10-07-2020, 11:47 AM
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What has happened is, the slab is 3.8 metres wide, and a panel is 1.8 metres, so two panels = 3.6 metres and the recessed centres of a slotted post = 55mm a total of just over 3.7 metres. In reality the concrete post just fitted is setting the start distance by 80mm (55mm for the solid centre bit and 25mm for the slot the side nearest the existing post), then the wooden post is 100mm without any slot so, the extra dimensions will have the effect of moving the second wooden post halfway over the edge of the slab, giving two options, extend the slab and fit stock gravel boards and panels or fit post equi-distance on the slab and shorten gravel boards and panels, methinks that is a better option.10-07-2020, 12:01 PM
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Originally Posted by spitfire
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What has happened is, the slab is 3.8 metres wide, and a panel is 1.8 metres, so two panels = 3.6 metres and the recessed centres of a slotted post = 55mm a total of just over 3.7 metres. In reality the concrete post just fitted is setting the start distance by 80mm (55mm for the solid centre bit and 25mm for the slot the side nearest the existing post), then the wooden post is 100mm without any slot so, the extra dimensions will have the effect of moving the second wooden post halfway over the edge of the slab, giving two options, extend the slab and fit stock gravel boards and panels or fit post equi-distance on the slab and shorten gravel boards and panels, methinks that is a better option.
). Just be careful - unless you've measured already - a panel is 6ft which is about 1.83m. That 3 cm can make all the difference
10-07-2020, 12:20 PM
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Originally Posted by Dextrous63
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Trimming panels is fairly easy (although you'll come to hate the nails the manufacturers use). Just be careful - unless you've measured already - a panel is 6ft which is about 1.83m. That 3 cm can make all the difference
10-07-2020, 01:11 PM
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Originally Posted by spitfire
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I noticed that today Dex, I had the panel out to the right of the concrete post to give it a coat of preservative, whilst out i used the panel as a template for the timber on the floor, I've cocked up a few things referring to a measuring tape.
Asked my brother to knock up the studwork for a wall which would be covered by 6 by 3 plasterboard panels. Naturally assumed that he'd know that the panels were actually 1800 by 900 mm, as he's older than me and done some boarding himself in the past.
Apparently not
Noggins in wrong place as well as a few uprights. Easily managed to change things and work to what he'd built, but was time wasted.
He also has a thing about using nails instead of screws, which would have made things easier to adapt. Did warn him about it, but he's not a man to take advice.
10-07-2020, 05:41 PM
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I never use nails Dex, I like to know things can be de-constructed without damage. I went with option one with the fence, couldn't be arsed customising the panels and gravel boards, the extra concrete slab will replace one of the slabs when finished.
This is the concept.
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