• Hi all and welcome to TheWoodHaven2 brought into the 21st Century, kicking and screaming! We all have Alasdair to thank for the vast bulk of the heavy lifting to get us here, no more so than me because he's taken away a huge burden of responsibility from my shoulders and brought us to this new shiny home, with all your previous content (hopefully) still intact! Please peruse and feed back. There is still plenty to do, like changing the colour scheme, adding the banner graphic, tweaking the odd setting here and there so I have added a new thread in the 'Technical Issues, Bugs and Feature Requests' forum for you to add any issues you find, any missing settings or just anything you'd like to see added/removed from the feature set that Xenforo offers. We will get to everything over the coming weeks so please be patient, but add anything at all to the thread I mention above and we promise to get to them over the next few days/weeks/months. In the meantime, please enjoy!

Tez's Workshop Build

This is badly out of focus but gives an idea of how I want the underside of roof to look, I will take a better one and upload it.

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Shot showing how the rafter details ended up. Going to keep it that dark grey coloour but give it another coat. I'm either going to paint the underside of the OSB the same or maybe use some battens and put some thin T&G up there.
 
Just about finished now, have some pictures which I will get uploaded over the weekend. I'm just about to order the cladding today. Going for 200mm wide british larch featheredge.. I need about 172 linear metres which I've been getting quotes ranging from £720 to £850 delivered. However have found a place in Devon which will actually deliver for £520. However where the profile from most timber yards had been 6-9/23-25 mm the profile on this one is 5/17mm. I think this sort of thickness will be ok? What do you guys think?
 
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Just about finished now, have some pictures which I will get uploaded over the weekend. I'm just about to order the cladding today. Going for 200mm wide british larch featheredge.. I need about 172 linear metres which I've been getting quotes ranging from £720 to £850 delivered. However have found a place in Devon which will actually deliver for £520. However where the profile from most timber yards had been 6-9/23-25 mm the profile on this one is 5/17mm. I think this sort of thickness will be ok? What do you guys think?
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My concern with the thinner stock would be that it might curl much more as it dries but only time will tell

The thin stuff will possibly be cut from 25mm boards and the thicker from about 35mm so that make the prices similar per cu m.
I used the thicker stock in pressure treated softwood and soaked it in full lead creosote in 2006 and it has been fine. Maybe other workshop builders can contribute their experiences too?

Bob
 
Thanks Bob , I've no experience of using larch cladding so hadn't considered the possibility of the thinner stock curling. Would this be something the suppliers would give me the truth about if I asked?
 
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Thanks Bob , I've no experience of using larch cladding so hadn't considered the possibility of the thinner stock curling. Would this be something the suppliers would give me the truth about if I asked?
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I've no experience of larch either. I think it is a fast growing timber with wide growth rings like softwood.
As for honest opinions from a vendor I guess it is the luck of the draw.
Better chance of unbiassed comment if one place sells both sizes maybe but it is a bit like asking if they would like a smaller or larger value order from you.

Hopefully MikeG might be along at some stage as he may have experienced both sizes although he might be bike riding across France by now?

Sorry I can't be more definitive

Bob
 
A bit of googling turns up various opinions on feather edge boards.
Such as having a rebate or not and fitting the boards such that any curl will be towards the building surface rather than away from it.
Also only one fixing across the width of each board to avoid splits. I did not know this when I did mine and I have splits :oops:

Bob
 
I used a Devon sawmill for my feather edge, and because it's a sawmill, you can specify your own dimensions. I erred on the side of bulk!

I still have quite a bit left as I have a habit of over ordering. I painted all six sides with barn paint before fixing, fixed it only with one nail across it's width and it's remained stable.

I resheathed my bin store with the same stuff and fixed it the same way although I used that green fence paint, and the short lengths on the doors and sides shrunk across their width without curling much, which proved that the single nail fixing is the way to do it. They shrunk more than 15 mm!! But no splits.
 
Been trying to do some research on using unseasoned larch and have read that summer is not the time to be using it as it dries out too quickly. With me looking at using thinner featheredge this is a worry for me. I've seen sites that reckon about 5mm shrinkage is the norm and that you should fix it heart side out to reduce cupping.

Any thoughts folks?
 
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