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Wednesday 6th March: The 15cm x 9m, Turfline, Extra Strong, black plastic, lawn edging strip has arrived.
At 2mm thick it is incredibly stiff! You couldn't hope for a better material in this context. More rippled than expected. This just means I shall place the fixing screws in the troughs. All the better to avoid unwanted protrusions catching on the rubber skirt.
I am still on the lookout for a stockist of the 25cm wide [10"] in the same product range. Then I can have rigid, concentric, outer and inner skirts which won't flex at all.
The glossy black, plastic surface will [hopefully] slide effortlessly against the skirt. Even better, if I can source the wider material to replace the present rubber skirt. Which has worked well enough but is too prone to flexure and lifting in the wind. Which allows rain to drive under. Hence the inner upstand of this new, 6" wide material.
The rubber skirt is almost matt, charcoal grey. So looks rather low key. But the flexure is noisy when it slaps the top ring in a gale. Which gets on my nerves and looks rather amateurish. Almost as if a builder had left before putting the fascia boards on a building.
The rubber skirt is almost matt, charcoal grey. So looks rather low key. But the flexure is noisy when it slaps the top ring in a gale. Which gets on my nerves and looks rather amateurish. Almost as if a builder had left before putting the fascia boards on a building.
By the time the new plastic strip is fixed to the 2" deep, octagon, [now rounded] top ring only 4" will protrude upwards inside the dome. A slight overhang below the top ring will act as a drip. Ensuring any rain which penetrates the outer skirt falls clear. The upstand will also secure the top ring as a wide shelf . One which will no longer allow objects to roll off outwards onto the veranda. [It's happened before now!]
Of course it started raining as soon I was ready to start fixing the new material to the top ring. I will have to lift the rubber skirt up and out of the way. Then keep the new material as level as possible a I work my way around. While simultaneously keeping it as tight as possible to the top ring to avoid bulges. Which would tend to rub on the outer skirt.
The plastic material was even stiffer than I thought. Unwinding the "clock spring" working from the inside of the dome proved quite amusing. Probably because of the cold. [42F] I started in the east and pulled the strip around the outside of the supporting rollers for guidance. I shall have to order another roll. Because one roll didn't meet by a full octagon wall length.
Well that is unfortunate. They [Turfline] don't make the wider size in the "heavy duty" quality. I shall have to make do with the rubber skirt until something better turns up.
The plastic material was even stiffer than I thought. Unwinding the "clock spring" working from the inside of the dome proved quite amusing. Probably because of the cold. [42F] I started in the east and pulled the strip around the outside of the supporting rollers for guidance. I shall have to order another roll. Because one roll didn't meet by a full octagon wall length.
Well that is unfortunate. They [Turfline] don't make the wider size in the "heavy duty" quality. I shall have to make do with the rubber skirt until something better turns up.
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