Missus has buggered off for the weekend, this will be top of the pops I reckon.
On another note, your shed has been an inspiration for my daughters future play house, maybe with a few more washing machine windows for extra entertainment.
Yes I think the competition always ends up a little controversial as to what constitutes a shed.
Some lovely shots of mine in there. The camera they used was amazing 🙂
Cheers folks. Yes, category winner, but quite a nice surprise that I was seemingly in there up to the wire with the gorgeous and well deserved winner, the West Wing. Blummin amazing build and a great bloke too. Cheers for the support folks.
🙂
One of my students bought a book in today that they’d bought as a gift for someone.
It’s a Mister Men parody a little like those ladybird books of late.
The page on ‘Mister DIY’ seemed to ring a few bells.
Coincidence? … 😀
Fantastic stuff, wish I’d found this sooner – been building my own caravan on a twin axle chassis for the past few months – I wish I’d seen how you created the curves for the roof earlier – laminated mine and it was a bit of a faff!
It’s going to be used for a bit of AirBnB on the farm and some local holidays/festivals with the family. Although I may build a shorter one for the road as it’ll be a bit of a handful at over 27′ in length and 7’6 wide.
Tried to attach a photo but can’t seem to make it work from google photos.
I’m not sure about talented, more like ambitious! At the early stages I used to stand back, have a brew and think ‘what the hell have I taken on here’.
Last year I bought the shell of a shepherd’s hut and got it finished off, only ever done a bit of DIY and that always ends up at the more rustic finish, although that has it’s own perks as everything tends to look like it’s always been there.
This year I thought I’d get a bit creative for the next hut. Design it to suit my needs rather than just produce another shepherd’s hut .
If shed fans do fancy a few extra photos I’m sure I can find some.
When I originally built this river shed, I had to be a bit wary of size what with it being on an allotment and so it stayed the size that the original shed that was there and fell down was, all except for a deck I cheekily built.
The deck was uncovered for half it’s length and so now the heat has died down from the allotment committee I decided to extend the roof to cover the whole deck, and help slow its decay.
I made another A-frame. The pattern I cut to sit on it was going to just be a temporary thing until I thought of something nicer but you know, I kind of Like it (see what I did there?…)
I had a few days holiday left before going back to the grind but it meant that I had to fit the roof extension all by myself. Pretty gnarly really trying to hold up a massive A-frame up a ladder, on a deck about 8 foot off the ground! 😯
I managed it though by building a central strut which held up the extended ridge beam, which I could then use to sling a strap over and lift, tighten, lift using the strap to take the weight. Then I just had to build supports etc and extend the original roof rails.
For the main supports I went hunting for felled trees down a local lane and found a couple of nice ones which were relatively straight and cut them in to sit under the A-frame. I then triangulated the shit out of it.
It looks mint now it’s up and hopefully it’ll protect the deck fully and allow beer drinking evenings in all but the worst of weather 😀
Hoisting the A-frame. [url=https://flic.kr/p/WNjEBi]Untitled[/url] by Kayak23, on Flickr
Be the first of your friends to Like this shed. [url=https://flic.kr/p/XXCabQ]Untitled[/url] by Kayak23, on Flickr
The ridge from the outside [url=https://flic.kr/p/Y2Ng2T]Untitled[/url] by Kayak23, on Flickr
All held together with twigs. [url=https://flic.kr/p/WNiLuH]Untitled[/url] by Kayak23, on Flickr
[url=https://flic.kr/p/WL3ndW]Untitled[/url] by Kayak23, on Flickr
Shed pan [url=https://flic.kr/p/XPuWk6]Extension to the roof complete.[/url] by Kayak23, on Flickr
I’ve not had many projects on lately and have gotten a bit down about stuff so it’s been really nice to get my teeth into something creative. 🙂