Custom greenhouse

If you are useful with your hands, Loofah, give it a try. What are you going for, timber?

 

If youve got some space, and a saw bench or reuter to do the rebates then it would be simple enough.

 

Loofah I for one will look forward in seeing your finished result.

I love a man that's good with his hands...DIY wise that is and there's always some work to be done in our garden if you ever get finished or bored! :D Hel.xxx.

 

Hel. you would love my man, He's Great with his hands...

 

Daisy I wonder do you have the same problem as me? Once Bob gets going on a project he goes for gold and doesn't like to stop for a cuppa....the guy needs to slow down or maybe I just need to speed up! :D Hel.xxx.

 

Most men are the same Hel once they start something they have to finish, women have a similar problem hence the saying "shop till you drop" :D

 

:D :D :D

 

Your intentions were good,Loofah.

 

Id use cedar or even better iroko, One of the gardens I work in had a fence put up some 45 years ago using oak posts and iroko rails.

save for surface weathering having never been treated the iroko is still perfect despite the oak posts rotting.

 

Iroko great stuff but the dust is a killer, if your using DIY tools loofah, (a spindle moulder would be a real help), then I definitly go for the Western Red Cedar.
Its much softer and easier to work, much lighter as well.
Tends to split but thats its only problem.
Dont think its all that cheap these days though.
There are quite a few "strange" timbers on the market these days, some very durable, but mostly difficult to work, which is why we are using them now, in the past they were firewood.

 

I should add iroko is not one that I classed as "strange", its been used for garden furniture and other general joinery for years as a cheaper alternative to teak.

The "strange" ones are usually unpronounceable. :D