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Cubs DIY session - building a little Green Bug army!

29/3/2013

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The last DIY session I did with the local cubs pack we all built wooden machine guns! (see earlier entry...).

This time they each built their own tool box.  It felt a little more useful (and appropriate) and hopefully will last them for many years to come.  The tool box fits a common sized tool box handsaw and the handle is hardwood so should be robust enough to take a full load.
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The cubs had to use a hand saw to cut the handles, power drills to screws all the sides together and a mallet to put the handle in place.

We had to help the cubs build 25 in a little over 1 hour so things needed to be quite straight-forward.

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To achieve the badge the cubs had to paint a vertical surface. On the other side I thought it would be good to have half of the pack working as small teams building and hanging shelves.  Hanging shelves - that’s what DIY is all about isn’t it!

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..and we did it!


Here are our DIY badges.  My two son’s DIY Cubs badges (and I got one too)!

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Back to my local job

21/3/2013

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I’ve done so many of this type now but each one looks different to me, they all look unique.  What a great space inside - it feels like a small church with that roof shooting up at 45 degrees - and that great height within but so still, quiet and warm (warm - yeh, not like a church then).  I took a battering from the weather at the start of this build (snow and hail showers) - great to get inside again!

That’s a proper porch you can use too - you know, store your bags of compost and bottles of feed etc, even the tools and gardening coats you use without it getting in the way or looking messy.


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Rear elevation from the left and the right-hand side.
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Start of day 2 - work in progress!  You soon forget it was a building site for 3 days! 
Click here to read earlier base-building entry...
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The finished greenhouse.          5m by 3.5m
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Back to Wrexham

16/3/2013

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It was great to get back to Paul’s place in Wrexham and build his bespoke greenhouse. 

Paul is a lecturer in horticulture no less (so I listen intently when he talks plants!) and has a particular fondness for growing alpine plants.  His greenhouse has lots of ventilation - 4 windows in the roof that open automatically, and 5 more along the sides. 


In addition to the customary shelving and workstation I added a “sand bed” table into which  Paul will sink his potted plants 5” deep in sand.  This will greatly prevent the pots from drying out and create an attractive raised bed appearance inside.

 
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Click here to read the earlier base-building entry...
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This greenhouse cost under £6,000 including the foundations, walls and brick pathway etc - actually, everything that you see.
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I’ve taken a few close-up snaps to show you the quality of the finished greenhouse. 

Please note that all the fittings are of the highest quality - stainless steel ball-bearing hinges which are recessed into the timber, 3-lever morticed lock which are housed within the timber rather than a surface mounted lock and all the joints are morticed and tennoned and pegged with hard-wood dowels.

Thank you to my wonderful customers. 

I suppose it’s a risk when you find someone offering a greenhouse at less than half what others are asking, including the base works.  The main reason is that I do all the work myself, apart from all the painting work which Sarah kindly undertakes for me. 

Let me put you in touch with past customers if you are still unsure.
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Welshpool

1/3/2013

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Great location for a large greenhouse.

Please read on....
David & Sara had removed an old shed and exposed a useful base for their new greenhouse. 

Unlike last week’s, this concrete hadn’t been exposed to the elements and was in excellent condition. 

We want to put a large greenhouse here - 5m by 3.5m with porch and cold frames

(yes - that popular classic you keep seeing on these pages! - I’d have one if I could!)

- so the first job was for me to dig out, lay some hardcore and a wet concrete mix to increase the slab to the new dimensions.

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Here you can see the side walls for the cold frames which will go either side of the doorway.
Sara asked me to build a high raised bed inside.  I doubled up the brickwork at the base for strength. 
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And after 3 days work....650 bricks, 20 bags of concrete, 1.2tonnes of sand, and 13 bags of cement.....


we have this lovely, old-fashioned looking base for a greenhouse.  I lay the mortar joints a little larger than modern brick-layers would like - it matches the joints on this house and those of the period.  I don’t want the Victorian greenhouse sitting on brickwork which looks modern (like a 70’s garage!).  I use a heritage brick too -expensive facing bricks which are not entirely uniform to appear hand-made. 

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On completion it looks like a pretty large space - in a beautiful setting.
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