deck repairs for (absolute) beginners - A trilogy in 2 parts (part 4)

By mark on Jun 25, 2009 | In Fixing stuff | Send feedback »

for those of you that missed parts 2 and 3, they'll be appearing next week, as Pansy makes an appearance in Ambridge, where Joe Grundy is revealed as the long lost nephew of Pablo Escobar, and is caught smuggling a boat load of comedy shaped turnips into Borchester.

Prior to that though, a bit more work progressed in a generally progressive fashion today, beamshelf repaired (needing a scarfe? in this weather?? well thats old ladies for you), even almost sorta matched up the wee bit of detailing on the bottom of the new bit with the old bit

Scarfe repair wooden trawler houseboat conversion
screwed, glued and muckle big nails just for good measure (aren't nails great!)

so then on to the bendy but not bit of oak, cut to length, a few hundred thousand funny angles measured, guessed, re-measured, marked out, rubbed out, marked again, and then sod it chop it off with the chainsaw, I'll trim it up with a chisel, and finally dropped into its almost final resting place

A little know fact but oak beams have the cunning ability to quadruple their apparent weight when you drop them on your fingers, its true, honest

deckbeam, cut to length, tweaked, shaved, honed and trimmed and dropped into place ready for knees and fastenings (aren't nails great!)

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