Daydream thread... without the rose-tinted specs

alfie_1

alfie_1 wrote: »

phoebe.... isnt cranborne chase swindon ?

ooops ! no...sorry

Davesnave

I've spent two days stripping out our garden shed prior to demolition and re-building elsewhere.

Normally one doesn't need to strip out sheds, but the previous owner had panelled this one in ply inside and insulated it, even the roof.



You can guess how wet and mucky it was where water had driven in, but although it was a flawed design, the execution was something else. 1/8" ply held on with 40mm plasterboard nails....hundreds of them! Hell to remove.

I think they're all out now and I've almost stopped coughing from removing all that rockwool.:mad:

I had hoped this 10'x7' building might do as a chicken shed and save us extending one of our others, but the cedar wood has lost a lot of its water repellant properties, so the back wall, facing west, was streaming tonight. I think it's only fit for garden tools.

phoebe1989seb

alfie_1 wrote: »

phoebe.... isnt cranborne chase swindon ?

Nope Alfie, we're South Wilts (SP postcode).....Cranborne Chase straddles *Dorset, Hampshire and Wiltshire* according to Wikipedia

We are on the westerly side, quite close to Shaftesbury - which is actually in Dorset - and Win Green, the highest point in CC/West Wilts Downs

RAS

Davesnave wrote: »

So that's where they've gone! :rotfl:

I'm pleased ours has been postponed. The state the land is in just now, the last thing I want is heavy vehicles in here, churning it up. :eek:

At present we have

Water lot have dug up the turnpike to which the street is attached

Gas have dug up the street.

We had both here 2010/2011 digging up everything to replace pipes; just after the pavements were resurfaced.

Thankfully the rain and storms have washed away most of the mud but all the pits needed pumping this morning. May expalin why there were no men at work when I came in.

Yesterday was the first time ever I have seen standing water on the plots at my end of the site; I am going to guess the lower part if a stream as the lowest plots often get flooded after heavy rain.

lostinrates

What's weird here is our lawn is wet, we have standing water in the field, but the ditches have gone down .........

phoebe1989seb

Davesnave wrote: »

I've spent two days stripping out our garden shed prior to demolition and re-building elsewhere.

Normally one doesn't need to strip out sheds, but the previous owner had panelled this one in ply inside and insulated it, even the roof.



You can guess how wet and mucky it was where water had driven in, but although it was a flawed design, the execution was something else. 1/8" ply held on with 40mm plasterboard nails....hundreds of them! Hell to remove.

I think they're all out now and I've almost stopped coughing from removing all that rockwool.:mad:

I had hoped this 10'x7' building might do as a chicken shed and save us extending one of our others, but the cedar wood has lost a lot of its water repellant properties, so the back wall, facing west, was streaming tonight. I think it's only fit for garden tools.

Dave - I reckon your PO must have been related to ours :rotfl: He too, had a penchant for doing things really well where they mattered least, whilst scrimping on the areas that IMHO were most important (for example having a brand new boiler fitted in the almost derelict attached outbuilding when he had new oil heating put in the year before selling ).......

He also had a love of hammering things into the walls, ceilings etc - in his case it was mainly hooks, with quite a lot of nails thrown in for (not so) good measure, yet he wouldn't allow the heating engineers to drill through any timbers (we have documentation stating this!), to the extent that they ran pipes round the outside of everything including some kitchen cupboards (the only kitchen we inherited - no sink etc) :T

He had similar taste in colour schemes too by the looks of things,....apologies if that's your choice, lol

alfie_1

phoebe... i bought a hoss in melburey abbas ? sp? didnt realise thats part of cranborne chase

alfie_1

rozee.... did you ring me ??
some one from carmarthen ?

phoebe1989seb

Yeah, I think one of our window quotes was from a guy in Melbury Abbas Alfie

Talking of which, LIR, we had the quote from your guys today.....for hardwood it's roughly £1200 more than the nearest priced like-for-like quote we've had and their softwood quote is still around £100 more than the hardwood from t'other guy......not *the* most expensive though - by a long shot - that was a good £3k more :eek:

We've just about made up our minds to go with the *middle* priced bloke - DH felt happiest with the way he presented himself/his sympathetic attitude towards our old building

lostinrates

phoebe1989seb wrote: »

Yeah, I think one of our window quotes was from a guy in Melbury Abbas Alfie

Talking of which, LIR, we had the quote from your guys today.....for hardwood it's roughly £1200 more than the nearest priced like-for-like quote we've had and their softwood quote is still around £100 more than the hardwood from t'other guy......not *the* most expensive though - by a long shot - that was a good £3k more :eek:

We've just about made up our minds to go with the *middle* priced bloke - DH felt happiest with the way he presented himself/his sympathetic attitude towards our old building

Gosh.


Perhaps you'd give me your guys number then, lol.