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Rebuilding A Grotty Chicken Shed
AdeV:
--- Quote from: awemawson on April 13, 2018, 08:41:10 AM ---So was it all worth the effort - well in my opinion no - I still think it should have been burnt - but . . . . . . . :bang:
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On the upside, with all that creosote on it, it should be far more flammable than it was before :lol:
tom osselton:
But then you would have to make a cart to sell extra chrisp fried chicken! :lol:
awemawson:
I ordered the cladding for the second shed this morning - it's been 'out of stock for delivery' for the past few days but their web site has now caught up - £247 - ouch :bugeye:
Coming Monday week - probably just as well that there'll be a hiatus of a week as I pulled a tendon in my shoulder doing the last one - might just have recovered a bit by then :bang:
. . . frightening how timber prices have gone up :scratch:
awemawson:
After the odd distraction of lambs being born I thought that I'd better get on and remove some of the rotten planking and see how bad it really is - it's BAD :bang:
The side with windows that I've started stripping not only gets all the weather, but it turns out that the ground surface has built up above the flagstones so the sole plate under it is utterly rotten - not entirely surprising. Although I intend to overlay the floor with 18mm OSB3 the ends of the planks of the original floor on this side are also rotten - I will cut then away to the next bearer and slip a piece of waterproof ply of the same thickness where the planks were.
I'll replace most of the framing on this side - I could just splice in a foot at the bottom, but it's far easier to replace the entire length. So I steamed up my Dominion Super Elliot combination wood worker and produced some lengths of 50 mm square to match the original.
Lastly I got out the JCB 803 and pulled the earth back to below the level of the flag stones - it's all going to be raked over with my landrake on the JCB eventually and reseeded, but this at least will keep water out of the new work.
I'll have to re-frame this side before I removed any more cladding or it will all collapse :bugeye:
DICKEYBIRD:
--- Quote from: awemawson on April 15, 2018, 10:10:54 AM ---So I steamed up my Dominion Super Elliot combination wood worker....
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Jumpin' Jehoshaphat Andrew, is there no man-cave toy you don't have? :bugeye:
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