If you can find a way to clamp both ends it would be a good plan
People from Dublin and from Cork, knowing bout generic Irish jokes, tell me that they tell jokes about Kerry men.... :-) Nobody seemed to know who Kerry men tell jokes about.
A nice simple way of doing doors is with a couple of bits of 4x2" about
4' long. You cut a notch in the middle of each - about half way through the long axis, and about 2" wide. Now cut a couple of wood wedges. Lay your 4x2"s on the ground with the notches facing up, and sit the edge of the door into the notch and tap the wedge in alongside it so that it is held firmly in the notch.You can now plane away, and the door will stay upright all by itself.
HI Calum
Have emailed you directly - yes - I'm very interested !
Regards Adrian
OK - thanks for that.... Regards Adrian
Yup !
Many moons ago I worked on contract for BT - up in Edinburgh. The locals there told the same jokes as the Dubliners and the Cork guys - except they told them about the people from just over the bridge - the 'Fifers' as thay called them.....
A few years before that we had an old Penzance lady in my parents shop in Hayle (west Cornwall). She said, with a completely straight face - "Well midears, I went on the train to Plymouth when I was in my teens (she was 80 if she was a day!). They all spoke funny - so I've not bothered to go that far again".
It's about 65 miles from Hayle to Penzance....
Regards Adrian
New build I'd be onto the builders to do the job(s) properly to standard. Ah, they didn't do 'em properly the first time what chance the second...
My "unnecessary" job today was to reskim about 4 sq foot of ceiling that fell off as I was removing the nasty Artex (or very thick emulsion) that was peeling off in places, I just knew would peel off completely when I put the fresh emulsion on later.
Quite pleased it's flat and smooth, might need a bit of touching up around the edges to blend in but otherwise I'm well chuffed. Starting to get the hang of this plastering lark. B-)
Matt, people in Little Middle England?
Itr's more complicated than that, though. New build it is - but we bought the place from the guy who had it built - so we've no contract with the builders themselves.
You got it right about '2nd-time round' though - don't have a lot of confidence in their ability to improve on what they did the 1st time...
They do say that it's all down to practise.... That's one job that I'll happily leave to the pros - that and anything to do with heights....
Having said that, I need to shin up a ladder later today and find out / fix whatever it is that's flapping about on the roof when the strong westerlies blow. I'm guessing it's either some UPVC fascia that's held in place with spit, or they've not clipped the guttering in properly....
Ho hum
Adrian
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