Erecting scaffolding structures can be tricky with 2 people, but on your own its almost impossible. Once you’ve got the 4 vertical poles of the first bay up things get easier. Double arm transoms make it getting your ‘ledgers’ at 90 degrees to the ‘standards’ easy, getting the standards vertical and spaced properly is the [...]
Archive for August, 2009
How to erect scaffold – on your own!
Wednesday, August 26th, 2009Concrete Floor Paint
Thursday, August 20th, 2009Fed up with the amount of dust coming off the floor, so sealed with PVA(Get it from Color’i a chain of art shops, cheaper than Brico Depot) , and painted with Castorama floor paint, 14 Euros a tin, coverage not quite as much as it says on the tin!
ADSL is connected
Tuesday, August 18th, 2009Ordered broadband on the 13th of August, arranged for phone connection on the 18th at 2pm. France telecom engineer arrives at 9am and seems a little surprised that there no windowframes that he can drill through to feed the wire through, and no skirting boards to attach the phone point to. Engineer leaves at 2pm [...]
