Well after working most of the day yesterday on it apart from breaks for the dentist and hydrotherapy I appear to have made very little progress.
Before
After
The two compost bins have been emptied and spread across the flowerbeds, the wood shed has been dismantled and partly moved into the garage (how come there is more wood than I started with?) and I have moved the little tree from here
Where did you get your info from for the structure WCA. I’m thinking of replacing our current shed and really fancy the idea of building it myself. I’m reasonably handy and could use the old shed as a template to go on.
Are you building the sides then bolting together or putting up a frame then cladding?
Last time it was his ankle. Shall we start a sweepstake on what he’ll break this time? Electricity and water are involved with this build, so I reckon some sort of comedy electro-drowning after coming through the roof.
It is a sliding door on the left as a Bi-fold is expensive for a 3.6m length.
Shed structure is my own design based on internet info for the floor and roof beam/joist spacing. All measurements are 1.2, 2.4, 3.6 or 4.8 to make it easy to use standard timber lengths.
Floor will go down with 2.4 verticals at the corners and half way along the long side. The panel frames will then be screwed in and then clad the whole lot with red cedar tongue and groove on the outside. Probably plasterboard for most the interior with wood for the sauna interior.
Last time it was his ankle. Shall we start a sweepstake on what he’ll break this time?
The ankle wasn’t the last one. Do you really think I have been two years without injury, even allowing for the 6 months I was forced to stay in bed. Fool!
The South African doctor who treated him at A&E clearly misheard and nearly fell off his chair when cheerfully told “I put a garden fork through my welly” 😉
Can we have a greatest hits of your escapades?
Was it yourself who created the led lights with the wood housing?
Check the back issues or=f STW magazine for ‘The hard way to become a poet’ and that gives about 1/3 or the stuff before the ankle, the first time I did the ankle. I can’t list all injuries because it will overload the www apparently. 😉
Google Sketchup for the pictures and internet building advice for the details. 450 for floor joists, 400 for walls needing plasterboard, joist and rafter size tables are available
😆 all I keep seeing is the mental image of the built shed with a pair of feet sticking out from one end and an arm and hand, withraised thumb saluting, from one side… 🙂
(wca.. I don’t want to see it, it’s only in my mind… Please don’t recreate in real life)
While we are waiting here’s my shed thread. Our small shed was really tatty and taking up too much room.
So the plan was to move it behind the big shed. There is a wall behind big shed so I had to remove 50cm square out of one corner as well. I fully expected to muck it up so was reluctant to spend any money on it at all. The light coloured sides are excess wood flooring.
Really surprised that it worked as I’m not to clever at this kind of stuff.
Okay – I was busy with work towards the end of the week so no shed progress other than ordering some timber which arrived yesterday morning
I carried that lot down to the garage and then nipped down to the builders merchent to get some concrete blocks to level up the base.
Building the pillars to level up the base took ages as I needed all of the towers to be exactly level. My ankle suffered somewhat walking around on the slope.
I am hoping today to get some of that timber in place so there may be a photo later of the base framework. Watch this space