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What garage door are you fitting?

The front door is a set of double glazed french doors (all glass) to let lots of light in when working in it. Behind this, on the back of the return will be an electric steel roller shutter blind, so at night it's reasonably secure.

The front door is a set of double glazed french doors (all glass) to let lots of light in when working in it. Behind this, on the back of the return will be an electric steel roller shutter blind, so at night it's reasonably secure.

Expect to have upset neighbours, they are not the quietest of things & you know you will use it every time you leave the building, which will be often as you will find yourself visiting it frequently to begin with 😉

Awaits thread re electric bill...

I can's see Mrs Flaps agreeing to that, she's already demanded her own area in the workshop.......

I can't believe you call her that, it's so demeaning. 😉

If your getting a RSD on the front make sure you have nylon endlocks not steel ones as they are v noisy in operation and when its windy and rattling round at night it will be grim, nylon help a lot but still not quite.

It will be inside, behind double glazed patio doors and I only envision using it at night. I'm thinking about wiring it up to the burglar alarm so when that gets activated it closes the shutters automatically. The idea being you shut patio door, hit remote fob to arm the alarm and the shutter close automatically. Might be an issue with setting off the PIRs - might need a delay on them. Anyway, that's all something to figure out when the shell is completed.

Plus the workshop is 50m from the nearest house....

You cant wire the RSD upto the alarm as the door will need a continious signal from the alarm. RSD only operate in "deadmans" mode, ie continious pressure on a switch so as not to trap anyone/thing. You can have it operating on impuse by the means of fitting a safety bottom edge or photcell safety beam in line with the door.

Also if you have a power failure or the RSD f00ks up is this your only point of access? if so your snookered.

You cant wire the RSD upto the alarm as the door will need a continious signal from the alarm.

Er, yes you can. Simple adaptor box to power it till it closes. Should take all of 30secs to design and about 30mins to make once I get the bits ordered from RS.

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You cant wire the RSD upto the alarm as the door will need a continious signal from the alarm.

Er, yes you can. Simple adaptor box to power it till it closes. Should take all of 30secs to design and about 30mins to make once I get the bits ordered from RS.

Unless you had a control panel, like the one you want to design. Albeit, legally you need to be able to see the door close to the bottom limit as to not create a trapping/sheering hazard, in your own garage it will "be reet".

Alan the brickie was back this WE to work in between Gales to finish the Gable ends:

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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/brf/8215120194/ ]Finishing the Rear Gable End[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/brf/ ]brf[/url], on Flickr

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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/brf/8214030693/ ]Rear Gable End Capping Block[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/brf/ ]brf[/url], on Flickr

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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/brf/8218045796/ ]A very tidy job from Alan[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/brf/ ]brf[/url], on Flickr

How straight is that edge!

Alan the brickie and your carpenters have done a nice job.

Hopefully the roofer will be as good....

Yup, nice job there. Way better than the first "brickie" would've achieved.

Did Alan let you top out??

Did Alan let you top out??

Nope, didn't know that was a tradition! I was laying pavers at the time.

It's your build!!! However that tiny little triangle of brick on the gable may have made you feel a bit of a fraud 😆

Having satisfied the masses with his brickwork skills, shall i start to refer to my working at height lessons!?

Shhh, don't mention the handrails.....oh 😉

Hopefully the roofer will be as good....

Yes, but good tradesmen = bad for this thread! 😀

Us keyboard warriors need entertainment, and quality construction does not provide this!

It would be an interesting step down from there to be fair 😯

It would be an interesting step down from there to be fair

I did suggest putting up the next stage of the platforms, but he wasn't having any of it....

EDIT: To be honest I'd have been the same...

Roofers have been working the last two days:

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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/brf/8231170201/ ]30 Nov 2012 08:36[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/brf/ ]brf[/url], on Flickr

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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/brf/8231169745/ ]Veluxes[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/brf/ ]brf[/url], on Flickr

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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/brf/8231172515/ ]Roofing Hammer[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/brf/ ]brf[/url], on Flickr

I love this thread.

Replace moon with shed.

does your shed have a name yet? can we name it?
it deserves a plaque.
made of a tombstone, obviously.

'The Mausoleum'

gets my vote.

I've asked our local Duke and Duchess to officially open it...

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'The Mausoleum'

You jest, but there was an Italian neighbour who sold the house but kept 80% of the garden and then once the new owners had moved in he applied for planning permission for a huge Mausoleum in their garden. Didn't get approved!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/3303568/Death-wish-in-suburbia.html

Roofers will finish this morning - only 18" of slates to go and the ridge tiles to bed in place:

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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/brf/8244311858/ ]4 Dec 2012 08:25[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/brf/ ]brf[/url], on Flickr

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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/brf/8243243817/ ]Almost there![/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/brf/ ]brf[/url], on Flickr

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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/brf/8243243697/ ]Edge slates[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/brf/ ]brf[/url], on Flickr

Only slight spanner in the works is the back door I bought seems to have been pre-dented:

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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/brf/8243243243/ ]Pre-dented door.....[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/brf/ ]brf[/url], on Flickr

I am tempted just to fit it anyway, as it's just cosmetic....

Surely not......

Pre bashed in back doors ???

* someone had to say it

Pre bashed in back doors ???

I know, it just feels dirty.....

my builds a blur

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Great thread, keep on with the updates.

Fix this effing glitch!!.!!!

Glitch bump?

Max clifford

http://pics.livejournal.com/revarg/pic/000fq4p5/s640x480

Had the first shipment of Celotex this morning:

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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/brf/8251283307/ ]Celotex arriving[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/brf/ ]brf[/url], on Flickr

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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/brf/8251282511/ ]1st shipment of Celotex (38/68 sheets)[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/brf/ ]brf[/url], on Flickr

This is for rafter infill (70mm), line walls with 100mm between pillars and cover the floor (100mm). Walls and rafters then get a 50mm/12.5mm plaster board bonded layer, which arrives next week.

Should be quite snug by the time all this is installed.....

You'll never get that lot in a Focus.

You'll never get that lot in a Focus.

Don't be silly, we've got roof bars! 😉

Going over old ground here flaps but what's stopping the damp coming thro the walls?

Paint the outside and even if some damp does get through, 100mm of Celotex is impermeable, so it won't go anywhere.

The whole inside is drying out quite nicely now the roof is on, even though its been pissing down outside recently.

You'll never get that lot in a Focus

Nah, he got it from B&Q not Focus... errrrmmm...shuffle, wibble, shuffle...

Going over old ground here flaps but what's stopping the damp coming thro the walls?

I'd suggest Matt that there are sod all 4" construction houses around!

We need internal pics now too Flaps please the build needs to move on 🙂