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I'm continuing work on my floating garden bench. I have two questions. I've attempted these notched 'half lap' intersecting beams to form the frame. Along with the scaffold boards and steel wall brackets these will all form the load-bearing structural elements. Basically, every peice of timber...

7" isn't that much, so you probably don't need a sliding mitre that could handle wider boards. Probably something with a 216mm blade would be fine. I picked up an old Dewalt DW707-LX tonight which I'll try out tomorrow for the first time. For the price these are supposed to be solid workhorses...

Update: I sold those warped boards to someone who wanted to make raised beds where it didn't matter too much. I went out and bought two new 3.9m standard Grade A scaffold boards. They were all stored upright in the depot and I tried to select two that didn't have twists or bows, were nice and...

OK, I hadn't thought of that. I considered cutting into two or three 1m pieces along the length, but that compromises the strength of the bench because the boards need to straddle the length and form an important part of the bracing and structural support. But cutting lengthways is not a bad...

OK, thanks, will look into these. cheers

That sounds promising, but terrifying too for the point Scally-Ho made that they might end up bowing, cupping and twisting far more wildly. It's also a challenge finding a way to submerge 2 2.4m boards. certainly not an easy task in my patio. I do have a polti steam cleaner which has quite a...

Interesting, thanks. That will involve quite a redesign. I was planning to just screw the boards down to my battens using 5x75mm decking screws for medium duty work. And the heavy duty wall brakets I'm using only have a couple of 5mm holes on the top side to screw down to...

Yes, that is a worry. It would need considerable force to screw it down so everything's true, and this would then transfer stress into my framework which could distort over time. Just speculating. Perhaps it's just better to buy new wood, but the danger then is that over time as it continues to...

Thanks for that. The boards are intended to be screwed directly onto the 2x3 battons of my framework with an additional 4 heavy duty steel wall brackets too. I would be worried about trying to force them down as they're quite thick at 38mm, not great quality wise, and might potentially split...

Hi all, I bought all these materials in lockdown, stored mainly in my garage, and am only now getting around to completing the project. It's a set of floating benches in the corner of my garden. The 4 boards that will constitue the seats are 2.4m long and 225 x 38mm. Not genuine scaffold...

Thank you, that kind of makes sense, a manufacturer like Makita producing quite a successful Circular saw like this would not really sell a dud, but the inclusion of a 10 tooth blade just threw me a bit. I guess it's probably pretty good for rip cuts. But what about cross cuts and finer work...

Hi all, I've just bought a new Makita HS6601 165mm Circular Saw 240v online. Prior to buying I was trying to find out details of the blade it came with, but there were no pictures anywhere and any reference just said it was 165mm 20mm bore! Any way it arrived and as suspected (from one isolated...

You're obviously right about the desplacement. But I don't think there could have been any more movement. The vertical column of cement running down the corner is the gap that was filled after the displacement. And the doesn't look like it's enlarged much more. I thiunk the voids above it are...

OK, yes, you're onto something! I will say that whatever may have happened, it was long before 1980, because that's when I moved in, and nothing has moved in those 45 years. So I'm fairly confident in it surviving. Good spot though

Probably lens distortion. I'm not saying they're absolutely plumb, but there's no real significant divergence. I will check it tomorrow though with my spirit level!

Hi all, the corner of my garden is a brick boundary wall. I'm currently cleaning it up and will then paint and attach a floating bench with resin anchors into the brick. I have two questions: 1 The wall looks pretty rough and unfinished but has stood for since the 1920's perhaps and is...

Hmmm... some more experiments to try. Thanks!

A lot depends on your location and amount of space you have. The slim 100L ones fill up very quickly. I wanted the largest I could get, 250L but only had a corner to place it. The square shaped ones are much better at utilizing the entire corner with no wasted space and the one I got was by...

I think that's correct about heating the weeds rather than burning to an ember. I might have been doing it wrong before, so perhaps the heat gun is good enough. I haven't used Pathclear either, but quite like the idea of using salt! What I might do, is jet wash thoroughly, then re-fill with new...

Great, thanks for the advice. I'll investigate propane burners that can use my BBQ Patio Gas canister. I have 5L of RoundUp somewhere, but reluctant to use it as the runoff would do damage elsewhere.