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Filming for TV.
OK guys I jest, but there was a blonde involved as you will see!
That pic was shamelessly stolen from my favorite facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/BumoftheDay.net?fref=ts
OK....................................
So last Saturday I went for my first trial day as a camera man for a 4wd TV program.
We hit the road about midday and there was Michael and I in his white 80, Ross and Ali in the black Jimny and presenter Simon in his Colorado joined by the nice blonde whos name escapes me.
We were going to be filming a section called "your rig" where viewers come on with their trucks and in return get a load of freebies from sponsors.
We met the viewers who had been selected for the days filming, in a freeway service station car park and we were soon on our way.
We were soon on the road heading towards a local state forest.
And soon got to the forest.
We parked up in a clearing and while we got farmiliar with the cameras presenter Simon filmed a short interview with each vehicle owner(s).
My camera for the day.
We hit the tracks and headed for an interesting section to do our first bit of action filming.
I had to film each car passing by.
After filming all the cars going through 2 rutted twisty sections everyone parked up and we filmed as all the prizes were handed out.
We hit the tracks again and headed for the next interesting section.
On the tracks again to the next section.
I didn't manage to get any pics at the next section as I was too busy filming.
But after that section we ended up back on the main track where we said our good byes to most of the guys and girls who had come.
Michael and Ross were keen to drive a much more challenging track that was near by.
Cameras in position.
I took some good videos with my camera and I will post them up once I get them on youtube. I also tried an interesting feature on my latest camera that lets me capture still's while filming.
The next few pics below were all taken while filming.
Ross proving you don't need lockers to drive challenging terrain. But Michaels climb in his 80 with both lockers in was a lot more elegant with minimal wheel spin so less wear on the tyres and no shock loading on the drive terrain, it was also a lot more controlled. So lockers get my vote every time!
With both trucks up the tricky bit they turned around and came back down.
There was one more little section of track that the guys wanted to have a play on.
One of the Prado's joined us and he too did some good driving, of which I got a nice video of that I will post when I get chance.
We aired up.
Said our good byes and handed the cameras back.
And hit the road!
It was an awesome day and I really enjoyed it.
Celebrated with an ice cold TED.
Fingers crossed Simon likes my work and invites me to do more filming for him. They go all over the country and indeed the world filming 4wd competitions and events!
OK guys I jest, but there was a blonde involved as you will see!
That pic was shamelessly stolen from my favorite facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/BumoftheDay.net?fref=ts
OK....................................
So last Saturday I went for my first trial day as a camera man for a 4wd TV program.
We hit the road about midday and there was Michael and I in his white 80, Ross and Ali in the black Jimny and presenter Simon in his Colorado joined by the nice blonde whos name escapes me.
We were going to be filming a section called "your rig" where viewers come on with their trucks and in return get a load of freebies from sponsors.
We met the viewers who had been selected for the days filming, in a freeway service station car park and we were soon on our way.
We were soon on the road heading towards a local state forest.
And soon got to the forest.
We parked up in a clearing and while we got farmiliar with the cameras presenter Simon filmed a short interview with each vehicle owner(s).
My camera for the day.
We hit the tracks and headed for an interesting section to do our first bit of action filming.
I had to film each car passing by.
After filming all the cars going through 2 rutted twisty sections everyone parked up and we filmed as all the prizes were handed out.
We hit the tracks again and headed for the next interesting section.
On the tracks again to the next section.
I didn't manage to get any pics at the next section as I was too busy filming.
But after that section we ended up back on the main track where we said our good byes to most of the guys and girls who had come.
Michael and Ross were keen to drive a much more challenging track that was near by.
Cameras in position.
I took some good videos with my camera and I will post them up once I get them on youtube. I also tried an interesting feature on my latest camera that lets me capture still's while filming.
The next few pics below were all taken while filming.
Ross proving you don't need lockers to drive challenging terrain. But Michaels climb in his 80 with both lockers in was a lot more elegant with minimal wheel spin so less wear on the tyres and no shock loading on the drive terrain, it was also a lot more controlled. So lockers get my vote every time!
With both trucks up the tricky bit they turned around and came back down.
There was one more little section of track that the guys wanted to have a play on.
