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Building a workshop with block walls and a flat roof. Roof is 3m span with feathered 2x10s on 600mm centers. 18mm OSB, 50-100mm PUR, 18mm OSB. Joists are exposed for storage. I am aware of how loud rain could be, but also tool noise escaping. I was wondering if there is an additional acoustic...

I am melting and the shower water was dark brown. But 8 out of 10 done.

Ehhhh, that one's not done yet. But it's the easier one to outside. Half the length and the target it bigger

Just call me 'The Penetrator' ! Shun the non believers. Shhhuuuuuunnnnnnn. And still faster than HS2

Door lintel(s) are in. They are not light and I'm glad I don't have H&S visits. The incremental Jenga tower of blocks was safer than it looks. Honest! Now I can carry on with the walls. In this heat. Yay.

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Oh! Yes. This i missed. Thank you. £50 and done, yes please.... Damn it. SDS max. Not plus. Balls.

No can do. Not a chance I can keep the hall accessible. I would have to remove the radiator, skirting, floor, underlay and DPM.

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I'll admit, failure. But not immediately. I'm kinda stubborn with problems like this and I think I can make it work... So going to keep trying. 1) female end was using grub screws, but they worked loose. Some thread lock should fix that. 2) male end was a cut down 10mm drill bit. Welded in...

Ok, I'll admit, its glacial... But I've maxed out my 1m £20 bit... The 1.2m bit is £100+ So engineering time: I think this'll work

Hey, I said it was slow going. I've got to work around a kiddos bedtime and work, so I get at most an hour window every day to set up, drill and tidy. Plus fighting the drill overheating. Hope to be done some time in June 2025/2026 ;)

Having done a fair amount of horizontal and vertical drilling, I'll admit that going sideways with a big bit is so much easier than going down with a smaller one. Vertically, your dust pile keeps falling down the hole, at least this is piling up outside.

So, in greatest 'horny bunny' fashion, I'm sliding it in and out as I go to clear dust. So far, no noticeable increase in general stiffness unless I hit a chonky bit of aggregate. The drill keeps spinning without issue too ;) The drill clutch has been wrecked over the last 20 years by using...

Every other route digs into indoor space considerably. Especially when going round corners. I agree silver line is ****e, but I'm in over halfway and apart from the occasional stubborn but of aggregate, progress is slow, but.... Well, progressive. I'll still need to get a 1200 / 1500 long bit...

And we're off!

Okayyyyy.... Wasn't expecting this to still be going. Main takeaway aways are - cut blocks if I need to. But dolly/soap blocks are hard to come by. For reference, I have a 12" 230v grinder and a diamond blade. I don't mind cutting a few small cuts (design is such to minimise cut blocks) but...

I ran out of blocks for the workshop. So instead, I built a new swing for the kid (displaced the old one when I started on the aforementioned workshop). It is 100% made from leftovers from old projects. All it took was about 5 hours and a few beers. Also, I can use it

I took the opportunity to add some conduit down the door pillars. I'll do the same with the mid-wall piers for the machine tools and can hopefully avoid almost all vertical conduit down the face of the walls. Also added them to the outside for lights switch and sockets.

I'm measuring my final height from the pavement on the other side of the fence. 2.5m up. This gives me 100mm insulation on flat roof, and a ~2.5m ceiling height when I account for the joists. Well, if I use full blocks it's 2.6m roof hight. If I loose a row it's 2.37m and my internal 2.5m...