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Trimble Towers Workshop - Fitting out begins...

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Re: Trimble Towers Workshop Build - Starting on the insides.

Postby Halo Jones » 24 Apr 2017, 10:35

I've often wondered if I could get away with putting a full sheet of ply on the car roof but was always worried about it acting like a sail, or a wing, and lifting the roof rack off. Did it feel okay to drive?
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Re: Trimble Towers Workshop Build - Starting on the insides.

Postby ScotlandtheDave » 24 Apr 2017, 11:06

greeno wrote:Cut the insulation worth a circular saw. It makes a far cleaner edge.


This does create biblical amounts of dust though, even with ppe and cutting outside it was my least favourite task by far! It also savaged my blade, it was useless after those cuts.
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Re: Trimble Towers Workshop Build - Starting on the insides.

Postby Malc2098 » 24 Apr 2017, 11:17

The 120mm insulation I got for my build from 2nds cut well and straight with a well used panel saw. There was a little crumb, but it was paper, not foil, lined. I wonder if the foil wears the blades.
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Re: Trimble Towers Workshop Build - Starting on the insides.

Postby Mike G » 24 Apr 2017, 16:24

If you want a specialist tool for the job (you don't, I promise), you can buy a hand saw without teeth, but with a wave-like edge instead.
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Re: Trimble Towers Workshop Build - Starting on the insides.

Postby Doug » 24 Apr 2017, 20:05

When I did a chapel conversion a few years back I cut hundreds of sheets of insulation with a large Makita circular saw attached to a vacuum with power take off, there was practically no dust, it gave an excellent cut & I used the same blade throughout, though I never tried cutting timber with it afterwards.
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Re: Trimble Towers Workshop Build - Starting on the insides.

Postby Rod » 25 Apr 2017, 10:13

Doug - that wouldn't be a job in Derbyshire?

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Re: Trimble Towers Workshop Build - Starting on the insides.

Postby TrimTheKing » 25 Apr 2017, 15:29

That's a tempting idea but my TS75 will only do....75mm so without buying a bigger beast I'm a little scuppered...

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Re: Trimble Towers Workshop Build - Starting on the insides.

Postby Doug » 25 Apr 2017, 20:49

Rod wrote:Doug - that wouldn't be a job in Derbyshire?

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Re: Trimble Towers Workshop Build - Starting on the insides.

Postby Doug » 25 Apr 2017, 20:51

TrimTheKing wrote:That's a tempting idea but my TS75 will only do....75mm so without buying a bigger beast I'm a little scuppered...

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Or cut from both sides, a bit of a pain I grant but I find the dust from insulation panels really gets on my chest, so I wouldn't cut it without extraction

Or just hire a big circular saw
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Re: Trimble Towers Workshop Build - Starting on the insides.

Postby Mike G » 25 Apr 2017, 21:18

By the time you've faffed about getting the right circular saw you'll have done the entire job by hand. Cutting is a very quick simple job, and there is no reason to do it any other way than with a handsaw on such a small area. If I was doing a church roof, that might be a different kettle of fish.
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Re: Trimble Towers Workshop Build - Starting on the insides.

Postby TrimTheKing » 02 Jul 2017, 22:18

Managed to relocate my mojo after a good few weeks where life has been doing its best to keep me either fully occupied or struggling for motivation (for many many reasons).

Anyway, my lovely wife noticed I'd been down for a while and after a good heart to heart on Friday she told me to get to the workshop and she would take the kids out for the day today. After a late one drinking mojito's with friends last night, we rose late, ate brekkie and did homework then off they went and off to it I set.

I had 4 boards of Quinntherm left in my stocks and aimed to get them in using my new foam gun and wedging technique.

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After a few mins getting to frips with the trigger mechanism/setting on the gun I had a flow rate I was happy with and that filled the gap I was planning to leave without bursting out from the surface and away I went...

This was the first area to be hit, what will be the woodstore...
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After about 3.5 hours of up and down ladders, cutting, wedging and falling off the ladder... :oops: :eusa-doh: Here we were...

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There's the bit to the right of the last pic and the whole following pic to go. All to then be overboarded with a further 50mm Quinntherm, then 12mm OSB.

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As I was doing the bit above the Velux I had turned the stepladder side on whereas I had been doing all work face on up to then. As I reached for a handhold on a rafter the ladder lurched to the left, I managed to catch it but over corrected and it fell right. I managed to jam my right hand under a rafter but couldn't hold for long so managed to swing and jump away from the sticky out bits on the workmate below me but my foot landed on the falling ladder tripping me so while I managed to not hit the workmate I landed full 13.5 stones on my right hip and right back/ribs. Whacked my right wrist/forearm/elbow, skinned my right ankle on the ladder, whacked left wrist on ladder also.

