Boat Plans Wooden | ‘Pike’ versus the Patio Wall – Part 3

Boat Plans Wooden

There was a clear winner today. ‘Pike’ was only a memory from the day before; whereas the wall took my full attention and was finished – one course was completed in the morning and the final topping of bricks in the afternoon, bringing victory to the wall.

Good weather made a lot of difference and sunshine brought a ‘good feeling’ factor.

My next job will be to fill in the trench either side of the wall; then fill in the large area that will form the foundation of the patio. At first, I’ll have to make a layer of hard core and on top of it a layer of gravel. Finally before laying the flagstones I’ll have to make a smooth bed of Diall Recycled Glass Paving Sand.

Links

‘Pike’ versus the Patio Wall – Part 2

http://bills-log.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/pike-versus-patio-wall-part-2.html

‘Pike’ versus the Patio Wall – Part 1

http://bills-log.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/pike-versus-patio-wall.html

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Small Boat Plans And Kits | Patio Nearly Finished

Small Boat Plans And Kits

All the patio slabs have been laid, but to give it an attractive finish I’ve decided to build a brick edging where it adjoins the shrubbery border. When that is done and I’ve tidied all the joins between the slabs, the patio will be truly finished.

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Boat Plans For A Chesapeake Deadrise | Creativity

Boat Plans For A Chesapeake Deadrise

Messy process

Hidden order in the mess of creativity

There has only ever been one Creator. He was from the beginning and from before the beginning, because He always existed and will continue to exist into the future. Indeed, He created time. He can end time and create a new time in a new world in a new universe. He already exists in more than one time zone: heavenly time and universal world time and in His own eternal time. He is ubiquitous in all time zones.

When He created the universe He created all things, inanimate and animate. Life was and is in Him, and He is the giver of life to all whom He wills. He gives life and He takes it away.

All of this is remarkable and astounding; one might say, miraculous, but God is a miraculous being. When He created the universe, there was no mess in the creative process; nor did He require pre-existing matter for creating the universe. This is so unlike those whom He created. We can, in fact, not create in the pure sense, as did God; we can only re-create with existing materials. Even, so-called new materials brought into being by modern technology are made from matter created by God.

The Bible says we were created in His image, but we are not created in His glory, majesty and power, and we do not have eternal life, but we can have everlasting life* through believing in His Son.

*John 3:16 ‘For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.’

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Boat Plans And Kits | Progress

Boat Plans And Kits

‘Pike’ waits patiently on the front lawn. She doesn’t know when her boathouse will be free and when she will be taken for a sail. Her master is looking forward to checking her over and doing a bit of touch-up with paint where minor abrasion on the chines has revealed bare wood.

Progress is being made with the patio. Slowly, but surely things are being set in order. Today I started laying down the hard core. Before I can do the remainder I’ll have to remove a fair amount of soil to obtain the required depth. At this stage I cannot be certain if I’ll manage without a skip.

There’s still a lot of work to be done and quite how I’m going to manage laying the heavy flagstones remains to be seen. Each flagstone has to be laid on five dabs of cement and slid sideways to the adjoining stones so as to squeeze cement upwards between the joins. Surplus cement has then to be removed cleanly. 

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Boat Plans Australia | ‘Pike’ versus the Patio Wall

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I didn’t completely ignore ‘Pike’ today, because another visitor came to have a look at her and to collect my old inflatable canoe that was advertised for sale at the blog.

Various hurdles prevented me from working on the patio until after lunch, and I only had a limited time to try my hand at bricklaying before having to collect my wife by car from the railway station.

At least, I was able to mix a small batch of cement and build the basis of a corner at one end of what will constitute the wall.

The other day I looked at a YouTube video* demonstrating how to lay bricks. The brickie made it look easy. Obviously I have a lot to learn, but the bricks I am using are not standard; they are in fact, what is called ‘pitched walling’. They would appear to be made from concrete which has little porosity, unlike house bricks. Getting cement to adhere to them is not as easy, and because the edges are ragged and slightly convex, keeping the joins tidy is nigh impossible.

