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Either normal two pane slide fold outward opening - or you could look at tilt turn french door set (rationale do this) - which would give you the ability to ventilate without opening everything up.

You do see those asymmetric pivot doors on projects but sounds like a really bad idea to me if you are planning benches either side - the pane will swing across surfaces you (or things) are sitting on. Recipe for squashed kids

This I think ^ is what I'd do if you didn't want to alter the skirting into the reveal.

The plaster bead thing fixed to the existing wood could be a bad idea as whilst the bead flange holes will let the plaster grab you cant be sure the wood wont move.

Is the door reveal painted timber board we can see the end edge of ?

What’s the skirting doing at the bottom ? My instinct is you need to add an architrave of some kind or plant a stop bead on the existing lining and then add a new lining inside that to get a minimal look.

So pretty.

I used 18mm birch ply with full depth (standard) brackets at not more than 600mm spacing. In my case that was one at each end plus one in the middle.
Across 2.4m I'd reckon 24mm will flex under it's own weight. Your rear edge brackets will limit that but i'd worry the front edge could sag in the middle once loaded. If not immediatly then later.

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There are a few types of cold applied liquid roofing that probably fall into the category of ‘resin’. Bauder do one and Kemperol is another. the application is like fibreglass - usually a primer , first coat, reinforcing fleece, top coat etc. can get 20yr on it. But needs doing by approved installer. I’d consider it higher spec than general cure-it fibreglass stuff you can get at builders merchants

To me that sounds like it could be a good roofer who would rather use synthetic for its reliable uniformity than a poor grade-but equivalent price point - natural product. I've never seen a sample of synthetic but I had a contractor use spanish slate instead of welsh. It was darker and pretty uniform but worked fine. Any decent supplier will do samples so worth getting some and having a look before committing to anything.

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https://www.lbsproducts.com/news/2018/march/avoid-poor-quality-spanish-slate#:~:text=A%20common%20characteristic%20of%20lesser,bows%20down%20into%20the%20roof.

Cheers boss - the argument is that cats are carnivores and dry food is solely for user convenience. The process may start with meat but you end with much higher carbs than they need all sprayed with meat flavor. Apparently they only naturally get carbs from the digestive bits of the herbivores they eat. Anyway noted and will probs just carry on with both.

Cat won't really be touched at this point let alone picked up so fuck knows how we'll clip her nails. But like yours she is free range and always up a shed/fence/tree so...that's a problem for next month.

Novice cat operator here - just watched some youtube about the evils of dry food. We've been giving both since we got her as thats what they said at the rescue centre. She often licks the jelly off the wet and doesn't eat all the bits. Grazes on the dry. Should I reduce the dry to none and then just give wet ?

Also claws - do they need clipping on the regs ?

Real nice ! What’s the floor going to be ?

I’ve got a pick axe that I’m unlikely to ever need again - on the off chance you’re in NW London and want it ?

Saturday progress. Three sides clad - just the next door facing side to go. Looks like I have exactly the right number of boards. Then roof insulation and ceiling. Rear view to show sense of scale. It is pretty much exactly 2.5m from pavement level to top of roof 😬. Bonus Bubbles.

I’ve got tektro r559s … new … fit the bill ? dm if interested

This looks excellent ! Lovely little spot 👌

It's always been a fashion game - but it's super-charged by the visual culture of the grid. Neo-pomo / interior as piece of graphic design - is having a moment right now for sure - in london at least.

Gonna be good !! - that front rail (and the front to back ones for that matter) aren’t doing a whole lot in terms of limiting flex - I would think . But if you glue and screw the front rail to your desk-top from the underside (pocket hole jig would be ideal - or little tiny metal corner brackets) then it’s stiffness is acting on the front edge of the desktop as a beam - to limit flex. I did this over 1700 mm - doesn’t flex even with the weight of a 10yo . So you might even get away without a middle leg.

These are the hardest sides as there are two openings - it’s not hard hard - just effortful and slow going measuring then cutting and fixing on loop. And yes all boards need cutting to fit regardless. Wish I had a Timelapse mode !! Am happy with the look of it tho so that’s a relief - was quite worried about using cheap fencing.

Also - my efforts in 2009 - would have defo done a shadow gap between the chimney breast and the boxing panels in hindsight. Rather than making them flush (cracked in the end) Just painted mdf and 2x2 pine. I did a flush plinth the same height as the period skirting but set back. Birch ply tops and shelves - when it was 50 quid a sheet - lol.

Appreciate you will have probably thought of this but - ikea besta 2x600 wide units - could be worth considering tand making custom doors and top in veneered ply ? Will be some fiddling around doing some scribes / shadow gaps and skirt or plinth tho.

Was going to suggest something like this beauty ! For cost saving you could do it all in painted mdf and then use a pine board on the top for durability.

Update - it’s nice to sit in - project fatigue has set in tho. Cladding is hardwork and quite boring. Hopefully i’ll break the back of it tomorrow and working out how to make the window and door will be more interesting.

A fine beast - pedal ID pls !?

Our finest moment was going on holiday last summer and forgetting to do a sweep of the youngest's bedroom. He likes a cocoa before bed. He left half a cup on the shelf. Holy hell it smelled like death.... for literal weeks.

I think this looks like a lovely and calm nursery space. No doubt there are some classily illustrated (but bollocks) picture books on the shelf on the right and some wooden animal toy ornaments too. Allow the pre baby nesting perfection.

We only ever painted our kids rooms white, which quickly became drawn-on and grease/poo/bogey smeared.

Beyond 2yrs the plastic tat starts to build and before you know it the floor is 75% lego, there are rotting forgotten snacks under the bed, you have given them wardrobes they won't use and the walls are covered in stickers and blue-tacked magazine posters.

Each to their own but its the overly 'curated' older kids rooms you see on the renno accounts that annoy me more.
Because they are clearly driven by mummy / daddy for their blog rather than what the kid actually wants. 10 yo (IME) do not give a fuck about seasonal shelf displays or muted scandi chic.

Yup