BYC Café

[CapricornFarm]

Morning Cap, good luck at the swap meet!

Thanks NFC, have a great day!

 

[pennyJo1960]

So ordered will be here tomorrow thanks Sour

 

[DobieLover]

Two of the kids in the nest box with Mom! The third is loitering on the roost just outside where she is.

 

[Shadrach]

Good luck at the swap. I'm simply going to have to check one out one of these days.

Nah, bad idea. You'll probably come back with some wreck of a house.

 

[Shadrach]

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Two of the kids in the nest box with Mom! The third is loitering on the roost just outside where she is.
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Awwww. They seem to have got big rather quickly.

 

[DobieLover]

Awwww. They seem to have got big rather quickly.

You should see the pantaloons on that boy stretching his head to look at me. He rivals an Australorp! I'll try to get a picture of him but the little monsters are quite feral.

 

[Shadrach]

I've been splitting logs..with a maul. I'm knackered. http://www.britishslang.co.uk/slang/knackered
I've also been cleaning an accumulation of squashed mosquitoes off the walls. Yeah I know, disgusting.
Things is when you swat 30 in a night the clean all the dead every time gets a bit waring.
Anyway, cleaning the walls reminded me that I have rather a lot of cracks to fill. The front wall of the house is built with normal bricks. It isn't how I wanted it done but that's what I got. The reason for the normal bricks is there is 80mm of insulation between the inner and outer wall. I wanted the wall built with drystack H blocks which is what all the other walls are made of (I won't dwell on the details due to my blood pressure)
The problem is brick walls are built with bricks and mortar. You need a very good bricklayer who knows which mortar to use and how much should go between each brick if the mortar isn't to shrink much. I didn't get that sort of bricklayer.
The roof is sloped and with the earth it weighs a bit. The slope is from back to front so there is a proportion more of the compressive load on the front wall.
These pictures might help.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...t-is-your-hobby.1278899/page-28#post-20623730
The inside wall is plastered/rendered with tile adhesive; they don't really do plastering here. This has cracked a lot over the last 4 years.

 

[Shadrach]

You should see the pantaloons on that boy stretching his head to look at me. He rivals an Australorp! I'll try to get a picture of him but the little monsters are quite feral.

A bit feral works well here. They tend to live longer. Yeah, get some pictures up.

 

[DobieLover]

I've been splitting logs..with a maul. I'm knackered. http://www.britishslang.co.uk/slang/knackered
I've also been cleaning an accumulation of squashed mosquitoes off the walls. Yeah I know, disgusting.
Things is when you swat 30 in a night the clean all the dead every time gets a bit waring.
Anyway, cleaning the walls reminded me that I have rather a lot of cracks to fill. The front wall of the house is built with normal bricks. It isn't how I wanted it done but that's what I got. The reason for the normal bricks is there is 80mm of insulation between the inner and outer wall. I wanted the wall built with drystack H blocks which is what all the other walls are made of (I won't dwell on the details due to my blood pressure)
The problem is brick walls are built with bricks and mortar. You need a very good bricklayer who knows which mortar to use and how much should go between each brick if the mortar isn't to shrink much. I didn't get that sort of bricklayer.
The roof is sloped and with the earth it weighs a bit. The slope is from back to front so there is a proportion more of the compressive load on the front wall.
These pictures might help.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...t-is-your-hobby.1278899/page-28#post-20623730
The inside wall is plastered/rendered with tile adhesive; they don't really do plastering here. This has cracked a lot over the last 4 years.

What are you going to patch the cracks with? I don't do a lot of concrete work but I would assume that something like a polyurethane concrete crack repair might work.

 

[pertnear09]

I've been splitting logs..with a maul. I'm knackered. http://www.britishslang.co.uk/slang/knackered
I've also been cleaning an accumulation of squashed mosquitoes off the walls. Yeah I know, disgusting.
Things is when you swat 30 in a night the clean all the dead every time gets a bit waring.
Anyway, cleaning the walls reminded me that I have rather a lot of cracks to fill. The front wall of the house is built with normal bricks. It isn't how I wanted it done but that's what I got. The reason for the normal bricks is there is 80mm of insulation between the inner and outer wall. I wanted the wall built with drystack H blocks which is what all the other walls are made of (I won't dwell on the details due to my blood pressure)
The problem is brick walls are built with bricks and mortar. You need a very good bricklayer who knows which mortar to use and how much should go between each brick if the mortar isn't to shrink much. I didn't get that sort of bricklayer.
The roof is sloped and with the earth it weighs a bit. The slope is from back to front so there is a proportion more of the compressive load on the front wall.
These pictures might help.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...t-is-your-hobby.1278899/page-28#post-20623730
The inside wall is plastered/rendered with tile adhesive; they don't really do plastering here. This has cracked a lot over the last 4 years.

I've always enjoyed the British comedic look at things. Turns out I've been knackered a few times in life myself and didn't even realize it.