Other demands upon me tomorrow will only leave me with part of the afternoon for wall building.

Still, some progress is better than none. The sooner I finish the patio, the sooner I shall have time for playing with ‘Pike’.

*The Art of Laying Brick: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lORIZ1shRIM

Other Links

‘Pike’ versus the Patio

http://bills-log.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/pike-versus-patio.html 

  

Wave Line Inflatable Canoe/Kayak for Sale

http://bills-log.blogspot.co.uk/2015/05/wave-line-inflatable-canoekayak-for-sale.html

Waveline Inflatable Kayak

http://bills-log.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/waveline-inflatable-kayak.html

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Boat Plans Uk | ‘Pike’ versus the Patio Wall – Part 2

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Two days ago another visitor came to see ‘Pike’.  This was the third person to see her. At this rate she will soon become a popular visitors attraction.

We tried the sail and we put in a reef by tying the reef lines around the boom, but somehow, the sail didn’t look right, and logically by reducing sail at the foot without lowering the sprit, the centre of effort is raised higher above the waterline.  Obviously, the lower it is the less chance there is of the boat capsizing as a result off wind pressure on the sail.

Messing about with the boat was all well and good, but another sort of pressure different to wind pressure was pressing on my mind. I had to find time for building the retaining wall for the new patio. Yesterday and today I was able to add more bricks to the wall so as to double its height. The existing height has to be doubled again to be satisfactory.

Links

‘Pike’ versus the Patio Wall – Part 1

http://bills-log.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/pike-versus-patio-wall.html

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Wood Boat Plans And Kits | Nearly There

Wood Boat Plans And Kits

I’m nearly there - nearly where? - Almost at the end of the patio project.

Necessity has caused me to temporarily deviate from working on the final part of the patio which will be a brick edge that will separate it from the shrubbery border. It will match the visible top part of the wall on the lawn side.

My deviation of necessity today was to attend to a bay tree that was impinging on the pathway to the patio. It had grown so large that it almost completely blocked the pathway. I hadn’t cut it for a long time because blackbirds had nested in it and I’ve been occupied with building the patio.

Because of being so preoccupied I let things slip in the garden and at this time of year the growth of plants is prodigious. The lawn at far end of the back garden looked a bit like a hay field, especially in the vicinity of the pergola. In part this was due to running out of line for the grass strimmer, which meant I could not attend to trimming the grass. However, when I was at B&Q the other day I bought a packet of line for replenishing the empty spools of my Qualcast strimmer.

Now that the bay tree has been attended to and the lawns cut, the gardens look attractive once again. There are still more jobs to be done, but they are not so pressing, which means I can focus on finishing the patio.

Links

Jobs Nearly Done (Info about my Qualcast strimmer)

http://bills-log.blogspot.co.uk/search?q=strimmer

Bay Tree (Laurus Nobilis)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay_Laurel

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Boat Plans Aluminum | Progress with the Patio

Boat Plans Aluminum

The final consignment of earth for disposal at the dump

The state of play

Today I made good progress by putting down more hard core. In order to do it I had to excavate thirteen bags of earth to provide a level base.

Altogether I have made five trips to the local dump with loads of unwanted earth. It looks as though I shall have to do one more.

All being well, tomorrow I shall have the help of my great nephew. Together we should make good progress. There will be a lot of humping things around in an effort to organize the laying of the paving slabs and perhaps even to lay a few.

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Boat Plans Wooden | Finishing Touches to the Patio

Boat Plans Wooden

I finished building the patio a few days ago. Today, my wife and I gave it the finishing touches by adding six solar lights, a candle lantern, a hanging basket, a cordyline plant and a dwarf palm tree.

The solar lights were designed with short supports that could be stuck in the ground, but I mounted them on metal rods that I attached to the patio wall. This makes them more visible, and dare I say it, more attractive. At night, the light they emit gradually changes, simulating the colours of a rainbow, i.e., red, orange, green, blue, indigo and violet.

