scottie3158
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Hi mate good to have you along
Advance from Normandy.
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Tiling looks good Paul. Great to see this coming to life in front of us.
scottie3158
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Tim,
Cheers mate.
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Well having a critical eye of 50 years in architecture you have done superbly well there
Paul. Very nice piece of work on the dormer. A good idea of construction not easy.
Perhaps a few broken tiles at the eaves. The slate edges are the most vulnerable there
as the slate tops are nailed to the tile battens an upward blast will snap them.
Very nicely done. Great to see DIY just love this work myself. Just thinking of a small hanger
on my Jersey Airport. Look forward to your progress.
Laurie
Paul. Very nice piece of work on the dormer. A good idea of construction not easy.
Perhaps a few broken tiles at the eaves. The slate edges are the most vulnerable there
as the slate tops are nailed to the tile battens an upward blast will snap them.
Very nicely done. Great to see DIY just love this work myself. Just thinking of a small hanger
on my Jersey Airport. Look forward to your progress.
Laurie
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HI Paul this is lookin great carpentry an could you put your hand nr the build so i can see how big it is an whats wattle and dorb ?
chris
chris
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Plus a good shovel of animal dung. But it is in fact lath & plaster or a lime mixture
Wattle & daub is pre historic using twigs straw & branches etc. clay & the dung.
Laurie
Different applications weren’t they though Laurie? I know you know this stuff Laurie, but others may be interested…..
Wattle, covered with mud/clay/dung/straw as a wall finish….
…and in use…..
Lath with the plaster removed…
Lath from behind, plaster keyed into the wall by the horizontal gaps.
As I understand it, Wattle and Daub was used for main wall construction filling in between house framing.
Lath and plaster was used for a smooth decorative wall finish inside a building? It is very difficult to hand things like radiators and cupboards on lath and plaster stud walls…believe me, I’ve tried LOL. The only way I found was to use spring toggle clips…..everything else just fell through or fell off…unless you were lucky enough to hit a stud behind the lath!
Wattle, covered with mud/clay/dung/straw as a wall finish….
…and in use…..Lath with the plaster removed…
Lath from behind, plaster keyed into the wall by the horizontal gaps.
As I understand it, Wattle and Daub was used for main wall construction filling in between house framing.
Lath and plaster was used for a smooth decorative wall finish inside a building? It is very difficult to hand things like radiators and cupboards on lath and plaster stud walls…believe me, I’ve tried LOL. The only way I found was to use spring toggle clips…..everything else just fell through or fell off…unless you were lucky enough to hit a stud behind the lath!
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Well I think will leave it there unless some one wants to start another topic.
It is all rather academic.
Unfair to Paul's topic. Makes no difference to his superb work.
Laurie
It is all rather academic.
Unfair to Paul's topic. Makes no difference to his superb work.
Laurie
Great start Scottie. Worked slate tiles back in the 80s. Not fun.
scottie3158
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Laurie, thanks for the great feed back I will stick some broken tiles on.
Cheers Paul. I watched a program not that long ago of how the guys used to spend all day splitting the slate to make thousands of tiles a day.
Paul very kind of you thanks.
Cheers Ben, good to see you looking in.
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Cheers Laurie if it passes your scrutiny then that's good enough for me.
Cheers Andrew it's getting there slowly.
Will post a picture later. Tim has given an excellent description, which I will try and get right.
Cheers John, good to see you.
Thanks mate for taking the time to post the pictures it will mean i will hopefully get it right.
scottie3158
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I have added some stonework to the building. The foam then received a coat of diluted PVA to seal the surface. All the sub assemblies have been undercoated with primer. They have just been put together loosely for the picture.
The window details are a mixture of Mini art and scratched items. These will be painted and weathered before adding later. Not sure what colour to paint the building and woodwork so any suggestions will be considered.
Finally a small section of wall for across the street.
thanks for looking.
Scottie
The window details are a mixture of Mini art and scratched items. These will be painted and weathered before adding later. Not sure what colour to paint the building and woodwork so any suggestions will be considered.
Finally a small section of wall for across the street.
thanks for looking.
Scottie
Superb stuff Scottie. Really looks great. Excellent texture to the parts that will show well with paint.
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Nice, takes certain mind to do these things.
All in the detail.
Laurie
All in the detail.
Laurie
scottie3158
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Thanks Tim very kind of you.
scottie3158
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Cheers Laurie, still details to add yet lights, guttering etc.