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"Slow is Fast - Fast is Slow"

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Slow is Fast, Fast is Slow
Violence may not be the best option, but it IS an option

.44, email me for your new password, and i will add your new custom signiture to your profile for you.

Or don't and i'll add it anyway. Whichever is best for ya my friend! <img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle>

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<font color=yellow><i><b>"One way or another, your car is coming with me."</b></i></font id=yellow>

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.44, email me for your new password, and i will add your new custom signiture to your profile for you.

Or don't and i'll add it anyway. Whichever is best for ya my friend! <img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle>

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<font color=yellow><i><b>"One way or another, your car is coming with me."</b></i></font id=yellow>
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This should be good!<img src=newicons/anim_lol.gif border=0 align=middle><img src=newicons/anim_lol.gif border=0 align=middle>

Boomer...most excelent <img src=icon_smile_cool.gif border=0 align=middle>

As we follow 44's progress...we can make nesecary adjustments for new threat protection....

oh very nice! <img src=newicons/anim_lol.gif border=0 align=middle>

"If you can't beat them, arrange to have them beaten!"

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\"I dream of a better tomorrow, where chickens can cross the road and not be questioned about their motives\"

Heh, .44 was kind enough to add it to his sig himself.

Hey i like the new Avatar Terry...and good job helping me out with this one, hehehehe.

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<font color=yellow><i><b>"One way or another, your car is coming with me."</b></i></font id=yellow>

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"Did you know? You can use your old motor oil to fertilize your lawn! -- Environmental Protection Agency."

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\"My name's Pitt, and you ain't talkin' your ass outta this shit.\"

Just to show some actual progress, here are some photos...

<b>Vermin guards in place in the air gaps at the eaves</b>

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In the above photo you can see where I coach-bolted the new 8" rafters to the exisiting 3" ones. In the UK building regulations means you need a permit to replace old roof timbers. I didn't bother and just bolted the new ones to the old ones. Why have one bit of wood when you can have two...

<b>New Rafters and sheetrock</b>

<img src="http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i277/44hollowpoint/newrafters1.jpg" border=0>
Note the big wooden perlin running left to right across the top of the picture above. You have NO idea how many times I've cracked my head on that.

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<b>Start of the rockwool</b>

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Two layers of 100mm rockwool should keep the place warm.

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<b>You don't know how much it's going to hurt until you try...</b>

You didn't crawl naked up there again did you?

Someone once told me a story about when the fiberglass first came out, some contracter had his wife make him a sleeping bag with the stuff. He figured since it's so warm, it'd be perfect. Only used it once.

Ignorance may be bliss, but it sure ain't fun!

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Evil is evil, no matter how small.

LOL, that must have been horrible.

No this time sanity kicked in and I've followed some of the advice I've gotten, but with my own little spin on it.

Rather than taping the sleeves to a pair of gloves, I went to the hardware store and got a set of rubber gauntlets. These go all the way up to the shoulders - very kinky.

So attired in my trainers, jeans, knee pads, and gauntlets I went to work in the loft.

What I hadn't bargined for was how badly your hands and arms sweat and these things being rubber don't let it out.

So after about 45 minutes of physical effort, the gloves were actually full of sweat, it was like sloshing about.

Not really thinking too much I raised my hands above my head and was treated to the sensation of a litre of sweat running INTO my armpits.

I have to admit, that was a first.

And tonight I've been doing some wiring...

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<b>You don't know how much it's going to hurt until you try...</b>

And the saga continues...........do I smell burning flesh? <img src=newicons/anim_lol.gif border=0 align=middle>

Just cross out "machine gun" and write in "pizza"

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The only time you have too much fuel is when you're on fire.

I'm always anxious for the next installment of .44's "Do it to yourself" adventures. <img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle>

Crushed under his own mental block...

<font size=5>How to remove an 80lbs lintel</font id=size5>

Here's the problem I faced a while back.

When you're on your own, how do you get a concrete lintel down without dropping it through the floor. It's easy enough to press it up when you're standing under it. But how do you get it from above your head to the ground. I ain't strong enough.

So...

You put a pry bar across the rafters,
Tie a rope to the lintel either side of the middle,
Throw the rope over the pry bar...

<img src="http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i277/44hollowpoint/lintel1.jpg" border=0>

And hope you are heavier than the lintel (this is when I really missed Boomer)...

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The sweet taste of success was slightly damped by the fact the supporting wall fell down...

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Note the excellent continuity. The tan towel appears in almost all the balcony shots.

I keep a tan towel about as it doesn't show the blood quite so bad as cream...

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<b>You don't know how much it's going to hurt until you try...</b>

My FAL could have shot that down in just a few minutes, no promises on the wall or cieling integrity though <img src=newicons/anim_lol.gif border=0 align=middle>
You freakin amaze me man lol

Just cross out "machine gun" and write in "pizza"

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The only time you have too much fuel is when you're on fire.

LMAO...

Yep, but the objective was to fix the supporting wall and then put the lintel back up.

Which is a bit difficult if its been shot to buggery...

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<b>You don't know how much it's going to hurt until you try...</b>

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44 I dont feel so bad now,I can say "Mine was an act of God' AND get away way with it.

Oh who the Hell I'am I kidding?

Boomer I need a Fire Suit.

Goose

I know now for a FACT that Truth is Stranger than Fiction and IT CAN ALWAYS BE WORST!

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\"Live Free Or Die\"

Goose, if it makes you laugh and helps your recovery I'll fall through a different part of the house and I'll make sure you're the first to hear about it.

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<b>You don't know how much it's going to hurt until you try...</b>

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Just saw this animated gif online...for somereason you were the first thing that came to mind 44HP... Havent offed yourself yet doin home reno have you?