I made their supports from chromium plated hanger rods - the sort you find in wardrobes - and I fixed them to the wall with homemade aluminium brackets. My wife arranged the hanging basket, and she planted the cordyline and dwarf palm tree in large, square-topped pots. She also put a decorated candle in the lantern.

Links

Cole and Bright (Manufacturers of the Solar Ice Orb Light)

http://www.coleandbright.co.uk/

Solar Ice Orb Light – Black Nickel

https://direct2garden.co.uk/Solar-Ice-Orb-Light-Black-Nickel

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Dinghy Boat Plans | Paving Slabs

Dinghy Boat Plans

The farthest slab had to be cut to size

The paving slabs I am using for the patio are described as Peak Smooth 600 x 600 x 35 mm. I don’t know how heavy they are, but they take a bit of manhandling. Fortunately I’ve had the assistance of my great nephew to manoeuvre six of them into place on a bed of sand and mortar. The job took us most of the day, but we did other things such as laying more hard core and gravel, beside returning unwanted cement to B&Q. We also collected more gravel from Wicks.

Altogether, the day was very productive. We learnt a few valuable lessons; for example, the amount of sand required will be far more than originally estimated; likewise, more gravel will have to be purchased to reduce the amount of sand necessary for achieving the right height. We were astonished at the amount of mortar that had to be mixed to lay one paving slab.

Now I can understand why having such a job done by a professional is so costly. At least, if I can achieve a reasonable finish, I shall feel that it was all worthwhile and know that I have saved an awful lot of money, but it is going to take a long time.

Tomorrow I doubt much will be done, because there are other priorities; a dental appointment being one of them, plus shopping for necessities and a few things my wife wants to do.

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Boat Plans Catamaran | Patio Completely Finished

Boat Plans Catamaran

At long last my labours on building a patio in the back garden have come to an end. I can look at it with some satisfaction. I know that it is far from perfect, since I lacked the skills and knowledge to bring perfection about. However, what I did was my very best, and the finish was satisfactory – good enough to make my wife happy.

At the outset I was a complete novice, having never built a patio before, and I can honestly say I never want to build another. Give me wood as a medium, not bricks and mortar, for which I have little sympathy. Shaping wood with sharp tools is pleasurable, but mixing mortar and applying it with a trowel - there is no comparison.

Take if from me, that is not the last job to do in the garden. A garden is as demanding as a boat, and it can be just as costly to maintain. Talking of boats, I must get around to having a sail with ‘Pike’.

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Boat Plans Pdf | Patio Saga

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Bagged earth ready for the dump

Shingle for covering the last of the hard core

More earth yet to remove

Sycamore tree root

There’s still a long way to go before the patio saga can come to an end. As with a sailing saga, unforeseen snags can crop up to delay or hinder a venture. One such snag has manifested itself in the form of a root of a sycamore tree that used to grow behind the garage before it was cut down and forgotten, but now, I remember it well. The tree’s golden blossom used to be gorgeous; on the other hand, the propeller-shaped seedpods that fell in the autumn were a nuisance, since they had to be cleared before I could mow the lawn.

In order to lay hard core behind the garage I’ll have to remove some of the sycamore tree root that is as hard and black as ebony. I am not looking forward to the onerous task. No doubt I’ll have to obtain a hatchet with which to hack away pieces of the root until sufficient depth can be found for hard core, pebbles and recycled paving sand.

I have yet to break up an area of old concrete path that is too high for forming a hard core base and I have to remove more earth beside the foresaid path. Finally, when these things have been done I’ll be able finish laying the hard core and sand.

There is still a quandary how best to set about laying the paving stones, but as they will be heavy and difficult to manoeuvre into position, I’ll probably have to temporarily cover the sand with plywood near to where the stones are being laid. This will enable me to convey the stones in the barrow without disturbing the levelled sand.

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