my chalet/home project

[RC]

This is a new type of house to me. Is it a factory built module of some sorts and why is it built on pylons off the ground? Do you get floods that require lifting the whole house off the ground?

 

[sean_hogan]

We are show people,travelling all over Britain with the shows( carnival) I personally don't do it or my other half but most show people live on land,we call them yards that show people own, these are holiday homes with a chassi underneath with 2 axles. So when we move yard we take our home with us

 

[sean_hogan]

People also call us travellers, but we are not the same as the people on the tv show my big fat gypsy wedding( they are called gypsys or pikies as we call them, but people most don't know the difference and think we are the same as them, we couldn't be more different .

 

[jmbfestool]

Done a really nice job on the decking!  YES no end grain showing good! my pet hate that is!

gypsys or pikies  dangerous topic to discuss in England lol  I have had them steel stuff from my property they love metal!

JMB

 

[RC]

Very intresting, thou I guess you don't move too often since the deck & other structures you have built look rather permanen and complicated to move?

So are these carnival shows you refer to more like a circus or a fun fare sort of show business?

We have the roaming circuses here too, but the artists do move with the circus every other week so they have normal trailers to live in.

 

[RC]

JMB: We have similar fobias towards many different races like gypsies, russians and somalis especially, but the unfortunate fact is that a few bad apples ruin the reputation of the whole race by being visible and different.

Yes, I had my cars aluminum wheels & several boxes of fine German white wine stolen from my cellar by gypsies years back, but I still don't label every gypsy as a thief.

Heck, my uncle used to call his steel tipped landing shoes Packie Punchers in the 80's in the UK when the Pakistanis were seen making a splash into the Brittish society with their different cultural ways of going about their lives.

I guess its unavoidable to have such cultural collisions before everyone wizens up and tones down their peculiarities and an acceptable fusion emerges.

 

[Deansocial]

Very nice deck, 1 thing that bugs me is that missing knot on the rh of the first steps. Its just because its right at the front of the deck. I see you have used camo screws too, how did you find them? Jmb used them recently on a job but being jmb he used triple coated nuke proof stainless steel screws at a cost of £12 a screw

 

[Deansocial]

JMB: We have similar fobias towards many different races like gypsies, russians and somalis especially, but the unfortunate fact is that a few bad apples ruin the reputation of the whole race by being visible and different.

Yes, I had my cars aluminum wheels & several boxes of fine German white wine stolen from my cellar by gypsies years back, but I still don't label every gypsy as a thief.

Heck, my uncle used to call his steel tipped landing shoes Packie Punchers in the 80's in the UK when the Pakistanis were seen making a splash into the Brittish society with their different cultural ways of going about their lives.

I guess its unavoidable to have such cultural collisions before everyone wizens up and tones down their peculiarities and an acceptable fusion emerges.

In the uk too many scrap metal men are labeled as gypsies when often they are not, there just thieving scum instead

 

[sean_hogan]

JMB: We have similar fobias towards many different races like gypsies, russians and somalis especially, but the unfortunate fact is that a few bad apples ruin the reputation of the whole race by being visible and different.

Yes, I had my cars aluminum wheels & several boxes of fine German white wine stolen from my cellar by gypsies years back, but I still don't label every gypsy as a thief.

Heck, my uncle used to call his steel tipped landing shoes Packie Punchers in the 80's in the UK when the Pakistanis were seen making a splash into the Brittish society with their different cultural ways of going about their lives.

I guess its unavoidable to have such cultural collisions before everyone wizens up and tones down their peculiarities and an acceptable fusion emerges.Yes the funfairs exactly like that, well my chalet is pretty permanent unless I decided too move, but most showman travel with caravans and lorrys and come home too their chalet

 

[sean_hogan]

Very nice deck, 1 thing that bugs me is that missing knot on the rh of the first steps. Its just because its right at the front of the deck. I see you have used camo screws too, how did you find them? Jmb used them recently on a job but being jmb he used triple coated nuke proof stainless steel screws at a cost of £12 a screw

Haha that made me laugh,I just used the ordinary green coated screws, yeah I really liked the system.
I stained the decking on Wednesday and Thursday night until 11 o'clock each night as I knew it would rain today and you can't see a screw hole in sight unless you go up close, I will take a close up pic for you dean. JMB takes it too far lol?
Oh the knot and the slice of the decking just past the other stepp I like, adds character, this GF doesn't like them either

 

[sean_hogan]

Done a really nice job on the decking!  YES no end grain showing good! my pet hate that is!

gypsys or pikies  dangerous topic to discuss in England lol  I have had them steel stuff from my property they love metal!

JMB

Yes I HATE end grain, was originally going too do 2 curved steps but I didn't feel confident enough skill wise too tackle them

 

[jmbfestool]

Done a really nice job on the decking!  YES no end grain showing good! my pet hate that is!

gypsys or pikies  dangerous topic to discuss in England lol  I have had them steel stuff from my property they love metal!

JMB

Yes I HATE end grain, was originally going too do 2 curved steps but I didn't feel confident enough skill wise too tackle them

It looks good though as it is.  Curved would of been nice  but mainly just different. Curved would of added ALOT more time to the job though. 

JMB

 

[sean_hogan]

Done a really nice job on the decking!  YES no end grain showing good! my pet hate that is!

gypsys or pikies  dangerous topic to discuss in England lol  I have had them steel stuff from my property they love metal!