One of the Prado's joined us and he too did some good driving, of which I got a nice video of that I will post when I get chance.
We aired up.
Said our good byes and handed the cameras back.
And hit the road!
It was an awesome day and I really enjoyed it.
Celebrated with an ice cold TED.
Fingers crossed Simon likes my work and invites me to do more filming for him. They go all over the country and indeed the world filming 4wd competitions and events!
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What a day! So much filming, you couldn't get many pictures! 
I liked that!
Great tracks and looking forward to the links
BTW if either of those puppies are for sale Ben, I'll have the one with the pink nose!
I liked that! Great tracks and looking forward to the links
BTW if either of those puppies are for sale Ben, I'll have the one with the pink nose!
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OK guys update time...........................
Work pics...................
The cable rack came back from the powder coaters.
So I bolted the wheels on and put all the bars back in place.
I picked up some plastic bungs.
And fitted them in place.
Our auto electrician started loading reals of wire on.
I built another rock slider display stand.
And fitted it in place.
I also built another stand, I will explain what its for next week when its back from the powder coaters.
I had a little project on a customers car this week. I needed to build a false floor which is not something we normally do, but as he was buying a duel battery system, fridge slide, fridge and kitchen it made sense for us to also do the false floor, which I was very confident I could do to a high standard.
So I needed to mount a piece of ply in the back and pack it up until it was level and secure it down.
Cut the ply.
Cut and screwed another piece of ply under the front (back of car) edge.
I put the ply back in place and when I was happy with the position and height I put a strip of masking tape along each edge at the top of the ply. This meant that when I removed the ply I could then hold a straight edge between the bottom of the masking tape each side and measure down at various points to work out how big my spacers needed to be.
I marked and drilled where my mounting holes needed to be.
The next job was to cover it in marine carpet.
I've discovered I'm actually really good at carpeting ply for installs and I can get it very neat.
I added a 12mm thick strip down the middle to pack it up and support the middle of the false floor.
I picked up some M8 stainless steel bolts to fix it down with into the original tie down point mounting holes.
Next job was to fit one of our fridge slides to the 30 second kitchen.
I cut and painted some box section spacer blocks.
And got them in position ready for the false floor to be placed on top of them.
I got an Engel fridge out of the warehouse.
I cut, bent and screwed a strip of checkered alluminium along the front to finish it off nicely.
I brought the customers car back round the front so we could get some pics in better light.
The kitchen can be pulled out on its own and used under the cover of the tailgate.
Or it can be slid out aswell as the fridge, although the legs should also be positioned under the kitchen with it this far out (not fitted in the pic).
Still lots of usable boot space.
OK LJ next...................................
I needed to make up a new cable to link my 2 batteries so I opted for 50mm.
This is the correct way to make up big battery cables and earth's.
The correct terminals crimped on using the right tool.
Terminals crimped on the next job is to use heat shrink.
Melted in place using a heat gun, not a cigarette lighter or blow torch like I've ignorantly done for the past 4-5 years as I didn't realize a heat gun is the right way to do it.
Followed by convulated tube, or conduit as they call it at my work.
Heres all my new earth leads that I made up last week.
I needed to join a new thick live cable onto my original loom. Cable this big is too big to solder and heat shrink so proper crimp on terminals are used, these are then covered in thick heat shrink that contains glue, and then finally the whole lot is covered in convulated tube and tape.
I gave the repaired rear door hinge a few coats of primer.
Followed by some blue hammerite which is an almost perfect match to the Midnight Blue Toyota colour.
I then hung it in front of my fan for an entire day to get it to dry.
I rust killed the body where the hinges had been as there was a bit of surface rust.
Followed by blue hammerite.
Needed to bolt the hinge back onto the door next.
Bolted the door back on next.
I wanted to fit the table/storage box next.
First job was to remove all the old plastic clips.
I then enlarged all the holes and then countersunk them all.
Ready for the new countersunk headed bolts.
All done.
Another job that I needed to do was fix the leaking fuel filter housing.
I suspected it was leaking from the bottom so I got another one from the local Toyota wrecker.
New one.
Upon removing the old one it was obvious as to why it had been leaking. It looks like it has been melted away but is no where near anything hot. Cant imagine diesel would do that?
