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Re: The Orangerie - glulam specifying

Postby RogerS » 13 Jul 2018, 18:09

Oh rats...I'm starting to fret a bit now. Got all the wood cut and prepped to make the five frames for one long side. All along I've been proposing to use loose tenons aka large dominos but now I'm beginning to wander about the longitudinal stability viz amount of glue area. Especially when you've got some of you guys putting tensioning bracing diagonals etc all over the place.

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I've always been focussing on the vertical load and completely forgot about considering sideways forces at the top, wind etc. Enough force at the top and the whole lot could collapse in a heap. But 'enough force' is what exactly ? The sub-frames will themselves have the window frames and panels inserted tightly which will provide some horizontal stability, surely ?

Luckily the predominant wind direction is along the diagonal line of the building. Also it is in a relatively sheltered spot. But there's half a ton of weight up there at least (according to my fag packet calcs) :eusa-think:
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Re: The Orangerie - glulam specifying

Postby Rod » 14 Jul 2018, 10:04

I suppose you have to treat it as a box with its base firmly attached to the ground.
Which ever way the wind blows the “sides” are going to assist in resisting those forces.
Perhaps best to get some advice from a Structural Engineer.

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Re: The Orangerie - glulam specifying

Postby 9fingers » 14 Jul 2018, 10:26

Rod wrote:I suppose you have to treat it as a box with its base firmly attached to the ground.
Which ever way the wind blows the “sides” are going to assist in resisting those forces.
Perhaps best to get some advice from a Structural Engineer.

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For the last few decades in car design, the glass has been bonded in and provides extra rigidity to the body.

I don't know if a similar technique is an option in building design? Maybe Mike G would know?

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Re: The Orangerie - glulam specifying

Postby RogerS » 14 Jul 2018, 10:31

I contacted one and his reply said 'We can design you a very nice one using steel'. ! Not very helpful.

I've come round full circle overnight into thinking that once the window units are in there is a lot of reinforcement against sideways movement at the bottom of the frames. If I put some triangular fillets in at the top disguised as decorative features then that will also help. And I've prep'd the timber and whilst I know I can use most of it elsewhere, I'd rather press on.

That was at 8am this morning. Driving back from dropping off the car at the garage this morning, I've decided that for the rest of the build I will use traditional tenon and mortice joints and also elongate the eaves rail.

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Re: The Orangerie - glulam specifying

Postby RogerS » 14 Jul 2018, 10:40

I think that Mike has some more important things to be focussing on at the moment !
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Re: The Orangerie - glulam specifying

Postby 9fingers » 14 Jul 2018, 10:42

Working in some decorative and yet structural corner braces has got to be an advantage.

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Re: The Orangerie - glulam specifying

Postby Robert » 14 Jul 2018, 11:09

The roof deck must have thickness and there appears to be a plinth section to the bottom of the frame. Any way to use those areas to brace against the square shape getting skewed?
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Re: The Orangerie - glulam specifying

Postby Coley » 14 Jul 2018, 13:35

M & t has to be a good change

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Re: The Orangerie - glulam specifying

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Coley wrote:M & t has to be a good change

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Re: The Orangerie - glulam specifying

Postby Rod » 14 Jul 2018, 15:44

I suppose Mike is perfecting his speech.

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Re: The Orangerie - glulam specifying

Postby Coley » 14 Jul 2018, 15:58

RogerS wrote:
Coley wrote:M & t has to be a good change

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Oh you traditionalist, you ! :D
You know it makes sense really Roger how are you cills looking now? Has the paint finally hardened?

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Re: The Orangerie - glulam specifying

Postby RogerS » 14 Jul 2018, 17:03

Robert wrote:The roof deck must have thickness and there appears to be a plinth section to the bottom of the frame. Any way to use those areas to brace against the square shape getting skewed?



Yes that was my thought. The bit shown arrowed is 330mm tall.

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Re: The Orangerie - glulam specifying

Postby RogerS » 14 Jul 2018, 17:25

Coley wrote:.... Has the paint finally hardened?

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Oh most definitely. Very happy with the result. I see that you're still getting blotchiness over on UKW.
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Re: The Orangerie - glulam specifying

Postby Coley » 14 Jul 2018, 17:29

RogerS wrote:
Coley wrote:.... Has the paint finally hardened?

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Oh most definitely. Very happy with the result. I see that you're still getting blotchiness over on UKW.
I'm glad it's working out alright for you. Yeah it's safe to say I'm having a few issues might be just a dodgy tin. I stirred it anticlockwise and clockwise so that should rule that one out ...very thoroughly as well ! That's a big job you've took on your own

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Re: The Orangerie - glulam specifying

Postby RogerS » 14 Jul 2018, 18:41

Sure is...especially when you wander into one of the bedrooms and see a damp patch on the floor. Nothing for it but to use the Fein to cut away a freshly painted piece of plasterboard to see where it's coming from :(

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Turns out that it's a weeping connector on part of the 1975 refurb black alkathene supplying cold water into the house. It's further up the wall but rather than remove yer more plasterboard and in a more noticeable area, I'm getting my plumber in to replace the whole section from the loft down to where you can see it in the photo. There's a leaky ballcock in the cellar so I'll get him to look at that as well. Great believer in getting the most out of the trades once they're on site !
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Re: The Orangerie - glulam specifying

Postby Coley » 14 Jul 2018, 19:03

Don't go fixing all the small problems. What you gonna do when the projects finished!?

