Moar tools!
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Somewhat tool related, finally got round to buying some racking to tidy up the garage/workshop on my first day of the next week on annual leave. Loads more room for DIY speaker activities and possibly classic car dispair in the future! 
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The propās a nice feature 
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I know a guy whose ābuilderā extended one of his bedrooms over a patio area. The two projecting walls were supported on RSJs which, in turn, were supported on an Acrow. At the end of the job he built a brick āpillarā around the Acrow, leaving the prop in situ. I donāt know how much of the load is now being taken by the pillar and how much by the prop. Nor, I suspect, does the builder.
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That prop tho! 
I have workshop envy - weāre probably 5 years off sorting the trap house outā¦ 
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Iāve installed the acrowprop as the roof is not just a distortion artifactā¦
Weāve a roofer coming in to look at it in April along with bits of the house!
Is that span timber or steel?
This was the trap-house garage four years ago - the white beam was 3 x 2"-thick timbers bolted-together with spacers: some clown of a bodger had ingeniously devised a way to make it look like a single piece of timber while ensuring it was inadequate for the job of holding up a storeyās worth of brickworkā¦ 
The bow in it was worse than the pic makes it look, and the entire corner of the building was bellying out. Ended-up with 20 props holding nearly half the building up! Now rebuilt with heavy-duty blocks inside and Georgian brick outside where you can see it, plus 100kg of reinforced RSJ (total overkill, but Brunel reasonsā¦).
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Itās timber. The whole flat roof needs replacing anyway.
Be satisfying to do the job right
Jaysus !! I parked there 
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Once it started to move - the problem got worse increasingly rapidly. That first pic was less than a year after Samās and my wedding. Another ~4 months and I reckon that end of the building would have collapsed with Samās NSX inside itā¦ 
LISTENING ROOM >>>>>>>>>>>>>>
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You need to come visit, I do not want for Listening Roomage - it is one of the few benefits of living in the East Mudlands.
Mind, the top floor of the Trap House is even bigger, and hornableā¦
Trouble is I will be a wholly deaf withered bed-bound psychogeriatric homunculus by the time itās sortedā¦
Life is too fucking short! 
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I see, life is about to get shorterā¦ 
Will have to sort out a south west to east country visit to you and Jimās.
Was in cambridge area yesterday
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Yep, plan: - got room for a number of West Cuntry wurzels to stop o/n here
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The āIāve got too much listening spaceāā¦ āand itās not full of hornā, will doubtless conjure a dim view.
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Should have dropped in.
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Sit down, and take a deep breath, think calming thoughts, brace yourselfā¦
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So, since Iām in a confessional mood - Iāve not yet heard a set of horns that fully-convinced me they were worth what will either be vast cost, or, more likely, vast faffā¦
Iām not even all that into jazzā¦ . . .
Just execute me now, no need for a trialā¦
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Sadly my engine warning light came back on and was desperate to get it back home,hopefully it will be sorted/binned next week.Plus I slept in the back of the car and was shattered. Need to slow down now Iāve hit 40
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