I'm doing with it, meanwhile it might as well get useful and collect water.

Shane

Joined: 31 Oct 2005
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Location: Doha. Is hot.

Posted: Thu May 06, 21 5:29 am Post subject:
Good luck with changing your mind once it's full!

dpack

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Posted: Thu May 06, 21 6:32 am Post subject:
ditto those things do need a decent pad, even if it is improvised, and plumbing is so much easier when everything is on the square(as is corruption )

jema
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Posted: Wed May 12, 21 5:35 pm Post subject:
Thus far not pumping. I feels like it's just short of able to pump up from the depth of the tank. Tomorrow I guess it's will be tubs of water and seeing where it can pump from and then raising the tank up.

dpack

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Posted: Wed May 12, 21 6:23 pm Post subject:
that thing should be able to pull up quite a lift first thing, check the pump is working properly ,a bucket may be useful for that is it "primed"? some pumps need that it looks nice, it will work

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