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@dbr ah, thank you! I know the exact kind of flaking you mean and if it can just weather without the need for treatment after we’ll probably just go with that.

@Sheppz cheers, that looks really interesting, and similar to what we used on decks when I was doing labouring in Canada. The more I look at the wood the more I really think we’ll just let it happen gradually and naturally, will be really nice to see the process!

@cozey ooh, any pictures? We did consider the scorched planks, but Jesus it costs a lot more for someone to basically run a blowtorch on it!

@jonny thank you bud, really nice to have somewhere to document it all and have folk along with us for it!

@tallsam I hadn’t read that one, thanks for sending it! It’s getting really fucking grim out there right now and don’t know what the answer is.. it’s not fucking cambo and new nuclear plants though.. if a small percentage of proposed investment went into the tidal turbines my partner works on there would be loads of them!

Was south seeing my wee mum for Mother’s Day which was nice. Came back up to the cladding on the back almost finished and then having started plasterboarding the vaulted ceiling as well. Looks like the space could absorb a mezzanine without feeling too cramped in the future..

Started a new job as a housing officer a couple weeks ago, handed in my notice yesterday.. figure this is the wrong year to be chasing poor families and single parents for rent they now can’t afford through no fault of their own.. don’t want to be looking back in a few years and say I was just following orders..

The build is getting pretty stressful and when decisions are needed they’re needed yesterday and we have been feeling pretty stretched! We’ve decided I’m going to spend my time looking after the build and doing labour on it to try and save money (being a second man for the sparky for 3 days probably saved us a grand!). There’s a 12 hour a week position at the local mental health charity so have applied for that and could combine that and the house build in a way that is much more manageable I reckon.

Completely fair, glws!

That’s what we’re hoping! Not going to treat it with anything until it greys a bit and maybe put a clear varnish over it then

Would you sell that tugnut chain tensioner separately at all? Mine just now is too puny for the chunky steamroller dropouts..

Dibs stem please, pm’d

Thanks bud, we’ve run some good cable in the wall to put a speaker shelf either side of the big windows for exactly that purpose! Going to box off a projector screen centrally above that run of windows too!

My partner and I spent our last couple evenings re running some cables that I drilled through accidentally.. Massive pain in the arse but really chuffed that I know how to do that now and have the confidence too, whereas before helping the sparky the other week I’d have been way too scared and not managed! The weather has allowed for the roof to be pretty much finished off and some cladding has started going on the back now. The wood grain is stunning and the back of the house smells amazing!!

Ooh, that’s a really good point actually, wonder if that means it would then chip easier too? Have you got a colour combo in mind?

@Cazakstan here’s another couple of her for you. Finally got round to fitting the basket back on the steamroller. Turned around to get the oven on for dinner and by the time I’d gone to move this she was doing some quality checks. Unfortunately she doesn’t tolerate it if it’s moving..

Ooh, been tempted by that crackle paint too!! Do you know if you paint the colour below as a flat colour first then the crackle over the top?

42c is a great result, excited to see this come together!

Thank you very much kind sir, I saw someone else may be interested in yours? @MrBaklava is yours the zero degree? Can you send me a pm and we can get postage and things organised?

Ooh, in Orkney unfortunately but happy to post, do you have any photos you could pm please?

Looking to bring the bars a little closer on my steamroller so just looking to see if anyone has a zero degree, black, Thomson x4 in 70mm or 90mm that they would trade for this one that measures 110mm. Everything in really good nick and the smudges are just from chucking a ton of grease on rather than being marks which I hope the photos show.

Cheers,
Craig

@russmeyer Yeah it’s coming on thanks, feels like it’s been dragging a bit recently. Even more gutting is it’s a beautiful windless morning and the joiner has just got on the same ferry into town.. better be a quick appointment they’re in for haha.

@MisterMikkel yeah we were surprised they went for it actually, think it was enough of a nod to a traditional wee croft that they allowed it.

