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Spent a good bit of time picking up all the bits of broken glass yesterday and putting them into our glass recycling bin. Stupidly I forgot to secure the box inside a barn and left it outside, so when the winds really hit this morning, despite having a good bit of weight inside in beer bottles...

The south of the UK is due to be hit with some very high winds overnight and into tomorrow morning. My trains to work have already been cancelled for tomorrow morning as some sort of pre-emptive strike! It was kind of blustery earlier today but didn't seem anything too bad but when I got home...

That wood is going to make a beautiful-looking floor for your truck - can't wait to see it finished!

Welcome to GJ. That's a big barn space you've got there! I love how sharp it looks now with the new cladding and it really looks great and fits in keeping alongside your house. Good job sir!

Shame to have that spammer on your thread Ollie but the upside is it bumped the thread to the top and I got to have an interesting read - had missed seeing the recent updates previously for some reason. Good progress there.

And here is what one of the areas looks like today: I stripped out the feeder mechanism and painted the walls with a load of paint I had left over from when I painted the outside of our old house. I put some more of the floor tiles down as an improvement over the hard, cold concrete floor...

Here is another picture taken from the 'front' showing the door apertures: And here are a couple of pictures of the square spaces inside that I started with: The white plastic pipe in the centre below the roof ran the whole 100 feet of the building and had a screw inside which provided...

This is the other chicken barn that I am working with that is mentioned in my signature but I have not yet done much with it to post on here: It measures about 100x30 and is a pretty basic block construction with a roof made up of concrete tiles. It's waterproof at least and is a handy place...

After injecting the poison I filled in the flight holes and repainted the beam: At least now I will be able to spot any new holes that may appear, so if it stays sound then at least I can relax that the problem in that locality is sorted.

And here was my cunning plan: I used a syringe to inject the woodworm killer into each of the flight holes. I don't think anything resides in the holes once they have 'flown' but I am hoping that the poison has soaked into the surrounding wood a bit and will kill off any that are still...

Unfortunately it looks like some unwelcome visitors have returned: or more likely they have never left. The beam to the mezzanine level was the first piece of wood in the whole garage I painted and at that time I didn't know I had an active infestation so I didn't treat the wood with woodworm...

A minor update... A few years ago I was at an end of season sprint race and the organising motor club was selling off their old extinguishers they were using for the event as they would not be valid for the coming year. I snapped a couple up for 5 or 10 quid each. They have been knocking around...

Nice job. That loglap cladding looks great. Looking forward to seeing you move onto the interior finish.

Thanks. I made a start on pulling off the old featheredge board. My plan is to salvage the ones from the right of the frame to be able to cut them down to size to be reused on the left of the frame, which will save me painting/staining new wood! Then the new wood I bought I can use to cover the...

Good job on the steering wheel - it's looking great now!

Good progress on the slabs. Is the 2nd side of the garage one going down today?

Although I was pleased to get the frame built for the roller door I have never been that happy with the finish of the door frame as the edges of the weatherboarding could have looked better I thought... So I got the trailer out the other week and went and bought a load of wood: That's...

Exciting progress! Good luck with the weather and hope they can crack on with it and finish it all this week.

I took a photo in the dark tonight for the 'garages at night' thread so thought I would post it here too: I've got some other updates on the work on the barn so will sort the photos out for that too and post them up here in the next few days.

I posted on the thread earlier but have moved since so thought I would post an update with the new garage at night: