We’re finally coming out of the ’50’s and going into the ’20’s, that’s from one millennium to the next, rather than backwards. We’ve finally gotten rid of our fuses boards and replaced them with a modern consumer unit that has up front surge protection and then each circuit has it’s own miniature circuit breaker for over load protection and also built in residual current device to save those who chose to hold onto live wires. Our house is now as electrically safe as it can reasonably be in this day and age. This was the old fuse board layout: The electrician managed to get a double row board which fitted within less 5 mm free around the sides: Now I just need to make some changes to how to door fits over this. It used to hinge, but it’ll interfere with the covers that flap up.
When we bought this house there was a fire extinguisher on the wall. I had never really looked at it, I just put our fire blanket above it and left it. I took a look at it today for some reason. It’s probably not fit for purpose, and since I’d hate to actually use one of these indoors, particularly in my own home, so I shall get rid of it. I’ll likely let it off then see if I can use the canister as a compressed air cylinder on the land rover. The locking diff doesn’t not require very many liters of air to operate so this would be way more efficient. Thought I’ll likely leave the other tank in there but perhaps valve it.
I fitted the window from the other green house to ours, so that it would auto-open based on the internal temperature. I had to get a piece of the ridge extrusion as that is the other half of the hinge. I shall now refit the old window in another place as a manual alternative. I also managed to cut the pane of glass or the back center bit that matches to the two roof angles in the middle. I traced out on some card the green house roof angle, then just by eye scored the glass and it broke perfectly.
Dad gave me a couple more agaves earlier in the year, last night I re-potted them into larger pots as one had started to look a little sad. I’d been meaning to do it for ages, so this was not too soon. I also planted out the three sallows, the tomato and also put the spider plant into a pot and brought it inside. The larger one has grown quite a lot I think. Here is my previous post about it: https://bhhh.co.uk/agave/
I need to cut some of the glass from the green house that I picked up the other day (post here https://bhhh.co.uk/another-green-house/). So I got myself a glass cutter, scorer thing from Screwfix. Then I proceeded to break a small pain of glass until I learned to score it properly. This was some better results as I learned what I was doing. I found that if the score line is really nice with no breaks in it, and it makes that sound like a good weld bead going in, then it’ll break both easily and really nicely. If it’s hard to break then it’s going to break anywhere but on the line.
We finally painted the chimney breast with it’s first mist coat and then 24 hours later with it’s first full coat of white paint. It needs another 2 coats, at a minimum, and there is a possibility that one of those coats will be a stain blocker coat. There are some patches on the sides that were not freshly plastered and had wall paper on prior to this which are showing marks through the paint.
I decided that new glass was too expensive and second hand glass wasn’t much cheaper. Whereas entire second hand green houses are quite cheap by comparison. So we picked up an 8ft x 8ft green house from a place near Weymouth. I was worried that the glass wasn’t going to be right and having not checked this could have been a rather sorry story. But 2 hours of taking down and another hour loading it all onto the land rover and then after a careful drive home, I was pleasently surprised to find the glass an exact match. Even though this other green house was a far higher quality item, the aluminium profiles are far superior. Much more ridged. I was able to complete our green house, bar one pane that requires cutting, and for that I will need a glass cutter /scorer thing. Dad said he’s never had any […]
We picked up and fitted another rain water butt to help store some more water. I daisy chained it to our existing one. It rained quite heavily the other day and filled the first one up and began filling the second. I was uncertain how high up to put the connecting pipe. I put it about 1 pipe diameter below the inlet, my thinking was that the first tank will fill up then it will overflow into the second. Any matter that enters the first tank, such as moss and the like will tend to sink and not go into the second tank. When the second tank completely fills, then both tanks will continue to fill up to the inlet level and water will flow back into the down pipe. Lastly, had I connected the two tanks say halfway up and then the pipe connection leaked I might drain down […]
I spent a few hours clearing the undergrowth and the rubbish /cuttings and soil from the drainage ditch that runs along the back edge of the garage building last weekend. I did not get a before photo, but it was very full of stuff. I now need to do some digging at the far end to remove a lot of stone and soil from the ditch.
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