JMB

Yes I HATE end grain, was originally going too do 2 curved steps but I didn't feel confident enough skill wise too tackle them

Yes definetly I was probably about 12 hours or more on each stepp section, all the mitres had too be clamped and were glued using title bond 3, curved would of just took so long and I don't have a shed or workshop so it's hard enough too do

It looks good though as it is.  Curved would of been nice  but mainly just different. Curved would of added ALOT more time to the job though. 

JMB

 

[Tinker]

My ears were burning with all the talk about Gypsies.  We used to go to a restaurant where a very nice Irish girl was a waitress. she told us how her parents (or maybe grandparents) told her of the Irish gypsies.  Whenever anybody spotted them in the area, the call went out, "The TINKERS are coming! The Tinkers are coming!"  That was the warning to tie or nail down anything that was movable, as the TINKERS were known as thieves.

Another time, i met my best friend's high school principal.  When he was told my name was Tinker, he admonished, "Tinker!  Ay and begora, don't ever tell an Irishman yer name is Tinker."

"Why not," I asked

"Because in Irland, a Tinker is nuthin' but a bum."

Of course his handshake was most warm, firm and friendly.  I liked the man immediately.
Tinker

Batten down the hatches
Lock the barn
Etc, Etc>>>>>>

 

[jmbfestool]

Done a really nice job on the decking!  YES no end grain showing good! my pet hate that is!

gypsys or pikies  dangerous topic to discuss in England lol  I have had them steel stuff from my property they love metal!

JMB

Yes I HATE end grain, was originally going too do 2 curved steps but I didn't feel confident enough skill wise too tackle them

Yes definetly I was probably about 12 hours or more on each stepp section, all the mitres had too be clamped and were glued using title bond 3, curved would of just took so long and I don't have a shed or workshop so it's hard enough too do

It looks good though as it is.  Curved would of been nice  but mainly just different. Curved would of added ALOT more time to the job though.  

JMB

Its nice to hear you made an effort on the joints but I dont think Tite bond 3 is going to hold your joints.   I used PU construct (which I believe is a better glue for this kind of application) on tanalised timber but that failed after the sun did its business.    

If it does hold out let me know ill try it my self!

JMB

 

[sean_hogan]

Done a really nice job on the decking!  YES no end grain showing good! my pet hate that is!

gypsys or pikies  dangerous topic to discuss in England lol  I have had them steel stuff from my property they love metal!

JMB

Yes I HATE end grain, was originally going too do 2 curved steps but I didn't feel confident enough skill wise too tackle them

Yes definetly I was probably about 12 hours or more on each stepp section, all the mitres had too be clamped and were glued using title bond 3, curved would of just took so long and I don't have a shed or workshop so it's hard enough too do

It looks good though as it is.  Curved would of been nice  but mainly just different. Curved would of added ALOT more time to the job though.  

JMB

Its nice to hear you made an effort on the joints but I dont think Tite bond 3 is going to hold your joints.   I used PU construct (which I believe is a better glue for this kind of application) on tanalised timber but that failed after the sun did its business.    

If it does hold out let me know ill try it my self!

JMB

Well 3 of the joints that I did when it was raining and the joints got wet at the end grain and failed a few weeks ago when we got the roasting hot sun for a week but all the rest are solid as a rock, I then read somewhere that titebond3 doesn't cure properly if there is a lot of moisture present as it sucks the moisture out and causes it too fail. So I let it fully dry out that week taped up the bottom and front of the joints and filled them with glue again and they are solid now, dries in a dark brown same colour as my stain so happy days so far

 

[sean_hogan]

Got the rest of my photos off my phone sorry for the poor quality guys, post caps done, gravel stones down and a couple of plants

Got it stained during the week and I will get pics in the morning of that it looks loads better. Next plan of attack is a whole new fence on the right hand side,stepping stones/pathway of some sort and a nice table and chairs.oh and paint my gates matt black!

 

[woodguy7]

Looks real nice Sean.  What is the metal spindles, are they galvanised ?

 

[sean_hogan]

Looks real nice Sean.  What is the metal spindles, are they galvanised ?

Not really sure woodguy I thought it was powder coat but it's really thin and smooth coating.
The handrail comes as a kit bottom,top rails and spindles ,posts and post caps I made.
Believe it or not the handrail kit is from wickes and it looks the part. Only thing I didn't like was it was holes about 20mm deep for each spindle so I filled each hole with titebond3 then inserted the spindle and wiped off excess glue that squeezed out. So my theory is it should stop them rotting as the water can't sit in that cavity now

 

[jmbfestool]

Looks real nice Sean.  What is the metal spindles, are they galvanised ?

Not really sure woodguy I thought it was powder coat but it's really thin and smooth coating.
The handrail comes as a kit bottom,top rails and spindles ,posts and post caps I made.
Believe it or not the handrail kit is from wickes and it looks the part. Only thing I didn't like was it was holes about 20mm deep for each spindle so I filled each hole with titebond3 then inserted the spindle and wiped off excess glue that squeezed out. So my theory is it should stop them rotting as the water can't sit in that cavity now

Yeah!  or another  option you could of drilled a smaller hole right through and if you really want to go the extra mile use a counter sink to tapper the bottoms of the hole so the water is funnelled down to the smaller hole you drilled through.  Then getting some DP paint and pour that through the holes to water proof it even more.  

I do this kinda method with the DP paint on mortise and Tenons and drill a hole out of the mortise so no water sits in the mortise hole ever.

JMB