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Small Scale Engineering offers you the following services:

Engineering, fitting & turning on once-off and short run pieces
All types of welding including bespoke, metal furniture manufacture
Prototype manufacture
Home maintenance, restoration, repairs and renovations
General handyman

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Small Scale Engineering is also building a house out of shipping containers. Follow the project on our blog:

The Latest From the Container House Project

- Professional Grinder Giveaway
  6th Nov 2019GiveawaysAnother year has sped by. We have accomplished a lot on the Container House Project over the last few months. What better way to celebrate than to host a giveaway? We’re so pleased to announce this year’s prize. Don’t miss out and sign up for our Bosch Professional grinder giveaway because even if you personally don’t want a grinder, we bet you know someone who does. Scroll down to the end of this page to enter the giveaway. The launch of this giveaway is also the perfect opportunity to thank our loyal readers for coming back to see our progress. It’s also a great opportunity to give a huge welcome to our new readers who have only recently heard about us and are joining us at this current stage of our journey. There’s lots still to come that we’re very much looking forward to sharing with you as the project progresses. Grinder Giveaway -About the Prize A quick note on the prize: Please note that this is not a sponsored giveaway and is in no way affiliated with Bosch. Small Scale Engineering has purchased this grinder for the giveaway prize. When it comes to grinders, the Bosch Professional range is Kevin’s go-to brand. These grinders are well-priced, last well and are easy to use. Here’s your chance to win one and try it out for yourself and see if you agree. Bosch Grinder Details Rated input power670WNo-load speed12,000rpmDisc diameter115mmGrinding spindle threadM 14Tool dimensions (width)77mmTool dimensions (length)263mmTool dimensions (height)104mmWeight1.8kg Here goes nothing! And don’t forget to share your unique link on social media and via email in order to collect extra referral entries....
- Finishing the Cladding Joins and Corners
  30th Oct 2019Main Structure and RoofWhere the fibre cement cladding boards butt up against each other, and on the corners around the shipping container house, there’s a little gap left where rain could get in. We had to come up with a plan to stop the rain and to make the cladding joins and corners a bit prettier. The main outside walls of our house are 12m long; the length of a shipping container. The fibre cement boards don’t come in that length. Boards that long would be difficult to transport and will break easily. Therefore, for each row of cladding, we have to install more than one board. We want the joins to be as invisible as possible, and more importantly, waterproof. Once again we had to put on our thinking caps to solve this issue. Your mission, should you choose to accept it… Ways to Fit The Cladding We had two options with installing the boards: stagger the boards so the joins are not all on the same lineFit the boards so that the ends meet up at the same place making one long vertical line all the way up the house If we had staggered the boards, we would have had to put a waterproof patch of some kind behind the join and then fill up the gap with something like paintable silicon. We decided that the easier option would be to fit the boards so that we had one long vertical line to deal with. The easiest way to hide the gap would then be to fit a strip of something over it. Two strips fitted Gap Strip Options There are many options available and these are the options we considered: Fibre cement strips: A cheap option in materials, but would have been labour-intensive to fit. A thin strip of fibre cement board is very likely to crack on installation. We would have had to be extremely careful when fitting.Plastic: We were concerned that plastic might become brittle in the sun and need replacing oftenAluminium: A bit more expensive but very durable. Because of the strength in a length of aluminium, we could also use it to pull the boards flat against the container, making the resultant wall straighter. Also, if they every do need replacing, aluminium can be easily recycled, making it one of the greener options. From the above, I’m sure you’ve already guessed what our choice was – the aluminium strips. So, we bought some aluminium flat bar for the joins and some aluminium angle to fit onto the corners. Installing the Strips for the Cladding Joins and Corners They aluminium was easily fitted with a few screws. We’ll fill in the gap behind the strip with silicon or with polyurethane expanding foam. We are going to try both options, and will get back to you once we have decided which we prefer. Silicon behind the aluminium strip Once the strips are installed and the gaps behind filled in, all that’s left is to paint them. Many hands make light work Also, a quick heads-up; We have a fantastic giveaway lined up for November. Don’t forget to watch out for it!...

Small Scale Engineering offers you the following services:

Professional Grinder Giveaway

Finishing the Cladding Joins and Corners

Framing; Preparing to Clad Above the Containers