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Post by Clinton Cool on Aug 26, 2020 21:11:21 GMT
As some of you know I'm hoping to move to a tiny place on the Welsh coast soon. That's if the legal bods ever get their acts together, seems to be taking an age.
Anyway, so small is the place that I've decided to raise the double bed upstairs to enable storage of tools, fishing rods etc. etc. Plan is to raise the bed so there's around 500mm depth of storage space under it. I'll then build an end panel and make and fit 4 hinged doors, 2 along each side. I did a similar project on my boat last year which worked out well so I'm pretty confident I can make a decent job of it.
The problem is how to raise the bed. The current owner is leaving the frame behind as part of the deal, along with other furniture. The frame is 6" x 2" plus cross supports. 4 legs, one in each corner, built from 4" x 4" (from memory). The simplest way, I think, would be to get lengths of 4" x 4" cut to size. Glue them to the existing legs and perhaps screw full length pieces of 4" x 2" to the inside of the legs (so the bodge isn't too visible).
Any thoughts as to whether this might be strong enough? If not, any other suggestions? I could throw the thing out and build myself a whole new bed frame, but this seems a bit wasteful.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 26, 2020 21:24:05 GMT
When I raised my divan as a teenager I just removed the legs and screwed 4ft lengths of 3x3 in their place.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 26, 2020 21:25:49 GMT
I'm amazed that people want to live in houses. They are far too complicated.
Give me a boat any day.
There must be a reason why the vast majority of people do seem to want to live in houses but I can't for the life of me work out what it is.
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Post by Clinton Cool on Aug 26, 2020 21:46:12 GMT
When I raised my divan as a teenager I just removed the legs and screwed 4ft lengths of 3x3 in their place. That seems like a fair shout, I'll bear it in mind.
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Post by Clinton Cool on Aug 26, 2020 21:50:15 GMT
I'm amazed that people want to live in houses. They are far too complicated. Give me a boat any day. There must be a reason why the vast majority of people do seem to want to live in houses but I can't for the life of me work out what it is. The problem with boats is that it's sometimes difficult to get away from idiots running big lumps of diesel engines for hours on end every day, just so they can have a shower or watch a bit of t.v. I value peace and quiet. I know the problem can be worse in houses, selfish idiots booming out their bass heavy numbers with total disregard for those around them. That's why I would never live on a housing estate.
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Post by JohnV on Aug 27, 2020 6:49:01 GMT
I'm amazed that people want to live in houses. They are far too complicated. Give me a boat any day. There must be a reason why the vast majority of people do seem to want to live in houses but I can't for the life of me work out what it is. The problem with boats is that it's sometimes difficult to get away from idiots running big lumps of diesel engines for hours on end every day, just so they can have a shower or watch a bit of t.v. I value peace and quiet. I know the problem can be worse in houses, selfish idiots booming out their bass heavy numbers with total disregard for those around them. That's why I would never live on a housing estate. Yup !!! live in the country ....... only problem there is that they get up early, drive noisy tractors and during harvest sometimes work all night with extremely noisy, dusty combines
and I'm not goiing to mention slurry pumps
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Post by patty on Aug 27, 2020 6:57:25 GMT
The problem with boats is that it's sometimes difficult to get away from idiots running big lumps of diesel engines for hours on end every day, just so they can have a shower or watch a bit of t.v. I value peace and quiet. I know the problem can be worse in houses, selfish idiots booming out their bass heavy numbers with total disregard for those around them. That's why I would never live on a housing estate. Yup !!! live in the country ....... only problem there is that they get up early, drive noisy tractors and during harvest sometimes work all night with extremely noisy, dusty combines
and I'm not goiing to mention slurry pumps Possibly where Ricco is won't have lots of tractors and combines.. I'd prefer waterways but circumstances dictated not. I'm content, get my boat fix from time to time(never enough but it'll have to do) I'm one of the early risers so won't complain about them..04:30 this am..i do like being up before the World rises and I go to bed very early Sometimes I sit up overnight, its one of the perks of solo home alone.
