Squaredy
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Sorry I missed your meaning. Here it is, same people same time, different angle and lens.
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Yes I agree it is ridiculous, but the police are patrolling the beaches here in Wales - well the ones we could get to with a short drive anyway.
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Well perhaps you can, as I don't know which pic you mean. But again it makes no difference to the point. The press are very good at putting a twist on things, and we all need to keep our wits about us, and not get sucked in to hysteria and half facts. I am sure some lack of social distancing was going on, and I do not condone this, but I do not trust the press to give a balanced picture.
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I was not there Felix, so I will have to take your word for it, even though you also were not there. My point is still very valid anyway. The media love to create a story, and it is very easy to go the the end of a long beach and take a picture which makes it look as if hundreds of people are all close together. This picture below is of a queue for a shop and they are all 2 metres apart. Doesn't look like it does it? Do you trust the media?!
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I have just been out driving around Newport to get a few bits for my elderly mum, and to be honest it looks like lockdown has ended. I saw lots of social distancing going on, but I think even here in Wales it looks like most people have given up on the "Stay at Home" message. Hardly surprising when garden centres, fishing venues, golf courses, KFC and Burger king and so on are all open. It is just a weird situation when we all know we are legally not allowed to drive around to places, yet most people clearly are. I think they need to give up on lockdown and simply ensure social distancing. Otherwise we risk having a load of rules that no-one respects or cares about, and they will lose all control then.
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Oh dear that is embarrassing, I have corrected my beeches to beaches. I did wonder what Big J's post meant!
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A very organised looking construction it has to be said. Like all these jobs good preparation makes such a difference. Thank you for sharing, and where can I buy that stuff you mention....ticketyboo....sounds like just what I need.
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Water cannot flow through concrete I agree, but apparently it will seep through due to capillary action. I would love to believe otherwise but I fear I cannot.
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It is really not difficult to use a telephoto lens and make a beach that may be a mile or two long look crowded. OK we can see there are lots of people on the beach, but does that mean they are not social distancing? It would be interesting to see drone footage from above to show how far apart those people really are. It is worth remembering the internet is full of twisted stories and click bait. I think a beach is a perfect place to visit in lockdown, and as long as you respect people's personal space and don't start breaking the rules the risks are probably much less than shopping at Tesco. My family would love to spend a day at a beach, and living in South Wales we are quite near to many enormous beaches, but we aren't allowed to. Apparently it is safer to walk along local roads with no pavements, or cycle with two young kids on narrow lanes.
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To be fair Andy you have missed my point. I am objecting to the inconsistency. As a family we could be fined for driving a couple of miles to a local forest for a nice walk on our own. But golfers are driving illegally by the hundred to use the golf course in my village. Of course golf should be allowed with sensible distancing. And so should a family visit to the beach with social distancing.
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I don't know how my fellow welsh citizens are accepting the duplicity of the lockdown now. Golfers driving from all over to my village to play golf, yet my wife and kids are stuck in and no longer able to walk on the golf course, and not allowed to drive to other local places to walk or cycle. It sucks. Sort the rules out Welsh so called Government: either allow us all to drive to exercise etc (like England) or enforce it here and stop the golfers. Maybe we should get our golf clubs and head down to the beech for a spot of beech golf. (at 7 and 10 they are too young to play a proper round of golf).
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Well yes indeed, but the snooker table will not leave much space for anything else....!
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I am going to build a garden room, which will have a snooker table in (possibly full size) and darts board and in the future who knows what else.
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Ah well as I said thank you for your input. I will be putting pics up when I have something to show! Not very exciting for you I realise, but I know getting the slab right is key to a simple and successful build.
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I am not using a screed, just tamping the concrete then floating by hand. Done it before and found it easy, and gives a much stronger surface of course as concrete is super strong. Don't think the snooker table legs will be too heavy, weight of 160kg or so per leg should be fine I think. I will be using mesh in the mix due to the size of the slab. Appreciate your input. Are you a snooker player?
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I may well put polythene dpm under the concrete but cut to fit not folded up into the corners, so hence still needing another method to keep the edges dry. Def don't want damp balls....
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I think paying the extra for waterproofed concrete is the way I will go. It will cost £400 or so extra for the 6 cubic metres I will need, but I think that is worth it. If it works. Anyone got experience of this? If you are wondering why I don't want to use a plastic DPM it is simply the extra difficulty of getting a good result when doing the pour at the corners and indeed everywhere the plastic sticks up. I want to keep the pour as simple as possible - after all I don't want to get it wrong.
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Yeah it is an amazing flooring, but not a cheap option. I think it was around £110 per square metre fitted, and they had to have a perfect screeded finish first. This was at an engineering workshop and was 450 square metres, so used 64,000 cobbles each one 70mm by 110mm and 75mm high.
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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.
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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.
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If you can make it up to a full timber lorry load with something else I could make you an offer. I take Lime, Alder, Birch, Holm Oak, Oak Beech and others. In fact I will take any hardwood really except Ash at present.
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Getting a fully dried post of that size may prove tricky as it will have needed 6 maybe 7 years drying. No sawmill wants to sit on stock for that long. You might have more luck trying reclamation yards or similar. And then I suspect you will need to pay a joiner to plane it square and do the curve for you.
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I am not suggesting we should not try to take care and social distance, but there need to be clear rules which people can believe in. To suggest it is fine for golfers to play 18 holes a day whilst a fisherman, walker, metal detectorist, beechcomber, bird watcher, forest forager etc all have to stay at home is ridiculous.
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Lockdown in Wales seems to have been de facto abandoned. The golf club just by me is open again from this morning. The lockdown rules in Wales state you should not drive for exercise, yet all the golfers are driving to golf. The Welsh goverment could easily have stopped this - just announce that you are not allowed to drive to a golf club and that it will be enforced. After all unlike beauty spots there are only so many golf clubs. Unless I have missed something there has been no attempt to stop it, so by default they have approved re-opening golf clubs. I am not whingeing, just personally I am not going to be a total mug. If it is OK for golfers to drive here and play 18 holes of golf whilst social distancing, then I will also take my family to different places like coast path, forests etc and have a walk and also social distance.
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If you were in my area I would make you an offer. Hopefully someone near will give you a shout.
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