[Adam Lincoln]

When i get back from my travels i will be building the board of power.

What thickness of ply do people tend to use. What prices are people paying for it. I assume its 8*4?

[Monolith]

8 x 4 18mm marine ply was our weapon of choice. A little more expensive than shutter ply I think but was neccessary due to damp in our building. Let me know when you're doing it Adam if you want a hand/advice from our experiences.

[Adam Lincoln]

Cool, probably wont need marine ply, just normal 18mm 8*4. How much should i expect to pay for that?

It will be a good while off, after i get back from oz.

Ill no doubt have some questions too!

Ta

[Monolith]

I'd assume 15 quid for a sheet. If I remember rightly, that was about the average price.

[Karl]

I've just finished building my woodie. sort of, as you can see in the picture i have a bit to fix in before the middle beam.
Didn't cost that much, i got the plywood for free...

I want to fix a campus board in, but i don't want it as steep. would it be easy to put one in using the existing beams?
Also for the brick wall vertical part i have plans to make that up over the summer too. Got a massive homemade fingerboard to put up. I'll post more pics. 



Ps. sorry i can't get my mac to spin the picture the right way and save

[erm, sam]

can't you just rotate right,or left, in Preview?

[Karl]

yeah i tried that, but when i saved it was still the wrong way :[

[sasscotty]

Guy's iv seen this finger board!!!
its the biggest baddest homemade peice of kit ever!
get a piccie loaded up Karl
make em all jelous

[Karl]

haha, i'd love to. But.. my arms hurt and i've left teh ladders up there. so the V2 boulder problem of actually getting to the woodie is a no no.
i'll post some up tomorrow, might get some wood for the slab section this week. 

[namnok]

just finished building mine

http://youtube.com/profile?user=ethernol

dont know how to put pics up

[account_inactive]

Matching is ghey

Nice wall BTW

[namnok]

cheers dude

that's a big jug and quite ashamed of it, gonna move it tonight as a lower hold. it was neil's circuit, so neil's the gay.

pics are up on ukc, plebs think it was funny to rate even tho i told them there was no point as i didnt put them up for grading but to show ppl

http://www.ukclimbing.com/photos/author.html?id=3699

just checked and mods have removed the 4th one with neil chalking up?!

[namnok]

with the recent light showers we have been having my new board has been suffering from damp conditions.

the older of the 2 boards annoyingly has started to form mold and mildew. i'll expect the newer will start if conditions don't improve.

what's the best treatment i can do to the ply? i've been suggested an undercoat but unsure of which kind. gonna do a b&q after work

much help needed

steve

[account_inactive]

I've has this problem in my cellar.  I used marine ply so am not too concerned, but it is a pain in the arse.

Let me know if you find a solution

[Jim]

the best solution would be to get a dehumidifyer

[Monolith]

We've had exactly the same problem at our board recently. The boards got completely soaked due to a leak in the roof  (now thankfully repaired). One of the members went down with a yard brush and cleaned all the mold and mildew off and it seems to have dried out fine now. Whether or not some of the boards will have to be replaced remains to be seen. I've heard suggestions of coating the rear of the board in creosote which doesn't seem a bad idea if you have shutter ply and the source of damp is from a leak.

It goes without saying that there must be adequate ventilation for you to carry out this process - consult someone in the know to do this treatment safely.

As Jim says, a dehumidifyer is ideal if your board is within a space in which it will be of use. As ours is within a big open building, it's effect would be questionable.

Good luck in sorting this.

[BenF]

Or build your board out of stainless steel.

[Norton Sharley]

the best solution would be to get a dehumidifyer

the best solution would be for it to stop fucking raining 

[BenF]

the best solution would be for it to stop fucking raining 

Hear hear.

[AndyR]

I've heard suggestions of coating the rear of the board in creosote which doesn't seem a bad idea if you have shutter ply and the source of damp is from a leak.

It goes without saying that there must be adequate ventilation for you to carry out this process - consult someone in the know to do this treatment safely.

Not a great idea given the constituents of creosote, even with 'adequate ventilation' - I'm sure it'd work in terms of protecting the wood, but the potential risk to health would be too great (we normally get to charge clients $100Ks to give them that same advice......).

Water based, non-VOC-containing external primer would be my best guess.

[Monolith]

Shows exactly how much I know on the matter Andy aye.

[Paul B]

Got no room for a woodie?

why not go down the same route as Alain Robert and convert the roof of your flat house:

http://www-dist02.proaxial.net/www.alainrobert.com/video/ar-mur1.mpg

WARNING: Features said man wearing some kind of skin tight blue PVC trousers
shamelessly robbed from a UKC thread

[richdraws]

Iggy Pop is looking strong. 

[Jaspersharpe]

35 moves upside down on massive jugs. Hmmm.Good training for arsing about on the Petronas Towers or something I suppose.

Robert must have commited more fashion crimes than everyone else in the history of climbing combined. Those trousers on their own would trump the collective lycra tight disasters of Malham catwalk 1985 - present. He deserves his own thread as some sort of shrine to bad taste.

[Paul B]

this looks like how not to build a woodie? ok so its more ambitious than the average 45' but come on?...
http://www.ukclimbing.com/images/dbpage.html?id=72568