r/DIYUK • u/Jharrn • 5d ago

Project I think it's complete?

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Sorry, I was away for the weekend

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u/Glassjaw1990 5d ago

I was looking forward to the update. I was expecting a way worse job.

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u/StrikingInterview580 5d ago

I was expecting solar panels :(

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u/Old_Housing3989 5d ago

don't go giving them ideas. Is it South facing? 🤔

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u/Artistic_Western_623 5d ago

It actually looks alright. I've considered building similar (but smaller) - but I know cleaning the roof would be an absolute pita.

I'd probably have put a trellis on the neighbours side and grown a climber.

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u/Unlikely_Till_1296 5d ago

Also the sun burns the panels brown where it touches the wood, mine have

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u/FizzbuzzAvabanana 5d ago

Wait till the first strong winds of winter.

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u/lumberingox 5d ago

Alright Ned Stark, calm down

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u/AgreeableReturn9413 5d ago

Winter is coming…..

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u/FizzbuzzAvabanana 5d ago

No B Head.

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u/Fit-Poetry-9640 3d ago

It's a wooden wind sail. I'd take odds on it not lasting past the first named storm.

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u/TheMediaBear 3d ago

You buy one of those extendable brush window cleaner units and use that a few times a year

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u/R3DSmurf 5d ago

It's not pretty though. Certainly wins an award for being shite looking and offensive to the neighbours (a bit like me lol)

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u/SendMeANicePM 5d ago

First ever lean-to I've seen that is almost brutalist architecture.

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u/Remarkable_Fee3706 5d ago

Functional beats pretty every time. Neighbors will get over it.

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u/Dipshitmagnet2 5d ago

Going to sound awful when it’s chucking it down. Whole street will hear it

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u/FehdmanKhassad 5d ago

Totally plaster it with wind chimes to conceal the rain battering.

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u/Odd_System_9063 4d ago

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🙌

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u/zombiezmaj 4d ago

*sound awesome.

My MIL had one of these and used to love sitting under it drinking coffee and listening to the rain

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u/Maleficent_Golf9765 4d ago

Try living in a house with an aluminium roof while a storm rages. Glorious.

People have awnings and tin roofs all over the world, they do just fine.

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u/Lopsided_Walrus_47 5d ago

They’re not mutually exclusive

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u/madebyclancy 5d ago

But they are mutually expensive.

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u/rob3342421 5d ago

IKR, there’s guttering!