I asked a friend to come and help me remove the old roof and build the new roof in three days. We actually managed the removal and build in less than 2 days, but the tidy up and final work is not yet finished. Everything I needed two people to do is done however. Two trips to the tip have been completed also, mostly plant material that was growing over the roof. I have yet to break up some of the old pallets and dispose of them. This is a photo taken ever minute stitched into a video, this is the first day: The second day: Then I used clipchamp’s AI offering to make this video: So you might have noticed the unfinished nature of the roof, I failed to get the length of the garage building right, so didn’t order enough roofing sheets. They’re coming hopefully this week. I […]
I collected some stone slabs from a neighbour today. It was a bit of fun as it was an excuse to drive up a footpath for access to their back garden.
Having rehung the gates, but this time level, I needed to extend the drop pin. I had found that I had some bar stock of the right size. After a bit of cutting, grinding, welding, grinding and a lick of Zink rich paint it was done.
New posts are now in, thanks to a nieghbour who’s a landscape gardener, Spires Landscaping (https://spireslandscaping.co.uk/) and he managed to dig it out, it was no insignifcant effort for him either. I’m very pleased with the result, now I just need to get some hinges and hang the gates.
The bedroom floors were not level, so since we wanted new carpet we took the opportunity to have it levelled and new floor board down.
I finsihed off the top mesh sides part last night and made a lid that will be hinged on the top. I now need to buy some hinges and perhaps a latch as a means securing it shut to stop the cat getting in or the gerbils out by some fluke stroke of luck, be it good or bad luck depending on who’s viewpoint you take. I also had to file down the heads of the rivets where it sits into the glass tank, it is now a tight fit.
I have now made the 4x sides of the top bit, it needs the top mesh putting in now and a door constructing for the side, and perhaps one for the top. not sure how this will work. I had two rivits break like this, I have no idea why this might have happened, could be a faulty rivit or I supose it could be the jaws in the rivit gun doing something they shouldn’t.
We were at Mole Valley at the weekend and they happened to have the right size gate posts. So we had them deliver 2 yesterday. As such today I got keen and managed to get one out. Given how rotten they appear, they’re actually quite solid. The post would rock back and forth but I couldn’t lift it up. Only after getting the high lift jack and drilling a hole for the tang of the jack to gain purchase on was I able to pursuade the post to rise from its setting. I hope the other one is easier.
We bought a fish tank, that will form the base of the cage. I went and picked it up last week for 15 quid. I cleaned it and removed the paint from the exterior. I aam using angle and flat aluminium that I recovered from the greenhouse that I had for the glass. I did have to buy some weld mesh.
Got the Swift box up, I situtated it on the north side of the house up under the sofit/eave as was suggested by www.swift-conservation.org, graphic was stolen taken from the swift conservation advice leaflet: https://www.swift-conservation.org/Leaflet_1_Swifts_Nest-boxes_at_Your_Home-small.pdf All this came about because of a community group in the village: https://www.cattistockvillage.co.uk/cattistock-community-website/the-great-outdoors/swift-action/
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