New one for comparison.
Old one.
That changed and shes running beautifully again and more importantly isnt leaking fuel everywhere!
My welding course is going well and once I finish what I'm doing now I will be a fully qualified coded TIG welder.
After TAFE today I went shopping.
All profesional welders need a descent helmet, hence me splashing out nearly $400 (£200) on one.
Now my £20 auto darkening ebay/chinease special has worked faultlessly for the past 2 years.
But when you buy an expensive helmet its designed so that the head strap and positions where it sits on your head avoids any of the pressure points that cause fatigue and head aches.
Also this one will work on very low amp AC TIG welding for when I'm welding alluminium, a lot of cheaper helmets wont do that. I also like the big screen on it giving awesome vision.
I also picked up some sleaves to protect my left arm from UV rays when MIG welding. Will mean I can continue to wear short sleaves when welding and wont have to put factor 50 sun screen on my arm which is what I have been doing to avoid that MIG sunburn.
And some TIG gloves. Mig gloves are no good because there far too thick and you cant feel the filler rod easily or move your hands easily. TIG doesnt require the same sort of protection as MIG as you havent got molten hot sparks shooting all over the place. Tig is beautifully neat and clean to work with, I love it!
And finally a baraclava for when I'm MIG welding under cars and hot sparks are landing on my head. This will be worn inside my helmet.
Heres some horizontal TIG welds I did today.
And some much harder vertical welds.
And last few pics........................
The building work on the house.
The carpet went down yesterday in the 2 bedrooms, and the curtains a few days before that.
I've fitted new wardrobe doors in the spare room.
And my room.
Just need to fit the warrdrobe doors and new bedroom doors.
After just over 13 months of living in this amazing country rent free I've decided to get my own place!
So in 5-6 weeks I will be getting a place with my good friend Erin who is also looking for some where to rent as her lease is up.
I've enjoyed the past 10 months living with Michael, but I've reached the point now where I'd rather pay rent and have much less money than spend my free time doing building work.
Now I could stay here and pay Michael rent but hes getting married soon, and I'd quite like a change anyway. So I'm excited about getting a place and having evenings and weekends totally free to get LJ ready for the Simpson Desert trip at the end of the year.
I've now got 4 days off work.
So I want to get the building work on the house finished and do some work on LJ.
Then Sunday I'm off to a music festival with Erin, Its going to be messy!
Oh nearly forgot...............
If Crispin is able to setup a private members only area of the forum only visible to members with say x amount of posts I can start a build thread for the exciting new project I'm working on for the Guinness World Record attempt.
Work pics...................
The cable rack came back from the powder coaters.
So I bolted the wheels on and put all the bars back in place.
I picked up some plastic bungs.
And fitted them in place.
Our auto electrician started loading reals of wire on.
I built another rock slider display stand.
And fitted it in place.
I also built another stand, I will explain what its for next week when its back from the powder coaters.
I had a little project on a customers car this week. I needed to build a false floor which is not something we normally do, but as he was buying a duel battery system, fridge slide, fridge and kitchen it made sense for us to also do the false floor, which I was very confident I could do to a high standard.
So I needed to mount a piece of ply in the back and pack it up until it was level and secure it down.
Cut the ply.
Cut and screwed another piece of ply under the front (back of car) edge.
I put the ply back in place and when I was happy with the position and height I put a strip of masking tape along each edge at the top of the ply. This meant that when I removed the ply I could then hold a straight edge between the bottom of the masking tape each side and measure down at various points to work out how big my spacers needed to be.
I marked and drilled where my mounting holes needed to be.
The next job was to cover it in marine carpet.
I've discovered I'm actually really good at carpeting ply for installs and I can get it very neat.
I added a 12mm thick strip down the middle to pack it up and support the middle of the false floor.
I picked up some M8 stainless steel bolts to fix it down with into the original tie down point mounting holes.
Next job was to fit one of our fridge slides to the 30 second kitchen.
I cut and painted some box section spacer blocks.
And got them in position ready for the false floor to be placed on top of them.
I got an Engel fridge out of the warehouse.
I cut, bent and screwed a strip of checkered alluminium along the front to finish it off nicely.
