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Pete W.:
Hi there, Tim,

It's looking good and I'm quite envious if your enormous 16' x 10' floor-plan.

I've got a couple of questions, though:

Do you intend that the OSB will be the final external surface of the walls or are you going to apply something else?

The space between your shop and the adjacent garage looks a bit narrow - how will you get in there for maintenance?

spuddevans:
Thanks guys :thumbup:

--- Quote from: Pete W. on March 03, 2013, 09:57:50 AM ---Hi there, Tim,

It's looking good and I'm quite envious if your enormous 16' x 10' floor-plan.

I've got a couple of questions, though:

Do you intend that the OSB will be the final external surface of the walls or are you going to apply something else?

The space between your shop and the adjacent garage looks a bit narrow - how will you get in there for maintenance?

--- End quote ---

The OSB is just the initial surface, I will be cladding the outside with wood reclaimed from some fence panels ( I have enough at the moment to cover the areas where the weather hits the worst, the rest will be done in the summer.)

Yea that space is pretty tight, but I had to keep it that close in order to have enough space on the other side to cut the neighbours hedge (cos he wont bother )

There is just enough space to use a 9" roller to cover the OSB with preservative/paint. That should be enough as I will be covering over the top of that gap, thereby closing off that area from the weather.

Well at least that's the plan :coffee: we'll see how it plays out...

In the meantime I have got the other side of the roof covered with Tin, just the ridge pieces left to finish the roof, hopefully get that done tomorrow (got the morning off), then I have to fill in the gaps between the walls and the concrete, put some guttering and downspouts up, and that should get it weatherproof (apart from the big hole waiting to be filled by the door, currently sitting at the most inaccessible point in my dad's garage)

Tim

Brass_Machine:
Are you going to do rafter type storage?

Eric

Pete49:
Tim a good hedge trimmer is glysulphate (round up) saves you and the neighbour trimming the hedge ever again :clap:
Pete

spuddevans:

--- Quote from: Brass_Machine on March 03, 2013, 10:07:41 PM ---Are you going to do rafter type storage?

Eric

--- End quote ---

Yes and No. The space above where the ceiling will be will be only about 12"-14" at the peak, so instead of having the rafters on show, I'll insulate them and then insulate across the stretcher-pieces before putting up the ceiling ( plasterboard most likely )

I will have a couple of lower stretcher-pieces-of-wood which will help tie the middle of the long walls together, plus will allow for some rafter-type-storage, and also allow me to put some power outlets there too for power-access in the middle of the workshop without trailing leads from the sides.

--- Quote from: Pete49 on March 04, 2013, 07:00:24 AM ---Tim a good hedge trimmer is glysulphate (round up) saves you and the neighbour trimming the hedge ever again :clap:
Pete

--- End quote ---

True, true, but apart from never trimming his hedge, he's a good enough neighbour, we never hear a peep out of him at any time. It's only the occasional muffled bark from his dog that tells us that there is someone living there. So I'm inclined to just hack down the bit of his hedge that overhangs my fence when I'm cutting my own hedge (on the other side of my garden), takes just a few mins extra.

If we have to replace any of our fence panels I will take the opportunity to cut his hedge back further ( I think it has gradually encroached onto our plot over the years), but until then I wont do anything drastic.

Tim

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