Improvements in and around my home
This part of the build covers the roof assembly and coverings. Additional framing for the slope. Flat roof framing Roofing boards Roofing felt The assembly so far. Side framing for the slope Flat roof frame left Flat roof frame right The roof frame is 2 x 3600mm (11′ 9 3/4″) lengths of 2″x 4″ (50x100mm)…
This part of the build will cover the framing aspects. Short Wall 1 Short Wall 2 Rear Wall Front Wall Full Assembly The first short wall consists of 2 x 2900mm (9′ 6″) lengths of 2″ x 4″ (50x100mm) pressure treated timber for the top and sole plates, then 6 x 2000mm (6′ 6 3/4″)…
Most of the assembly of the shed will be performed using an air framing nailer I purchased from Cash Converters for £35.00 it was still new and in the box – normal retail for this is anywhere between £99.00 and £175.00. The base is made in three parts: The Skids The Frame The Boards The…
My old shed was bought about 17 years ago, and unfortunately it has seen better days. I replaced the original paper thin roofing felt about 13 years ago, and that in itself is probably about the best preserved part of the shed. The back wall has rotted away where there was a buildup of leaves,…
While technically my car is not part of the house, however, I thought this is probably the best blog to add this post to. I have wanted a tow bar for my 2016 Mitsubishi Outlander ever since I purchased it, to allow me to tow my beach buggy and also any trailers that may be…
I purchased a Pod Point Solo 7KW car charging point from Ebay in June last year for £215.00 including P&P. I then proceeded to purchase all of the additional items I would need: 6m of 6mm² 3 core Steel Wired Armoured (SWA) cable 4 module consumer unit 2 x 1m of 16mm² tails for the consumer unit…
Not long after Installing the CCTV cameras, Ubiquiti brought out some new cloud keys, one of which has a built in NVR and runs their new Protect CCTV software, this being the UCK-G2-PLUS. This NVR is constantly recording from all of your attached cameras and comes with an internal 1TB drive, it also functions as…
Now that my network was reasonably stable, I decided I wanted to expand my use of the Ubiquiti Unifi products to include some of their CCTV camera range. Initially I purchased 3 of the outdoor UVC-G3-AF cameras. But quickly added 3 of the indoor UVC-G3-Flex cameras. Rather than purchase an NVR device, I decided to…
I have known for a while that the brick walls in my house were likely to be my biggest barrier to decent wi-fi coverage, but I wasn’t really sure just how bad they were. A few years back I drew up my house in Visio and one of the tabs shows the whole house with…
The pair of Actiontec ECB6200 MoCA 2.0 network adapters actually arrived whilst I was writing the previous article, but as that one was becoming pretty lengthy, I decided to start a new one to cover off this topic. Now MoCA 2.0 does not play well with satellite signals, since it operates in the 1125-1675MHz frequency range that sits slap bang…