I brought the customers car back round the front so we could get some pics in better light.
The kitchen can be pulled out on its own and used under the cover of the tailgate.
Or it can be slid out aswell as the fridge, although the legs should also be positioned under the kitchen with it this far out (not fitted in the pic).
Still lots of usable boot space.
OK LJ next...................................
I needed to make up a new cable to link my 2 batteries so I opted for 50mm.
This is the correct way to make up big battery cables and earth's.
The correct terminals crimped on using the right tool.
Terminals crimped on the next job is to use heat shrink.
Melted in place using a heat gun, not a cigarette lighter or blow torch like I've ignorantly done for the past 4-5 years as I didn't realize a heat gun is the right way to do it.
Followed by convulated tube, or conduit as they call it at my work.
Heres all my new earth leads that I made up last week.
I needed to join a new thick live cable onto my original loom. Cable this big is too big to solder and heat shrink so proper crimp on terminals are used, these are then covered in thick heat shrink that contains glue, and then finally the whole lot is covered in convulated tube and tape.
I gave the repaired rear door hinge a few coats of primer.
Followed by some blue hammerite which is an almost perfect match to the Midnight Blue Toyota colour.
I then hung it in front of my fan for an entire day to get it to dry.
I rust killed the body where the hinges had been as there was a bit of surface rust.
Followed by blue hammerite.
Needed to bolt the hinge back onto the door next.
Bolted the door back on next.
I wanted to fit the table/storage box next.
First job was to remove all the old plastic clips.
I then enlarged all the holes and then countersunk them all.
Ready for the new countersunk headed bolts.
All done.
Another job that I needed to do was fix the leaking fuel filter housing.
I suspected it was leaking from the bottom so I got another one from the local Toyota wrecker.
New one.
Upon removing the old one it was obvious as to why it had been leaking. It looks like it has been melted away but is no where near anything hot. Cant imagine diesel would do that?
New one for comparison.
Old one.
That changed and shes running beautifully again and more importantly isnt leaking fuel everywhere!
My welding course is going well and once I finish what I'm doing now I will be a fully qualified coded TIG welder.
After TAFE today I went shopping.
All profesional welders need a descent helmet, hence me splashing out nearly $400 (£200) on one.
Now my £20 auto darkening ebay/chinease special has worked faultlessly for the past 2 years.
But when you buy an expensive helmet its designed so that the head strap and positions where it sits on your head avoids any of the pressure points that cause fatigue and head aches.
Also this one will work on very low amp AC TIG welding for when I'm welding alluminium, a lot of cheaper helmets wont do that. I also like the big screen on it giving awesome vision.
I also picked up some sleaves to protect my left arm from UV rays when MIG welding. Will mean I can continue to wear short sleaves when welding and wont have to put factor 50 sun screen on my arm which is what I have been doing to avoid that MIG sunburn.
And some TIG gloves. Mig gloves are no good because there far too thick and you cant feel the filler rod easily or move your hands easily. TIG doesnt require the same sort of protection as MIG as you havent got molten hot sparks shooting all over the place. Tig is beautifully neat and clean to work with, I love it!
And finally a baraclava for when I'm MIG welding under cars and hot sparks are landing on my head. This will be worn inside my helmet.
Heres some horizontal TIG welds I did today.
And some much harder vertical welds.
And last few pics........................
The building work on the house.
The carpet went down yesterday in the 2 bedrooms, and the curtains a few days before that.
I've fitted new wardrobe doors in the spare room.
And my room.
Just need to fit the warrdrobe doors and new bedroom doors.
After just over 13 months of living in this amazing country rent free I've decided to get my own place!
So in 5-6 weeks I will be getting a place with my good friend Erin who is also looking for some where to rent as her lease is up.
I've enjoyed the past 10 months living with Michael, but I've reached the point now where I'd rather pay rent and have much less money than spend my free time doing building work.
Now I could stay here and pay Michael rent but hes getting married soon, and I'd quite like a change anyway. So I'm excited about getting a place and having evenings and weekends totally free to get LJ ready for the Simpson Desert trip at the end of the year.
I've now got 4 days off work.
So I want to get the building work on the house finished and do some work on LJ.
Then Sunday I'm off to a music festival with Erin, Its going to be messy!
