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Stone56 said:
NHS has confirmed you appointment for the transgender op 😃
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kevstar said:
Just been round to move my mates pizza oven omg what a heavy ole fing :oops: Asked if I wanted it but not sure if if get here
without it breaking so we put it to the bottom of his garden as hes replacing his decking which I slipped n fell on when shifting
part of the oven. :confused: Dont think id have decking, who ever done it left no air gaps between the planks so its rotten.
Plus put dpc round all the leg supports like little water traps so they are rotten too.
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We have decking on the covered patio at the back of our place in France. Previously it was plain concrete. It is raised on two layers of wood so you can step right out of the French doors (Get it?!) and it feels great under bare feet. It is protected from the weather by the extended roof so it is lasting well and of COURSE it has gaps. (It was so warped when I put it down as I'd kept the planks for years on another covered patio! That I could not have put it down without! (It is annoying if you drop something between them, like a drill bit!) It faces due south so we get the best of the view, can entertain on it yet it is shady.

On the other hand, down by the pool, but not close to it I put up a wooden pergola with a decking floor. It came as a kit. That time I didn't keep it hanging around. It is on a gravel base. I had to lash the long pieces that make the length of the top to the top of the box trailer when taking them over. And yes it was FAR cheaper than buying one over there!!
The top part is mounted on four big posts and I cannot remember exactly how many crosspieces holding it all together. We put a layer of some sort of material over the top so we could grow things up the posts and over the top.
The posts are bolted to the frame of the base.

It was fine for years, but now the decking and its supports are rotting, and the posts are leaning. It is just the Trumpets of Jericho and the magnolia holding parts of it together. :rolleyes: And there were gaps between the planks. It was supposed to have been tannalised. :rolleyes: Guess that doesn't last for ever.

The one outside the back of the house here, much higher off the ground, two steps up. It has been up longer than we have had the Frog house so before 2004 and it is OK. no rotten, planks even though it gets no sun. Except for about half an hour in the summer. Trees will grow! But then we did paint it with some funny green paint.

I think the point is that they need either constant wood treatment or to be protected from the weather. Me no expert.

(A shame as we never thought the pergola would get like this. We originally planned to use it for eating and entertaining by the pool, I even wired lighting to it and around the pool as well as down the path from the house.)
No idea if it is beyond saving! It's just the base that has gone really.

But doing one in Scotland must need proper protection and being properly aerated!!
 
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Hippo said:
Fink so. Came frew me gate tonight by me trellis fing where eye put nuts down. Searching me coat pocket for the key. Pulls it oot. Dropped a nut from oot me picket. Then realised the nuts that eye put down a week ago ain't there. Somefink has taken em.
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I'll collect my prize sometime after half-term when our grandottir goes back to skool!!
 
Stanleysteamer said:
We have decking on the patio at the back of our place in France. Previously it was plain concrete. It is raised on two layers of wood so you can step right out of the French doors (Get it?!) and it feels great under bare feet. It is protected from the weather by the extended roof so it lasting well and of COURSE it has gaps. (It was so warped when I put it down as I'd kept the planks for years on another covered patio! That I could not have put it down without! (It is annoying if you drop something between them, like a drill bit!)

On the other hand, down by the pool, but not close to it I put up a wooden pergola with a decking floor. It came as a kit. That time I didn't keep it hanging around. It is on a gravel base. I had to lash the long pieces that make the length of the top to the top of the box trailer when taking them over. and yes it was FAR cheaper than buying one over there!!
The top part is mounted on four big posts and I cannot remember exactly how many crosspieces holding it all together. We put a layer of some sort of material over the top so we could grow things up the posts and over the top.
The posts are bolted to the frame of the base.

It was fine for years, but now the decking and its supports are rotting, and the posts are leaning. It is just the Trumpets of Jericho and the magnolia holding parts of it together. :rolleyes: And there were gaps between the planks.

The one outside the back of the house here, much higher off the ground, has been up longer than we have had the Frog house so before 2004 and it is OK. no rotten, planks. But then we did paint it with some funny green paint. and it gets no sun at all.

I think the point is that they need either constant wood treatment or to be protected from the weather. Me no expert.

(A shame as we never thought the pergola would get like this.)
No idea if it is beyond saving! It's just the base that has gone really.

But doing one in Scotland must need proper protection and being properly aerated!!
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Yer also everyone puts the decking the wrong way.....the boards should be smooth side up & the ridges side down to prevent mold/rot/air flow. Everyone thinks the ridge side up is for grip its not. Deffo needs proper maintaining here, if its in the shade here you will get moss on it. Dam slippy too as i found out tonight.


Yer my mate has now sent the vid of me falling 🤣 wota git.
 
kevstar said:
Yer also everyone puts the decking the wrong way.....the boards should be smooth side up & the ridges side down to prevent mold/rot/air flow. Everyone thinks the ridge side up is for grip its not. Deffo needs proper maintaining here, if its in the shade here you will get moss on it. Dam slippy too as i found out tonight.


Yer my mate has now sent the vid of me falling 🤣 wota git.
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Yep forgottid to mention that we get moss on our Brit one. Very slippy but easy enough to clean off.

So your mate wasn't helping he was just hovering with his phone video camera on?:(
Hope he paid you well.
As for "right side up", with my missus she needs grip under her feet so I always bear that in mind, also, if they are in the sun if the grippy bits weren't there you could possibly burn your feet, even as they are you have to be careful. I do wonder, if there are on the down side, why do they bother? They don't get seen and I doubt they do anything to maintain anti-warping. Ours sure didn't 🤣 🤣

I spec loads of peeps would argue for both sides and all thinking they are right!🤣🤣
 
Just watching the thing about the RAF "Top Guns " etc.
Showing them out in Cyprus.
Wondering if I might catch a glimpse of our grandson in the background, he did a good stretch out there.
Edit, nope didn't.

When he was on tour in the Falklands he was lent to the army and changed the clutches, presumably with a team, on 14 Land Rovers. With no hoist or pit. He said the heavy footed squaddies plus the potholes were to blame.
 
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Stanleysteamer said:
Yep forgottid to mention that we get moss on our Brit one. Very slippy but easy enough to clean off.

So your mate wasn't helping he was just hovering with his phone video camera on?:(
Hope he paid you well.
As for "right side up", with my missus she needs grip under her feet so I always bear that in mind, also, if they are in the sun if the grippy bits weren't there you could possibly burn your feet, even as they are you have to be careful. I do wonder, if there are on the down side, why do they bother? They don't get seen and I doubt they do anything to maintain anti-warping. Ours sure didn't 🤣 🤣

I spec loads of peeps would argue for both sides and all thinking they are right!🤣🤣
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It was on cctv I was pushing hence why I slipped, peeps can argue till the cows come home but there is only one way thats right. 🤣 🤣
 
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