Poplar as insulation

[se7enthdevil]

4 hours ago, Squaredy said:

I still have the brochures I sent for in the early eighties when I was at secondary school, I got the brochures from all the UK manufacturers I could find and pored over them for hours.  I have no idea why really, I had no money or space but there we are!

 

Keep an eye on this thread Steve, you are not too far from me and I daresay there will be invitation evenings for wood people eventually....

very gracious of you sir and something i'd love to be able to take you up on but as a non driver i suspect i'll never be able to see the table in person.

 

as for the insulation why not use a lap joint to reduce the airflow between boards???

 

if they are 3" thick boards then use a 1" step on the side so wind can't whistle between the gaps.

[Squaredy]

18 hours ago, Big J said:

Wales is renowned for rain! 

Such an urban myth....I have just put my sprinkler on in my front garden, partly for the garden, but mainly for the house as in the hot summer of 2018 this corner of my house subsided and I can see big cracks opening up in the soil again!

[Stubby]

26 minutes ago, Squaredy said:

Such an urban myth....I have just put my sprinkler on in my front garden, partly for the garden, but mainly for the house as in the hot summer of 2018 this corner of my house subsided and I can see big cracks opening up in the soil again!

I just googled which part of the UK gets the most rainfall and the first line stated " the mountains of Snowdonia " according to the Met office , and the wettest city is Cardiff .

[Squaredy]

7 minutes ago, Stubby said:

I just googled which part of the UK gets the most rainfall and the first line stated " the mountains of Snowdonia " according to the Met office , and the wettest city is Cardiff .

I always knew Google was crooked!  

 

Actually I very much doubt Cardiff is the wettest city.  Let me have a look....

[Squaredy]

19 minutes ago, Stubby said:

I just googled which part of the UK gets the most rainfall and the first line stated " the mountains of Snowdonia " according to the Met office , and the wettest city is Cardiff .

Well I am struggling to prove you wrong, Cardiff really does have most rain. 

 

Finally us Newport people can be smug about something when compared to our more glamorous neighbours....we get 20% less rainfall than those posh Cardiffifians....

[Squaredy]

Here is the poplar cut and sitting in the sun drying - three cubic metres or so.  At the moment the boards are amazingly heavy - maybe about the same as green oak, even though the logs were sitting in my yard for nearly two years - they are saturated.

 

This is enough 3" pop for the walls and enough 1.5" for the roof.  I know I will still have to kiln it but this weather is giving it a great start.

[trigger_andy]

On 16/05/2020 at 17:18, Squaredy said:

Such an urban myth....I have just put my sprinkler on in my front garden, partly for the garden, but mainly for the house as in the hot summer of 2018 this corner of my house subsided and I can see big cracks opening up in the soil again!

Been dry as a bone in Angus, Scotland as well. For weeks and weeks. Sprinklers on and watering the flowers and veg almost daily. Well the missus is anyway. 

[Ratman]

I’d be putting 100mm insulation in that slab personally, and 180cm-200cm of concrete in the slab itself.
You could even build a cavity in to your slab and timberframe with insulation off that, be spot on and toasty enough for a games room [emoji106]
Any form of heating going in there or not?

[Squaredy]

1 minute ago, Ratman said:

I’d be putting 100mm insulation in that slab personally, and 180cm-200cm of concrete in the slab itself.
You could even build a cavity in to your slab and timberframe with insulation off that, be spot on and toasty enough for a games room
Any form of heating going in there or not?

I agree of course the more insulation the better, but none of our house has floor insulation, so I am not going to make the garden room the best insulated part of the property!  It will be the driest part I am sure.  What I would love to do for the floor is fit end grain cobbles, which I have produced in the past - pic below.

 

I am not fitting cobbles because it just makes it a much more complicated project as you need a perfectly flat screed on the slab.  My plan is to just float the slab by hand and then carpet it, leaving the middle free for the table.  When the table is installed it will need a few shims to get it perfectly level, so this will be good enough.

 

I will install an electric heater and possibly a dehumidifier, nothing else.  Most of the year it will be warm enough for an active sport like snooker or darts, just need the heater for the odd miserable winter evening.

[Ratman]

That floor is ACE, fair play [emoji106]