Oh nearly forgot...............
If Crispin is able to setup a private members only area of the forum only visible to members with say x amount of posts I can start a build thread for the exciting new project I'm working on for the Guinness World Record attempt.
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What a day! So much filming, you couldn't get many pictures!
Great tracks and looking forward to the links
BTW if either of those puppies are for sale Ben, I'll have the one with the pink nose!
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Paddler Ed
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Awesome write up Ben!
The welding stuff interests me in the difference between TIG and MIG; never knew about the sun screen/burn side of that so that was pretty cool to know about.
Good luck with the house; are you looking for furnished or unfurnished? If unfurnished, get hunting on the local buy, swap and sell pages for stuff; if they're like the ones up here there'll always be stuff for sale (especially as it's Uni time at the moment....) some of which will be quite new. Other than that I can't help you much as some of the legislation varies State to State, and I'm used to NSW. From what my brother has said about Melbourne rentals, it's first in, best dressed often, so go along to any viewings with the paperwork already completed, and don't be surprised if there are other people there at the same time viewing.
I'm sure Erin will tell you all of this as well, but I'm just thinking of everything that I can... so it's going to be mad random ramblings...
Are any of the areas in Melbourne NBN connected? They're often a good option, as there can be some good deals on international phone calls via the NBN. Also find out if the place has an NTD if it is NBN connected, or if it only has the FTTP box outside.
Also if looking at units over houses, check what (if any) Strata rules are in place. We're lucky where we are (block of 4 units) in that we don't have any strata rules because the landlord owns all 4, but if there was another owner then there might be a body corporate and then strata rules (and that might impact on what you can do in communal areas such as the driveway etc)
I'm sure of that isn't news to you, but give us a shout on Farcebook if you've got any other questions...
The welding stuff interests me in the difference between TIG and MIG; never knew about the sun screen/burn side of that so that was pretty cool to know about.
Good luck with the house; are you looking for furnished or unfurnished? If unfurnished, get hunting on the local buy, swap and sell pages for stuff; if they're like the ones up here there'll always be stuff for sale (especially as it's Uni time at the moment....) some of which will be quite new. Other than that I can't help you much as some of the legislation varies State to State, and I'm used to NSW. From what my brother has said about Melbourne rentals, it's first in, best dressed often, so go along to any viewings with the paperwork already completed, and don't be surprised if there are other people there at the same time viewing.
I'm sure Erin will tell you all of this as well, but I'm just thinking of everything that I can... so it's going to be mad random ramblings...
Are any of the areas in Melbourne NBN connected? They're often a good option, as there can be some good deals on international phone calls via the NBN. Also find out if the place has an NTD if it is NBN connected, or if it only has the FTTP box outside.
Also if looking at units over houses, check what (if any) Strata rules are in place. We're lucky where we are (block of 4 units) in that we don't have any strata rules because the landlord owns all 4, but if there was another owner then there might be a body corporate and then strata rules (and that might impact on what you can do in communal areas such as the driveway etc)
I'm sure of that isn't news to you, but give us a shout on Farcebook if you've got any other questions...
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great write up again Ben, good luck with the house hunt......isint this a sign of old age, getting your own place? 
Paddler Ed
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great write up again Ben, good luck with the house hunt......isn't this a sign of old age, getting your own place?
It's still a shared house, so I don't think he's grown up that much....
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Thanks guys.
Looking for an unfurnished house Ed. I've already got some furniture that I brought over from the UK and Erin has got heaps as shes been renting for years, and as she moves into her new apartment in the city next year when its built shes been collecting furniture for that.
My only requirement..........................
It must have a garage, the bigger the better!
Looking for an unfurnished house Ed. I've already got some furniture that I brought over from the UK and Erin has got heaps as shes been renting for years, and as she moves into her new apartment in the city next year when its built shes been collecting furniture for that.
My only requirement..........................
It must have a garage, the bigger the better!
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Hi Ben that is a top job I love it thanks a lot 
Tonytoyota.
Tonytoyota.
Paddler Ed
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Thanks guys.
Looking for an unfurnished house Ed. I've already got some furniture that I brought over from the UK and Erin has got heaps as shes been renting for years, and as she moves into her new apartment in the city next year when its built shes been collecting furniture for that.