@Cazakstan haha that’s what I keep telling myself, would have been significantly cheaper a few years ago, but I imagine will also be significantly cheaper than a few years from now too..

@ChainBreaker would be nice to arrange something, feel like you’ve all been on the journey with me so far!

Here’s a photo of nihil luxuriating this weekend and my jobs the last couple days. Got some different kinds of willow in to see which takes best and which is best for basket making and did a bunch more tidying and widening some of those drainage ditches.

@gillies the whitebeam we put in at the end of last autumn are beginning to bloom along the fence line. Hope they’ll be absorbing some wind for us in a few years time!

It does nearly doesn’t it?! We’ve got larch cladding for the rear and wrapping round the sides, cement board with white silicon render on the sides and front and then we’ve got a mason building the porch with local stone. The workshop is going to be metal roofing and fully larch clad (we originally though “we’ll use wood externally, that’ll be cheap..” fuck me, the last year has proved otherwise..) Here’s the mock up we submitted to planning.

@MisterMikkel thanks, we’re really chuffed! We thought the same, we had to justify it to planning in a design statement and we argued as well that it was recyclable at the end of life compared to the concrete tiles more commonly used here. Think that sat quite nicely next to the off grid/partner works in renewables part.

Got these and finally accepting Orkney isn’t a place for using them..? Or are you looking more contemporary?

Oh wow, that’s incredible, she would love something like that!! Planning plenty of staggered shelving into the high bit to give her some climbs.

@Cazakstan I know right?! I’m biased, but she’s honestly one of the prettiest cats I’ve ever seen.

They managed to get up and get most of the porch roof done today, love the sheeting running in the two different directions!

She’s amazing!! I can’t wait to get her in the new house! She hates closed doors as she loves climbing them and sitting on top, and they’ll all be open in the new place! And we’re going to be building so many shelves for her as she’s a bit of a climber. Don’t think there’s been many cats considered in house build layouts..

@Cazakstan @ChainBreaker exactly this! I only found out when someone called me and told me to get outside to see them my first winter here. Haha, must move north!

The joiners cracked at it last week getting dwangs and bracing in and started on the plasterboard which was very exciting! Then, the wind died, schedules aligned and the two replacement roof sheets which originally arrived in December went on along with the ridge today!! Won’t be losing as much sleep when it rains now! The weather has only been right for doing it a few times in the last few months and it was either a Sunday, or right when they were in the middle of another job while the first fixes were happening.

Never been more excited about a few bits of metal and a windless day, and I used to fuck around on this..

I’m mentioning it again, but another way to fund local support in Ukraine would be through supporting Zulu fixed. They’re still sending things out from there. It just feels incomprehensible to me (such is the privilege of uk citizenship) that one month you’re focusing on building a fixed gear business and the next he’s doing fundraisers to get medical supplies, bulletproof vests and sights for weapons.. His squad are not on the front line yet as it hasn’t quite reached their area (which is why they don’t have the same kit as people on the front line) but I’m sure anything would help.

Thanks for getting this together!

1. Owl - 1 pack of 4 please
   2.3c70 - 1 pack please
   
2. mustardbeak x 2 packs of four
   
3. 5_3_1 - 1 pack of 4 please
   
4. atz - 1 pack, international post
   
5. grm - 1 pack please
   
6. Adroit 2 packs please
   
7. Josh – 1 pack!
   
8. Geoffnotsle - 1 pack please
   
9. NAS - 1 pack please
   
10. King_saxlingham - 1 pack
    
11. Psg1ben 2 packs plus eu shipping
    
12. Creek_tebsin 1 pack
    

Yes, I’d buy a few!

In terms of more bike related ways of funding, Zulu fixed are still selling and shipping Ukrainian made bike bits from inside Ukraine. Buy lots, send tips and get money to people on the ground locally. I’ve used one of their hip pouches for years and it’s fantastic.

@ChainBreaker @kiskubai yeah it’s pretty incredible! Haha, more underwhelming in person.. without a long shutter it looked more like this..