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Post by naughtyfox on Aug 27, 2020 7:08:27 GMT
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Post by Clinton Cool on Aug 27, 2020 7:34:36 GMT
The problem with boats is that it's sometimes difficult to get away from idiots running big lumps of diesel engines for hours on end every day, just so they can have a shower or watch a bit of t.v. I value peace and quiet. I know the problem can be worse in houses, selfish idiots booming out their bass heavy numbers with total disregard for those around them. That's why I would never live on a housing estate. Yup !!! live in the country ....... only problem there is that they get up early, drive noisy tractors and during harvest sometimes work all night with extremely noisy, dusty combines
and I'm not goiing to mention slurry pumps Given that the place is built half way up a rock with no car access I think the likelihood of a combine rocking up in the middle of the night is slim There is always the possibility of having a career mother on benefits next door I guess, a troop of kids she doesn't care about rampaging around the neighbourhood, causing havoc. Given that the 3 adjoining terraces are also 1 bedroom jobbies though, the likelihood is slim.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 27, 2020 9:09:51 GMT
Gun toting Jamaican drug dealers are known to live in one bedroom properties I agree about the cut and the idiot engine runner problem.
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Post by Clinton Cool on Aug 27, 2020 10:23:32 GMT
Gun toting Jamaican drug dealers are known to live in one bedroom properties I agree about the cut and the idiot engine runner problem. Nah that particular one wouldn't have been able to get his drugmobile (large black BWM with blacked out windows) close enough to the house. I mean, what self respecting black drug dealer would ever want to walk up a hill?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 27, 2020 10:31:56 GMT
That's handy. The lack of road access probably does make the neighbours liable to be better.
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Post by Clinton Cool on Aug 27, 2020 10:44:32 GMT
Anyway I got his deposit the other day. £500 is nothing compared to the damage he caused but from his point of view £500 is a hell of a lot of wraps.
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Post by Jim on Aug 27, 2020 16:37:07 GMT
As some of you know I'm hoping to move to a tiny place on the Welsh coast soon. That's if the legal bods ever get their acts together, seems to be taking an age. Anyway, so small is the place that I've decided to raise the double bed upstairs to enable storage of tools, fishing rods etc. etc. Plan is to raise the bed so there's around 500mm depth of storage space under it. I'll then build an end panel and make and fit 4 hinged doors, 2 along each side. I did a similar project on my boat last year which worked out well so I'm pretty confident I can make a decent job of it. The problem is how to raise the bed. The current owner is leaving the frame behind as part of the deal, along with other furniture. The frame is 6" x 2" plus cross supports. 4 legs, one in each corner, built from 4" x 4" (from memory). The simplest way, I think, would be to get lengths of 4" x 4" cut to size. Glue them to the existing legs and perhaps screw full length pieces of 4" x 2" to the inside of the legs (so the bodge isn't too visible). Any thoughts as to whether this might be strong enough? If not, any other suggestions? I could throw the thing out and build myself a whole new bed frame, but this seems a bit wasteful. Maybe you would be wise to take the vigourosity of the rumpy pumpy into account when building it? A collapse mid stroke could be fatal.
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Post by Clinton Cool on Aug 27, 2020 17:30:27 GMT
As some of you know I'm hoping to move to a tiny place on the Welsh coast soon. That's if the legal bods ever get their acts together, seems to be taking an age. Anyway, so small is the place that I've decided to raise the double bed upstairs to enable storage of tools, fishing rods etc. etc. Plan is to raise the bed so there's around 500mm depth of storage space under it. I'll then build an end panel and make and fit 4 hinged doors, 2 along each side. I did a similar project on my boat last year which worked out well so I'm pretty confident I can make a decent job of it. The problem is how to raise the bed. The current owner is leaving the frame behind as part of the deal, along with other furniture. The frame is 6" x 2" plus cross supports. 4 legs, one in each corner, built from 4" x 4" (from memory). The simplest way, I think, would be to get lengths of 4" x 4" cut to size. Glue them to the existing legs and perhaps screw full length pieces of 4" x 2" to the inside of the legs (so the bodge isn't too visible). Any thoughts as to whether this might be strong enough? If not, any other suggestions? I could throw the thing out and build myself a whole new bed frame, but this seems a bit wasteful. Maybe you would be wise to take the vigourosity of the rumpy pumpy into account when building it? A collapse mid stroke could be fatal. Aye, I hear there are some biguns around there, best upgrade to 6' x 6'.
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