My only requirement..........................
It must have a garage, the bigger the better!
That's cool; we got an unfurnished place and had no furniture beyond what was promised by friends (and our swags and esky!) So a TV, TV unit, bed, desk, 2x sofas, a fridge, dryer and microwave was ours for $450 in total and a weekend driving around NSW to pick stuff up!
You want a place like my mate's in Sydney... OK it's not the best area (Blacktown, so sometimes just on the edge of the bikies...
) but he has a double garage, with a single garage along the back of that, and space down the side for 5 cars, and driveway space for another 3 in front of the garage....Alternatively another mate who has just bought a property out on the edge of the Blue Mountains has scored a big shed, complete with a spray booth inside... so not far from some good trails, and loads of room to do stuff!
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Thanks guys.
To me the garage is more important than the house and if I have to pay more to get some where with a descent garage then so be it!
Thanks mate.
No didnt know that!
Thanks, I will have to make sure I sand it off before I re-spray the whole truck which is something I'd like to do before the Simpson trip.
I need to get the electrics all sorted, new set of BFG muddies, and finish fitting new suspension.
There the major jobs/big expense before the trip in September.
OH also need to make my new roof rack. Might start that this week.
Thinking into the future......................................
When I do my big trip from the Southern tip of South America to Alaska in a few years time I've been slowly adding things to my bucket list to do along the way. Obviously I want to drive the Rubican trail like Ryan did. I also want to go to this place.
http://www.drivingline.com/2013/09/bullfrog-trail-guide-off-roading/
To me the garage is more important than the house and if I have to pay more to get some where with a descent garage then so be it!
Nice Ben!
However, you DO know the hammerite is silicone based and cannot be painted on without completley removing it?
Good luck with the house search
Thanks mate.
No didnt know that!
Thanks, I will have to make sure I sand it off before I re-spray the whole truck which is something I'd like to do before the Simpson trip.
I need to get the electrics all sorted, new set of BFG muddies, and finish fitting new suspension.
There the major jobs/big expense before the trip in September.
OH also need to make my new roof rack. Might start that this week.
Thinking into the future......................................
When I do my big trip from the Southern tip of South America to Alaska in a few years time I've been slowly adding things to my bucket list to do along the way. Obviously I want to drive the Rubican trail like Ryan did. I also want to go to this place.
http://www.drivingline.com/2013/09/bullfrog-trail-guide-off-roading/
Just realized this thread has had 9000 views in less than a week!!!
Well Ben, I don't think www.bestbumoftheday.com did any harm there!
May I suggest you post the best bum of the day every day, you'll double your hits easily!
Nice bit of work on the pathfinder mind, like that a lot. Is it easy to remove to convert back to seats? It looks like it should be.
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www.bestbumoftheday.com doesn't seem to exist anymore. 
www.bestbumoftheday.com doesn't seem to exist anymore.
Aw Chas, I made it up! Click on the Facebook link, you won't be too disappointed!
(Maybe you should sit down before you do....)
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Well Ben, I don't think www.bestbumoftheday.com did any harm there!
May I suggest you post the best bum of the day every day, you'll double your hits easily!
Nice bit of work on the pathfinder mind, like that a lot. Is it easy to remove to convert back to seats? It looks like it should be.
I know Wayne (Crushers) Over in Canada had a cruiser build thread going on mud or pirate where he kept dropping in similar pics. Was awesome!
Thanks. Yes dead easy to convert back.
Simply remove the 4 bolts and the whole thing comes out, then just bolt the 4 tie down points back down and its back to standard.
Well Ben, as you're posting pics of decorating and stuff, I'm in the process of lining out the rooms and hallway in the new extension.
Had the carpenter from up the lane making half-round section vertical slat paneling in Larch wood, which slots together in a T&G fashion. It's coming along nice, or will be when it's varnished.
It's a wooden house so I wanted to keep the theme going through into the extension.
Had the carpenter from up the lane making half-round section vertical slat paneling in Larch wood, which slots together in a T&G fashion. It's coming along nice, or will be when it's varnished.
It's a wooden house so I wanted to keep the theme going through into the extension.
