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shipto:
Finally I can start on my workshop, it has been a long time coming and I had to get my digger to a point where it could do the ground work including burying some rather large bits of concrete dumped on the garden when I got john wayne and his crew in to do my parking place (long story that still makes me seethe needless to say I expect them to appear on rogue traders any time now).
Unfortunatly I neglected to take a before picture but I got the concrete blocks buried and the ground pretty level and the shuttering is in place just need to spend a little time leveling the ground inside it, preparing the reinforcing steels etc and I will be ready to pour the base maybe next weekend or the weekend after.

The plan is to use 45mm composit cladding for the walls and roof of my 6 metre by 3 metre workshop held in place by a basic framework. This will mean that no more insulation should be required.
This is going to take a while as money is going to be a problem I had enough saved until our poor cat took ill and had to have some attention from the vet, still ended up having to put him down the poor little sod  :( but a few weeks of belt tightening and hopefully I will have enough to proceed.

ChriX:
Oooh, a fellow workshop constructor, I will be following - good luck with the build!  :beer:

Brass_Machine:
I like workshop builds. I like to see what other people are doing.

Eric

**sorry to hear about the cat, I ended up having to do the same a few months back... after 14 years.

shipto:
 :hammer: :smart: :hammer: never trust maths and guess work, actually make that never trust MY maths and guess work.
I worked out that the slab for my shop would be approximatly 1.8 cubic metres then I guessed there is about 1 cubic metre of sand and gravel in a jumbo bag of ballast so 2 bags by the time you add cement and water should be plenty.
It barely covered half of my slab so will have to get more next week.
I did cobble together a rather neat bucket for my digger though to save having to barrow the stuff from mixer to ground  :D

shipto:
slab done  :D
even embedded something to keep the grandkids amused for a little while.
sorry for the bad pics light was fading when i decided to take them.
now it going to be a long wait for funds to get the composit panels  :( but at least I will have the slab there to encourage me to save.

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