Recent content by potatobrain

Really appreciate the kind words, it has been the hardest project I have undertaken so far! For the roof covering, I am going to use Marley Edgemere Duo, for a faux slate look. The original roof was random course slate, but 90% of it had gone hollow and flakey. As it's a garage, I'm trying to...

The roof is now up and getting tiled. I ended up putting the wall plate on the inside of the wall and securing as per building regs. There is a gap between the outside of the wall and the bottom of the truss. I elected to just use a deeper fascia board to overcome this. It is only a garage so...

Hi all, Having been a bit of a lurker I thought I would post to see if anyone has sensible suggestions on where I should locate my timber wall plates. I am based in a very exposed location on the west coast of Scotland. I am replacing my old slate, rafter constructed roof on my out building...