Outdoor DIY

Vinuovo has been a reseller for Nesling shade sails for more then 10 years already and we have introduced the Nesling shade sails to the french market! We have installed dozens of them and provided hundreds of customers with advice!

You can buy a very expensive shade sail, but once badly mounted it might cause some severe problems. A correct installed shade sail, can remain in place all season long, from the first sun in spring up to the first snow at the end of the season (except for very heavy storms... (personally I have never demounted a shade sail due to heavy winds, however our offices are based upon a 500 meter high windy hill. We also have many customers in the south of France where the shade sails are exposed to the southern Mistral winds but never a Nesling shade sail has torned! If something goes wrong, it's always due to the fixations or bad mounting...)

In this blog post, we will explain how you can easily build outdoor stairs or garden steps yourself.
It is really not as hard as you might think, you can easliy do it yourself!

Then let us start by making our shopping list, what do you need in order to build your outdoor stairs?

1. at least two staircase stringers for garden stairs
2. stair steps for the steps (2 timbers per step)
3. screws in stainless steel in order to fix the timbers on the staircase stringers
4. galvanized fastening brackets in order to fix the stairs against a wall and on the ground
5. an electric or manual screwdriver with the appropriate screwbit
6. a drill for drilling holes in the wall in case it is made of stone
7. screws for the fastening brackets

Wood preservation is achieved by impregnating fungi and insect repellants. A lot of wood that is used outside is impregnated. This is often done with the aid of a pressure vessel, in which the wood is brought under vacuum, after which the impregnating agent is added. Due to the vacuum, the agent will be introduced into the pores of the wood.

Depending on the quality of the impregnating substances used and the duration of the treatment, impregnated wood meets the application class 3 or 4 (note, the application class is opposite to the durability class!).

• Application class 3: wood exposed to weather conditions without ground contact, then you need durability class 1, 2 or 3 if impregnated class 3.
• Application class 4: Wood exposed to weather conditions with permanent ground contact, then you need durability class

All Home Fires Braais are equiped with a standard round opening to connect a single or double wall flue pipe, even the free-standing Braais.

To ease the job, we propose an adapter which you can place on top of the Braai to which you connect standard flue pipes.
The different Braai models have different diameters, please find an overview below; (dimensions year 2020).

Exit diameter of the Home Fires Braai:

• Braai freestanding FS800 - Ø 250mm
• Braai freestanding FS1200 - Ø 300mm
• Braai build-in BI800 - Ø 250mm
• Braai build-in BI1000 - Ø 300mm
• Braai build-in BI1200 - Ø 300mm
• Spit Braai build-in BI1200XL - Ø 300mm
• Spit Braai build-in BI1500XXL - Ø 400mm
• Braai build-in "Dirty Harry" DH2300XXXL