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Thanks for those replies folks, very useful. They're asking 200 words per competency(max), will just have to start making things up. I've a friend who's a fairly high up manager with one of the councils up here, she says they're easy and is coming over on Saturday to help sort them out. I just...

This is something really bizarre to me, a leeching in of Human Resource based psycho-babble to the the building trade....I'm considering jacking in my current job and going back to being a stonemason- but the application form is a minefield!! It's full of stupid questions on "delivering...

Job done...just got the "Goosewing Grey" metal sheeting on it this weekend so hopefully that'll be it regarding maintenance. Got a bloke coming around to cut down all the pine trees within striking distance sometime soon, sods law if I don't and we get another "Hurricane Bawbag" event one will...

Got it done finally...the spacer things were invaluable in the end, both for getting the levels perfect but also as spacers between the boards. The boards were pretty good width wise, but after putting down 2/3rds of them at a regular 6mm spacing I measured up and there was an 8mm difference in...

Thats pretty much what mine is like. so that the whole shed overhangs the whole thing so the rain doesnt run back and into the floor you'd be best making the floored frame 30-40mm less than the hard sizes of the outer dimensions of the shed frame and totally square using the diagonals and3/4/5...

Yes six posts will mean less hassle and a max span of no more than 9feet.the shed i got was second hand and is 18mm ply on the flooring. the original bearers below were rotten think it had been on a flat surface like tarmac, bearers were only 90mm high and untreated so the whole frame needed...

I built a framed floor for my shed (18'x12') using treated 8x2's, only needed 6 pads to support the whole lot. If you build it on posts 6x2's should be ok for a 9' span, but you'll probably need a joist every 600mm so probably 9 joists (making 8 bays @ 2'x9'). At 600mm the max centres for...

Buy a few packs of foam ear plugs and lob them over their fence. Our neighbours have the audacity to send texts asking me to turn down my stereo after the pub...which is a random and infrequent occasion(the music not the pub :wink: ), and we're in detached houses well apart, yet they have an...

I used this site when planning my shed base and decking frame. http://www.diydoctor.org.uk/projects/load-bearing_walls.htm The biggest cross section at 75x220mm at 400mm centres is only good for 5.11m span. Know it's not much help with your span being longer than that, so unless a...

Ta for the reply Arthur- the frame is down and I just opted to bolt the thing tightly. I've made it to the dimensions required for multiples of 149mm (52 x (143mm + 6mm spacer)-6mm) and it's bang on. Sure as sh*t the boards won't be bang on so some tweaking will be needed. Where the doubled up...

It'll be fine mate...get in and get on with it!!! :) Look forward to the pics- don't know if you've done a drystone wall before, but when you start it seems daunting, as long as there's no distractions and you can focus clearly it's amazing how quickly you get the required mindset. You'll...

D*Y*K*E.... :x

this ****ing site never lets you spell dike correctly...!

I built a 2.4m radius semicircular(10m length by 1.2m high) dyke in the worst possible stone you could use- glacial rounded boulders... With no foundations, because we have no "real" soil anyway... In the UK you don't need planning permission/engineering design until over 4ft/1.2m. I'd...

Aye, had a think and will put the sheets down again and work it to the closest size without having to cut them...if that means they project X amount over the roof width as it is I can add battens to the gables to pack it out and that means the barge flashings will still catch the centres of the...

Got the roof sheets delivered and I need to cover 5650mm along the roof. I laid out 6x 1m wide sheets(32/100mm) and tinkered with them to see how best this fits the width of the shed. The barge flashings are 250/150mm so the 250 goes on the roof surface and ideally needs to capture two of the...

I've ordered a full kit for our shed roof which I've covered in vent3 breathable membrane. The shed roof is 12mm structural plywood, will I need to add purlins to attach the sheeting to(if so what size/spacing etc?), or can this be attached directly to the roof without purlins? The kit comes...

I'm building a deck which is 7740mm x 2400mm outside the house. It will be freestanding (not touching) and I've made the base out of 200 x 50mm joists(all treated and Endseled where the cuts were made) sitting on 10 caithness stone pads(only 200mmsq each) bedded on concrete pads. It's...