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Re: The Orangerie - glulam specifying

Postby Dan0741 » 14 Jul 2018, 19:22

Roger - Not sure if its any use - and let me preface by confirming i have no expert knowledge of this whatsoever..... but when i did my original shed build - one aspect was mostly door and so bracing was hard to achieve. Mike suggested a brace at roof plate level going horizontal across the corners. He assured me that for the building to sheer on a diagonal plane, the roof plate rectangle would have to go out of rectilinear.

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Re: The Orangerie - glulam specifying

Postby RogerS » 15 Jul 2018, 09:58

Dan0741 wrote:.... Mike suggested a brace at roof plate level going horizontal across the corners. ....
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Thanks for the suggestion, Dan but as the building is glass all the way round, I think that LOML might have some objections !

Just a small amount of prepp'd stuff..
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When prepping I usually have three shelves on the go with one empty at any one time to take the latest piece that's gone through the thicknesser or the planer. Think I need to sit down with pen and paper and work out a better workflow though.

The design has been to keep as much as possible identical. So the sub-frames are the size they are to accommodate the window and door infill panels. This in turn meant that the subframes need a 10mm spacer between them and so an offset is required for the domino positions at one end. I use a couple of these excellent gadgets from Axminster. I'm a great believer in using things like this as it minimises error, is quicker and is more consistent. I use a couple with different settings when marking out tenons, for example.

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The location of the dominos at the other end are easily set using the built-in location pins on the Domino XL.

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Which brings me to showing a few more photos of this bad boy. Here it is in comparison to its smaller but elder brother.

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I'm glad that my smaller Domino is one of the early versions with the round pins as there's a heck of a lot more add-ons by various people to help use them accurately.

The XL has some very nice features and in the Festool design ethos anything green has a function. In this case the lever adjusts the width of the slot being cut with an indicator at the top of the machine. You can simply adjust this even when the machine is off unlike the smaller one where they recommend doing it while running.

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And this feature is excellent. This slide sets the depth to which you can plunge the cutter. Up to a massive 70mm But the nice thing is that often you want to move between a short and a long setting during the same workflow and so the two tabs underneath let you define these two points. Brilliant.

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And heightwise, you can cut slots 40mm down from the reference surface.

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Cutting the domino slots in thin stock requires some support behind if you want to minimise making a pigs ear of them.

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And at t'other end.

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but it soon became a right old faff getting the height exactly right - four times for each piece. Also not helped by having to stumble over timber stored on the floor.....now who put his workbench in the wrong place then ? :oops:

And then :idea: :idea: :idea: :idea: :idea: :idea:

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with the glue-gun.

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Absolutely brilliant idea and I'm thinking how to make something permanent but adjustable.

For assembly we moved to the auxiliary workshop. That floor is coming up and so I can screw reference blocks etc to my hearts content.

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Getting everything square on such a scale is a bit of a faff. I don't have a Square of Thales ad so make do with a square-ish offcut of ply. Checking the diagonals was also tricky. The thin offcuts I have are too bendy, for example. I'll be working on that today and once I'm happy with this first one, I will screw reference blocks onto the floorboards and/or glue the remaining four on top of each other in line with the 'model'.
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Re: The Orangerie - glulam specifying

Postby 9fingers » 15 Jul 2018, 10:38

I'm sure I read somewhere back in the early days of dominoes that they were not suitable for exterior work and people were fashioning their own from rot resistant hardwoods.

This could well have been sorted out by now but thought I'd throw the comment in anyway.

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Re: The Orangerie - glulam specifying

Postby Malc2098 » 15 Jul 2018, 10:41

Fascinating and interesting viewing.
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Re: The Orangerie - glulam specifying

Postby Robert » 15 Jul 2018, 10:45

I'd never trust glue gun stuff to hold a stop position. Can't you get a clamp on the block to belt and braces it?

Looks like nice timber. What happens if some of it is twisted? Do you just not use it or can you force it straight for machining dominos?
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Re: The Orangerie - glulam specifying

Postby RogerS » 15 Jul 2018, 11:03

Robert wrote:I'd never trust glue gun stuff to hold a stop position. Can't you get a clamp on the block to belt and braces it?


I agree with you but in this case, the block will only drop when I put the wood on top of it and before I start making the domino. So I can reposition etc. If the block was to drop off while I'm dominoing, the support block behind will keep supporting the Domino XL machine and I didn't make it clear in my OP but the wood is also held in the bench vice.

Robert wrote:Looks like nice timber. What happens if some of it is twisted? Do you just not use it or can you force it straight for machining dominos?


Andersen's pride themselves on supplying good timber and the pricing is as low as it gets...I guess living in the BoB has some advantages. Having said that I should have rejected some lengths as they have too many shakes. But there is hardly any twist at all..if any. But if there was then I would use it for shorter pieces.
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Re: The Orangerie - glulam specifying

Postby Coley » 15 Jul 2018, 11:12

How about something like this Roger ?
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Re: The Orangerie - glulam specifying

Postby RogerS » 15 Jul 2018, 12:58

Neat idea, Coley. I have some of that spare.

So took the first frame outside and stood it up on end and immediately realised that two 2.3m high doors that are destined to go in this frame are OTT !

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What does the team think ? Too tall I reckon.

Also knocked up a Square of Thales

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Tried it in one corner and thought ..'this isn't working'. Then realised that it was...just that that corner was perfectly 90.000001 degrees :) Second corner just as good but the other two a bit out.
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Re: The Orangerie - glulam specifying

Postby Rod » 15 Jul 2018, 13:05

Probably but some stately homes have very tall ones.
The doors are going to be heavy (glass) and your frame has to support that.

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