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    Buy more glazing bars or use wider sheets and more buttons? First attempt..

    Thanks for that. Reassuring stuff. The open-door-prevents-roof-removal part is interesting as my build is a lean to roof with one open side- rather than a sealed up room. It's going to be close boarded fencing with triangle of shiplap fixed up into one 'gable end'(?) of the roof. ......so am...
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    Any caulk for this skirting haha

    Does the same problem repeat over many cuts? As in its always about the same distance out? TBH, it's better than I would be able to do.
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    Buy more glazing bars or use wider sheets and more buttons? First attempt..

    Why?:cry: Pitch is 5 1/2-12. Overall 5m w x 3-3.6 long. Joists at 1014mm centres... Hail? Snow? How about glazing bars over every joist? There will be purlins at gutter end and halfway up towards ledger plate. I have plenty of spare 5"X2" after cocking up the birdsmouth cuts :(
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    Buy more glazing bars or use wider sheets and more buttons? First attempt..

    Not sure what you mean. Are you unhappy most of the time?
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    What does the drop (on apron flashing) actually do? 240mm roll. 12x5.5 pitch polycarb roof?

    Ah, I see. Thanks for clarifying. Mine are 5"x2" timbers. Will be using the very low profile, screw down glazing bars composed of a 2" wide, rubber gasket strip with a aluminium crown section that you screw down over each side of sheet. Underside of strip is double gasketed underneath/facing...
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    Buy more glazing bars or use wider sheets and more buttons? First attempt..

    Got that. Thanks. Just saw on youtube that I can use a aluminium f section on outer edges/sides instead of using glazing bars saving a bit more money. Its over 15' high, house-side so best not make it too difficult.
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    Buy more glazing bars or use wider sheets and more buttons? First attempt..

    Can I hold the whole of the outside edges of a 10mm polycarbonate roof down with buttons? Spend less, and reach over wide sheets to fix it all together? If you have a glass of malt and a Havana :rolleyes: you can get stuck in to details... Question is whether reaching over a 2m panel to...
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    What does the drop (on apron flashing) actually do? 240mm roll. 12x5.5 pitch polycarb roof?

    Thanks for input :) What are bars- 'tall bars'? Good point squashed bugs-ct1, they do a clear I think, but its damn expensive. Chase into render- you mean cut maybe twice lead thickness and feed it in deep into a leadsealant filled chase type thing? And what does drop do? I.e. once the water...
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    Lean to update, birdsmouth questions and pics.. Windy day!!

    There are some pictures to look at for while you are stood by the fridge eating leftovers?
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    Lean to update, birdsmouth questions and pics.. Windy day!!

    I'm with you. I have done other ideotic things and often film them just in case of entertainment value. Too rainy today for camera work... Just got bored, too much coffee, what else is there to do? Smashed up a huge cast iron bath in bare feet once, on film. Horrible mistake. But funny to...
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    Garden gate advice

    Pics- I (we?) struggle to get what you mean? (y)
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    What does the drop (on apron flashing) actually do? 240mm roll. 12x5.5 pitch polycarb roof?

    Hi folks, Building a polycarbonate covered lean to that will get some harsh weather over the years- getting lashed right now... I have a roll of lead 240mm deep (6 m long). The pitch is 12x5.5 inch which I thought was pretty steep so thought I would not need so much on the overlap...then I...
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    Lean to update, birdsmouth questions and pics.. Windy day!!

    Never sure how to make sense of a continued thread but with a new question- this is another question from an old post where I asked about a weird lean-to I am building. Anyway- see pics, I have set ledger 6"x2" and eaves beam 6"x2" parallel to eachother and both level. Some advised I do...
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    Ladders without wide stabiliser? On way out?

    Thanks for the recommendation . I bought another recommended brand which was on basis that the rungs are D shaped. Welsh firm- Thomas something. Anyway, it does have the broad bar/ stabiliser at the base and it seems very good quality. The d shaped rungs are great. Glad I went for it as spending...
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    The Chinese flu outbreak .......wonder why there's panic ?

    Quarantined tens of millions of people over less than 100 dead? No. China has a terrible record on its care for its people, so why on earth would they disrupt so much over so few? I imagine it is in fact very large in scale. And with that, and the complexities of modernity, the disruption...
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    The Chinese flu outbreak .......wonder why there's panic ?

    https://www.liveleak.com/view?t=9vf7n_1580007684
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    Ladders without wide stabiliser? On way out?

    As arborist and later HETAS installer I have some experience of ladders at work. Home use only now, I was thinking I would treat myself to a certain brand that I have liked/trusted. Seems hard to find one without bloody great wide stabiliser bar thing on the base. And they don't come with rubber...
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    Getting rid of rats

    Just lets some brain out
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    Getting rid of rats

    No. Do tell?
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