Recent content by wickerman

your mad :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Majority of surrounds are made out of standard mdf, the rest wood, except for those who have lods of cash, stone

And i will tell you something else Legs, its the last time i help out the rehabilitation crowd with those inmates, they should do away with all those open prisons and keep dj and the crowd under lock and key :lol: :lol: :lol:

But what about the oil bit ? does it last and can you reoil it and how often does it need doing ????????????

It was Legs, we had dj in to do some slabbing but he f---ed it up, Stoday was supposed to help him but he was too busy looking at the sheep in the next field, Charlie spent all week in the pub, and Andy was too busy trying to get all the bugs out of his new website. So we had to sell it to...

How do you mean by oil the hardwood ? Would that last so i wasnt up there every year ? its in a very exposed position, lots of wind and rain

Dont quote me on this but for some reason 11foot and 6" diameter comes into my mind, unless thats just wishful thinking :lol: But if you have the chance to start from scratch you would be mad not to use the terracota liners, its far cheaper and gives you the opertunity to have any kind of...

Simon You wouldnt believe the weight in a chimney, so you will have to have foundations and you wont be able to build it on your sub floor. It is quite easy to build as you can buy the terracotta chimney liners which you insert into the chimney as you go up, and back fill them with 10:1 mix...

well heres another tip for when you do cock ups---BUY A WOOD BURNER :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

I didnt think you was having a dig at me, dont know why you thought that, but another question, would you use a hard wood or marine ply for the fascia ??????????

thats a good idea DJ to use thicker everywhere, i suppose the difference in cost is only a few quid for the whole job

400mm is correct Diddybear, but 16 foot is a decent span, and if it was mine i would definetly want 9x2 in there, infact you are hard pushed to get bigger then 18 foot 9x2 and they would be only just big enough for there, so you are on one of the larger spans that you would come across best...

Thanks fellas, nothing wrong with upvc, i just wanted to make a feature of this by cutting a design in it on the gables and being as one gable would require scaffold to paint it, i didnt want to be up there every summer. As regards cost, this way works out far more expensive. The idea was to...

i was always told that the thicker boards go on the walls and thinner on the ceiling but i am no expert on this stuff

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