I have another exterior woodwork project to kick off.
Custom taper sawn tantalized wood arrived today …. 60m of ‘wood’ capping to fit to a single brick think wall … see sketch:
http://tinyurl.com/qy7cjea
The wall is a mixture of concrete block & brick ….
Q.1 should I put a DPC under the wood, this would keep it off damp wall (holds back earth beds) .. only negative I saw was that it would also trap any water that gets underneath when it rains.
Q.2 Need a good method of fixing … just simply gluing on with no-more-nails … is going to fail.
My mate suggested using Thunder bolts …. Issue with these if I just fitted Thunderbolts water is going to collect where they crush into wood. I could counter-bore the wood to recess bolt heads .. but to avoid these ‘holes’ filling with water would need to plug .. and not going to be easy to get a plug cutter in large enough diameter to suit Thunderbolts.
So anybody go a suggestion for fitting these cappings, they have to take occasionally being stood on … but other than that they are decorative.
Using some common catalogues items as discussion points:
Frame Screws http://tinyurl.com/h9uu7yr
Fischer Hammerfix http://tinyurl.com/j5je68z
or
Fischer Frame fixing http://tinyurl.com/janhhx3
Thunderbolt http://goo.gl/zHBxld
RAWL LX screw http://goo.gl/jKaxaG
Q.3 at corners, I am sort of guessing no point in jointing, just mitre cut (or but joint) as any joint is going to open an close with the seasons …
Custom taper sawn tantalized wood arrived today …. 60m of ‘wood’ capping to fit to a single brick think wall … see sketch:
http://tinyurl.com/qy7cjea
The wall is a mixture of concrete block & brick ….
Q.1 should I put a DPC under the wood, this would keep it off damp wall (holds back earth beds) .. only negative I saw was that it would also trap any water that gets underneath when it rains.
Q.2 Need a good method of fixing … just simply gluing on with no-more-nails … is going to fail.
My mate suggested using Thunder bolts …. Issue with these if I just fitted Thunderbolts water is going to collect where they crush into wood. I could counter-bore the wood to recess bolt heads .. but to avoid these ‘holes’ filling with water would need to plug .. and not going to be easy to get a plug cutter in large enough diameter to suit Thunderbolts.
So anybody go a suggestion for fitting these cappings, they have to take occasionally being stood on … but other than that they are decorative.
Using some common catalogues items as discussion points:
Frame Screws http://tinyurl.com/h9uu7yr
Fischer Hammerfix http://tinyurl.com/j5je68z
or
Fischer Frame fixing http://tinyurl.com/janhhx3
Thunderbolt http://goo.gl/zHBxld
RAWL LX screw http://goo.gl/jKaxaG
Q.3 at corners, I am sort of guessing no point in jointing, just mitre cut (or but joint) as any joint is going to open an close with the seasons …