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Trimble Towers Workshop - Fitting out begins...

TrimTheKing":1p5oqez4 said:
........Nearly time for you to do it again........
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We're planning on doing St Davids to Felixtowe, one of the coast to coast runs, next year. I guess we'll do Lejog (or Jogle) again for our 60th in 3-1/2 years time.
 
Mike G":1zoa3mk4 said:
TrimTheKing":1zoa3mk4 said:
........Nearly time for you to do it again........
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We're planning on doing St Davids to Felixtowe, one of the coast to coast runs, next year. I guess we'll do Lejog (or Jogle) again for our 60th in 3-1/2 years time.
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I managed to get some time this weekend in between Veterans football and helping my mate with turning his summer house into a bar... [emoji481]

Headed down to the builder's merchant to load up the VeeDub wth as much insulation and OSB2 as the roof bars could handle.

Grabbed 6x4" slabs and 4x11mm OSB and met the lad who did most of my materials deliveries and is a top chap so he loaded it all onto my roof with the forklift then rather than me mess around with ratchet straps he banded the whole lot to the roof bars saving me a load of time.



No shots of the work as it's was simply laying 2 full boards then almost half board side by side leaving 40mm overhang to cut off. I also doubled up the front joist just for the hell of it.

Here's me sat up I the wood loft having nailed each board 3 times per joist.



Couple of shots from front...





Then started on the insulation. I cut the boards with an old hardpoint saw. Need to work on my technique a little to cut a slight angle to make them easier to insert but went in without too much banging. This one and 2 more out of one board so I should get the entire loft area from 4 boards then another 11 required for the main roof, then 2" laid across those followed by 11mm OSB to finish off.



Cheers
Mark
 
Cut the insulation worth a circular saw. It makes a far cleaner edge.
 
I've often wondered if I could get away with putting a full sheet of ply on the car roof but was always worried about it acting like a sail, or a wing, and lifting the roof rack off. Did it feel okay to drive?
 
The 120mm insulation I got for my build from 2nds cut well and straight with a well used panel saw. There was a little crumb, but it was paper, not foil, lined. I wonder if the foil wears the blades.
 
If you want a specialist tool for the job (you don't, I promise), you can buy a hand saw without teeth, but with a wave-like edge instead.
 
When I did a chapel conversion a few years back I cut hundreds of sheets of insulation with a large Makita circular saw attached to a vacuum with power take off, there was practically no dust, it gave an excellent cut & I used the same blade throughout, though I never tried cutting timber with it afterwards.
 
That's a tempting idea but my TS75 will only do....75mm so without buying a bigger beast I'm a little scuppered...

Mark


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TrimTheKing":3ixd2ejr said:
That's a tempting idea but my TS75 will only do....75mm so without buying a bigger beast I'm a little scuppered...

Mark


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Or cut from both sides, a bit of a pain I grant but I find the dust from insulation panels really gets on my chest, so I wouldn't cut it without extraction

Or just hire a big circular saw
 
By the time you've faffed about getting the right circular saw you'll have done the entire job by hand. Cutting is a very quick simple job, and there is no reason to do it any other way than with a handsaw on such a small area. If I was doing a church roof, that might be a different kettle of fish.
 
Managed to relocate my mojo after a good few weeks where life has been doing its best to keep me either fully occupied or struggling for motivation (for many many reasons).

Anyway, my lovely wife noticed I'd been down for a while and after a good heart to heart on Friday she told me to get to the workshop and she would take the kids out for the day today. After a late one drinking mojito's with friends last night, we rose late, ate brekkie and did homework then off they went and off to it I set.

I had 4 boards of Quinntherm left in my stocks and aimed to get them in using my new foam gun and wedging technique.





After a few mins getting to frips with the trigger mechanism/setting on the gun I had a flow rate I was happy with and that filled the gap I was planning to leave without bursting out from the surface and away I went...

This was the first area to be hit, what will be the woodstore...


After about 3.5 hours of up and down ladders, cutting, wedging and falling off the ladder... :oops: :eusa-doh: Here we were...





There's the bit to the right of the last pic and the whole following pic to go. All to then be overboarded with a further 50mm Quinntherm, then 12mm OSB.



As I was doing the bit above the Velux I had turned the stepladder side on whereas I had been doing all work face on up to then. As I reached for a handhold on a rafter the ladder lurched to the left, I managed to catch it but over corrected and it fell right. I managed to jam my right hand under a rafter but couldn't hold for long so managed to swing and jump away from the sticky out bits on the workmate below me but my foot landed on the falling ladder tripping me so while I managed to not hit the workmate I landed full 13.5 stones on my right hip and right back/ribs. Whacked my right wrist/forearm/elbow, skinned my right ankle on the ladder, whacked left wrist on ladder also.

Feeling pretty stiff and banged up now, but managed to achieve what I had set out to and will be ordering the remaining materials to finish off tomorrow. I'm skint after recent holiday to Cuba (thread to follow) so SWMBO is very kindly buying me my materials for my birthday next week :D

Here's part of the damage...



Mojo located and providing I can actually move tomorrow then I aim to be back in there next weekend.

Cheers
Mark
 
Look on the bright side, you didn't break anything, when I came off a ladder two rungs up I broke my leg.
That insulation looks good, nice job.
 
Bloody hell, Mark. In many ways you are a lucky chap. That could have been much worse. Couldn't you set up some scaffold boards on a pair of trestles?

Glad you're only a bit stiff and sore.
 
Shucks Mark, looks sore, could have been a lot worse.
(I slipped and fell in the roof years ago wiring up the new alarm - rafter, left hand and 89Kg deadweight on top. Lucky to have not fallen through the ceiling.)

Good to see you back in the workshop - just be careful!



Phil
 
Aw bless, good on Mrs T matey - that's lovely that. 8-)

The best bit on its way I reckons - the fit out. Just the job. 8-)

Lovely building. 8-)

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Ouch!

Hot bath. Epsom salts.

Or failing that several large drams.

If it were me, I'd be annoyed with myself for being such a plonker and using the stepladder that way round.
 
Cheers chaps. Getting there and hopefully crack on and finish the 100mm insulation over the weekend.

Mike - very lucky indeed! When I looked around there were so many things strewn around the floor that could have done me some serious damage!

The daft thing, I do have a scaffold perfect for he job but someone has borrowed it and instead of burn precious time getting it back first I just cracked on with the ladder!! Scaffold being returned this afternoon for me to build before weekend...

Roger - exactly how I felt last night when I sat down and thought back!

Cheers
Mark


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Coming a long nicely, but ouch!

Remind me to say 13 and a half stone if I fall off anything. It'll make me feel much better! :D
 
Oooo.... Feel that fella!

My four point ladder/steps listed on soft backfill when I was working on the outside of the workshop, ended in a very painful, slow-mo tangle and black and blue legs!

Take it easy on those ladders chaps... Deadly things!



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On all of the many Health & Safety courses I've had to attend, it's always drummed into you that the biggest cause of accidents/injuries is ladders etc.

Rod
 
Remaining insulation and OSB for ceiling delivered. All materials now on site to finish the roof space. Window cills to follow next week but windows need stripping and repainting so no rush for those.

Mate lined up for this weekend assistance and scaffold retrieved so hopefully won't kill myself... [emoji51]

Cheers
Mark


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Mike G":d9zuy3uz said:
Hope you're feeling a a bit better Mark.
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Much better thanks Mike. The bruises have come to a lovely rainbow brown colour now and the general aching has stopped so all good. Counting my blessings and being MUCH more careful now!!

Cheers
Mark
 
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