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i have a home built wickes hardwood conservatory
It was mid way between a kit and full build, with some premade components to be assembled to instructions and bits of timber that you'd cut to instructions that included under/over measurements so they'd fit into the modular build
I will try to add pictures
It was basically a wooden cill build onto a brick base, fitted on three sides the fourth being the house. Then timber frames were added and later filled with double glazed units
The front has a wooden patio door with a slightly different cill profile
The cill was profiled so that the frames fitted onto the cill with screws and mastic
At a corner, a post fills the gap
I built this 30 years ago so a bit rusty on the description
Now, a cill has rotted, and a gap has opened up on the corner . The corner post has also rotted a little at the base
I would like to ideally replace the cill at least along one run, into a 90° corner.
I have access to a workshop saw bench , a router, a festool circular saw and festool chop saw
My basic question is how to achieve a cill profile that I could somehow insert from outside to under the panels, and how to hold everything up without sag while I do it. I could add a wood block to the inside then use a prop to hold the structure up?
With the corner, rather than replace the entire post, should I remove half the post by cutting the corner with two vertical cuts, then insert a new piece of timber, or concentrate on replacing the entire bottom where it has rotted? And scarf (?) the horizontal join by cutting/sanding the area?
I presume that getting a premade cill as a basis to modify is better than stankrting with a massive chunk of timber
Sorry for the long winded question
It was mid way between a kit and full build, with some premade components to be assembled to instructions and bits of timber that you'd cut to instructions that included under/over measurements so they'd fit into the modular build
I will try to add pictures
It was basically a wooden cill build onto a brick base, fitted on three sides the fourth being the house. Then timber frames were added and later filled with double glazed units
The front has a wooden patio door with a slightly different cill profile
The cill was profiled so that the frames fitted onto the cill with screws and mastic
At a corner, a post fills the gap
I built this 30 years ago so a bit rusty on the description
Now, a cill has rotted, and a gap has opened up on the corner . The corner post has also rotted a little at the base
I would like to ideally replace the cill at least along one run, into a 90° corner.
I have access to a workshop saw bench , a router, a festool circular saw and festool chop saw
My basic question is how to achieve a cill profile that I could somehow insert from outside to under the panels, and how to hold everything up without sag while I do it. I could add a wood block to the inside then use a prop to hold the structure up?
With the corner, rather than replace the entire post, should I remove half the post by cutting the corner with two vertical cuts, then insert a new piece of timber, or concentrate on replacing the entire bottom where it has rotted? And scarf (?) the horizontal join by cutting/sanding the area?
I presume that getting a premade cill as a basis to modify is better than stankrting with a massive chunk of timber
Sorry for the long winded question