Feeling pretty stiff and banged up now, but managed to achieve what I had set out to and will be ordering the remaining materials to finish off tomorrow. I'm skint after recent holiday to Cuba (thread to follow) so SWMBO is very kindly buying me my materials for my birthday next week :D

Here's part of the damage...

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Mojo located and providing I can actually move tomorrow then I aim to be back in there next weekend.

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Re: Trimble Towers Workshop Build - Starting on the insides.

Postby 9fingers » 02 Jul 2017, 22:27

Ouch!

I feel your pain! Having done something to a couple of ribs nearly 3 weeks ago it is still painful to cough, sneeze or hiccup. Farting is now without pain so some progress :lol: :lol:

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Postby DaveL » 02 Jul 2017, 22:53

Look on the bright side, you didn't break anything, when I came off a ladder two rungs up I broke my leg.
That insulation looks good, nice job.
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Re: Trimble Towers Workshop Build - Starting on the insides.

Postby Rod » 02 Jul 2017, 23:22

Oops nasty - commiserations

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Re: Trimble Towers Workshop Build - Starting on the insides.

Postby Mike G » 03 Jul 2017, 07:07

Bloody hell, Mark. In many ways you are a lucky chap. That could have been much worse. Couldn't you set up some scaffold boards on a pair of trestles?

Glad you're only a bit stiff and sore.
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Re: Trimble Towers Workshop Build - Starting on the insides.

Postby Andyp » 03 Jul 2017, 07:40

Great to see progress Mark but take more care next time eh?
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Re: Trimble Towers Workshop Build - Starting on the insides.

Postby Phil » 03 Jul 2017, 07:45

Shucks Mark, looks sore, could have been a lot worse.
(I slipped and fell in the roof years ago wiring up the new alarm - rafter, left hand and 89Kg deadweight on top. Lucky to have not fallen through the ceiling.)

Good to see you back in the workshop - just be careful!



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Re: Trimble Towers Workshop Build - Starting on the insides.

Postby Pinch » 03 Jul 2017, 08:46

Aw bless, good on Mrs T matey - that's lovely that. 8-)

The best bit on its way I reckons - the fit out. Just the job. 8-)

Lovely building. 8-)

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Re: Trimble Towers Workshop Build - Starting on the insides.

Postby RogerS » 03 Jul 2017, 09:09

Ouch!

Hot bath. Epsom salts.

Or failing that several large drams.

If it were me, I'd be annoyed with myself for being such a plonker and using the stepladder that way round.
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Re: Trimble Towers Workshop Build - Starting on the insides.

Postby TrimTheKing » 03 Jul 2017, 09:16

Cheers chaps. Getting there and hopefully crack on and finish the 100mm insulation over the weekend.

Mike - very lucky indeed! When I looked around there were so many things strewn around the floor that could have done me some serious damage!

The daft thing, I do have a scaffold perfect for he job but someone has borrowed it and instead of burn precious time getting it back first I just cracked on with the ladder!! Scaffold being returned this afternoon for me to build before weekend...

Roger - exactly how I felt last night when I sat down and thought back!

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Re: Trimble Towers Workshop Build - Starting on the insides.

Postby Malc2098 » 03 Jul 2017, 10:04

Coming a long nicely, but ouch!

Remind me to say 13 and a half stone if I fall off anything. It'll make me feel much better! :D
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Re: Trimble Towers Workshop Build - Starting on the insides.

Postby selectortone » 03 Jul 2017, 11:09

Ouch! I've fallen off a few ladders in my time, not a fun experience - commiserations!
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Re: Trimble Towers Workshop Build - Starting on the insides.

Postby Tusses » 03 Jul 2017, 11:09

you got an ouchie ! .. very lucky ! have a tidy up a bit :)

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Re: Trimble Towers Workshop Build - Starting on the insides.

Postby Jimmy Mack » 03 Jul 2017, 11:16

Oooo.... Feel that fella!

My four point ladder/steps listed on soft backfill when I was working on the outside of the workshop, ended in a very painful, slow-mo tangle and black and blue legs!

Take it easy on those ladders chaps... Deadly things!



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Re: Trimble Towers Workshop Build - Starting on the insides.

Postby Rod » 03 Jul 2017, 15:05

On all of the many Health & Safety courses I've had to attend, it's always drummed into you that the biggest cause of accidents/injuries is ladders etc.

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